Vote for the Next Makeover Project
Saturday January 29, 2005
What kind of project would you like to tackle next? As I write this there are a lot of votes for a brochure following closely by letterhead.
Poll: The next makeover ... Read More
Say "I Love You" With Lovely Lines of Type
Saturday January 29, 2005
Another name of script fonts could be "love letters" because they work so well for Valentines and Wedding Invitations. Speaking of Valentines, it'll be here before you know it so ... Read More
See and Feel Texture
Wednesday January 26, 2005
Texture is a sometimes overlooked element of a design. Often we only think of texture as the feel of the paper or, as in the case of a room, the ... Read More
Let's Play "The Design Apprentice"
Friday January 21, 2005
Season 3 of The Apprentice poses the question "do you need a college degree to work for Donald Trump?" as it pits a team of college grads against a team ... Read More
Windows Font Basics - Lesson 5
Friday January 21, 2005
Since Monday we've tackled a new topic each day on the technical and practical issues of working with Windows Fonts. Now it's Friday and it's time for some fun. Before ... Read More
Put Some Style Into Your Layout
Thursday January 20, 2005
Last week we talked about faster document formatting with paragraph styles and templates. Continuing on the style issue, I've organized my thoughts a bit more and written up some ... Read More
Windows Font Basics - Lesson 4
Thursday January 20, 2005
Once you enter the wild world of fonts you may quickly discover that you want more, more, more. Before your new-found interest overwhelms you and your hard drive, heed ... Read More
Large, Really Large Format Printing
Wednesday January 19, 2005
Sometimes we tend to take the small view of desktop publishing - if we can't print it from our desktop printer it's not something that has anything to do with ... Read More
Windows Font Basics - Lesson 3
Wednesday January 19, 2005
When you install new software that comes with TrueType, Type 1, or OpenType fonts it is usually installed automatically along with the software. If you've purchased fonts on CD, they ... Read More
Black Paper
Tuesday January 18, 2005
In the forum sanderpander writes, "I've just designed a business card that's supposed to be printed on black paper. I figure I'd get better results when using screen printing, but ... Read More
Windows Font Basics - Lesson 2
Tuesday January 18, 2005
Continuing our lessons for new Windows font users we take a look at digital font formats... Digital fonts are like mini-programs. Each font file contains information that describes what characters ... Read More
Affordable Color Laser
Monday January 17, 2005
It wasn't long ago when the thought of a color laser printer was pure fantasy for most individual designers. But the prices keep coming down. KONICA MINOLTA Magicolor 2400-series is ... Read More
Windows Font Basics - Lesson 1
Monday January 17, 2005
One of the free e-courses available on this site is Windows Font Basics for New Font Users. The free 5-day course covers the bare basics of font formats, how to ... Read More
Personalized Printing
Monday January 17, 2005
I liken it to the merge feature of word processing software - but on a much larger scale. If you've thought about printing up a half-dozen variations of a single ... Read More
Do You Do Award-Winning Design?
Sunday January 16, 2005
Winning an award can be both an ego boost and a nice little addition to your resume/portfolio. Landfeld DesignConnections has posted an long list of major Graphic design competitions and ... Read More
Converting Color Photos to B&W
Saturday January 15, 2005
In response to a forum inquiry about the use of grayscale vs. desaturation, Trinity responded in part that "Grayscale mode and desaturation are essentially two different things which create a ... Read More
Typography or Topography?
Friday January 14, 2005
I have a Google News Alert set that sends me clips of news stories where "typography" appears. For quite some time I've been amused by the use or misuse of ... Read More
Value of Eye-Appeal
Thursday January 13, 2005
In the forum, leogalFDX writes, "My company uses Word for large documents going to customers. We're investigating a move to DTP software. I'm looking for a way to quantify value ... Read More
Passive Income
Thursday January 13, 2005
Entrepreneurs Guide Scott Allen asks, "Do you want to be able to take time off whenever you want to, without worrying about what's going to happen to your business?" For ... Read More
13 Digit ISBNs
Thursday January 13, 2005
Foreword, a Book Design Blog, reports that by January 1, 2007 all book and book-related products must carry 13-digit ISBNs. This change will most directly affect librarians and vendors right ... Read More
Faster Document Formatting
Wednesday January 12, 2005
Do you use paragraph styles and templates or do you just format on the fly? Sometimes it is tempting to just apply formatting as you go along thinking that it's ... Read More
Squeeze More Out Of Your JPEGs
Wednesday January 12, 2005
One of the benefits of the JPEG format for photographs is their compression which gives them a small file size without reducing the apparant quality - within limits. This used ... Read More
Your Business Name
Wednesday January 12, 2005
Changing the name of the Anaheim Angels baseball team to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim may seem absurd to fans and may not even be allowed by their contract ... Read More
Monkey Business
Wednesday January 12, 2005
This one tickled my funny bone: "If you want your newsletter to look a little more professional than, say, if a monkey did it, you really need to be using ... Read More
Logo Design News
Tuesday January 11, 2005
If logo design is your niche, and you haven't done so already, you may want to bookmark the Logo Design News blog. It will keep you apprised of a variety ... Read More
Acrobat 7 Enhancements
Tuesday January 11, 2005
At the magazine design weblog, Pariah S. Burke describes some of the key new features of the new Adobe Acrobat 7. A couple of the most notable for the average ... Read More
Message in Mud (Flaps)
Tuesday January 11, 2005
An enterprising fellow in Wyoming is now selling ad space on truck mud flaps. Not such a crazy idea I suppose. I know one form of entertainment on road trips ... Read More
Postcards in the Mailbox, Not Inbox
Tuesday January 11, 2005
Why, with the convenience and low-cost of electronic greeting cards and postcards, would you want to go to the trouble of designing, printing, and mailing a paper postcard? Personally, I've ... Read More
Start With a Plan for Your Desktop Publishing Business
Friday January 7, 2005
Perhaps you've made a resolution to start a new business this year. One tool to ensure you follow through on your resolution is to make a plan - a business ... Read More
Camera Phone Printing
Thursday January 6, 2005
If you have a camera phone, do you share camera phone photos with friends and family? Probably so. Do you print camera phone photos and use them in your desktop ... Read More
The Design Side of Freelance Design
Thursday January 6, 2005
Do you have the skills and knowledge needed to do professional desktop publishing? You don't have to be an award-winning graphic designer to start a desktop publishing business but you ... Read More
Ways to Get Things Printed
Wednesday January 5, 2005
While offset lithography remains the most common commercial printing method for most desktop publishing projects, there are other options. Here's a quick overview of the various types of desktop and ... Read More
Bad Instructions
Tuesday January 4, 2005
This week I struggled through several plumbing problems as well as tool assembly difficulties. Each task was complicated further by typos and poor writing of the written instructions that came ... Read More
Who's the Best?
Saturday January 1, 2005
Macworld magazine chose QuarkXPress 6.5 over Adobe InDesign CS as the "Most Improved Page-Layout Program." Pariah Burke, writing for Quark VS InDesign disputes their choice with a lengthy list of ... Read More