Recent graphics and design news including FontShop fonts, the Secrets of Digital Night Photography webcast, the Peindice font from Gestalten and EasyBatch.
New Fonts and Microsites from FontShop
FontShop has announced that it's providing a range of new display fonts from the Sudtipos, Comicraft, TypeTogether and P22 foundries. A standout is the Oxida face, shown below, from Sudtipos, which is designed for use at large sizes, particularly in poster design, book covers and culinary packaging. Available in OpenType format, it can be purchased on the FontShop site for 79 euros. Noteworthy is a new initiative to create separate microsites to feature FontShop "originals," beginning with FF Meta Serif and FF Trixie, the latter complete with its own promotional video.
Webcast: Secrets of Digital Night Photography
Professional photographer Harold Davis will share his top tips for night photography in this free live webcast. During the webcast, Davis will show why night photography has become increasingly popular among digital photographers. He'll demystify exposure techniques at night, and explain how he post-processes night photos. Following the presentation, there will be time for a Q&A in which he'll answer attendee questions about night photography. More information and registration for the 60-minute webcast, which will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2008, at 11am PST, is available on the O'Reilly site.
Gestalten Adds Peindice Font
Peindice is the work of the French Atelier télescopique design collective, involved in everything from print and motion to design for art exhibitions. It also designs fonts which it sells, as well the work of other designers, through its Ainsifont foundry. The single weight Peindice was originally created in 2003 for the identity of the French music festival Festi'Val de Marne. Built from a modular grid, the generous contours give the font a smooth outline, with the heavy appearance of Peindice making ir appropriate for large headlines. It can be purchased on the Gestalten site for 35 euros.
EasyBatch Launched for Mac Bulk Image Processing
The new utility from BravoBug Software is designed to let users quickly perform a range of defined actions on folders of images. It can read and process Photoshop PSD, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, bitmap and PDF files, saving them in JPEG, TIFF, PNG and bitmap, with actions including watermarking, DPI-independent scaling, rotation, compression and file renaming. EasyBatch 1.0 is downloadable as sharware from the BravoBug Software site, with registration priced at $18.
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