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Design it Yourself Logos, Letterhead, & Business Cards

Professionally designed printed stationery packages are crucial to making a good first impression. For many small businesses, professional design is out of reach. Chuck Green comes to your rescue with Design it Yourself Logos, Letterhead, and Business Cards.

The Typography Manual on the iPhone / iPod Touch

Learn typography on-the-go with The Typography Manual on your iPhone.

Guides by CodeGoo iPhone App

Simple camera app superimposes various guidelines such as for rule of thirds over your image to help you compose a better photo as you take a picture with your iPhone.

Serif PagePlus X3 Publisher Professional

A really good desktop publishing software program is getting even better. The latest upgrade to Serif PagePlus focuses on some fun and useful integrated graphics tools while also adding more high-end publishing features. But it remains low-cost and very easy to use.

Layer Freak iPhone App for Layer Tennis

This social networking/news/entertainment app is a free iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch compatible app for keeping up with Layer Tennis and doing a quick review of past matches.

The Big Book of Font Combinations

From bonFX and Douglas Bonneville we have The Big Book of Font Combinations. It's a workbook for designers (or anyone) who uses fonts. Browse through and study hundreds of font combinations to discover what works well together for your intended use.

Font Combinations for iPhone

Simple iPhone app shows Lorem ipsum text set in many different popular fonts. Mix and match headline and body text with a finger swipe.

WhatTheFont for iPhone

WhatThePhone is an excellent Web service. Find out how well it works as an iPhone app for identifying fonts on-the-go.

ilovedesign iPhone App

Discover what you can do with the ilovedesign iPhone App which features inspiring projects from a global community of designers.

ColorSight for iPhone

ColorSight by Ryan Lons is an iPhone app for creating color palettes from photos.

Adobe PageMaker 7

Not quite on a par with InDesign or QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker is still a professional-level page layout application. Marketed as a small business/enterprise publishing solution, PageMaker outshines the similarly-targeted Microsoft Office Publisher in output but not in price or ease of use.

Quick and Easy Newsletters by Elaine Floyd

You can publish your own newsletter in an hour or a day — the quick and easy way. Elaine Floyd gives you everything you need to create a customized newsletter for your club, business, or church. You'll find templates, filler articles, clip art, and cartoons along with simple straightforward instructions and timesaving tips.

The Desktop Publisher's Idea Book, 2nd Edition by Chuck Green

It is what it says it is — a book brimming with ideas for desktop publishers. It is also much more than the name implies.

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