Need a last minute gift for that special creative pro? How about a new computer? Some assembly (and a good exacto knife) will be required.
For this year’s holiday tip, your friendly left-brain team at Creativetechs has spent more time than we can justify tracking down templates for a wide variety of cut-out Macintosh computers. Browse through the list of available computers below. Each link will download a PDF template. Print out on card stock for best results.
Enjoy.
As we head into the shortened Thanksgiving week, we’d like to offer our traditional holiday papercraft project. This delectable roast turkey was found on a Japanese site. We’ve bundled the templates into a single easy-to-download PDF:
Continue across the jump for links to the original site (with Google translations into English).
In honor of Halloween, we offer up a fun collection of zombie papercraft templates. Download a PDF template, print, fold, and enjoy.
Each month, Creativetechs ships all our Seattle-area support clients a monthly care package, including (among other goodies) the latest issue of Design Tools Monthly.
So if you are a Creativetechs member client, watch your mailbox for this month’s latest green envelope. Read on for a list of all the headlines in the October 2008 issue.
If you are not yet a Creativetechs client, visit our main consulting page to learn more about our Seattle Mac Support consulting practice. Or visit Design Tools Monthly to subscribe to Jay Nelson’s excellent resource.
Is the air getting nippy? Are the days getting shorter? Are those rain clouds a little heavier? It must be October in Seattle.
Last week’s CS4 Social at Luminous Works was a hit. Hours after the Adobe unveiling, a lucky group of Seattle designers and photographers had a chance to see CS4 in person (including some of the new 3D features in Photoshop CS4). Tonight, we’re holding another CS4 preview at the Creativetechs office in South Lake Union:
Register: Tonight’s CS4 Preview
Source: Trainer and founder Steve Laskevitch’s fun CS4 presentation helps illustrate why Luminous Works has been ranked the #4 Adobe Authorized Training Center Worldwide. Check out the Luminous Works Calendar of upcoming classes.
If you haven’t registered for tomorrow’s Web Broadcast that kicks off Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, you still have time:
Link: Something Brilliant
We’re sworn to secrecy until Adobe lifts the curtain. But tomorrow night in Seattle, we’re throwing a party with our Seattle-area training partner, Luminous Works, to celebrate all the new CS4 goodness.
Source: Tomorrow’s CS4 party is seriously overbooked. If you signed up for the waitlist, we are hosting another CS4 Social on Monday, September 29, a week from today at the Creativetechs office in South Lake Union.
If you live in the Seattle area, be one of the first to experience CS4 in person. We’re partnering with Luminous Works in Ballard for a special CS4 social gathering.
Join us September 23 from 6 to 8 PM, the day of the official CS4 announcement, at the Luminous Works Schoolhouse in Ballard. Instructor Steve Laskevitch will give a demo of the Best of CS4, we’ll have light refreshments and drinks, and perhaps a few surprises!
Register: Luminous Works & Creativetechs CS4 Event!
Note: Space is limited, and this event has proven very popular (it is almost entirely full). When the remaining tickets run out, we’ll add a special Waitlist for a second CS4 event. We’re still working out the schedule and logistics for that.
We like to take a break from our technical focus during long weekends. So, in honor of the extended Labor Day holiday, we encourage you to get away from your computer, and enjoy a little low-tech paper folding. Apple’s iTunes U serves up a fun collection of tutorial podcasts by physicist Robert Lang who is also one of the world’s foremost origami artists and theorists.
Link: Robert Lang on iTunes U
Subscribe to the podcast collection and learn how to fold a square piece of paper into a duck, a sparrow, and a swallow. A nice way to tip your toe in the pool of origami paper folding.
