Here’s a tip with zome “zip”: combine InDesign FX with Type on a Path to create a zipper effect.
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• 2012 PePConference update: John McWade (Before & After) added to speaker list
• InDesign wishlists for CS6, CS7, and beyond
Would you like more business or more interesting projects in the coming year? You can sit around and wait for them to fall in your lap, or you can take control and market yourself. Marketing doesn’t have to be elaborate. In an hour-long webinar on January 12, 2012, Ilise Benun will give you a list […]
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As you drag to create or move objects on an InDesign page, you may have noticed lines, arrows, and other indicators appearing and disappearing. These are Smart Guides and other elements that can help you work more precisely. If you haven’t yet used Smart Guides, the following tips will introduce you to easy alignment and […]
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UK design company jkr has compiled 25 image-heavy essays on design greats into a book called Champions of Design. Subjects include the likes of Apple, Ducati, Marmite, and Ray-Ban. The essays originally appeared in Marketing magazine. Here’s an excerpt from the Converse essay: “Broadly, its products fall into two types. The classics, in their famous […]
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Four years ago, illustrator and graphic designer Chris Piascik made a major commitment: Draw something every weekday until he hit 1,000 drawings. Last week, he reached that goal. As you might expect, the quality of those drawings can be uneven, but they’re all interesting. Here are a few: You can browse the entire collection on […]
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A (thankfully) easy solution to an often frustrating InDesign problem!
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Winter is the one season I don’t know very well — at least not in the ways we traditionally think of winter. I’ve lived on the West Coast my whole life, so winter has always been mild to say the least. While I’ve travelled to places where winter comes in the form of snow, barren […]
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Google employee Udi Manber (who bears the awesome title “VP of Engineering and Cartoons”) has written a blog post about a new search caption challenge called “What’s the Search”? To play the game, you come up with a caption that goes with a cartoon depicting an unusual Google Search situation. There are many of these […]
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