After an engaging exchange on Twitter with illustrators: Garth Bruner and Von “Vonster” Glitschka, who are constantly Twittering about their frustrations with being forced to switch from Freehand to Illustrator after Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, things reached the point where all involved thought that we need a way to band together and get some feature requests implemented in the next version of Adobe Illustrator.
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So I saw a Twitter post the other day where someone mentioned Bigfoot was the new Olympics mascot – I thought it was a joke. Browsing through my RSS I stumbled on an entry over at Cryptomundo where I learned that indeed, the Yeti – or precisely Sasquatch – is (one of) the mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Pretty cool.
So I head on over to Google to do a search for some images, and what do I find? A Sasquatch character with boots on. What? That would be like putting wheels on a UFO, or a snorkeling mask on the Loch Ness Monster. They’ll probably make a crop circle of the Olympics logo — using a lawnmower.
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It’s been about a few months since I upgraded to Adobe’s Creative Suite CS3 suite of graphic & design applications, and am running them all on a PowerMac G4 (dual 1.25 processors, 2 Gb RAM). I thought I would share my experiences with anyone out there contemplating upgrading to CS3 with an older Macintosh. I also have one of the original MacBooks, so there’s a decent comparison with CS3 running on an Intel processor Mac.
In short, I would recommend waiting to upgrade your Mac to at least a G5 or an Intel based Mac before going to CS3, but that said it’s still usable.
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It’s going to happen you you eventually — a client who doesn’t pay their bill. And unless the project was for a significant amount of money, the unfortunate truth is that many times it isn’t worth the cost of suing. The legal fees can very quickly outweigh the money you’ll get, and that’s the positive side!
Because of this, I make it a standard practice to ask for a 50% deposit for all work before starting a project. But this only covers you so far. I also do not transfer any high-resolution or vector art until the final balance is paid, but sometimes this doesn’t cover your butt — for example, the client may only want to use the art on their website, or may have no clue about proper printing resolutions and will go ahead an use the low-resolution JPEG preview images you’ve been sending them.
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I am sure this is a technical issue that will be worked out (I have a ticket in with Adobe support as of 15 minutes ago). But man is this frustrating. Illustrator CS3 is almost unusable on my desktop. And the rest of the Creative Suite isn’t so snappy either.
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I guess these concepts/designs violated some sort of copyright thing.
The first, one of my corny pun t-shirt ideas, Fat Albert Einstein.
The design, with of course, “Hey Hey Hey! E=mc2“:
Next up, my Nike parody. Aren’t parodies covered under copyright law? I’m sure CafePress “reserves the right” blah blah blah…
For us lazy cynics out there, a proper alternative to the “Just Do It” slogan – “The Hell With It.”
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