Designing and Producing Creative Business Cards: Techniques and Details

Plenty of creative business card showcases are available out there. Many of these are beautifully done and well thought out, and they serve as inspiration for those who would like their business card to be more than the standard rectangular piece of paper. Yet little explanation accompanies these examples, and… read more

InDesign CS5: Layers Panel Rebuilt

Jeff Witchel explores some of the changes that InDesign CS5 has made to the layers panel, including the ability to affect individual objects inside layers.

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Quick Tip: Color and InDesign

For this tutorial I will list a selection of my favorite InDesign shortcuts when working with color. Once memorized these shortcuts will help you become more efficient and give you more time to be creative. First, I would like to share some general color advice that I regard as essential.

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How to Make an A5 Print Ready Leaflet InDesign CS5

In this tutorial you will learn how to design a A5 four page leaflet, which can also be saved as a template for future designs. Using some of the new type setting features in InDesign CS5, you will make an appealing design that’s perfect for print.

Introduction

Note: The Premium Download for… read more

Getting to Know Adobe InDesign

Getting to Know Adobe InDesign

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InDesign and Bridge Contact Sheet

Assemble a photograph contact sheet in InDesign.

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Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010

August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!

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Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the… read more

The Complete Overview of Indie Graphics Software for Mac

Everyone knows about the big guns in the graphics field. Adobe is pretty much the unchallenged master of image editing with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. Adobe’s InDesign shares the digital publishing field, albeit grudgingly, with Quark’s QuarkXPress. Serious graphic designers find themselves stuck between these two large corporations, due in… read more

Print Tutorial: Creating A Magazine Cover

By Cameron Chapman

Graphic design in a print environment can be a nice change for someone who normally does web design. It’s a slightly different skillset, but still incorporates a lot of the same concepts. Print projects can be an exciting new challenge, something that lets a designer stretch their creativity… read more

Interactive PDFs

InDesign CS5 now offers a choice of exporting for print and a brand-new interactive PDF format to fulfill your interactive needs. The interactive PDF format supports a robust export function that takes advantage of the ability in InDesign CS5 to create multiple page sizes and includes a range of interactive… read more

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 6: Importing Images

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 6: Importing Images

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Art of Type: Out of Scale

There was a time when few designers dared to venture into the murky world of the Adobe InDesign justification controls. The good news is that more and more users are starting to take charge of them. The bad news is one of them—the powerful glyph scaling control, unique to InDesign—is… read more

Watches Design & Concept Have Never Been This Interesting

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40 New And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

The Internet is bursting with knowledge. Whatever you want is available at your fingertips, and learning new techniques is so easy with the load of useful tutorials that guide you step by step. Adobe Illustrator is powerful indeed, but when used right, it can perform feats that humans will marvel… read more

Interview with Ricardo Gimenes

You may already know about the blog, Behind the Websites. In today’s interview we’re going to meet Ricardo Gimenes, illustrator and founder of the site. Ricardo is a São Paulo based Brazilian designer and illustrator who has worked with variety of clients around the world. He says he has… read more

How To: Fix Adobe InDesign to PDF Character Conversion Problem

How To: Fix Adobe InDesign to PDF Character Conversion Problem

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Design Makeover: S Virginia Higher Ed Center

A Smarter Logo

Client:
Southern Virginia Higher Education Center www.svhed.org

BEFORE

The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center’s logo is based on an abstract representation of the building itself, which stands on a hill overlooking a river.

The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center calls itself an “educational connector,” in the words of Communications Manager… read more

GridIron Flow: A Visual File Workflow for Designers

In my last software review, I covered Blast, an application that shows you the recent files you’ve open or modified. In a similar spirit – but with more of a creative, professional spin – I’d like to introduce you to GridIron Software’s Flow.

Flow’s main goal is to help… read more

A Sneak Peek at Premium for Non-members

Vector Premium launched in late September 2008. Since then we’ve added over 60 Premium tutorials for Premium members and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Over 10,000 members have formed our unique Premium community. Learn more about the material and resources available to Premium members to Join Premium today.

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Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 1

Hi everyone, this time I’ve got for you a practical tutorial about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named "Violet Coffee." In this tutorial you’ll learn to mockup a ready to print background and a couple of additional objects, which will be imported later… read more

Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 2

This is the second part of this tutorial series about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named "Violet Coffee." In this final part of the two part series, you’ll learn to create a ready to print booklet on InDesign, work with master pages, text,… read more

Four Indesign CS5 Tips

RC Concepcion goes over 4 invaluable tips for document dimensions, placing images, and resizing frames automatically in Indesign CS5.

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Quick Tip: How to Create Mixed Ink Swatches with InDesign

Today’s financial situation has led to more clients asking for better value for money when setting budgets for design and print. A common request for a designer is to cut the number of inks from four down to two. Although this does cut print costs, it also cuts the designer’s… read more

InDesign CS5: Gap Tool

Use the new Gap tool in InDesign CS5 to manipulate white space in your page design.

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How to Create a Professional Magazine Layout

Have you ever wondered how professional designers strike the perfect balance between text and image? Using InDesign’s powerful type tools, you will learn techniques to help you set and arrange a magazine layout.

Step 1 Setting up the Document

We’ll be using a standard A4 size document for this tutorial. Start… read more

Quick Tip: How to Make Running Headers in Adobe InDesign

There are running headers in dictionaries, telephone lists, catalogues, guides and many other publications that need to inform the first and last instance of a list of terms on each page. That quick and useful way of finding words can be made with InDesign in a simple way, by uniting… read more

In Defense Of Photoshop

Waves of change are currently rippling through every aspect of the Web. The iPad and other mobile devices are changing the way we access the Internet, while HTML5 and CSS3 promise to change the way we develop it. However, another storm is brewing that threatens Photoshop’s throne as the application… read more

Quick Tip: Paragraph Styles

A lightweight version of the paragraph styles you would find in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator’s Paragraph Styles help you set your type in many different ways. Learn more about how to save time styling your type in this Video Quick Tip.

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Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 4: Working With Color

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 4: Working With Color

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Adobe to Roll Out New Publishing Software for Tablets

Adobe is working on a new kind of creative software specifically intended to help you publish digital magazines for tablet devices such as the iPad, the company revealed today.

This new software, which will soon take its place in the Creative Suite pantheon, will be downloadable from Adobe Labs and will… read more

Writing Effectively in InDesign Using Book

InDesign allows you to collect all documents in a Book. Using Book, you can easily synchronize styles in every document and maintain a consistent layout throughout your project. In this tutorial, we will create a book made from 3 chapters, complete with Table of Content, Introduction, and a Cover. You… read more

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 3: Importing Text and Playing With Typography

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 3: Importing Text and Playing With Typography

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Span Columns in InDesign

InDesign CS5 includes a great new feature for making your text span multiple columns. Jeff Witchel shows viewers how this feature works in InDesign CS5 and shows how to use a work around to get the same results in CS4.

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14 Little-Known InDesign Tips

With each new version of InDesign (or any Creative Suite product), we usually hear about its new features and start using them right away. However, there are always features that don’t make it into the marketing materials. So, I’m going to cover 14 InDesign features you may not know about.

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Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 2: Working With Text And Graphic Frames

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 2: Working With Text And Graphic Frames

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Changing Defaults in InDesign

InDesign behaving strangely? Many times it is because users accidentally make changes to the default settings without knowing it. Jeff Witchel goes through some of the common default settings that can get messed up during the course of a normal work flow.

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I am Domenico Marazia, Graphic Designer and Illustrator

WHO AM I?

I’m a 27 years old graphic designer and an Illustrator. I live in south Italy, near Naples. Now I’m trying to become an art director. I started almost by chance. After Art School I thought of doing many different things. I learned to use Photoshop and the God… read more

Get Interactive with InDesign CS5, Part 2 of 2

In the second part of this two-part tutorial, Tom Green shows InDesign CS5 users how to export an interactive InDesign document to a swf file and as a Flash project that can be edited in Flash.

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Quick Tip: Using and Sharing Files With the InDesign Library

In this Quick Tip tutorial you will learn how affective the InDesign Library palette can be for storing and reusing objects. Once a library has been established it is independent of InDesign documents and saved objects are stored in one place. Using a library is a convenient way of accessing… read more

Lightroom Pro Q&A with Terry White

Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how they use and feel about Lightroom:

Today’s Guest: The one and only… Terry White

Bio/Intro: Terry White – Worldwide Design Evangelist for… read more

Interview: Max Spencer – Updated

For this week’s interview we have Max Spencer, a UK based freelance illustrator and graphic designer also member of the fantastic depthCORE art group. Max sent us a wallpaper for the wallpaper of the week #26, a few months ago, so now let’s discover a bit of his secrets to… read more

Que Publishing: Adobe CS5 Books Giveaway

Que Publishing is a very established publisher with almost 30 years of experience providing information and books related to computing and technology.

We’ve partnered with this awesome publisher to bring you a super cool giveaway today, to ensure that you get the most out of your new Adobe CS5 products.

I’ve been… read more

Free Client Presentation InDesign Template

Free Client Presentation InDesign Template

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Get Interactive with InDesign CS5, Part 1 of 2

In this two-part tutorial, Tom Green shows InDesign CS5 users how to use the interactive features. In these videos, Tom creates an interactive presentation and exports it to Flash to create a swf that can be displayed on a tablet.

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The Process Behind Good Illustration (Part 1)

Design Informer

The Process Behind Good Illustration – According to a Young Illustrator

by Natalie Sklobovskaya for DesignInformer

Illustration is not the same thing as art.

“Art” is something philosophers have spent centuries trying to define, sadly with no satisfactory result (a debate that is far beyond the scope of this article). But illustration,… read more

Exclusive interview: I am David Vogin, Illustrator

I am David Vogin.

Who am I?

I live in Frederick, MD USA—which is located just outside of Washington, DC.—with my wife, daughter and son. My main career is that of a graphic designer which I have been doing for over 15 years. It wasn’t until 2004 that I started my illustration… read more

The Perfect Office #40

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Review and Giveaway: Radim Malinic’s Book #THREE

Book #THREE by Brand Nu is a unique book that serves as the portfolio of Radim Malinic, one of the most prolific and successful commercial illustrators around.

Radim is the illustrator of the awesome graphics that you see in the header and footer of Webdesigner Depot. If you didn’t see our… read more

Create your own Calendar with Illustrator & InDesign – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to make an attractive type based calendar, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.

This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

A calendar is a great… read more

Beautiful and Inspirational Vector Portrait Art and Tutorials

While most artists may use similar techniques for vector art and portraits, individual artists develop wildly differing styles in the images they create. Some produce photo-realistic images, while others opt for cute cartoon graphics or far-out sci-fi and psychedelic aesthetics.

This post brings together 18 of the best examples of… read more

Using Automated Styles in InDesign

Use InDesign’s paragraph styles to auto format your text, highlighting every other line in your paragraph.

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Adobe Fireworks: Is It Worth Switching to CS5?

Adobe Fireworks is the Swiss Army knife for many developers and Web, UX, UI and graphic designers. The application is known for its versatility, excellent blend of vector and bitmap tools and powerful built-in wireframing and prototyping options. Also, according to the SoDA 2010 Digital Marketing Outlook survey, Fireworks has… read more

Mastering Text Threading in InDesign

Text threading is a natural component when creating multipage InDesign documents. However, I still run into quite a few users that haven’t quite mastered the ins-and-outs of the feature. So, I figured I would get everyone up to speed on text threading, including taking it from a master page perspective,… read more

Quick Tip: Basic Page Numbering with InDesign CS5

Most of us have experience using the Adobe Suite, but how much do you know about InDesign? This powerful program has an entire host of features that you wont find in Illustrator or Photoshop, it’s for this reason that it has remained one of the most popular programs for graphic… read more

Photoshop Turns 20

WORLD’S MOST POPULAR IMAGE-EDITING APP STANDS THE TEST OF TIME!

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Adobe Photoshop, the image-editing powerhouse nestled snuggly on the hard drives of more than 90% of creative professionals—not too shabby for a program that started life bundled with 200 Barneyscan scanners! If you think… read more

The Art of Type: One-Click Typesetting

Nested styles in InDesign are a great time saver, reducing complex formatting tasks to a single mouse click.

Setting type should be a creative effort, but too often it’s a tedium of repetitive formatting: roman to italic, italic to bold, up a point size, down a point size—mind-numbing stuff that eats… read more

70+ Excellent Fresh Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Why I need to look any Illustrator tutorial? Out of many reasons there are three reasons for… read more

17 Tutorials for Designing Your Own Business Card

Business cards are a necessity for designers and other creatives. In this post we’ll feature some tutorials that will teach you how to design an attractive business card. You can follow the tutorials exactly or use parts of them to learn new tricks and create something unique for your own… read more

Secret to Combining InDesign Documents

Combine multiple documents into one editable InDesign document.

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Adobe Illustrator CS5 Review

ILLUSTRATOR GETS SOME PERSPECTIVE

As the Creative Suite versions of the Adobe software mature, the list of new features for each program grows smaller, but the new features seem to be getting better. Of course, everything depends on your needs. Here are the top new features for Illustrator CS5 (a.k.a. version… read more

InDesign CS5: Multiplace Images

This tutorial goes over the new minibridge feature in InDesign CS5, as well as the ability to place multiple images, build multiple frames, and the new autofit command.

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The Perfect Office #33

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Design Makeover: High-flying Redesign

Client:
Good Bird Magazine! www.goodbirdinc.com

BEFORE
I don’t have a huge number of subscribers, but the ones I do have are really into their birds.

Good Bird Magazine! is just one part of Good Bird Inc., a source of information for owners of parrots and similar birds. The complete product line includes DVDs,… read more

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available

Although there’s a heated Adobe vs. Apple discussion going on, creative professionals are probably much more excited about the latest version of Adobe’s Creative Suite, which is now officially available.

Besides the new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro and Dreamweaver, Adobe Creative Suite 5 also brings Flash Player… read more

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Brings Sexy Back

Adobe will unveil its new Creative Suite 5 on Monday April 12th at 8AM PDT, just a few hours from now.

You can catch the official launch online here, however, if you can’t wait, we’ll be revealing all the juicy details before the official launch… right now!

The Adobe team kindly invited… read more

Using InDesign to Create a Designer Resume

In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create a resume with InDesign using paragraph styles and a grid. We’ll walk you through each step in creating this resume and introduce you to some tools and the use of styles.

Step 1

Open up a new document and set the Page Size to… read more

Fitting Pictures in InDesign

Jeff Witchel reviews fitting options for graphic frames in InDesign.

This video requires Adobe Flash Player.

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This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.30

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news… read more

Creating a Question and Answer Format with InDesign Nested Styles

In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create nested paragraph styles on a question & answer example text. This is an intermediate level tutorial, which shouldn’t take more than an hour to complete, and it’s great practice for utilizing InDesign styling features.

Step 1

Open up a new document, choose letter and… read more

Working with Clipping Paths in Adobe InDesign

Working with Clipping Paths in Adobe InDesign

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The Art of Type: Dash Away All

After quotation marks, dashes are the most abused characters in the typographic stable. Dashes have visual, typographical roles as well as grammatical ones. These modest characters fall under the sway of both copy editors and typesetters, and using them correctly depends on knowing a bit of both disciplines. By the… read more

Free Datacolor e-Workshop tomorrow!

Color Managed Workflow Class This Wednesday
This is something that faces EVERY person using a computer and a printer. You setup everything in Photoshop, hit print, then all of a sudden the print comes NOWHERE NEAR what the final image looked like on the machine. Many pages can… read more

Print May Be King, But The Future is Digital

Going Digital

People are consuming information much differently these days and it’s your responsibility to make sure your content is available for the most popular forms of consumption. Here, we’ll take a look at distributing content through everything from Zinio to Amazon’s Kindle to Apple’s iPhone.

Personally, I’ve been a fan of… read more

Spot Color: From Photoshop to InDesign

In this tutorial, Dave takes an image and uses Channels to create a spot color version which he then takes over to InDesign to ready for printing.

This video requires Adobe Flash Player.

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Win 1,000 Business Cards from Next Day Flyers

Next Day Flyers has offered to give 1,000 business cards and $25 of printing credit to a lucky reader of Designm.ag.

If you’re not familiar with Next Day Flyers they provide offset printing services and specialize in quick printing, mailing and finishing marketing materials. They are available to print business … read more

Print Magazines for Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers

Although much valuable information for all sorts of web and print professionals can be found online, it is often difficult to weed through all the noise and find good quality content. I believe it’s vital that professionals in different creative fields supplement their online learning and research through well-edited and… read more

Create Photo Albums for Print with InDesign

Recently, I attended a seminar taught by wedding photographer David Ziser. While I learned a lot of good photography tips, one thing that caught my attention was an app David showed for laying out wedding albums. Typically, a wedding photographer has to narrow down his shoot to about 100 photos… read more

Interview with Jonathan Patterson

Fans of Vectortuts+ are certainly familiar with the vector tutorials of Jonathan Patterson. He’s obviously a talented vector illustrator, there is however a wide variety of work he produces in addition to his vector artwork. Jonathan is a Michigan native working as a Senior Art Director at an advertising agency…. read more

Macworld 2010: TypeDNA

<pn the last day of Macworld, I caught up with the guys from TypeDNA to take a look at what I soon realized was going to be a revolutionary bit of software magic for designers of any ilk. TypeDNA is a series of plugins for Adobe CS4 applications (Photoshop, InDesign,… read more

Extensis Universal Type Server 2.1

FONT MANAGEMENT GETS BETTER, STRONGER, AND FASTER

A year ago this past June, Extensis released version 1 of Universal Type Server (UTS)—and now version 2 is hot on its heels with some nice new features that are going to be of special interest to larger companies with many users. While… read more

50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has… read more

Vector Valentines Inspiration, Filled with Love, and Warm Hearts

Grab some vector Valentines inspiration to fill your winter days with a warmth and heart felt happiness. Rejoice in each moment of snow, frost, every breath of wind, the stars in the sky, and a lovers hand. Feast on this massive overload of lovely illustrations. Get inspired to create for… read more

Interview with Allrounder Alex Cornell

Alex Cornell is a San Francisco based, musician, designer & blogger for the famous design blog ISO50. He has a very clean and simple, but powerful, style which often reminds me of posters from the 80’s. In this interview he will tell us a lot about how he became a… read more

All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple’s iBookstore

EPUB is the same format used by the popular Stanza [free, iTunes link] app for iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a free and open standard format created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and it’s designed for reflowable content that can be optimized to whatever device is being used… read more

Layers TV: Episode 122

Corey has a How-To Hollywood effect tutorial. This time, Corey breaks down a stage curtain effect using Photoshop filters, blend modes and a gradient. RC compares InDesign paragraph styles with CSS stylesheets in Dreamweaver.

You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes.

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Plugin’ in to the Creative Suite

Since the beginning of time (or at least since the beginning of Adobe Systems Incorporated), photographers and designers have always wanted their applications to do more with less. Thus, the demand for plug-ins was created. Developers identify a need, create a solution, and then through the power of marketing, convince… read more

play that beat.

‘play that beat’

Hand drawn typography, vectored in illustrator and processed in photoshop.

www.samaustindesign.co.uk

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Design Makeover: Dental Clinic for Pets

Client:
All Pets Dental Clinic www.dentalvet.com

The brochure has to convince the prospective client that All Pets offers great medicine and phenomenal customer service.

The All Pets Dental Clinic was founded about ten years ag ao by Dr. Jan Bellows, one of only about a hundred board-certified veterinary dentists in the… read more

Two-Color Printing with InDesign CS4

With the cost-cutting mindset in today’s economy, many artists are being asked to do the best they can with two-color printing instead of four. This tutorial discusses the ins and outs of creating mixed ink swatches in InDesign—a feature that makes two colors look like so much more.

1 SET… read more

Mind-Blowing Female Vexel Illustrations

Looking for some inspiring and appealing vexel illustrations? Here you go. Today we present probably one of the most distinguished forms of art. Basically, Vexel is the combination of two words; “Vector” and “Pixel”, and can be defined as the pixel-based form of digital art that emulates the vector graphics… read more

Good typography in InDesign – setting up a baseline grid

Good typography in InDesign – setting up a baseline grid

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Layers TV: Episode 120

Corey breaks down a popular design technique of combining images and text inside a silhouette by using selections, layer styles, masks and clipping groups in Photoshop. RC has a tutorial on the basics of InDesign’s links panel and live preflight tool.

You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast… read more

Rain Design’s iMac turntable sends the iMac for a spin

That’s the idea behind the Rain Design i360, a turntable that encloses the base of an iMac or Apple Cinema Display, and then allows easy movement of the display. Want to show a co-worker on the “back” side of your iMac something? Just spin the entire computer around. Need to… read more

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques

CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for designers and developers. Almost every day designers and developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks and techniques and share them with other developers. We regularly collect all these tricks, filter them, sort them, revise them and prepare them for Smashing… read more

Create a Quick One Page Portfolio in InDesign

In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create a quick portfolio page by using the Step and Repeat, Paragraph Styles and object elements. We will also use Adobe Bridge.

Final Image Preview

Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable… read more

Nested Line Styles in InDesign

Formatting line styles to give your text some graphic enhancement in InDesign.

This video requires Adobe Flash Player.

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The Art of Type: Table Manners

Adobe InDesign offers very precise and explicit control over leading, except in tables, that is, where controlling leading can be a struggle. The root of the problem is that the program doesn’t see a table as a traditional array of rows and columns. Instead, it sees a table’s structure like… read more

Linkswitch #19

The Simple, Ridiculously Useful Guide to Earning a Living from Your Passion

“It’s not easy — I’ll tell you that up front. If you hope to make a quick buck, or a fast million, you’ll need to find another guide. Probably one with lots of flashing ads in the sidebar. So… read more

Christmas Giveaway Day 24: The Grand Prize

It’s been a long month of prizes, and my thanks to all of you who participated. Giving away free stuff is fun — and even better when the quality of the prizes to so high.

Today we’re wrapping up the giving just in time for Christmas Day. Our grand prize is… read more