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Best of the Blogs: Old School and New Skills Don't have time to keep up with design and photography blogs? Keep calm and read on. In this blog round-up you'll find the most popular fonts of 2011, an amazing type book from 1912, a Herb Lubalin video from the… |
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Scanning Around With Gene: Colorful Produce Crate Labels For almost 70 years, fruit and vegetable growers used colorful labels to distinguish their brands and show off their point of origin.read more… |
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Create a Table of Contents in InDesign Don't create a table of contents (TOC) by hand! Let InDesign's automatic TOC feature generate it for you. The big bonus (besides no human errors): If your document changes, one click updates the entire TOC!read more… |
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They’re Fond of Design Three university students in graphic design have created a zine. It's a print creation, but now you can view it online, too.read more… |
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Make Text Look Like Chrome Using nothing more than a gradient swatch in InDesign, you can change text from a flat and boring object to a shiny metallic material that reflects the surfaces around it.read more… |
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Is Apple’s eBook Tool Right for Graphic Designers? Apple's new eBook creation software, called iBooks Author, is free and available for download now. Apple says that it's as easy to use as a word processor. But will it have the controls you need as a graphic designer?read more… |
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Scanning Around With Gene: More on Children’s Safety A follow-up to last week’s entry with more dramatically tragic (and sometimes unintentionally funny) scenarios intended to scare kids safe. read more… |
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This Dress Code Will Inspire You Whatever your personal style, watch this video about the design agency Dress Code and be inspired by the founders' positive, wide-open take on what's possible for today's creatives.read more… |
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Free For All: Stock Photos, Social Media Profiles, and Calendar Templates It’s 2012, the year the world is supposed to end. Let’s mark the occasion with fiery explosions, templates for Twitter and Facebook profiles, and - for the more optimistic among you - calendar templates.read more… |
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When Is a Dragon a Delightful Design? Louis Fishauf has designed two stamps for Canada Post that usher in the Year of the Dragon with a roar.read more… |
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Lights, Camera, Action, and InDesign! While you may not think of InDesign as a video tool, you’ve actually been able to place video into InDesign since CS2. Here's what you need to know to place video in InDesign and output the results to PDFs, SWFs,… |
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Scanning Around With Gene: A Visit to the Sunshine State Florida’s climate makes for very "sunny" promotional images. Don some shades and enjoy this vintage tourist literature, 1939 to 1963, from the Sunshine State.read more… |
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Align and Space Objects with InDesign’s Smart Guides Everyone who has InDesign CS4 or CS5 can benefit from Smart Guides, which automatically pop up as you drag out or move objects on the page. Learn how to use them to align two or more objects to the page… |
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Scanning Around With Gene: Winter Wonderland Of all the seasons, winter is the most dramatic, and through the eyes of children one of the most fun. Here's a 1948 look at the season, courtesy of an educational guide for kids.read more… |
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Plumb the Depths of Your InDesign Layout When an InDesign page gets complicated, knowing the tricks for selecting overlapping and/or grouped objects will save you time and frustration.read more… |
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Scanning Around With Gene: Clever Things to Make at Home Some industrious or crafty people choose to make gifts instead of buy them from a store. This DIY mentality is nothing new, as these plans from "Popular Mechanics" issues of 1939 to 1954 show.read more… |
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Ole! Meet Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2012 Pantone has chosen Tangerine Tango as the 2012 "color of the year". This reddish-orange hue will put a kick in your step.read more… |
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Cosmopolitan Magazine Redesigns The Pentagram design consultancy has revamped Cosmopolitan magazine. The new look embraces the short attention span of the Twitter generation.read more… |
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The Merits of Uneven Leading Just because your page-layout program says your leading is consistent doesn’t necessarily mean it looks that way. Here’s how to spot the problem and how to fix it.read more… |
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