Print Design & Layout News

Cutting-Edge Conference for Print and Digital Publishing

Whether you're looking for the latest tips on publishing to tablets and ebooks, want details on the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 6, or just need tips to optimize your print workflow, PEPCON is the place. The conference takes place in San Francisco on May 14-16.

They're Fond of Design

Three university students in graphic design have created a zine. It's a print creation, but now you can view it online, too.

When Is a Dragon a Delightful Design?

Louis Fishauf has designed two stamps for Canada Post that usher in the Year of the Dragon with a roar.

25 Champions of Design

jkr, a UK design agency, is giving away its book "Champions of Design". Get your copy now and discover what makes great design.

Ole! Meet Pantone's Color of the Year for 2012

Pantone has chosen Tangerine Tango as the 2012 "color of the year". This reddish-orange hue will put a kick in your step.

Cosmopolitan Magazine Redesigns

The Pentagram design consultancy has revamped Cosmopolitan magazine. The new look embraces the short attention span of the Twitter generation.

New Alphabets Bring Organic Looks to Your Projects

Give a human touch to your designs with SketchType's alphabets. There are three volumes of hand-drawn type sets for a total of 67 different alphabets. You can also buy any of the alphabets individually.

European Design Conference Comes to America

The first TYPO conference held in the United States will be in San Francisco on April 5 and 6, 2012.

Get Some Invitation Inspiration

While Evite, email, and Facebook may have displaced traditional invitations in most cases, there are still special situations that call for the real thing. Before you're hired to create one, attend this free webinar and be inspired by the many examples.

Be a Type Designer in New Game

These font games are not just fun--they're educational! At least, that's what you can tell yourself when you realize you've been playing them for an hour.

Search for Stock Images Inside Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator

Fotolia has released a free extension that puts an entire stock photo library inside your apps.

Worry-Free Folding for Complex Print Projects

The FoldFactory is selling specialty fold templates and dielines at very reasonable prices so that you don't have to do the math.

Print Production & Design Advice for Specialty Finishing Processes

Hurray! You have a healthy budget and a project that calls for standout touches like embossing or foil stamping. But before you dive in, attend this webinar.

Pantone Predicts Colors for Spring and Summer 2013

The Pantone View Colour Planner forecasts colors that the company believes should be prominent in several industries, including fashion, industrial design, and graphic design. There are eight new palettes for the Spring/Summer 2013 period.

Get the Color You Expect When Printing

Do your press checks come with unpleasant surprises? Then the expert advice in a free webinar from PaperSpecs and Kallima Paper is a worthwhile use of your time. You'll learn which proofing and press tools are handy, the best ways to prep files, and how to work with print shops to make sure your job's final color is what you expected.

Add Rare Wood Type Faces to Your Digital Designs

Wood Type Revival finds old wood type, prints them, turns the results into fonts, and sells the digital typefaces for very reasonable prices.

Download Second Dot-Font Book for Free

Topics in the free book by John D. Berry include "the pleasure of old type books," "warm modernism," "industrial cool," and "where type designs come from."

Quark's iPad App Creation Tool Finally Ships for QuarkXPress

Now users of QuarkXPress 9 can enjoy design apps within a familiar program and publish those apps to Apple's App Store. The App Studio is part of the free QuarkXPress 9.1 update.

Convert QuarkXPress Files to InDesign

Markzware's Q2ID plug-in now supports QuarKXPress 9 and InDesign CS5.5.

New Font Creates Charts and Graphs for You

With the Chartwell OpenType fonts, you can create custom pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs as easily as typing "1, 2, 3".