By Richard Kelly: I’ve been in this business just long enough to remember when art directors did marker on paper comps. My memory is slightly romantic, but it seems to me that the alternative using stock photography for comps is in a way “F*©king with the magic*” of the creative spirit of custom photography. Read the rest at his own website. (Via Wouter).

As some of you noticed one of designs featured in this article shows a proper reflection of the bottom om the chair. But this reflection is impossible to create in Photoshop unless you used an actual mirror during the shoot. (And we didn’t). The reflection was created afterwards but we cheated a bit…
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I interviewed photographer and artist Sipke Visser some time ago. This week (3 July to 19 July) he’ll be hosting an exhibition called ‘Drop-In’ Portraits in London. Every picture was shot using the ads Sipke placed on the GumTree website. (More about that in the interview). Sipke also took care of my own photographs. If you have a change to visit the exhibition just take the DLR departing from Bank Station or a train departing from Charing Cross Station. It’s just a 15 min. ride and a five minute walk to the Viewfinder Gallery.

And we’re live! After more than six years of running a specialized Desk Top Publishing website and writing about prepress, graphic design and PDF I’ve decided to start publishing in English. This website originated from the Dutch site called MacMojo. I’ve tried publishing in both languages but that just takes up too much of my time. I’ve got a daytime job as well, you know! So English it will be. I’ve had a absolutely awesome time working at the MacMojo website and getting to know all those skilled people that were kind enough to explain exactly what they did and how they did it. I think working on this international version called Digital-Engineers.net will be even better. But fist, let me tell you what I feel a true Digital Engineer is. Read more