Indesign tip: How to Override a Master Item.

Master pages in Indesign are a powerful and time saving feature, understanding them will inevitably add more “beach sitting” hours to your day. That said, understanding master pages and master items is not always that easy. In this post we talk about how to set up a master page and then override...

7 Paper Textures Collections for Your Designs

A recent project got me looking for paper backgrounds and in the process I discovered that there are many choices here. It seems to me that so far as texture backgrounds are concerned there are many more choices then any other material. Maybe I am wrong but here are a few choices for you, most of them are...

The InDesign New Document Window Explained

A New Document window is nothing new to most of us, but the InDesign new document window can be a bit confusing especially because it is a multiple – page layout program. Here now, is what you need to know in order to create the right InDesign document for your project: If you have worked in...

18 Ads That Try to Help The Environment

In the Jewish traditions there is something called Tikun-Olam, which loosely translated means “fixing the world”. While this clearly not the stated desire of the Advertising world, form time to time the ad industry does push out a campaign aimed at doing good rather then making money. Here are 18...

A Short Wishlist for Adobe CS5 Features.

[ad#tswAdsense] Many of us are waiting breathlessly for the arrival of Adobe CS5, even though we do not really know what it will bring. So with that in mind, I would like to pretend that someone “over there” at Adobe hears me and share my short wish list for things I would love to see in the new...

Adobe InDesign’s Print Booklet feature – A Reall Time-Saver When it Comes to Brochure Production

One project that design firms and ad agencies are tasked with doing is the design and production of brochures. The production of a brochure is a labor intensive process and it does not really matter if this is a 4 or 24 page brochure. Typically,  much of the aforementioned “labor” has to do with...