Spring and St. Patrick’s Day are both still a ways off, but it’s already time to incorporate some verdant hues into your work, at least according to Pantone, which has declared Emerald 17-5641 to be the Color of the Year for 2013. Some of the themes evoked by emerald are healing, unity, renewal, enhanced sense […]
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The next time someone trots out the phrase “print is dead” here’s your response: “Actually, didja know they’re making USB drives out of paper now, so you can literally plug print pieces into your computer?” This might get you a look of disbelief in return, but it is true. Paper USB drives that you can […]
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When you need to add some common icons to text, what do you do? Do you open a clip art library…and search for the right icon? Or maybe switch to a dingbat font…and search for the right icon? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could stop wasting time with all that searching and just type […]
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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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• 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
SkyFonts, the cloud-based font rental service by Monotype Imaging has been officially released. Through the service, you can browse a collection of over 8000 fonts, and try them for free for five minutes with no restrictions. After that, you can pay to keep access and use the fonts in your work. You only need to […]
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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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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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Our fiendish old friend can format a whole paragraph of text with a simple trigger
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