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Monthly Archives: January 2013

Organizing Illustrator Files With Layers

We’ve all done it. We’ve all been so involved in the creative process that we don’t realize what a disorganized mess we’re making of our layers, our studio, our dining room table. When we come up for air, the task of organizing seems almost monumental. We try to talk ourselves into skipping it. We’ll do […]

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Podcast 186

• News: Upcoming speaking gigs, InDesign User Group web site, Scripts for Indexes in EPUBs, Our mascot Zoey (picture below!)
• New Year’s InDesign Resolutions (and non-InDesign related)
• About the Primary Text Frame
• “Negative Number” Quizzler Answer and Winner
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Relink File Extension

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Scanning Around With Gene: The Art of Scripophily

I recently came across a terrific book on eBay called The Art of the Market: Two Centuries of American Business as Seen Through Its Stock Certificates by Bob Tamarkin and Les Krantz. It’s a well-designed, well-printed beautiful coffee-table style book that does a great job reviewing the history of stock certificates, and presents many samples […]

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New York street signs get a much needed redesign

Drivers in Manhattan will soon see just how much impact good type design can have in their daily lives, as the city of New York has begun the process of replacing its notoriously confusing parking signs with new ones designed by Pentagram. In total, over 6000 signs are being replaced in an effort to make […]

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