Print Design & Layout

Quark Selling Design Templates & Printing to Small Businesses

The new online service, QuarkPromote.com, includes customizable templates for business cards, postcards, flyers, brochures, appointment cards, coupons, letterhead and envelopes. The templates and QuarkPromote service are free and the customer pays for printing. Quark splits the revenue from each print order with the software company's print partners.

QuarkXPress Training Video Round-Up

QuarkAlliance partners roll out training videos for QuarkXPress users at all levels.

New Guide Helps You Become Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign

Ace the ACE exam with this $9.95 ebook from Mike Rankin and InDesinSecrets.com

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2

Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.

Easy Fixes for Microsoft Word Formatting in InDesign

Two free and easy-to-use scripts convert Word's local formatting to InDesign's character styles. Two more retain InDesign formatting when you export text formatted with automatically applied character styles.

TypeTalk: Distorting Type

Are you tempted to stretch or squeeze letters, perhaps to make a headline or subhead fit better? Don't do it!

New Coroflot Designer Salary Survey Available

Find out how you stack up against others, and what to expect if you're just entering the field.

Client Gift: You-Branded Coasters

If you're giving work-related gifts this year and haven't yet begun, check out this inspirational example.

Design for the U.S. Mint

Here's an unusual job title: United States Mint designer. It's taking applications now.

Add Language Support to InDesign & Illustrator CS4

WinSoft's ScribeDOOR adds new complex script capabilities to InDesign and Illustrator. Languages include Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi, as well as many Indic and South-East Asian languages

Mega Prizes for Veer's Logo Contest

Retailer Veer will give a grand prize package worth almost $8,000 to the winning re-creation of the Veer logo using real-world objects or materials.

TypeTalk: Find Figure Styles in OpenType Fonts

To designers' delight, many typefaces include several kinds of numbers: oldstyle, lining, tabular, and proportional. But how do you discover which fonts have which styles?

Review: CtrlChanges for InDesign

If you pass around InDesign files and want to track who's changed what, this plug-in gets the job done.

New Competition for Package Designers

You have until December 21, 2009, to enter a new contest created by the inspiring Web site TheDieline.com.

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1

As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.

Graphics Gone Green

"Graphics Gone Green" is for creative professionals interested in building sustainable workflows from concept to output. The ebook shows how to reduce your carbon footprint at work while running a profitable business.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 & 4 Run on Windows 7

There's good news on the compatibility front. However, note that if you're upgrading to Windows 7 from an earlier Windows version, you may be required to reinstall your Creative Suite product.

Scanning Around With Gene: Oddball Image Roundup Two

It's time once again for my annual collection of offbeat images that don’t fit anywhere else.

Create Better Marketing Postcards

Postcards are like freeway billboards: You have a very short time to communicate your message. Here's how to create effective postcards that get the response you want.

Affordable Webinar on Cut-Paper Art

"Running with Scissors: Cut paper in contemporary art and design" costs just $39. It takes place Monday, October 26, at 4pm ET.