Pariah Burke
Pariah S. Burke (http://iamPariah.com) is a design, publishing, and digital & epublishing workflow expert and consultant bringing creative efficiency into studios, agencies, and publications around the world.
He is the author of ePublishing with InDesign CS6, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, and other books for professionals with jobs to do on InDesign, Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and digital publishing; author of more than 450 published tutorials and articles; co-author of the InDesign and Illustrator Adobe Certified Expert exams; an Adobe Community Professional; the former trainer and technical lead for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat to Adobe’s own technical support team; the host of a series of digital publishing, epub, and the business of design Webinars; a freelance graphic designer and publisher with more than 20 years’ experience; a WordPress and social media evangelist; and the publisher of a network of Websites, communities, and tools for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network (http://workflownetwork.com).
When not on the road training, consulting, or speaking, Pariah divides his time between homes in Boston, Phoenix, and Portland where he writes (a lot) and creates (many) projects and publications for Empowering and Informing Creative Professionals ™.
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 16, 2012
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, April/May 2012 (issue 47). Subscribe now!
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 8, 2012Body:
This month we wrap up our crowd-favorite two-part free fonts galore with another 100+ free fonts (in 74 families).
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on June 3, 2012Body:
It’s been a while since Free for All visited our crowd-favorite category of freebies—fonts.
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on April 30, 2012
Infographics are all the rage. If you don't know the term, it refers to a type of information presentation that uses symbols, text, and rich design to communicate concepts, ideas, and statistics in a highly engaging way. In other words, it's the result of a client handing a designer a spreadsheet full of data and saying, "make this interesting and easy to understand for real people." Ah, if only all client projects were like that…
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on April 11, 2012
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, December 2011/January 2012 (issue 45). Subscribe now!
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on March 19, 2012
Cupcake Ipsum
No one in our business doesn’t know — and isn’t at least mildly bored with — the placeholder text Lorem Ipsum. The design helper is ideally suited for its purpose of substituting for live text yet is so nonsensical that it forces clients to focus on how the text is formatted rather than on what the text actually says. Still, it’s so boring!
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on February 15, 2012
Templates are one of the most useful free resources any creative professional can have on hand. They can save hours spent measuring items by hand, calling vendors for specifications, or searching Google for increasingly difficult to find information. Armed with a well made template for the project you need to produce, you can get right to designing — y’know, the good stuff.
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on January 16, 2012
Explosions, Fire, and Fireworks Stock Photography
Let’s poke a little fun at the preposterous notion that the world will end on December 21st because a 5,000-year-old calendar allegedly expires on that date. How do we poke fun on Free for All? By giving away free stock photography, of course! Check out these 55 explosive year-starting and world-ending royalty free stock images I collected on Stock.XChang. - Features: Written by Pariah Burke on December 15, 2011
Photo Mosaic Software
Jimmy Carter once said, "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." In that spirit, this month’s first freebie is an application for Windows and Mac that literally combines people into a mosaic.
- Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 21, 2011
2012 Calendars in PDF, Illustrator, and InDesign Formats
