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5 Tips for How to Grow Creatively at an In-House Position
In-house creatives often find themselves in a position where their creative growth has an artificial ceiling. How can you grow your creativity without leaving your in-house position?
Continue readingFree Lynda.com Video – Design 101: Presentations
New video course shows how to create great looking presentations.
Continue reading5 Terrific Adobe Typekit Slab Serif Fonts
Use these great Adobe Typekit Slab Serif Fonts in magazines, newspapers and book covers, posters, logos, packaging and branding, web sites, and elsewhere.
Continue readingMystery of the Unused Style Contest Answer and Winner!
It’s time to reveal the solution—and the winner—for this month’s InDesignSecrets contest, the Mystery of the Unused Style! Here’s the scenario: You’re working with a simple, one-page document to create some presentation slides. On the document page, there is one text frame with some styled text in it. In the Paragraph Styles panel, you notice an unused style that […]
Continue readingSelf-Published Photography Books
Manual Exposure: Eye-Opening Self-Published Photography Books This article appeared in Issue 86 of InDesign Magazine. When you hear the word “book,” what often comes to mind is a bound volume of text. But for the vast majority of us, we experience our world visually—as pictures, not words. This may be why we are so innately receptive to photography books, where […]
Continue readingFont Bureau and Partners Launch Type Network
For the past two decades, Font Bureau has been one of the leading digital type foundries, with a library that includes some of the most celebrated fonts on the market. Founded in 1989 by type designer David Berlow and noted publication designer Roger Black, Font Bureau has built and maintained their reputation for producing typefaces of […]
Continue readingTip of the Week: Using Align to Key Object
With this free InDesign script, you can fix problematic text wrap with precision and ease.
Continue readingAdobe InCopy CC Price Drop
Last week during the PePcon conference, I was speaking to a colleague who reminded me of some significant news that has occurred recently that affects all of us in the InDesign/InCopy community. The news is that Adobe recently dropped the price of Adobe InCopy! The cost is now $4.99/month when you sign up for an […]
Continue readingCreating Social Media Graphics With Adobe Spark Post
Since the recent debut of Adobe Spark Post (previously Adobe Post), the Post team has made so many significant updates to the app. As a designer, you might think an app that handles much of the design and layout of graphics is cheating. But as a busy designer, I appreciate the fact that I am […]
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