Mesmerizing Art From A Master Of The Animated GIF. Surveying the selections for Moving the Still, the recent curated show of animated GIFs at this year’s Art Basel Miami, it’s evident how much the GIF has matured, both as a file format and as an artistic medium. The pieces at the show covered a good deal of ground: There were ultra-short-form time lapses and other tiny portions of trick photography, non-sequitur follies and scraps of meme fodder, enigmatic still lifes that happened to incorporate motion, and a smattering of things that could accurately be described as glitchy, trippy, or druggy.
But at some point in the animated GIF’s lifetime, after the banner-ad era but before the glitz and glamor of Miami Beach, the whole GIF-as-art thing was dominated by a narrow aesthetic--crazy computer-generated shapes and cortex-tickling optical illusions. So in some sense, you could say Paolo Čerić is a traditionalist. At this point, the style is a familiar one. See more of Čerić's work on his blog. [Hat tip: Colossal] 140+ InDesign and Creative Tasks You Didn't Know You Could Automate. New tools, new solutions, new ideas, emerge every day for and from InDesign and Creative Suite heroes. But strangely enough, most graphic designers and InDesign end-users still ignore—or cannot measure—the power of automation.
As a kind of proof of concept I decided to start the year with a celebration of the most noticeable scripts, tools and resources that have shaken 2012 in this area. Since I use Twitter as a bookmarking platform, it seemed fun to compile a selection of links I've tweeted or re-tweeted during the last 12 months. This is also an opportunity to pay tribute to my colleagues, scripters, developers, trainers, and time-savers! Now make yourself comfortable and enter in the Productive Dome… Note. — The overwhelming majority of resources and sources I focus on are InDesign-wise, and available in English. Controlling Layout, Pages, Layers, Frames 001. Move every object on every page toward or away from spine | Olav Martin Kvern AdjustLayout (indesignsecrets) (forums.adobe.com) Enable InDesign indd preview in Quicklook. Raccourcis Quark XPress Mac. Raccourcis X-Press Mac © Tony Luzy. 1999-2008 Symboles utilisés Menu Pomme Menu fichier Menu Édition Menu Style pour le texte Menu Style pour les images Menu Style pour les filets Menu bloc Menu page Menu affichage Menu Utilitaires Déplacement/redimensionement de blocs Déplacement dans un document Caractères spéciaux Palette d'outils Déplacement/Sélection dans un bloc texte Menu Fichier Menu fichier Menu Édition Menu Style pour le texte Menu Style pour les images Menu Style pour les filets Menu bloc Menu page Menu affichage Menu Utilitaires Déplacement/redimensionement de blocs Déplacement dans un document Caractères spéciaux Palette d'outils Déplacement/Sélection dans un bloc texte Menu Édition Menu fichier Menu Édition Menu Style pour le texte Menu Style pour les images Menu Style pour les filets Menu bloc Menu page Menu affichage Menu Utilitaires Déplacement/redimensionement de blocs Déplacement dans un document Caractères spéciaux Palette d'outils Déplacement/Sélection dans un bloc texte.