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Robert Meireles is the current AIGA Miami Digital Chair in charge of the website. He is a recent graduate from the New World School of the Arts majoring in Graphic Design. He has successfully ran multiple websites, as well as many successful branding identities.

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A List Apart®

Walking the Line When You Work from Home
Working from home as a freelance contractor or remote employee can be a great thing, particularly if you live alone. But what if you have a spouse and/or children at home with you while you work? Every work environment offers distractions, but those who work from home with their families face a unique set of issues—and need equally unique ways of dealing with them.

 

Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!

How Do You Walk the Line Between Work and Home? Share Your Best Practices With ALA
Tell us how you overcome isolation, distractions, and temptation. How you deal with kids and deadlines. How you walk the blurry line between work and home. Share your best practices on working from home so we can present them in an upcoming issue of A List Apart.

 

Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!

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Dexigner® Design Portal

Treepac Essential Designs Award-Winning Sustainable Concept
Treepac Essential Designs Award-Winning Sustainable ConceptAccording to the Environmental Protection Agency paper products are the biggest single component of community waste with 85 million tons generated in 2006 Though much of this is recycled the sheer volume compelled the team at product developme

RKS Wins Two IDEA Awards
RKS Wins Two IDEA AwardsThe Smart Touch salad spinner has been awarded an IDEA Bronze award 2008 This salad spinner combines eye-catching design and new drive mechanism which ensures that just one press of the Smart Touch lever sets the basket spinning at optimal sp

SOLUTIONS Received Silver at IDEA 08
SOLUTIONS Received Silver at IDEA 08The winners of the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards IDEA are named the SOLUTIONS Branding Design Companies AG obtained one of the eligible Silver IDEA Awards 08 for their TakeOff children buggy Being one of the worlds most prest

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NYTimes® Design

Art Review | 'Pretty Ugly': Art Makes Such Weird Bedfellows
Everyone-into-the-pool gallery group shows like “Pretty Ugly” are a welcome distraction in a steamy New York midsummer.

Art Review: Inspired by Vikings and Volcanoes
Two exhibitions of Icelandic art are on view for another couple of weeks at Scandinavia House and the Luhring Augustine gallery.

Antiques: Old Fabrics and New Designs
Antiktex Ltd., a Manhattan company, is one of a handful of companies with large stocks of old fabrics.

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Editor's Blog

Photoshop Killer Tips

Using Presets
Save yourself some time when creating a new document by using one of Photoshop’s preset document sizes. Download here

Editing With Clone Source
Here’s a tip about using the clone source palette options to help edit your photos. Download here

Clone Overlay Source
You can change the blending mode so that you can see the source overlay better when using the clone stamp tool. Download here

Clone Source Palette
The Show Overlay option will help you position the clone stamp tool in Photoshop CS3. Download here

Detailed Erasing
Here’s a tip if you are zoomed way in on your document and want to erase one pixel at a time. Download here

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TAXI® Design Daily Feed

Web Site of The Day: 10 ways by Getty Images
Somewhere, somehow you've got to start. Pick one, at least.
The Front Seat Interview: Brian McCarty
In Brian Mccarty’s world, growing up doesn't involve growing obsolete from the things of childhood. In his world, growing up means getting more in touch with the things that mattered when he was a boy.
EXPANDED: The Creative Industry's Most Updated News Source
The Creative Industry's Most Updated News Source, Now 3X MORE!
BOOKS: Phaidon Design Classics
An extraordinarily absorbing, enticingly packaged and comprehensive collection of design classics that will, ironically, become a design classic itself. - reviewed by Wallpaper Magazine
The Driver Speaks: Plug and Play
Universal Connections, an exhibition by dialog05 in Munich presented a collection of USB art designed to make us think about technology in contemporary times.
The Driver Speaks: Cradle-to-Cradle Era
Sustainable design or C2C (Cradle-to-Cradle Design), what is it?
News: Nokia's First Public UMA Pilot Over WLAN is Underway
Nokia started its very first public Unlicensed Mobile Access pilot over Wireless LAN in the city of Oulu last week.

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Lifehacker®

Master iTunes Checkboxes for Better Smart Playlists [ITunes]
iTunes users who aren't heavy checkbox users, selecting songs by checking them off is an easy way to make playlists on the fly (by selecting "Match only checked items" in the Smart Playlist dialog)....
How Do You Organize Your Pr0n? [File Management]
Our naughty brother site Fleshbot asks readers how they organize their, uh, adult-only media collection (NSFW) when it grows to over a few gigabytes. (NSFW=Don't click on that link at the office....
Alt+Enter to Open a Typed URL in a New Tab [Firefox Tip]
Macworld points out a handy Firefox tabbing keyboard shortcut: Hit Alt+Enter (Opt+Enter for Mac users) to open a URL you've typed into the address bar in a new tab. This way, instead of hitting...
Gratitude Pays Off When Lay-Offs are Looming [Career]
Career columnist Marci Alboher offers up advice on how to perform a controlled slide out of a lay-off situation and into your next job ASAP, using nothing more complicated than email (or a pen and...
Love and Money [Sponsors]
Thanks to this week's sponsors for funding our trolley rides down to Comic-Con: Amex, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Eve Online, HP TouchSmart, Mighty Leaf Tea, Novint, Puma, Sharp Aquos, Starwood Hotels, and...
Outlook Connector Beta Syncs All Your Microsoft Calendars [Featured Windows Download]
Windows with Outlook only: The latest beta release of Microsoft's Office Outlook Connector utility can synchronize your desktop Outlook calendar with your calendar in Windows Live Hotmail, as well as...

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