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First Baseline Blues

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0) 
By James Felici on CreativePro

Don’t let frames dictate your layout. Here’s how to make sure you have precise control over the position of your type on the page.

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Check Out Pantone’s Color Forecast

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

The Fall/Winter 2012/2013 Planner covers color in the graphic arts, yes, but also fashion, cosmetics, lifestyle, and industrial design.

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Good Things in Small Packages

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

When you’re setting type, small capitals have two important roles to play: one graphic and one editorial.

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Type of All Eras & Nations at the Typographic Hub

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)
UKType has been working with the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at Birmingham City University and has just launched The Typographic Hub, an exciting new initiative for research into the history, theory and practice of typographic design.
Historically, Birmingham is England’s typographic heart, home to luminaries such as William Caslon first grandée of English type design; John Baskerville creator of the world’s most well-known and enduring typeface; and Leonard Jay a teacher par excellence, who revolutionised 20th century typographic education.
It is Birmingham’s illustrious lineage that makes BCU the natural home to the Hub.

UKType has been working with the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at Birmingham City University and has just launched The Typographic Hub, an exciting new initiative for research into the history, theory and practice of typographic design.
Historically, Birmingham is England’s typographic heart, home to luminaries such as William Caslon first grandée of English type design; John Baskerville creator of the world’s most well-known and enduring typeface; and Leonard Jay a teacher par excellence, who revolutionised 20th century typographic education.
It is Birmingham’s illustrious lineage that makes BCU the natural home to the Hub.
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Take Advantage of InDesign’s Nesting Instinct

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

Repetitive text formatting is a huge time waster, and even using paragraph and character styles is a bore when you have to apply them over and over again. But by using InDesign’s nested styles, you can bypass a lot of this tedium.

Nested styles sound more complicated than they are. In fact, they’re nothing more than a series of regular old character styles, with the transition from one to the next triggered by a character or command InDesign encounters in the text stream.

What makes these styles “nested” is that they’re part of a paragraph style, which when applied, causes the whole parade of character styles to be applied at once. You can also cause these sequences to loop back and start the series again. In one fell swoop, you can format listings, catalogs, tables of contents: anything with a predictable and repetitive structure.

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Choosing the Best Fold for Your Next Print Job

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

Do you have trouble deciding which type of fold is right for a print project? Let an expert narrow the field for you.

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TypeTalk: Ten Commandments of Type

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

There are exceptions to every rule, but for most typographic circumstances, following these 10 rules will result in projects that look more professional and are easier to read.

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Type History: What a Difference a Century Makes

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

A guide to advertising types from 1909 casts a light on what makes a classic display face.

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Interactive InDesign

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

Make your InDesign layouts fly–and sing, dance, and play movies–with the greatest of ease.

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Zevrix Updates LinkOptimizer for InDesign

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

LinkOptimizer 4.5 reduces InDesign job size and speeds up processing by eliminating excess image data, performing essential image adjustments and converting file formats. The new update lest you convert image color space to an ICC profile space, with full control over how the conversion is done.

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