September, 2011 | CreativePro Network

Typographic Rugs Are Real Treasures

Linus Dean is a graphic designer, but he’s also a fine artist. Now this Syndey-based Kiwi has woven the two together to produce a beguiling series of typographic rugs that harken back to hand-drawn signs. Each rug is named for a city. Barcelona: Boston: Chicago: London: Melbourne: New York: Paris: Sydney: The silk and wool […]

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 68

A little of this, a little of that… pretty soon these collections of links and articles really add up!

Free Guide to Email Marketing

MailChimp, the email newsletter service with a sense of humor, is giving away another guide that’s handy for anyone who uses emailing for marketing (or designs those marketing messages). The 22-page guide (available in printer-ready PDF plus mobi, ePub, and HTML) goes into how to layout a successful email newsletter; mistake to avoid; how to […]

Instagram Turns 2

Millions of iPhone owners love using the Instagram app to enhance and share their phones’ photos. Now Burbn, the company behind the app, has introduced what it calls a “technology layer” that constitutes a “complete upgrade to Instagram’s camera”. The practical upshot of the change is that the app is much faster at applying filters […]

Photoshop How-to: Ship in a Bottle

People have been building ships inside bottles since around 1850 — and for a hundred years before that, they were filling bottles with all manner of figures of people and angelic characters. The process was slow, painstaking, and hard to master; many artisans cheated, blowing the bottle around the object rather than building it inside. […]

Auto Style the Last (or First) Paragraph of an InDesign Story

Want the last paragraph of a story to appear different? This trick can do it in a jiffy!

Scanning Around With Gene: Confessions of a Mysophobe

I inherited a fear of germs from my mother, though I don’t have the disease as badly as she did. As a nurse my mother was predisposed to keep things sanitary, but she usually went a bit overboard, constantly spraying disinfectants when we were sick and insisting that we not share drinking glasses or eating […]

BigPicture Lite for InDesign CS5/5.5 Is Free Download

When you need to wrangle a lot of images in InDesign files, Badia Software‘s BigPicture is your friend. Now you can snag a limited version of the plug-in, BigPicture Lite, for free from the Mac App Store. It supports CS5 and CS5.5. Here’s what you can expect once you download and install BigPicture Lite: * […]

Scripted Style Lists

Did you ever want a list of a document’s paragraph styles where each style name appears in the style’s formatting? Here’s a script that does just that, along with some general tips on copying and pasting script code.