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Bring It On!
Since my last entry I missed the first turn on the learning curve. My decision early on was to steer clear of “academic laziness”. I let myself down and resorted to referencing from wikipedia on my first assignment. Having missed the hidden away modification dates from my references I referred. My lesson is learned and read on…
On the Right Track
Prior to Monday I didn’t really have any idea what kind of people worked in this industry or even what kind of person it took to run a business dealing in print and web design. This all changed with a presentation given to us yesterday by Dave Pannell and Craig Burgess from The Design Mechanics. read on…
A Font of Knowledge. . . Verdana
Originally designed by Microsoft’s Matthew Carter and with hand hinting done by Tom Rickner the true type font (ttf) Verdana was created in 1996. It was first released in version 1.01 along with Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 3.0 in August of that year. After the initial version there have been a further three updates to read on…