http://www.dreamink.com

Are you serious about creating a website but feel lost trying to find a place to start? Fear not, the folks at http://dreamink.com have put together an expansive resource of web-building information that will get you more than started.

Dreamink’s Web Design Guide offers detailed instruction in web design techniques, trends, and tools. The site is divided into six categories, making navigation simple and easy

• The Beginners Guide is a great place for a first-time web-builder to start. This guide covers the elements of a web page, HTML tutorials, and links to free web hosts and software to get your site up and running.

• The Design Guide is a helpful resource to anyone who has a site and wants to strengthen the impact on its target audience. This guide takes you through an informative checklist of areas such as Design, Speed, Style, Content, Coding, Navigation, and Promotion that will enable your site to maximize its potential.

• The Design Tools and Resource Guide list the very best software available for purchase in site building and editing, as well as numerous links to track down free clip art and color mixing programs.

• The Sitebuilder’s Library makes available a tremendous archive of tips to streamline the performance of your site from the Daily Guide. With just a couple of clicks of your mouse you can learn about the basic rules of typography or how you can conduct polls on your site to receive invaluable feedback from your visitors.

The only drawback to Dreamink’s Web Design Guide is that it leaves you without an excuse for not building your own site today!

Reviewed by R & RC Staff Member - Brian Seguin - S.F.

Motion Picture- Television- Theatre- Print.

Makeup Artist Magazine is a trade publication geared towards the professional makeup artist. Published bi-monthly, this magazine delves into the world of stage makeup and artistry. The current issue features techniques and tips from movies which will most likely receive Academy Award nominations such as: Lord of the Rings, Monster, The Last Samurai, Master Commander and Peter Pan. Offered here are step-by-step information on the process used and how the particular look was derived and achieved.

Regular departments featured include:

• Product News
• The Call Sheet
• Lab Tech
• Industry Buzz
• Beauty Breakdown

Makeup Artist offers real-world advice from the best and the brightest working in the world of entertainment today. The articles are well illustrated with exceptional photographs to not only document the artist’s work but to instruct those wanting to increase their skill level. One of my favorite regular offerings is called, “Out of the Kit”, where working professionals provide you with their recommendations. These recommendations are not only real-world tested, but provide the novice with the results of careful experimentation. This magazine not only covers the sort of makeup intended to make you beautiful, they include the type of makeup which transforms an actor into a monster, alien, or in extreme cases, an accident victim. If you have an interest in this field or just want to look your very best, this magazine is well worth seeking out.



Reviewed by R & RC Staff Member - Monika Earle

Tectum is publisher seven books on the lofts of seven European cities. Lofts of Paris is the fourth in the series in which the text is kept to a minimum, so that the photographs can speak for themselves. And speak they do, from a charming 1937 barge, decked out in period furnishings to an underground basement and former theater workshop, transformed into a peaceful and serene living space.

In a broad spectrum of industrial sites and workshops, the spaces highlighted in Lofts of Paris show the amazing resources that come into play to turn a blank slate into a creative and sometimes exotic home or workshop. Found in working-class neighborhoods such as Bastille, Belleville and Menilmontant, they offer a new way of looking at interior design.

For students and professionals, this book is filled with ideas and inspiration. From space saving to organizing there is a wealth of visual versatility. Ideas for incorporating color and texture range from spare and sleek modern to “scavenging with style”, to a former cold storage warehouse, transformed into an ornate and theatrical Italian palace.

Lofts of Paris will not provide its reader with information on decorating, but will expand the creative process. A brief history of lofts reinforces the fact that the use of abandoned studios and former industrial spaces is a relatively new development. With its history and development as a jumping-off point, the love of the loft is explored and presented. Any preconceived notions that a loft is a problematic space, is quickly replaced with the transforming idea that a loft is a space to carry out dreams of true beauty and comfort.


Reviewed by R & RC Staff Member - Cynthia Aaron