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Welcome to the first article of Ctrl-N. A weekly news article. Looking through the news articles I noticed there wasn’t a single good news article on design, graphic and commercial arts. So I’ll do something about that. I’m going to try and cover commercial art inside and outside of Deviant Art. So if you know designers and commercial artists, let them know about this article! If you want to contribute, send me a note.

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Veer Bought by Corbis/Microsoft
In more of a bid to own and destroy everything people love, Corbis has bought Veer (an excellent resource for designers everywhere). And, as usual, a press article was released that tells people nothing that’s going on. Can’t really comment any better than the guys at Typographia did, so go check their article at Typographica.org
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Bansky Caught?
Recently the fine artist, designer, graf legend Banksy was supposedly caught producing a piece on a London street. Some credibility of this photo is put into question. Banksy is known to do work at night and alone, at the picture on the BBC site he’s shown with an assistant. However, much of his work in the past has been preserved and he has recently sold paintings at NY and Hollywood exhibitions for tens of thousands of dollars. When it comes to the elusive street artist, it’s really anyone’s guess at this point.
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Mac Virus’: I Bet Bill’s Laughing Now
More prevalent today than ever before are virus’ on Macs. Many Mac owners thought they were free of something PC owners always had a problem with. It’s been about a year since people started wising up, but as seen by the following BBC article, many are being caught. You might want to consider getting some protection, if you’re one of the 60% of designers that work exclusively on a Mac.
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Three Devations
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~safelypinned produces a nice looking name plate and cover. The nameplate color palette works well and still stands out from a newsstand viewpoint, even though it is the cover that is in the spot-light. The article heads down the side aren’t obvious and allow the cover to breath, but still remain obvious and to the point to lure a potential reader to the counter to buy. The bar code is also in an interesting area, which you don’t see a lot of people fool around with.




Though a literal translation on the album name, the color palette, typography and illustration work in perfect harmony in this piece from ~mattranzetta. Combined with the no-jewel case look, the album design as a whole is soft and very appealing to anyone wishing to keep it as part of their music collection.


I think that of all the written word in history, the hardest of all to work with is Arabic (closely followed by Mandarin). Here, ~prespect has done well turning the Arabic script into beautifully rendered san-serif style, and matched it’s roman counterpart perfectly. A good example of the under-represented Arabic design aesthetic.

Do You Have Something?
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Have some great news? Got a design group you want plugged? Any opinions on commercial arts? Want to tell me where to shove my pretentious news article? I want what you’ve got in your head. Send me a note and I’ll consider suggestions and ideas for anything that you think will add to this news article.

Now get out there and spread the Ctrl-N word among your fellow creatives!