Desktop #258 (March 2010)

The latest issue of Desktop is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• UPDATE
• DEBRIEF LAUNCH - ABC3
• DEBRIEF PROTOTYPE - Elicit
• RETOUCHING THE IMAGE TAMERS Sam William-West looks at who to call when capturing that perfect image seems impossible.
• SEMI-PERMANENT 2010 MOSTLY TEMPORARY Semi-Permanent is inspiration served on a silver platter, writes Jo Spurling.
• PICTURE THIS ANOTHER ANGLE Alison Copley speaks with photographer Robert Gilmore about finding the devil in the details.
• PICTURE THIS TROUBLESHOOTER
• COOLSTUFF
• CENTREFOLD
• WEB LET'S GET IT ON Matt Baker looks at strategies for getting the most out of online.
• WEBGUIDE FULLY FLARED
• STUDIO HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN Homicidal robots, mutant government experiments, wizardry and magic spells - it's all in a day's work for Rising Sun Pictures, writes Jo Spurling.
• TYPE PERSONALISING TYPE Jan Yan looks at corporate type over the last decade.
• TYPE: EVENT LTR HDS The Letter Heads exhibition comes to Melbourne and Sydney.
• PRINT PRINT READY - TAKE TWO Matt Baker of Galaxy Design concludes his look at preparing your artwork for print.
• PRINT PAPER PASSION Where would our lives be without paper? asks Theo Pettaras of Digital Press.
• WIDE FORMAT PRINTING INTO THE WIDE BLUE YONDER Drew Turney looks at what you need to know before taking the wide-format plunge.
• PRODUCT REVIEWS Amazon Kindle, FusionPro Desktop, Telstra Mobile Broadband Turbo 7 Wireless Gateway
• FOREIGN POLICY THE HYBRID LIFE Andy Polaine talks hybrids with Liz Danzico.
• DIGITAL STARTING UP Neil Simpson speaks with Allan Bennetto from JMango about making a mobile start-up fruitful.
• DIRECTIONS IN DESIGN LONDON CALLING Brendan McKnight looks at what you can be in for when the travelling bug bites
• REARVIEW

AGENCYLAND

• ABOUT TOWN NEWS
• VIEWFINDER
• BRIEF ENCOUNTERS DO IT ON AUSTRALIA DAY - George Patterson Y&R Melbourne.
• BRIEF ENCOUNTERS JAMES BOAG'S PURE - Publicis Mojo Sydney.
• PEER PRESSURE EVERYBODY HURTS Diana Constatini and Mervyn Tan cast their eyes over the TAC's 20th Anniversary campaign from Grey Melbourne.
• PROFILE AN APPLE A DAY Leo Burnett - the agency behind the big ideas