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Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy is a graphic designer and creator of The InDesigner video podcast. He is the author of Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts (Adobe Press, 2009), and the Lynda.com video training course, InDesign CS4: Learning GREP. Michael is a contributing writer for InDesign Magazine, an on-site trainer, classroom instructor, and speaker.
InDesign How-To: Designing with Data
How-Tos: Written by Michael Murphy on September 8, 2011
Unlike "jumbo shrimp", the phrase "data-driven design" is not an oxymoron. Combining the organization and structure of a spreadsheet or database with the typographic and layout power of InDesign can generate great-looking informational design in a handful of simple steps.
Review: Adobe InDesign CS5
Reviews: Written by Michael Murphy on May 6, 2010
Something old, something new... and a whole lot more you can do. InDesign CS5 walks the tightrope between what users need now and what Adobe thinks they'll need in the future.
Review: Blatner Tools 1.0.1 for InDesign CS3 and CS4
Reviews: Written by Michael Murphy on April 21, 2010
This suite of 12 plug-ins costs $149. While that may seem high, the plug-ins bring added functionality to InDesign that's worth even more.
Get the Nesting Instinct: InDesign's Nested Styles Auto-Format Multiple Paragraphs
How-Tos: Written by Michael Murphy on June 8, 2009
Before InDesign CS, no page layout program allowed character styles to work within paragraph styles. The two styles were completely independent of one another. But now you can prebuild one or more character styles into a paragraph style and trigger those character styles with specific conditions; e.g., bold the beginning text in a paragraph until an em dash appears. What character styles are nested in the paragraph, in what order, and what triggers the switch between them, is entirely up to you!
InDesign How-to: Mind Your Table Manners
How-Tos: Written by Michael Murphy on November 7, 2007
The best tables communicate their information efficiently and look good doing it. This article doesn't only explain where to find InDesign's table tools. It spends even more time on the design principles behind the most successful tables.
Review: Adobe InDesign CS3
Reviews: Written by Michael Murphy on April 20, 2007
Go ahead...make my layout. This new version makes short work of design and production tasks across the board.
