So what is a favicon? Firstly, favicon is short for “favourite icon”. It’s essentially a shortcut/bookmark icon file (i.e. .ico file) that contains one or a series of certain sized icon files (e.g. 16×16 pixels, 32×32 pixels, etc). And typically when someone creates a favicon file, the filename they assign it is simply, “favicon.ico”… makes… Read more
The ability to open SVG files (scalable vector graphic files) in Adobe Fireworks should have been a feature from the beginning! Come on, a vector-based program that can’t open SVG files – what the hell were Adobe thinking?! Anyway, I don’t want this to turn into a bitch session about Fireworks (because I do love it, believe it… Read more
If you’re a visual artist, cartoonist, graphic designer, web designer or any other form of “old school” or digital artist, we all have one definite thing in common – we are all creative – regardless of whether or not you’re a “pencil to paper” or “tablet to screen” person. I am primarily a web designer,… Read more
Around the time of writing this, I upgraded from Adobe CS4 Design Premium and purchased Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection. It was an exciting time! However, when I started working on a print job, I noticed a particular “minor” change to the way Adobe InDesign worked. It left me stumped and frustrated… Apparently as of the release of… Read more
I was ecstatic when I was approached by MSY Technology to create their Christmas Madness Sale catalog for 2010. Okay – I’m jumping a little ahead of myself here. Initially, my services were recommended to MSY by a friend of mine, Letitia Surdonjic, who also specialises in graphic & print design. She already had too… Read more