Interactive States in InDesign CS5

Dave Cross is working in InDesign CS5 and in shares a tutorial about working with states and the Adobe Digital Publishing System to create an interactive document.

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The Ultimate InDesign Toolbox

by Robert Bowen

Having recently published the Illustrator toolbox, we thought we would continue down the print design path and follow up with our next toolbox in this same arena. Welcome to the Ultimate InDesign Toolbox for all of those designers and graphic artists who use this valuable tool for all… read more

Quick Tip: Creating New Documents, InDesignCS5

This Basix tutorial will give readers with no or limited InDesign experience the basic knowledge on how to set-up a document for print.

Step 1

Open InDesign and you will be presented with an introduction screen. It is here where we will start to create the new document. But before we create… read more

Art of Type: Changing the Rules

Lines and rules aren’t the most scintillating aspects of typography, but beneath their dull appearances lurk some interesting graphic capabilities you might not have considered. In this column, we’ll look at some useful tricks you can perform combining InDesign styles with its controls over paragraph rules and underscores.

All… read more

Best of the Vector Web – October 2010

As you know, each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we found some really great tutorials on creating magazine layouts, illustrative vector type, and drawing vector water, among others. Grab your quick dose of colorful… read more

Daily Inspiration #656

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

New Adobe Suite Helps Publishers Create “Wired”-Style Digital Magazines

At its MAX 2010 worldwide conference in LA this week, Adobe will unveil its Digital Publishing Suite, a set of turnkey hosted services that will allow publishers to more easily create robust, interactive digital publications. The Digital Publishing Suite has already been used to create the iPad edition of… read more

How Predictive Analytics Can Make Money for Social Networks

Dr. Rado Kotorov is chief innovation officer at Information Builders, and is responsible for emerging reporting, analytic and visualization technologies. He has developed analytic models and applications for the pharmaceutical, retail, CPG, financial and automotive industries.

You’ve likely been experiencing a deluge of online information coming at you in recent years… read more

A Look Inside InDesign CS5

InDesign CS5 has arrived with lot of new tools, panels and features. Let’s have a closer look at these changes and discover how they can improve our workflow, productivity and, best of all, our creative process. Time to also think outside of the box, since InDesign is starting to explore… read more

URL2hyperlink

AUTO CONVERSION OF HYPERLINKS

Formatting hyperlinks in InDesign CS3 and CS4 is a pain—they have to be formatted one at a time. That means that every new hyperlink has to be selected and made into a URL destination. Granted this isn’t hard, just unnecessary.

URL2hyperlink adds a few new menus to… read more

50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly available technologies to practical use instead of abusing them for pure aesthetic purposes. We see fewer “pure CSS images”… read more

What’s New for Web Designers – Oct. 2010

New apps and websites seem to be appearing on an almost daily basis, but trying to find the good ones among them can be tough, especially considering how many are not that great.

That’s why every month we research and showcase some of the best and latest resources available for web… read more

The Reinvention of Print, One App at a Time

On the ninth floor of a nondescript building in New York City is a very unique company that is poised to change the future of publishing. This company has more than 11,000 apps in the App Store, deals with some of the biggest players in publishing and is able to… read more

Setting Up Live Captions in InDesign CS5

Creating captions, one of the most mundane tasks in page layout, can now be automated in InDesign CS5. Using an image’s metadata, InDesign can create live captions. The beauty here is that once it’s set up in your document, your captions will automatically update if the image changes or if… read more

Designing The 2010 Cleveland Browns Season Tickets

Is everyone ready for some football? Today, we have a special treat for you. Chris Modarelli, Art director and Senior Designer for the Cleveland Browns has taken some time from his busy schedule to walk us through the process of creating a season ticket design for the Cleveland Browns. Let’s… read more

35 Excellent Wireframing Resources

By Cameron Chapman

Wireframing is an important part of the design process, one that shouldn’t be overlooked by even the most experienced designers. Wireframes can save development time by outlining exactly how a site should look and function, in a manner that can be shown to and approved by your clients.

But… read more

Use Color-Logic Plug-ins to Create a Metallic Magazine Cover – Vector Premium Tutorial – Part 2

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your layout and production skills to the next level, then we have an awesome two part tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump!

This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips

In this two-part… read more

Quick Tip: Creating a Custom Text Box using Type and InDesign

Setting type using InDesign doesn’t have to be about drawing simple square and rectangle boxes. In this tutorial you will learn how you can use the actual type to create a custom shaped text box.

Step 1

First, create a new document or open an existing document. Select the type tool… read more

Jason Schwartzman Strips Naked for “The New Yorker” iPad App [VIDEO]

Quirky actor Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) introduced The New Yorker’s iPad app [iTunes link] in a hilarious video ad directed by Roman Coppola.

The 2-minute clip opens with Schartzman waking up in bed; it seems innocuous at first. After a rather surprising lick, you know you’re in… read more

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 7: Working With Book Files

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 7: Working With Book Files

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Clear Your Mind to Focus on What Matters

Mental overload sucks. Having too much on your mind can overwhelm you and prevent you from being effective with your work, enjoying the moment, and having a clear mind.

And it’s having a clear mind that can really help you focus on what matters – in your work and life. Anything… read more

Text Layout Framework in Flash Player 10

If you’d like to download the file used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, visit www.layersmagazine.com and navigate to the Magazine section. All files are for personal use only.

Adobe released a powerful new text engine in Flash Player 10 called Text Layout Framework (TLF). At the time, there was… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Sep 5-Sep 11, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Placing Images in InDesign CS5

RC goes over his favorite ways to place images inside of an InDesign document.

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Getting To Grips With Adobe InDesign

Getting To Grips With Adobe InDesign

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What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made?

Mistakes are made every day in the design and development world. It’s nothing to be ashamed of; it happens. In fact, mistakes are one of the most powerful learning tools at our disposal. Our mistakes impart important lessons that we carry with us as we continue to hone our skill… read more

What Apple’s Guideline Changes Mean for Developers

Five months after declaring that iOS apps developed with a cross-compiler would not be accepted into the App Store, Apple has eased up on its policies and reversed course.

Beyond just being less stringent about what sorts of tools can be used to build apps, Apple has also published an App… read more

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.

Use… read more

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!

Quick Nav:

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.

Join… read more

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