... There are a number of sites that show the work of the students in the various disciplines, such as the ' Communication Art and Design Show 2009 ' In 1981 I was in the School of Industrial Design and that now appears to be supplanted by Design Products , RCA/ICL Industrial Design Engineering (ICL stands for Imperial College London ) and Industrial Design Engineering Projects .

...Onto web sites that provide what I feel is interesting commentary or thought provoking material The first is another work in progress by the code monkeys of Google - This one called Google in Quotes - There are different editions (4, plus custom) and different individuals that can be paired commenting on a range of subjects.

... As if it is not already getting hard to make a living as a designer, with clients supplying solutions they want you to tidy up, stock agencies giving away images - or nearly so - and design competitions created by clients to troll for cheap design solutions, this week I got an email from a Stock Photo agency wanting submissions of logos if you please - Give me a break!

...Hopefully I will get onto the other folders in my Blog Stuff Folder ( Applications / Font Stuff / Books / Mac computer stuff/ Photography, Images and Ads / Web issues / Products) I want to thank those who have found things that they thought might be of interest to me and the wider audience.

...So what do I need - One upgrade to the full Suite, one upgrade to the non extended version of PShop and one full version of LightRoom - I will put up with not being able to use LightRoom while she is using it - I only use it to try workflow issues anyhow - they are her images and she can do the tweaking. First we have the fact I am now resident in Umbria Italy, the software was bought from my VAR in Canada - I want to continue to do that - He is a good friend, and can use the pennies for the upgrade that Adobe would keep for themselves if I was able to order it at American prices via the web (which I cannot - yet another issue!) ... Buried deep, and I mean deep, on the Adobe web site I found what appears to be the definitive list of what can upgrade which and guess what- You cannot officially go from the CS3 to a standalone version of PShop - not without a standalone number of the PShop included in CS3. ... ( Given that I have owned every damned Adobe product, available on a mac over that last 20 plus years, a lot of which they discontinued after I had paid for them, and taught designers how to use them ( who also bought the ones they needed ) - I regard this as very shabby treatment.

…I am a web designer and developer who currently resides with my wife in the heart of the United States In Conclusion: Although it’s easy to laugh at the past designs of many of these websites while praising current designs, remember that you are a contemporary of 2008 and five years from now, you might think that even these current sites are a mess. … PhotoShop alone is worth the price to entry but I also use, most days, DreamWeaver (yes I have had to switch from GoLive , and now that I have I can see why it wond the battle - I just wish that they had provided thoe coders of MenuMachine (http://menumachine.com/) a heads up - the loss of that wonderful plugin for Golive - is a loss all designers should feel. They are reworking it - from the ground up for Dreamweaver but it is not happening overnight (http://menumachine.com/blog/) - meanwhile I limp along with inadequate soltions… Adobe Illustrator was my first Adobe product - I don’t use it vey often these days but it is an old friend - InDesign took the place of PageMaker and shortly after its inception left Quark struggling to catchup.

...I have previously covered in this blog why I chose Aperture over LightRoom (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/) to manage our images - As Sarah gets more proficient herself with Photoshop (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshopextended/) and we move away from our own site, the reasoning is less important the the workflow issues of management and image editing become more important SmugMug (http://www.smugmug.com/) is a wonderful site ; I found out about it through a comment made on BagelTurf (http://www.bagelturf.com/) by Steve Weller which I discovered while researching the question of Aperture vs LightRoom .

... Some other sites of individuals that I have found interesting, some found by me, some suggested in articles and by other people This woman got a write up recently and has some interesting work: Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir at: http://www.flickr.com/people/rebba/ Gordon Woldford has a great site that shows off his travels around North America.

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