When you spend as much time around InDesign as we do, sometimes the funniest things catch your attention. For example, during the recent InDesign conference in Auckland, a small cohort from the show (including Sandee Cohen and myself) wandered over to the nearby Media Design School for a tour. They have a great set up there, and we met lots of friendly people. (I kept hoping to find at least one unfriendly person in New Zealand, just to prove that there is one, but I failed.)
But when I wandered into one of their empty seminar rooms, I had to pull out my iphone for a quick snapshot. They obviously taught InDesign in this room, and had been on the subject of paragraph and character styles when the teacher had left this on the classroom whiteboard:
I think I will now forever think of the “plus” symbol in the Styles panel as the “naughty” sign. Something naughty this way lurks…
If you capture any fun InDesign-related images (screen captures of InDesign gone terribly wrong, shots of documents too-obviously created with InDesign, or anything funny that you think we should see), feel free to send them to us at info at indesignsecrets.com.
By the way, as you can probably tell, I love phrases such as “…of the week.” Legal disclaimer: I have no intention of posting one of these each week! Holy mackerel, no. ;)
This article was last modified on December 19, 2021
This article was first published on August 10, 2008
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