Print Design & Layout

Scanning Around With Gene: Kitchen-Table Wisdom

Kitchen tables are the hub of many family homes, especially during tough times. But not only the tables have changed -- so have the discussions around them.

Free Live Webinar on Designing Flash in QuarkXPress 8

Want to create Flash files but you're not a programmer? Design directly in QuarkXPress 8 -- no programming required.

Last Chance to Upgrade from Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, InDesign 2.0

October 15 is the last day to benefit from the lower upgrade pricing for Creative Suite 4.

InDesign How-to: Take Object Styles Where They've Never Gone Before

A cool trick using anchored objects extends the power of object styles to the geometry of your InDesign pages.

65bit Software Announces InDesign CS4 Compatibility

When InDesign CS4 begins shipping later this year, EasyCatalog, EasyHistory, MultiDo and Reveal will be ready.

Scanning Around With Gene: Our Love/Hate Relationship with the Atom

For the generations that grew up in the 1950s and '60s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was tempered by the promise of the atom as a new best friend.

New Design Training from lynda.com

Two new videos are hands-on workshops for designing business cards and logo.

New Features in Creative Suite 4

This article originally appeared in Design Tools Monthly. Cross-Suite Interface Changes Application frame (optional): * This large window contains all your open documents and panels, on a neutral-colored background. You can move the whole thing around, even onto a second display. Tabbed windows (optional): * Each document appears as a tab in the Application Frame

Get Creative Video: News for the Week of September 29, 2008

Big software news from big players!

Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator

The sky’s the limit when you convert Illustrator text to outlines. It’s so easy to change each letter’s size, position, and color, and even push and pull letters into fantastic new shapes.

WoodWing’s Smart Styles Beta Is CS4-Compatible

The Smart Styles efficiency plug-in for Adobe InDesign is the first WoodWing product available for CS4; other plug-ins will follow

Quark Introduces Quark Publishing System 8, QuarkCopyDesk 8, and QuarkXPress Server 8

The fully compatible enterprise and dynamic publishing solutions will be demonstrated at IFRA and Graph Expo.

Info Center for Adobe Creative Suite 4

On September 23, Adobe finally shared full information about the next version of the Creative Suite: CS4. We’ll run reviews of the core creative pro apps in October, once CS4 ships to the public. Until then, sate your appetite for information with these first looks and more. First Looks: InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop CS4 Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4. Here are first-hand impressions of three of the new versions in the Design suite.

Adobe Introduces Creative Suite 4 Product Family

Radical workflow breakthroughs, new levels of flash expressiveness and integration anchor Adobe’s biggest software release.

First Looks: InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop CS4

Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4. Here are first-hand impressions of three of the new versions.

Adobe Announces Creative Suite 4

Today, Adobe Systems announced Creative Suite 4 (CS4), which contains all-new versions of the company’s design, Web, and video applications. Note that this is only an announcement -- the products won't be available to the public until next month. The product suite structure of CS4 is relatively unchanged from Creative Suite 3.

CS4 Design Standard and Design Premium:

Adobe InDesign CS4
Adobe Illustrator CS4
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Standard only)
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended (Premium only)

Competition for Exhibit Designers

The deadline for the 23rd Annual Exhibit Design Awards Competition is December 12, 2008.

New TypeFitter Pro Plug-In for InDesign CS3

TypeFitter Pro from Teacup Software adds automatic copy-fitting to InDesign.

Scanning Around With Gene: Occasional Oddball Image Roundup

And now, for your viewing pleasure, a bunch of strange, odd, unusual, dated, or otherwise worth-looking-at images with no particular theme.

New Book on Using Symbols in Logo Design and Other Visual Communications

"Decoding Design" from How Books a must-have for designers seeking to understand and better use symbolism.