Election 2008

US Presidential Election
November 4, 2008

AP Images is a one-stop shop for all 2008 US Elections-related coverage. More than 150 images are added daily to the Elections 2008 tab for up-to-date content. >> Elections 2008 Tab

Right: Democratic Presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama, left, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican candidate John McCain, right, are reflected in teleprompters

Images that get results

Cast your eyes on our exclusive, timely voting images. Election year image choices tally up. Polls Open for Viewing.

ColorMunki Design

ColorMunki is the do everything solution that gives you the freedom to design with any color from the visible spectrum, even ones you never thought possible. Now you can swing from inspiration to production without losing color quality. And ColorMunki is so versatile, it's ready to help no matter where you grab your next idea. Find Out More Pantone.com

Best Design Links: Photography

Looking for links? Want to find the better sites? Check Out the - Best Design Links. The Samples below are from their Photography section, but that's just the tip of the ice berg. They have links for:

1. 3D Graphics
2. Audio
3. Icon Design
4. Illustration
5. Logo Design
6. Photography
7. Photoshop
8. PHP Scripts
9. Scrapbooking
10. Typography
11. Web Design

• Affordable Stock Photos (26) - Smaller stock photo companies offering quality images for just a few bucks. Often referred to as "microstock" agencies.
• Free Stock Photos (23) - A large collection of site providing stock photos and textures free of charge. Terms of use vary from site to site.
• Online Photo Editors (6) - Online applications that allow you to edit images directly in your browser.
• Photo Editing Software (8) - Tools to help you organize, edit, and enhance you photos.
• Stock Photo Agencies (6) - High-end stock photography agencies offering both rights-managed and royalty-free images.

Veer Type Update

Street posters, urban wear, concrete-walled bars – Rian Hughes’s DF Dukane is primed for the inner city. Coming from more sedate origins – lettering in battered microfiche reels – this display face has undeniable street cred. A Veer Exclusive $39
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Creatas Footage

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Animation Factory St. Patrick's Day Offer

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Hail to the Cheifs

From now through November, our Featured Collection highlights the extraordinary and tumultuous course of the American Presidency from George Washington onward.

You'll find the winners and the losers, and the First Ladies, too.

Just browse through our portraits, candids, cartoons, campaign memorabilia, and the fight for the right to vote by women and minorities.

All this and more vividly recaptures the quadrennial race to the White House. View the Gallery.

Pointed Perspectives

Sometimes real, other times ideal. Always beautifully art directed. With international flair, Cusp rights-managed photography balances art with function. See the Gallery.

Solid Gold Tour

It’s one bizarro triple bill, with even weirder artist riders. Go backstage at the Solid Gold tour – brought to you by Veer’s rockin’ collections of images and type. See the Show.

Take Care

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Bodoni Classic Ornaments

With his 1993 Bodoni Classic Ornaments, Munich designer Gert Wiescher pioneered a genre that recently has become phenomenally popular. It comes as no surprise that Wiescher has continued to produce ornament packages. His output is impressive, and his latest releases include his sixth collection of Fleurons as well as five sets of ornamented borders called Ornata. Wiescher’s most successful recent font is Floralissimo. Like most of his other ornamental fonts, it is based on vintage material from old catalogs. The flowery ornaments are an elegant addition to any design that is meant to exude romance, nostalgia... or subtle irony.

Estilo Text Family

With Estilo and Estilo Script, Portuguese designer Dino dos Santos created one of the most professional and widely appreciated Art Deco-inspired display families available. Despite the geometric simplicity of its characters, The Estilo display fonts look elegant and classy, with a wide range of alternates, ligatures and swashes.

The latest addition to the Estilo family is Estilo Text, a three-weight family with small caps and italics. True to its pedigree, Estilo Text is a face with plain and simple forms, with rounded stems that soften the sternness of its consistent geometry. As the curves in letters like e, m, n, G and U are based on the circle and semicircle, the font is relatively wide; at the same time, its low x-height makes it look about 30% smaller than, say, Helvetica at the same point size. In other words, Estilo Text’s unusual proportions work both ways and may need some experimenting to get used to. Good things come to those with patience, though: a legible piece of text that looks absolutely unique.

Smart Frocks

The prolific Nick Curtis has mastered the art of time travel like few other designers of his generation. On one of his trips to 1930s London he noticed a sign in a storefront announcing “smart frocks” (frock, for the non-English speakers among us, usually means ladies’ dress, but can also designate various other garments). Seeing the sign in the window was one of those “Eureka!” moments that must happen to Nick almost on a daily basis: another great idea for another cheeky display face. Describing Smart Frocks as “singularly stylish, hip and haughty and decidedly Deco,” the designer is confident that this font is the new way to outsmart the competition. Also included in Nick’s irresistibly priced Feb 2008 6-Pack.

Cure Your Color-Blind Computer

You probably think your monitor colors are fine, but the proof is in the printout. The only way to be sure the brilliant hues and shades captured in your original photo or seen by your eyes translate into a perfect print is to calibrate the color profile on your computer. iStock recommends using Spyder3, one of the best professional display calibration software systems out there. This photographic Spidey-sense is for sale at iStock in a special Value Bundle when you buy 115 credits.

Now in its third generation, Spyder dangles on your screen like a furry eight-legged creature only instead of spinning webs or scaring children, it calibrates consistent color between your studio and digital workflow. With a ColorVision Bundle you can select the Spyder3 that works best for you: Pro, Elite or Studio. Features include the industry’s only 7-detector color engine and 27 mm aperture, an embedded sensor to automatically measure the ambient light within a room and many more.

Check out iStock’s Value Bundles today and see what you can add to your burgeoning collection of lenses, cameras and technical gadgets.

Free Illustrator Brushes: Ink/Watercolor

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SuperStock Easter Lightbox

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FoodPix

Fill your image appetite with tasty photography from FoodPix, the most extensive rights-managed food collection in the industry. Each delicious image makes food come to life.
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Urban Vector Photoshop Brushes

This latest set of Photoshop brushes is made up of various “urban” vector designs. Some of the items are very recognizable as urban, or something that you’d find in a city. Others are designs, like various circles and such, that tend to go along with urban-based designs.

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New Photoshop Brush Sets - Plant Parts & Urban Textures - From Kirsty

The Urban Textures Set contains 11 large brushes of different kinds of textures, mostly of the urban variety. The Plant Parts Set contains 7 brushes of different kinds of plants, courtesy of Karl Blossfeldt. Very swirly and pretty!
Go to 500ml Brushes.