Nigel French
Nigel French has more than 15 years’ experience as a graphic designer and graphic design educator. He is the former director of the graphic design program at University of California, Berkeley Extension, and has taught various aspects of graphic design in colleges. An Adobe Certified trainer and Certified Instructor, he is author of InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, and Photoshop Unmasked: The Art and Science of Selections, Layers, and Paths, as well as an author for the lynda.com online training library. He lives in England—but left his heart in San Francisco.
- Features: Written by Nigel French on May 17, 2013
Five key ideas to sharpen your skills and awareness of the elements of good design.
- Features: Written by Nigel French on April 17, 2013
Type “Bad Fonts” into a search engine and you’ll get back a long list of web pages and blogs discussing the authors' most hated fonts. For the most part, these “worst of” lists are good-humored.
- Features: Written by Nigel French on February 13, 2013
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, December 2012/January 2013 (issue 51). Subscribe now!
- Features: Written by Nigel French on October 22, 2012
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, June/July 2012 (issue 48). Subscribe now!
- Features: Written by Nigel French on September 13, 2012Body:
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, February/March 2012 (issue 46).
- Features: Written by Nigel French on February 13, 2012
Excerpted from Photoshop for Designers: Color on lynda.com.
- Features: Written by Nigel French on October 24, 2011
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, August/September 2011 (issue 43). Subscribe now!
- Features: Written by Nigel French on April 7, 2010
This article originally appeared in the June/July 2009 issue of InDesign Magazine (#30). Subscribe to InDesign Magazine here.
- Features: Written by Nigel French on October 4, 2006
Excerpted from InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2. Published by Adobe Press.
In this article, you'll look first at tabs and some of their common uses, and then at InDesign's robust and versatile table-formatting features. By the end, you'll be at ease with most any layout that calls for lists.
