We've been collecting news items for the past week to share with you here. Without further ado ...

• Legion Paper is offering free shipping on sample orders of $30 or more; get your swatches of various fine-art papers including some lovely Japanese products.

• Somehow we missed that Creative Manager Pro rebranded last month to Workamajig; nonetheless, the company announced a forthcoming upgrade of its project-management software with new drag-and-drop capabilities and project-management charts (also included are updates for Apple's Leopard OS.)

• Parsons is exhibiting winners from I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review; the show opens July 10 and runs through September 28. At the school's Sheila Johnson Design Center in NYC.

• If you haven't seen them, the U.S. Postal Service released its Eames commemorative stamps recently. Which you can use on Eames paper.


• CTI Paper released a new swatchbook for its Glama Natural line of FSC-certified translucent papers.

• SMART Papers has added to its flagship brand with Kromekote Recycled, an FSC-certified, 30% postconsumer waste, cast-coated paper in two weights and four sizes.

• Adobe announced last week an updated version 3.3 of its Creative Suite collections; most notably, the company is now bundling Fireworks CS3 with its Design Premium edition, in a response to customer demand. Adobe also issued Acrobat 9 Pro.

• FontShop added to its library of fonts from Adobe and Linotype in June, with such lovelies as Robert Slimbach's Garamond Premier Pro and the script face Brioso from Adobe (below), and Akira Kobayashi's Cosmiqua and the TDC Award-winning Palatino Sans (bottom) from Linotype. Lots of other great new faces at FontShop.
Brioso

Palatino