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For a limited time of one month the SitePoint book The Photoshop Anthology is available as a free Portable Document Format (PDF) download.

Drawing Day 08 is a worldwide drawing event that is about getting everyone to draw for the sake of art. They would like help creating 1 million drawings online on this day to support online art communities.

Its on June 7, 2008. The YouTube video is pretty cool, too.

This year I’ve spent more effort trying to make time to draw so this sounds like a great idea. Give them your support. I’ll skip the Flickr / Deviantart route though and post them on my drawing blog. To each his own.

Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer - and an accompanying action trailer.

Hey there’s a sweet looking Canon EOS digital SLR up for grabs over on Smashing Magazine! You have until May 21, 2008 to send in up to 5 textures for a chance to win the Smashing Textures Contest.

After running a poll on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Nick La found that 10% of designers didn’t think SEO was mandadory in their field and a whopping 24% didn’t even know what it was. He’s written a post titled SEO Guide for Designers which should bring everyone up to speed.

Chip Kidd’s copy of the New York Times arrived with a great photo of the outgoing Russian President and his new counterpart. If you’re too lazy to click through then what the image shows is the new President’s crotch area is ripped aside and the headline behind it is Trickery. Yeh God sounds a lot cooler than when I went to Sunday School. So is God a Graphic Designer?

Veerle has a level headed perspective about when using Flash is acceptable and when its a simple bad decision - Does Flash Irks Me?

In Issue 258 of A List Apart Jessica Enders looks at the science behind zebra striping in tables and George Oates looks at building a community like Flickr.