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Annie Atkins: Graphics and Typography for Film

Annie Atkins has what many designers would consider a dream job – she creates graphics and typography for film. This not only includes movie posters, but any props and set pieces required for a period film such as signage, letters and invitations, and currency. Her work has included prison escape maps and telegrams to help create […]

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3 Classic Holiday Spoilers for Freelance InDesigners And How to Avoid Them

The holidays are almost here! It’s time for gatherings and giving, for rest and reflection. And designers and production folks all around the world are finishing up the last of their 2016 projects before taking a much-deserved break. It’s wonderful, isn’t it? Well… maybe not for some freelance InDesigners who we spoke to. It turns […]

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Morisawa Font Library Now Available Outside Japan

Morisawa, one of the most prestigious type foundries in Japan, first made its fonts available to an international audience by becoming a Typekit partner last year. And while the 20 fonts available in Typekit were a welcome addition, especially for casual Japanese typesetting needs, they did not provide the various weights and styles needed for […]

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Catalog Creation With Pagination Software

I’m Kristina Ormaza, graphic designer and marketing specialist for Crown Supply Company Inc., Providence, RI. I’m in charge of the creation and maintenance of the company catalog, which I do with Adobe InDesign. I want to share my company’s experience with automating our database publishing. Before Automation Before we started using automation, making our catalog was not an […]

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The Digital Art Studio: Recovering CS6 Access If CC Expires

As an artist, if you give me some paper and something to draw with, and I can start working. As a digital artist, my digital art studio is only as powerful as the applications I have properly installed. That’s a big reason why the range of tools available via the Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) feels so empowering. However, I recently […]

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How to Add a Special Character in Front of a Numbered List

Recently, an excellent question came up on the InDesignSecrets forum. I have a numbered list (1-72) that needs to have a checkbox in front of each number. I have a paragraph style already set up to handle the checkbox lists found in other parts of the doc, but this one list needs to have numbers […]

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