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Computer Arts issue 133

Reinvent yourself

So, you’re one of the most sought-after illustrators in the country with a unique and instantly recognisable style. You’ve got the best agent, magazines are fighting over your work and the commissions just keep flooding in. Brilliant, you’re at the top of your game. But for how long? What happens when that leading edge, much-imitated style you worked so hard to develop starts looking a little bit tired? What if the magazines and advertising agencies that were fighting to get your hot look onto their pages start looking elsewhere?

The answer is simple – you need to reinvent yourself. Whether this means completely burying your old identity and starting out with a clean slate, looking at how you can develop your skills in different areas of design, or just giving your style an overhaul, it’s up to you. The point is that if you want to stay ahead of the pack, you need to be constantly moving forward.


IN THE MAG

TUTORIALS


    HANDS-ON DESIGN
    Use traditional skills alongside Photoshop

    THE ART OF ORNAMENT
    Create a decorative font with Illustrator

    EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS
    Print poster-size images from Illustrator

    GRADIENTS MADE EASY
    Remedy those gradient printing woes

    FLASH PORTFOLIOS
    Put the finishing touches on your site

    BLURRING EFFECTS
    Create realistic depth of field in Photoshop

    FEATURES

    REINVENT YOURSELF
    Make sure your work never goes out of fashion with our essential guide to reinventing your career, your company, your style or even yourself

    BEHIND THE SCENES: FLIP THE SCRIPT
    How the Surface to Air global design collective persuaded some of the design community’s best talents to re-imagine such classic movie posters as Jaws, Blow-Up and A Clockwork Orange

    EXPOSURE
    A selection of amazing work sent in by talented artists from across the globe

    PROFILE: 4WALL
    How design collective 4Wall is creating a serious buzz though live painting, beer-tasting and 18 leading names in digital art

    SHOW-STOPPING DESIGN
    Find out why the world of large-scale graphics for exhibitions, expos and conferences is the smart place to be

    CV: STEWART M BRUCE
    Meet the Californian designer with a thing for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

    ON THE CD

    LYNDA.COM PHOTOSHOP CS3 BETA TRAINING
    Photoshop guru Deke McClelland guides you through some of the features of Adobe’s recent Photoshop CS3 Beta

    FONTOGRAPHER 4.7 TRY-OUT
    Take a closer, hands-on look at FontLab’s essential typography application with this brilliant trial version

    POSER FIGURE ARTIST TRY-OUT
    Drawing figures can be tricky. Discover how to make it easier with e frontier’s Poser Figure Artist application

    100 FOTOLIA STOCK IMAGES
    Avoid legal scrapes and image theft by using any of these royalty-free photos from Fotolia

    COLORIAGE TRY-OUT
    If you’re struggling to add colour to your black-and-white images, let this new plug-in from AKVIS take the strain

    THREE BOOK EXTRACTS
    Sample chapters from the books reviewed this issue, including What is Product Design? and Rinzen’s Neighbourhood

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F&SF: APRIL 2007

April 2007 –
58th Year of Publication
SPECIAL GENE WOLFE SECTION



    How to Read Gene Wolfe
  • Neil Gaiman

  • Memorare
  • Gene Wolfe

  • The Wolf in the Labyrinth
  • Michael Swanwick

  • Gene Wolfe: The Man And His Work
  • Michael Andrei-Driussi


  • NOVELETS
    The Equally Strange Reappearance of David Gerrold
  • David Gerrold


  • SHORT STORIES
    A Thing Forbidden
  • Donald Mead

  • Titanium Mike Saves the Day
  • David D. Levine


Fantasy & Science Fiction

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