Apple - Design & Publishing

Live and Direct. Much more than an ink-stained-finger music mag, Tokyo’s Direct magazine is a monthly compendium of music culture from wild to mild. With regular features on edge artists 54-71 to non-edge artists like Shonen Knife, Direct is all Mac and more often than not the first word in Japanese cool.

Hey Man, Nice Shot! Rodney Charters has directed photography for everything from TV shows to feature films. With the newest tool in the tool shed, Charters has his daily shots colorized by the time he wakes up. Courtesy of a G3 and Final Cut Pro.

Search & Destroy. How does a small promotions company get attention for big foreign acts like Nashville Pussy, No Means No and former singer of Black Flag, Henry Rollins? Through the creative mind of one man, Henrik Walse.

EarBuzz Saw. As a guitarist, singer and songwriter, Don Kimenker lived music. But after experiencing what it was like to be one of many artists on big label, Epic Records, he decided to do his own solo project and put his energy toward starting a site that would help liberate other music artists from the death-like vice-grip of the music industry. And earBuzz was born.

Uh Oh. It’s N2O. N8 Shimizu is a well-known fixture in LA’s digital underground music scene—call it jungle, house, or illbient—Shimizu is the man with the plan. And he’s not only bad and nationwide, he’s recently gone global as the man behind Nitrous Oxide Records (N20), a small label with big-label contacts and distribution contracts. How so? Well, they use Macs, for starts...

The 3 Dimensional Man. Alec Syme, a former lowly airbrush artist, is the 3D head behind some of the highest profile Coca Cola, Starbucks, and Volvo ads you’ve ever sort of seen. Lurking on the periphery of our collective unconscious, Syme’s work brings an artist’s sensibility to the well-machined house of tech. And D&P;’s Creighton Nolte corrals Syme in a Q&A; that talks turkey about the artist, the art, and post-modern angst.

How the Hell To…Figure Out MP3. In the first of a whenever-we-feel-like-it series, D&P;’s resident audio jockey Steve Snell takes you through the long and short of being able to make MP3 work for you.

Flash Trance. Even though the cool, interactive firm Spyplane has only been around for a year, they’ve captured the attention of Nike, Sony, and Infoseek. Who’s the co-pilot? Apple, baby!

Doctor Digital. Jeff Johnson (don’t call him JJ) is a medical illustrator/animator nonpareil and almost a decade of generating digital imagery for the health care industry has made him the go-to guy for all things 3D.

Planet Andresen. Andresen has brought service to the printing industry for over four generations (that’s 40 years to you) but they’re also making it their business to keep up with technology. And now, post-supernova, Planet Andresen is a web site for all the rest of us on this here big blue-green planet. To what do we owe this tremendous debt of gratitude? Mac O/S X. Natch.

HigherArchy. If a building has actually looked like enough to make you stop and look, chances are it’s been designed by the STUDIOS Architects. From Silicon Graphics to 3COM Corp., the team at STUDIOS has been winning awards all around the world for designing some of the sweetest-looking new architecture around. On Macs (like we had to tell you that).

You miss something? Whether it was the dancing, machine-gun toting rats, news on how to shut down NT, or the scintillating sit-downs with industry sharpies, past D&P issues live on here. Uncle Luke says: stop in, pull up a chair, and check it out.

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