Galeria Melissa

"Rio-based designer Muti Randolph (also responsible for the retro-futuristic design of the São Paulo club D-Edge) creates the bold compositions on a computer and prints them on a Vutek inkjet printer, a process that takes 24 hours."
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Color trends

"Darius, founder and CEO of COLOURlovers™, said, 'Our site is edgy, revolutionary, and works from the bottom up, not from the top down. It represents a new way to think about color and design."
Read more about Colour Lovers

Rich Black

"There are many different possible ink combinations - the most common "rich black" contains percentages of all 4 inks: 63C, 52M, 51Y 100K."
Rich Black vs. Plain Black an article by Marvin Humphrey

Talking about Whitespace

"Passive whitespace creates breathing room and balance." Article by Mark Boulton
Read more about Whitespace here.

Set Type That Looks Professional

Creating a properly formatted word processing document helps your final project meet the expectations. Here's an article that should help with the details:
Yes, You Can Use Microsoft Word to Set Type That Looks Professional
This article is from Aaron Shepard's e-book "Books, Typography, and Microsoft Word."

Package Design

Packaging Design: Successful Product Branding from Concept to Shelf by Marianne R. Klimchuk and Sandra Krasovec, is a resource of practical and professional information for creating packaging designs.

Read this article by Marianne R. Klimchuk. She is the Associate Chairperson of the Packaging Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

The Mac OS X font managers review

Here's a detailed (8 page) review of 3 font managers for OS X:
http://arstechnica.com
Apple's own FontBook is not included because the author feels
"while it is a nice utility and a welcome addition to the system,
it is not enough for professional font management needs."

Posted by Brian Ashe, Senior Lab Specialist for
Digital Publishing, Typography and Page Layout