Jacci's Desktop Publishing Blog May 2007 Archive

No, not another debate over graphic design vs. desktop publishing. In The Business of Design Online Marketing Minute Conversation Starters, Neil Tortorella says describing yourself with a job title or ... Read More

At creativebits there's a discussion about page layout applications. The crux of the matter is, the boss wants the designer to use QuarkXPress for everything but the designer prefers Illustrator ... Read More

Designers often create marketing materials, ad campaigns, public relations items, and logos and branding. The items we design may have common elements but there are differences in how each is ... Read More

I talk about creativity and finding inspiration frequently, including just last week. Are You a Creative Person, a Creative Designer? Creative Workspace Creative Meanderings Take Pictures for Inspiration For those who can't get enough ... Read More

If you're doing your own photography to incorporate into layouts for yourself or customers, these tips for improving your landscape photography from the Digital Photography School can help you create ... Read More

I've been a user of CorelDRAW since version 3 and I came "this close" to going with Ventura Publisher (now Corel Ventura) back when I was first looking at professional ... Read More

While there are major differences between print design and Web design, they also share common principles of good design. Grids are a mainstay of print design. They work on the ... Read More

In our poll asking Have you ever been 'burned' by not having a contract?, only 18% of respondents said they ALWAYS used a contract. Hopefully the over 60% who ... Read More

Darren Rouse identifies 9 Attitudes of Highly Creative People. His ideas can relate to writers, inventors, artists, business people, homemakers -- just about anyone. Let's tie those attitudes directly ... Read More

I have a large monitor and until my LCD monitor went out I was happy with my multi-monitor setup. Using Multiple Monitors Using Portrait Monitors Calibrate Your Monitor Running Multiple Monitors But I'm drooling ... Read More

Some of these Cool business card designs rounded up by Ivan at creativebits are such works of art that they'd look really cool framed and hung on the wall. Parts of ... Read More

In this funny bit of Apple user interface history we learn that if Apple had used a different font today we might be ordering software to do it, instead of ... Read More

It's funny, but there's truth behind the humor. See if you recognize any of these Top Ten Signs You May Be Charging Too Little. Poll: Do you charge too little for ... Read More

In the late 80s and 90s Quark usurped the desktop publishing community's first love, PageMaker, with QuarkXPress. Once the undisputed king of desktop publishing software applications for both Mac and ... Read More