Advertising Guide Apryl Duncan has a series of tips on creativity, inspiration, ad design, and marketing your business... The right time of day Dissect a Frog Don't Lie Sweet Advertising Act on that Ad Bull's Eye Be ... Read More

Cameras Guide Erick Hanneman writes, "high resolution digital images rival film, and at an overall lower cost." Digital has come a long way in a short time. Use A High ... Read More

CreativeBlvd.com is presenting a free seminar for graphic design professionals on February 23 at The Apple Store in SOHO New York. Seminar topics will include "Choosing the Perfect Process Color" ... Read More

In this free 17-day course you'll learn how to evaluate your skills and expertise, establish yourself as a legitimate business, find clients, and do what it takes to start making ... Read More

From the forum, "Do you believe that with the advent of music downloading sites (pay per download and peer to peer) the CD cover art and liner note "industry" will ... Read More

Along with charging too little or working without a contract, a common mistake of new freelancers is not getting a deposit. Why to Get a Deposit When Doing Freelance Design ... Read More

Peter Cho offers a few observations on the use of serif and sans serif fonts and the ambiguity of semi-serif or semi-sans typefaces. CreativeBehavior.com - Typography - Sans serif vs ... Read More

What makes your business unique? How do you convince your prospects that you are better qualified than your competitors to publish their newsletters, layout their résumés, or design their corporate ... Read More

"Does anybody remember having to cut rubyliths? ... Remember when we used to get all the pics drum scanned and had to review the matchprints? ... Or having to calculate ... Read More

Beverly writes, "I need to insert Footers at the bottom of some documents I've typed in WORD - they need to be in a format of: 1.1.1, 1.1.2 ,etc. I ... Read More

Enjoy a few tips and trivia in the "where did it come from" category... The Classic Roman LetterformA common saying in many fields, including design, is that "nothing is carved in ... Read More

Working primarily from referrals and one-on-one meetings with potential clients, one designer is now faced with the unwelcome prospect of meeting with and making a presentation to a larger group. ... Read More

Xaviana writes, "I've just bought Ventura 10 at eBay, after researching its features and reading reviews (inter alia at About.com's forums), and deciding that since I am familiar with Draw and ... Read More

Say I Love You in words and pictures with these heart-laden free Valentine fonts or try an elegant free script font such as CommScript, Exmouth, Scriptina, or the lovely Freebooter ... Read More

I was working on beefing up some of my Newsletter Content advice and resources when I ran across yet another instance of a Webmaster plagiarizing my content. There is a ... Read More

Kenter is doing an iron-on transfer and after transferring the image "there is some type of "goo" that looks like Elmer's creamy glue. I followed instructions and the image is ... Read More

At some time in the course of your travels you may encounter a thing called Multiple Master Fonts.

"Does anyone know of someone being sued over improper use of clip art or fonts?" Discuss It! Related from this site: Copyright - Licensing - Usage Issues | Terms of ... Read More

Would you start putting together an ad campaign without first talking to the client and getting an idea of what they want? Last night on NBC's "The Apprentice" that was ... Read More

In the DTP Classroom Loretta asks, "if I just have one or two fonts I want to install I'll copy and paste because it's quicker. Then if I need room ... Read More

Does your printer balk when you try to the hand them a CDR file? Among commercial printers responding to a recent poll posted on several forums and lists the acceptance ... Read More

Up and coming products and software updates for desktop publishing... • Adobe FrameMaker 7.1 Now Available (link corrected) (also see: Adobe) • FontAgent Pro 2 Released • Apple offers AppleWorks 6.2.9 update • Corel ... Read More

Deadline is February 29 in the international search for a new logo. See if it might interest you. Slashdot | NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition Related from this site: Logo Design ... Read More

In the introduction to his new book, author John McWade tells us that "To succeed as a designer it's important that you respect your need to learn." Then he goes ... Read More

Home business gurus Paul & Sarah Edwards tackle the topic of DTP as a business in this brief article at Entrepreneur.com. It provides a pretty good overview although I must ... Read More

Avoid common mistakes in choosing the right fonts for a project and don't forget that your own personal preferences play a role in the selection process. CreativeBehavior.com - Typography - ... Read More

PowerPoint has gotten lots of bad press for months now (or longer) along with opposing points of view. If you can stand it, IDblog has some more on the good ... Read More

Want something quick and easy to read on a Saturday morning? Try a newsletter tip or two (or 4). Newsletters are not ads and fall into three broad categories. When ... Read More

You can still register for The Package Design 2004 conference for February 4-5 in Clearwater Beach, Florida. This event is aimed at "commercial, graphic, and structural package designers, directors ... Read More

Counterfeiting and making fake I.D.s gets easier and easier as desktop publishing and graphics software gets smarter and more sophisticated. No doubt it's a real problem. It seems some software ... Read More

While everything that appears in the About Desktop Publishing newsletter can be found here on the site, some folks like to refer back to old copies. Here's the online version ... Read More

Can we live without rules and boundaries? Later this month we can find out with the introduction of a new software package called No Boundaries or Rules that purports to ... Read More

Get some out this world photos in medium and high resolution. Image from NASA/JPL/Cornell University.NASA Rover Spirit Images

Interesting site blogged at Typographica : No Logo today. A group in Austria did a little experiment by asking people off the street to draw the logos (from memory) of ... Read More

Until March 31, 2004 get QuarkXPress 6 for page layout and FreeHand MX for illustration for hundreds less from participating resellers. Quark, Inc. and Macromedia Inc. have bundled their programs ... Read More

Haven't had a chance to try this yet but it sounds interesting. Fontifier lets you turn your handwriting into a font without even having your own font creation software. Print ... Read More

Out with the old, in with the new. Keep your cool with white and blue.

In the same month that we celebrate 20 years of the Mac, the computer that helped to launch the desktop publishing revolution, the program that went along with that ... Read More

Freelance design is not all about creating newsletters, logos, and posters. You've got to market yourself so that you'll have clients to design all those things for. Marketing Guide Laura ... Read More

"Most companies try to summarize with more or less success their uniqueness by having a logotype designed which will more often than not, include the *name* of the company. Only ... Read More

Several events of the mid-1980s including the development of Aldus PageMaker (now Adobe PageMaker) ushered in the era of desktop publishing. It was primarily the introduction of both the Apple ... Read More

Mac OS X users can look for a new version of this graphics suite in January. "Stone Studio consists of seven creative design applications, the three key ones being Create, ... Read More

Bill writes "Some time ago, a fellow on the Serif PagePlus forum was lamenting the fact that PagePlus didn't have some feature(s) that were available in a DTP program called ... Read More

From January through October there are Artistry Corel Painter 8.1 Retreats scheduled for California, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Oregon, and New York. See the schedule and find out what is taught ... Read More

Have you made a resolution to lose weight, get more exercise, stop smoking, or learn to dance in 2004? How about making some business resolutions and goals as well? Graphic ... Read More

This class teaches some of the basics of desktop publishing while completing a simple project — a greeting card. Along the way we'll discuss specific desktop publishing and design principles. ... Read More