Make: Television, the video companion to Make: magazine will begin to air on PBS. A Detroit broadcast time and day have yet to be announced, but keep an eye out for it.

For now, you can view episodes through their site:
http://makezine.tv

As a member of the Indesign User Group Detroit Chapter, I would like to extend a hand and invite any and all designers that are interested in Indesign to participate in a meeting

http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/detroit/events/763/

If you aren't too much of an Indesign fan, then come anyways. There is a raffle at the end for gift cards, books and even a CS4 package! All Free! That's the best word around designers nowadays. Don't bother about dinner either, they got that covered too.

It's February 5th at Schoolcraft College
6:30pm is the starting time.

Check out the link for more details

Film Detroit was established by The Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau to act as liaison between the film industry and local resources to help film productions easily, effectively, and creatively film in metro Detroit.

http://www.filmdetroit.com/index.html

Miller will have a one second ad during the Super Bowl this year.

The 1secondad site has a slew of 1 second ads, including one that pays tribute to Bob Ross.

http://www.1secondad.com/

Illustrator is a powerful tool. While the pen tool is the obvious weapon for most, a Wacom tablet and brush tool can yield some interesting results.

The big advantage of a tablet and illustrator is that you can achieve beautiful organic lines with the scaling freedom of vector construction.

Step 1:
If you haven't already, the first thing you will need to do is download the appropriate drivers for your tablet and operating system. The drivers are available from the Wacom website if you do not have the original CD.

Step 2:
After installing your driver, launch Illustrator.

Double click the brush icon in your toolbar. Deselect the "Fill new brush strokes" and "keep selected" boxes.

Step 3:
Open your brush palette and double click on a calligraphic brush in the top row. This will open a box that allows you to control options such as brush angle, roundness and diameter with pressure.
Simply use the appropriate drop down menus to select pressure. The Variation slider lets you adjust the range in which your pressure can affect the brush.

That's it!

It may be freezing cold outside now, but its never too early to start thinking of spring. A great new product for bikes is the LightLane, a safety concept by Altitude, Inc. The system projects a virtual bike lane, using lasers, on the ground around the rider. This provides drivers with a recognizable boundary they can easily avoid. The idea is to allow riders to take safety into their own hands, rather than leaving it to the city.

http://www.good.is/?p=14716

Icethetics combines art & hockey, two of my favorite things. The site covers items such as jersey designs & team logos. They even have a fantasy league that allows readers to vote on things such as franchise locations, team names & logo designs

http://www.icethetics.info/

Lushpad presents an Original 1961 Playboy article
about the masters of design.

http://www.lushpad.com/articles.php?id=16&pag=1

JPG magazine has announced its intentions to close shop. Initial posts indicated Monday the 5th as the last day. However, more recent posts hint at the possibility of the publication being saved.

In the meantime, they have made PDFs of past issues available:
http://www.jpgmag.com/downloads/archives.html

more at

JPG Blog:
http://www.jpgmag.com/blog/

Save JPG:
www.savejpg.com/