Printing & Variable Data Sep 28, 10, 7:38 a.m.

I'm in the process of designing some print collateral for a upcoming conference. These include name badges, room signage and such. I'd like to push these some and not print black text in a white area as many do. My current design has a blue, full bleed name badge with white attendee and company names. I'm looking into printers now. Suggestions?

11x17 Printers? Nov 2, 09, 2:04 p.m.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a fairly dope color laser printer that can handle 11x17 and maybe even some heavier weight printers. Looking into this HP model:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webap…

New Portfolio Nov 1, 09, 7:12 p.m.

My latest: www.bmace.com

One thing I'm struggling with is the menu expansion. If you open everything it goes off the page, but if I use the auto collapse function I had it looks wonky. I say close some of the menu. I want you to be able to see more of it at once. Thoughts on the design? Thoughts on the menu?

3D Studios Aug 25, 09, 8:08 a.m.

I'm looking for some good 3D shops that have some experience working with interactive shops. I'd like to find a large shop (like Speedshape) as well as a small one (like Hook). Does anyone have suggestions? Anyone freelancing at that level?

Firefox+Georgia Problem Aug 2, 09, 6:45 p.m.

I'm running into a strange issue when using Georgia in Firefox. I'm running Firefox 3.5.1 & 3.0.12 on several Macs and PCs. On the Macs, the Georgia displays in bold even when the font weight is defined as normal. It works fine in IE & Safari on all machines. Has anyone had this issue before? I'm at a complete loss.

Example CSS:

.menu_list {
font-family: Georgia;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 18px;
float:right;
text-align:right;
width: 200px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
margin:0px;
}

Type Designers May 5, 09, 12:42 p.m.

I'm looking to compile a list of type designers currently residing in the USA. They needn't be famous but should be experienced, having released several fully developed faces or a family of sorts. Anyone you are a fan of or know is doing good work?

I found this earlier which was a good starting point of recent people but I have to comb through them: http://new.typographica.org/2009…

Sound Production For Interactive Mar 24, 09, 7:33 a.m.

I'm looking for smaller production studios or full time freelancers doing sound production. Anyone have any recommendations?

Wallets Mar 7, 09, 5:21 p.m.

Lookin' for a new ultraslim one...

Scrambled FLV Jan 31, 09, 7:26 a.m.

I'm working on a small video based site this month. It hosts about 10 large videos. Going through tests, I decided they looked best at 700kbps, variable bitrate (VBR) and they are 800x450. The rub is that we're looping the videos and in Flash player 9 124 every so often things go crazy as you can see below:

I *think* I have solved this on the video end, rendering them at a constant bit rate (CBR) but as anyone with a bit of knowledge about this, the files are a bit larger in size and some of the higher motion videos suffer a bit.

Has anyone experienced this before and if so, is CBR vs. VBR really the issue here? Is it part of the issue or am I totally off track?

ShinGoPro Nov 11, 08, 6:14 a.m.

Does anyone know where I can download or purchase a OTF version of ShinGoPro in several weights? It's a Japanese font and I haven't had much luck with Google.

mtvm Oct 28, 08, 5:31 a.m.

hhhmm.... http://www.mtvmusic.com

Stormtroopers Jul 24, 08, 12:55 p.m.

USA Green Printers Jul 22, 08, 7:24 p.m.

Has anyone here used or know of some good environmentally aware printers for any of their projects? They don't have to only do green printing but I need to find someone knowledgeable on the subject and who offers some green services.

Virginia Roll Call Jun 26, 08, 2:25 p.m.

Holla' if you're with me!

The original Microsoft 'family' Jun 26, 08, 5:19 a.m.

"In 1978, when Microsoft was three years old and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, there were only a dozen people working for the company - compared with the current number of almost 90,000 employees worldwide."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/busin…

Global Warming Jun 24, 08, 2:24 p.m.

"We're toast if we don't get on a very different path," Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press. "This is the last chance."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/sci…

Creative Office Space Jun 4, 08, 7:20 p.m.

I'm looking for our first office this summer and I wanted to see if anyone has found a space that isn't a "typical" office type space and made it into a studio etc. Pictures, ideas, thoughts etc. I have found 2 spaces, one is actually over top of an automotive business. It's really open and the rent is cheap because of the garage below. I've thought about looking into it more just for the shear fact we don't have to worry about being to "loud".

Using Quotes Legal? Apr 29, 08, 9:46 a.m.

We're doing a design right now that we'd like to use quotes no to drive home the idea of bravery. The client loves it, however, we have just considered the legal question.

If we use a quote by John Doe on their website, is that legal? We're using their words to promote something. Also, is there a difference if it's a living person in the same vertical (say an athlete and a football product website) and a deceased person like Benjamin Franklin?

Any ides where I can get more information on this? I'm obviously not using the right keywords in Google.

Font Weights + Flash Apr 21, 08, 6:45 a.m.

I still have never gotten a real answer to this question in the last 10 years so I'm asking again on as many forums as possible.

Why is it that with most OT format fonts, I have 100 weights show up in Illustrator and Photoshop but I only get a very small fraction of them to show up in Flash. It's killing me that we can't get this to work in Flash on our latest project. We really need some of the weights we mocked with and it's just not happening at the moment.

Does anyone know why this is and does anyone have a solution other than creating font outlined vectors and importing the text as art. We need this to work dynamically for news etc.

Stefan Sagmeister Apr 9, 08, 7:01 a.m.

Sagmeister is going to be in Virginia Beach next Friday. Is anyone from DC / Richmond / Raleigh going?

http://www.aigahamptonroads.org/…