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Apr23No Comments
Brochure Design with InDesign 1 of 5
Filed under: Brochure Design, InDesign Tutorials; Tagged as: brochure design, InDesign Tutorials, publication design -
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This is part 5 of 5. Be sure to follow along from part 1.
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This is part 4 of 5. Be sure to follow along from part 1.
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This is part 3 of 5. Be sure to follow along with the support files from part 1.
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Feb2No Comments
This is part 2 of 5. Be sure to download the support files and follow along from part 1.
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Nov174 Comments
With the magazine design tutorials, we learned about placing stories, adding unique cover teasers, and wrapping text. Oftentimes magazine design allows for more creativity. While that’s true to a certain extent, since newspaper often have a more traditional layout, recently many newspapers have been re-designing with more white space and a cleaner layout. Mario Garcia has re-designed over 450 newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal. With these tutorials, you’ll learn to design cleanly but still having that consistent newspaper layout, such as consistent column width and alignment. You’ll learn more advanced text formatting, including paragraph styles and setting indents and other options.
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Sep7No Comments
One ”web 2.0″ look is the reflecting icon. The clean, crisp look of these attractive images makes clicking through a website’s navigation fun. Here’s how to make one of those neat icons. Read the rest of this entry »
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Aug30
Better Titles with Adobe Illustrator
Filed under: Illustrator Tutorials, text effects; Tagged as: gradient, Illustrator Tutorials, outline, text effectsNo Commentsby Chad Neuman
One of the coolest aspects of Illustrator’s Text tool is its flexibility once the text is outlined. You can then edit the text just like any other Illustrator path, moving the letters around and even the lines and shapes around. -
Aug30
Make a Pirate’s Map with Adobe Illustrator
Filed under: Illustrator Tutorials, text effects; Tagged as: Illustrator Tutorials, text effects, warpNo Commentsby Chad Neuman
Learn to create warped text that is still editable on top of another object by creating a pirate’s map. -
Aug30No Comments
by Chad Neuman
Text layout doesn’t have to be boring. Designer David Carson became famous using unique typographic effects, one of which was flowing text in an unusual way. In many magazines, text not only conveys information but joins the photos and colors to become art and part of the style of the magazine as well. Here’s a way to thread text on paths, which has many possibilities once you get the basic concept. Let’s thread text on path shapes to create unique magazine layout designs.
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