Graphic Design Set


Galaxy Gauge


Pocket Toolbox


Art Director's Reference

 

"Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map." -- Wayne Calloway . . . . . . . . . "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -- Albert Einstein . . . . . . . . . "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." -- Paul Valery . . . . . . . . . "Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost." -- Samuel Butler . . . . . . . . . "Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." -- Sir Winston Churchill . . . . . . . . . "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken . . . . . . . . . Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her. Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her. After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him. Picasso replies: "$5,000." The woman screamed, "but it took you only five minutes." "No, madam, it took me all my life," replied Picasso. -- Unknown . . . . . . . . . "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising." -- Norman Douglas . . . . . . . . . "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein . . . . . . . . . "I will destroy my enemies by converting them to my friends." -- Maimodes . . . . . . . . . "It's a poor workman who blames his tools." -- Unknown . . . . . . . . . Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk, This will teach you to keep your mouth shut." -- Mark Twain . . . . . . . . . "The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships." -- Leo Burnett . . . . . . . . . "Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one." -- Stella Adler . . . . . . . . . "What garlic is to food, insanity is to art." -- Unknown . . . . . . . . . "Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions." -- Anonymous . . . . . . . . . "Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations." -- Paul Rand . . . . . . . . . "You can't polish a turd." -- David Reddig . . . . . . . . . "We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'" -- Leo Burnett . . . . . . . . . "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison . . . . . . . . . "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." -- Mark Twain . . . . . . . . . "When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, buy you won't come up with a handful of mud either." -- Leo Burnett . . . . . . . . . "... if the kids today had to cast off, count character, use a Haber Rule and do the math, there wouldn't be as many people wanting to pursue a Career in Design." -- Frank Briggs . . . . . . . . . "Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability." -- Hermann Zapf . . . . . . . . . "Typography is what language looks like." -- Ellen Lupton . . . . . . . . . "... But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography ..." -- Steve Jobs . . . . . . . . . "Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing." -- Emil Ruder . . . . . . . . . "Faces of type are like men's faces. They have their own expression; their complexion and peculiar twists and turns of line identify them immediately to friends, to whom each is full of identity." -- J.L. Frazier . . . . . . . . . "I'm also interested in calligraphy and occasional book-burning." -- Sergej Malinovski . . . . . . . . . "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music." -- Gioacchino Rossini . . . . . . . . . "Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future." -- Paola Antonelli . . . . . . . . . "I have the simplest of tastes. I'm always satisfied with the Best." -- Oscar Wilde . . . . . . . . . "... For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design." -- Massimo Vignelli . . . . . . . . . "If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that makes it good or bad." -- Miles Davis . . . . . . . . . "Tough times do not last but tough people do." -- Deiter Uchdorf . . . . . . . . . "Design is intelligence made visible." -- Don Newgren . . . . . . . . . "Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools ..." -- John Maeda . . . . . . . . . "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." -- Steve Jobs . . . . . . . . . "The ultimate inspiration is the deadline." -- Nolan Bushnell . . . . . . . . . "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." -- Albert Einstein . . . . . . . . . "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- Alan Kay . . . . . . . . . "Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design ..." -- Jan Tschichold

It's a little design library resource that fits in a pocket! if you design pages over a coworker's desk, solve problems in a conference room, or try to hit deadlines while on a plane over Saskatoon, then the Galaxy Pocket Toolbox is your kind of tool. We've squeezed seven of our most popular pocket design tools into one handy plastic box. And while it may be a bit too wide to fit into a pair of disco pants, it will live happily in most any other small spot. When you need to take a measurement, find a color or take some digital photographs it will spring into action like a tiny Kung Fu fighter.

You'll get the Pocket Gauge and the new Ultraprecision, (useful for tiny design work like engineering and pharmaceuticals). You'll also get the Pocket Color Map with CMYK colors chart and color emotions. You'll get one Press Ranger card to send along with your next print job to insure that your printer's ink densities match the colors you are expecting from your Color Map system.

Pixel Wrench can help you 'tune-in' pleasing color from any scanner, digital camera, DV camera, or film camera. Scan the calibration charts into your computer and adjust file to correct values. Pixel Wrench also includes focus targets, a shoot i.d., and color 'guideposts' to color correct photos. Pixel Wrench is only available with the Pocket Toolbox. Use this link to get current information on creating a proper color adjustment curve with your new Pixel Wrench tool, and to get the Pixel Wrench Monitor Calibration file.

Rounding out the collection are the tiny Pocket Pixel and a Galaxy Postcard. All tools are precision manufactured in the U.S.A. and designed for durability and color integrity.

Set Includes:
1. Pixel Wrench
2. Pocket Color Map
3. Press Ranger card
4. Pocket Gauge
5. Ultraprecision Gauge
6. Pocket Pixel
7. Galaxy Postcard

$14.95 plus s/h

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