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Luminous Works
@luminousworks.com
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We teach creative software and love to create! We use & teach mostly Adobe software, but we celebrate all methods of making.

We are behind the Course & Compendium series of books
(published by Rocky Nook).
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Artist's view of AI and its impact. As usual, the comments are interesting, too. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art (Gift Article)
The advent of A.I. has shocked me into questioning my relationship with art. Will humans still be able to draw for a living?
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Great design solution
shivambhatt.bsky.social Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · May 28
This is the kind of thing that makes me extremely happy
A picture of an Arabic 7up can, explaining how they localized the name to be able to be read and recognized either right to left or left to right
May 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Oh joy. Adobe is upping its prices. appleinsider.com/articles/25/...
Adobe jacks up prices for same tools with a shiny new label
Adobe's new "Creative Cloud Pro" plan now comes with a new name, a bigger bill, and not much else. Here's how the price tiers compare in May 2025.
appleinsider.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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‘The hand of God’, 2019. I believe this is a ‘pannus’ cloud. I had just packed up and started to head back for breakfast when I saw this cloud developing. Breakfast had to wait.
A vertical-format, black and white photo of an enormous dark cloud apparently reaching down out the the sky like a fist. Underneath, a dark, rocky island, waves crashing against it, and the ocean pulling back on a sandy beach.
April 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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A wonderful post from curator Meri @meritadocta.bsky.social :
meritadocta.bsky.social Meri Pas Blanquer @meritadocta.bsky.social · Apr 30
En su infancia contemplaba el cielo en un charco de agua. Su corazón se prendaba de las luces más simples. Eso es lo que encuentra en la escritura. Eso es lo que encuentra en la lectura. Los libros son como el agua de una fuente. Acerca su cara a ellos para refrescarse.

Christian Bobin
Ph by John Drysdale
April 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Speaking of InDesign...the second edition of our InDesign Course & Compendium book is available for purchase. The eBook is ready now, the print book is available for preorder.
We hope it serves! rockynook.com/shop/course-...
Book cover for the second edition of "InDesign: A Complete Course and Compendium of Featurs" by Steve Laskevitch, published by Rocky Nook. Behind the text is a purple/pink colored image of metal type spelling out names of InDesign features. (Yes, we know real metal type would be backwards.)
April 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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We updated our script to convert Markdown to styled InDesign text to include tables and hyperlinks. Fun!
Hope you find it useful! luminousworks.com/resources#ma...
Resources from Luminous Works Training
Resources from Luminous Works, Seattle's only Adobe Authorized Training Center. Always hands-on and in-person.
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April 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Triangle is the prompt for Day 11 of #JanuArty #JanuArty2025, and I reworked this picture from a few years ago - and the TransAmerica building again. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
A picture looking up at the pyramid of the TransAmerica building in San Francisco, taken from one side, so looks like a triangle, with other triangular pieces higher up. Rendered in black and white, with the sky darkened.
January 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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January 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I took a different direction with the Day 14 prompt of Plant, and went for this industrial plant rather than the green variety for #JanuArty #JanuArty2025. Loved the shaped of these multiple empty gas holding tower supports - another from Lisbon, Portugal.
Three holding towers for gasometers, also known as gas holders, which are empty and so only the support frames are seen. They overlap in such a way that there are multiple curves seen almost like a roller-coaster.
January 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Photoshop logo evolution 1990–2024
Photoshop logo evolution 1990–2024
January 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 7 #marks. I call this "indelible". The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wanted this mark to endure, apparently.
The number 50 and a vertical line under it, like a ruler tick, welded onto a highly textured steel surface. The welded line intersects a yellow band perpendicular to it in the center of the frame.
January 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 8 #tone.
Straight-on photo of a brick wall with a polygonal protrusion catching warm light on the left of the frame, shadowed and blue to the right. The effect is of 5 vertical bands of tone
January 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 11 #Triangle Well, it started simply as an exercise in surreal geometry, then I felt it needed to be covered in grass.
A twisted triangular form covered in a grass texture on a dark blue background.
January 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 12 #pink This is a print from the series Natural Philosophy
A print on textured green paper. In black, an antique engraved illustration of an armillary sphere on a stand. Overlaid on that, in hot pink ink, an antique botanical illustration of a magnolia flower. Vertical orientation, with black text to the side, "Fig. 2"
January 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 13 #tool With gratitude to Walker Evans and his 1936 photo "Auto parts shop. Atlanta, Georgia". I like physics humo(u)r
An auto repair shop with a sign declaring "Quantum Mechanic" with a wave shaped wrench with the numbers 19 and 27 on it. To either side of the wrench is a cartoon of Felix the Cat, dead on the left, alive and well on the right.
January 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 day 14, a wonderfully textured #plant.
Close view of intricately textured white leaves with green edges. People who know plants can likely identify the species. I'm not those people, sadly.
January 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Letterpress #Tools at the Center for Book Arts, NYC
#JanuArty #Bookarts #NYCxDesign #Photography #ILoveNY #WeLoveNYC #NYC #NewYorkCity
Info at https://centerforbookarts.org/classes/in-person/letterpress-certification
January 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 day 15, a curious #animal in the Museum of Natural History, London. Although I don't think AI is inherently/always an evil, I'd like to point out that none was used here. One of my favorite projects. One may wish to seek out Ivan Krylov's 1814 fable "The Inquisitive Man"
An elephant wandering amongst display cases
January 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 day 16, #clothing. When a retail store shutters, a strange crowd may be seen shuffling about.
A great many naked mannequins, but one is wearing red socks.
January 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Our brand-new website is live! www.205.tf

Explore our newly redesigned site! Enjoy an optimized user experience to browse our catalog, discover our new release, and get a behind-the-scenes look at our designers’ creative process.

#graphicdesign #typography #design
December 18, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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mgoldst.com Mitch Goldstein @mgoldst.com · Dec 10
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#art #design
December 12, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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“Good day, sir. I’d heard you’d recently come into possession of some bread. I see that I was not misinformed. As it so happens, I too enjoy baked goods. Might you be persuaded to part with a small percentage? I would of course offer fair compensation at the current market rate.”
A squirrel holding a piece of bread has a discussion with a bird.
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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er: fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/studio...
December 5, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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To make up for mis-naming the Black-crowned Night Heron yesterday, I'll try and make up for it by sharing this short video clip taken a little later in the evening. For some reason the theme from the Pink Panther plays in my head when watching this.
November 29, 2024 at 4:57 PM