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Scanning Around With Gene: Teaching Kids About Industry

A garage-sale find of three small children’s books highlights some great 1937 illustrations from a little-known artist by the name a Th. D. Luykx.

Dispatch from Adobe: A Graphic Launch

Seeing real meaning of Adobe's marketing graphics

InDesign How-To: Using the New Content Conveyer in CS6

A new feature in InDesign CS6 is the Content Conveyor that lets you collect elements from a layout and reuse them quickly and easily. It represents a new way to work with content in your designs.

Is There a Creativity Gap?

Adobe study finds 75% are not realizing their creative potential.

Scanning Around With Gene: Being a Boy in 1939

In 1939 the world was in turmoil and the economic conditions in the United States were greatly challenged, but young boys were still trying to have fun and learn a few things along the way.

Book Covers Combine Illustration and Embroidery

Penguin's Threads series turns thread into literary classics.

Scanning Around With Gene: The Amazing Story of Measurement

We take our inches and feet for granted these days, but of course it was a twisted route that brought us to a system of modern measurement. Here’s a brief comic-book history from 1949.

Pantone Gets 336-Shades More Colorful

336 new hues added to Plus Series guides

Adobe CS6 Downpour Begins

Creative Cloud plus updated apps lead the way.

First Look: Adobe InDesign CS6

Whether you’re designing for print or digital (or both), InDesign CS6 has many new features to help you create multiple versions of your layouts quickly and efficiently.

Scanning Around With Gene: The Era of "Mad" Women

The Sixties seem to be enjoying a comeback, thanks in part to the television show "Mad Men." Here’s a look at some images from women’s magazines from the era. Are we sure we want to glorify those times?

TypeTalk: Copy Editing and Proofreading

Copyediting and proofreading are important to the integrity of the production of any publishing project, yet the two are often confused. What's the difference between copy editing and proofreading? What does each task entail? And why do they matter?

New Mohawk Logo Designed by Pentagram

New Mohawk logo designed by Pentagram

Scanning Around With Gene: Things That Are Within Five Feet of My Desk

For Friday the 13th, here's a unique collection of images that I've kept nearby over the years. What thematic relationship do they have to each other? Nothing, except they all were found within a five-foot swath around my desk.

InDesign Font Plug-in Lets You Try Before You Buy

FontGazer connects to Fonts.com database of 150,000+ fonts

How-To: 10 Techniques for Copying Pages Between InDesign Documents

There are many reasons why you might want to combine pages or objects from one or more InDesign documents into other InDesign documents. Perhaps you need to join unchanged pages from an old financial report with the new one; or use a previous design’s page geometry and elements as the template for a new project; or combine individual chapter INDDs into a single “book” that can be output as one long PDF; or... Whatever the case, InDesign has several paths to that end.

Ask the Experts about QXP and iPad Publishing

60-minute Q&A with the QuarkXPress Team

Scanning Around With Gene: The Sex Appeal — and Bad Reputation — of the Fiat

Fiats have always had a sexy image, much like the country that makes it. But this classic Italian car brand has a tarnished reputation in America, due to its unreliability. Now, thanks to the cute new Fiat 500, many Americans are seeing Fiats for the first time. Will it be amore?

Inside the NYT Graphics Department

Video shows what drives artists at the newspaper

The State of E-book Typography

Whether on Kindle, iPad, Nook, or other LCD display, type suffers compared to print. So is good typography even possible for today’s electronic devices? From the standpoint of the craft’s two underlying principles — legibility and readability — the answer is "no."