Desktop Publishing Design Projects
Profiles Index
Self Publishing
Self publishing is the for-profit publication (hopefully) of books, newsletters, booklets, or other publications by-passing traditional publishing avenues.
Word Processing and Résumé Design
Resumes and Word Processing are often the starting points for some new desktop publishers just getting started. Others make this field their long-term speciality.
Publications
Publications, for our purposes here, refers primarily to books and other non-periodical publications such as booklets, workbooks, manuals.
Periodicals
Periodicals are publications that generally come out on a regularly recurring schedule whether it's annual, monthly, weekly, or even daily. Newsletters, newspapers, and magazines are periodicals. They provide a great opportunity for repeat business but can be time and effort-intensive.
Identity Systems
Identity Systems encompass logos, letterhead, and business cards, and spills over into other areas such as business forms, brochures, and signage as well.
Annual Reports
Annual reports are special financial documents used to provide a summary of operations and financial standing of a company or organization. They may also include other special information about the company including its mission, future plans, profiles of key management or staff.
Marketing Materials
Marketing Materials created by desktop publishers include display advertising and direct-mail packages. Newsletters can be used as marketing or promotional vehicles as well.
Catalogs, Menus, Product Lists
Businesses with something to sell utilize lists of the products and services whether in the form of catalogs, menus, or product lists.
Crafts and Creative Printing
Crafts and Creative Printing projects are not just for party decorations and gifts to friends and relatives. Computer-generated crafts can be an income-producing business including selling creations online or at craft shows. Many creative printing projects can also be used as promotional items and giveaways by small businesses.
Collateral Materials
Collateral materials include a wide range of documents that companies use to promote themselves. They differ from advertising materials in that they are generally more of a soft-sell and often designed to provide on-going PR for a company more than generate immediate sales. Collaterals may or may not be tied to specific advertising campaigns.
Signage
Signage can be big business. Some designers may specialize in this field while others offer it in conjunction with other related desktop publishing services.
Web and Electronic Publishing
Web and electronic publishing may one day replace print publishing, or so some claim. Until that time it remains simply one facet (a big one) of desktop publishing.
Packaging
Packaging is an area than covers everything from labels to bags to boxes of all shapes and sizes. While you might produce labels from your desktop printer, most packaging production is done by specialty printers. However, you can design the artwork with page layout and graphics software.
Presentation Graphics
Presentation Graphics is more than just Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. This includes any type of slide presentation, charts, graphs, and multimedia presentations.
Publication Art
Publication Art includes magazine cover or book jacket designs, custom illustrations and photography for books or periodicals, and technical illustration.
Business Forms
Business forms include those used internally by a company and those seen by customers or others. Invoices, order forms, routing slips, statements, customer satisfaction surveys, employee suggestion forms, and job tracking forms are just some of the types of forms a business or organization might need.