Archive
Monthly Archives: October 2015

How Designers Can Communicate With Non-Designers

Communicating with non-designers is something that is difficult for many designers, whether they are talking to clients, co-workers or their supervisors. It can be hard to share your thoughts and ideas with someone when it feels like you’re not even speaking the same language. If you find this frustrating, imagine how it must feel for the […]

Continue reading

Free lynda.com Videos: Creating Long Documents

Before I started working as the editor of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro, I spent a lot of time making books. All kinds of books. Textbooks, cookbooks, gardening books, computer books, astronomy books. You name it. So when I started doing courses for lynda.com, it was only natural that some of them were about creating long documents. Here […]

Continue reading

A Look at Modernism in Logo Design

A new book—Logo Modernism—by Jens Müller set to be released in November showcases the best of modern corporate logo design. The German graphic designer compiled over 6,000 logos covering the period from 1940 to 1980 into this 400+ page hardcover retrospect. The featured logos are divided up into three major categories: geometric, typographic, and effect, […]

Continue reading

Troubleshooting Data Merge Errors

Working with the Data Merge feature of Adobe InDesign is something I do often. For those who do not use Data Merge as frequently, the help page on the Adobe website offers enough information to get started with Data Merge, and there are plenty of video tutorials online to create a basic Data Merge. See also: New Data […]

Continue reading

New Contest! The Ultimate Fix for Overset Text

Hey folks, it’s time for another InDesign mystery that you can solve for a chance to win an awesome prize! Here’s the scenario (and because it’s Halloween season, we picked one that’s totally terrifying): You have a long document with over 100 separate text frames, and all of them are slightly overset! Your deadline is right […]

Continue reading

A Compendium of Slab Serifs

Slab serifs are hot! Also referred to as square serif or Egyptian, slabs are enjoying a lengthy renaissance, and as such are currently a very popular and still useful category of typestyles. These sturdy, full-bodied designs, with their thick, squared off, slab-like serifs, can be seen anywhere from magazines, newspapers and book covers to posters, […]

Continue reading

Tip of the Week: Access Grids and Guides in the Application Bar

This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on October 15, 2015. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new InDesign Tip of the Week and Keyboard Shortcut of the Week, along with roundups of new articles at InDesignSecrets and CreativePro, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll all the […]

Continue reading

Setting Defaults in InDesign

One of my favorite things about InDesign is that it often keeps me from doing something I hate: wasting time on repetitive tasks. There are so many ways that InDesign keeps the monotony at bay when it comes to everyday tasks. My rule of thumb is, if I’ve spent more than five minutes muttering something […]

Continue reading

Morisawa & Adobe: Japanese Fonts Now Available on Typekit

As announced recently at Adobe MAX, Japanese font vendor Morisawa and Adobe have entered into a partnership that makes Morisawa Japanese fonts available through Adobe Typekit. For designers and creative professionals who work in international markets, this is huge. Morisawa is the leading provider of digital fonts in the Japanese market. Not only that, but they have […]

Continue reading
>