I have been doing some work at Tate Britain recently. As you can imagine, designing a booklet on contemporary and modern British art compares favourably to some of the more corporate work I’ve been doing. I’ve also been very impressed with their design guidelines, typeface and logos that were set up by Wolf Olinns a [...]
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Article filed under: Artwork, Design, Freelancing on January 28th, 2007 No Comments
We all know how to stop text running over images in InDesign – go Window > Text Wrap (Command/Control -T if you have selected the Quark keyboard shortcuts) and choose one of the self-explanatory icons. But what if you want some text boxes to wrap around images and others to flow over? Move to front [...]
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Article filed under: Artwork, InDesign on January 21st, 2007 1 Comment
It’s always nice to get the horizon in a picture to run dead straight. Sometimes the photographer hasn’t always had his camera that way. Similarly maybe you want a straight line in a building to be exactly horizontal or vertical. The image needs to be rotated arbitrarily … but by how much? Get the Measure [...]
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Article filed under: Artwork, Photoshop on January 14th, 2007 No Comments
Now I rarely complain. Usually only about paying too much sometimes. I hardly ever get upset about something on TV. But the latest Nicorette ad has caused me to complain to the Advertising Standards Authority. The ad states as a matter of fact that giving up cigarettes is easier and more successful using a nicotine [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, Stop smoking on January 13th, 2007 3 Comments
As a Mac user I am limited in the number of games I can download. Recently, I’ve been getting them from Gamehouse usually at $20 a game! The first three, Tumblebugs, Zuma and Luxor have the same addictive but stressful gameplay – shooting coloured balls making matches of three or more to destroy them. The [...]
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Article filed under: Games & fun on January 7th, 2007 4 Comments
The keyboard shortcut for a hanging indent (commonly used with bullet points) is command (PC control) + backslash(\). Use this with Quark and in InDesign default shortcuts. When you view invisibles it shows as a dotted line in Quark and a dagger in InDesign. The shortcut for a bullet point? Option -8.
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Article filed under: Artwork, InDesign on January 7th, 2007 1 Comment
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