Xerox Introduces Powerful Color Printer, Software for Graphic Designers

Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) expanded its color printing and software offerings for the graphic arts market with two new products that give design professionals even more digital color printing power.
The products, designed to further bolster Xerox’s industry-leading color portfolio, were two of several offerings unveiled at AIIM/On Demand, a major conference and exhibition for the [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

New Strategies for Management Study Examines the Potential Impact of Electronic Paper on the Graphic Communications Industry

Strategies for Management announces the immediate availability of “E-Paper Technology and Opportunities in Publishing, Communications, and the Graphic Arts,” an extensive, 161-page examination of the rapidly developing market for flexible electronic displays, commonly referred to as “e-paper.”
Once the stuff of science-fiction, “electronic paper” is starting to appear on the market as commercialized product. Advances in [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

Iran’s conservative MPs turn to fashion design

Iran’s parliament has launched a new initiative to promote Iranian and Islamic fashion, with MPs driven by the fear of a “cultural invasion” and inspired by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“Young people’s clothing does not reflect their Islamic and Iranian identity. It is an expression of foreign views,” explained Laleh Eftekhari, one of the 12 [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

MILANO MADE IN DESIGN: Traveling Exhibit Celebrates Milan’s Limitless Creativity and Manufacturing Prowess

The iconic city of Milan continues to be recognized as one of the world’s most powerful leaders in the design, fashion and manufacturing industries. On May 18th, the Province of Milan and Milan Chamber of Commerce will unveil an innovative and inspirational traveling exhibit, MILANO MADE IN DESIGN, designed to take New Yorkers through an [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

First2Print Donates Digital Printing Services to Parsons The New School for Design Annual Benefit and Fashion Show Honoring Oscar de la Renta

First2Print (www.first2print.com), a leader in large-format fabric printing services, collaborated with Parsons The New School for Design for the school’s 58th Annual Benefit and Fashion Show honoring Oscar de la Renta. The fashion show featured the best collections of Parsons graduating fashion design students — with one of the top graduating senior projects digitally printed [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

Spanish architects win Thailand’s Tsunami Memorial Design Competition

A project, designed by two Spanish architects was announced on Wednesday to be the winner of Thailand ’s Tsunami Memorial Design Competition.
Ana Somaza and Juana Canet, two woman architecture designers from Spain, finally won the worldwide competition which was attended by a total of 679 contestants from 49 countries. Their project “Mountains of Remembrance” [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

Red Clay Interactive Launches Small Business Web Design Division, RCI Expressâ„¢

Red Clay Interactive (RCI), a leading Atlanta Web design company, is launching an innovative and affordable web design business practice intended to provide professional small business web site design services at entry level prices.
Robby Monk intends to change the world one Web site at a time. “When I realized the power of online marketing, I [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

Microsoft pro Web design tool

Microsoft Monday released its first preview of a professional Web design tool with which it hopes to challenge market leader Adobe.
The first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Expression Web Designer is now available as a free 230MB download. Expression Web Designer matches up against Adobe’s Dreamweaver, which it acquired last year after buying Macromedia.
Microsoft will [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

Cards through Web site offered

Friends and family members of OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center patients can now design and send greeting cards through the OSF Saint James Web site.
The address is www.osfsaintjames.org .
Click on “Patient Postcard Center” on the medical center’s home page and follow the easy instructions to select one of 20 card designs, enter the [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

LG Interiors Debuts Best of Bellevue Interior Design

With awards from the Seattle Master Builder’s Association, the American Society of Interior Designers, and the Seattle Design Center, all that was missing from Loraine Gilroy’s acclaimed Bellevue Interior Design studio was a permanent address — in cyberspace.
Gilroy, like many of her Puget Sound interior design contemporaries, had not yet taken the leap from interior [...]

May 18th, 2006 In Architecture, General News

Web Host 2Macs Joins the Web Hosting Code of Ethics Program

The program has established a set of guidelines by which member hosting companies must operate their businesses.
“This program and acceptance of these guidelines will allow the small and medium sized business owners that we target to have more confidence in our hosting and web site design services,” said one of 2Macs Co-Founders. “We encourage our [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News

Local Web design firm bursting at the seams

If Akron could clone anyone, LeBron James comes to mind first.
Then, perhaps, is Liz Remmel.
Remmel and two partners founded Immix Studios two years ago. Through innovation and hard work, the three young entrepreneurs have rapidly expanded their Web design firm.
The company has moved into a larger office, begun offering new services and even spun off [...]

May 18th, 2006 In General News