We're all in a hurry, I know. In fact, I'm grateful that you're taking the time to read this. And I bet some of you don't even make it to the end of this newsletter, so you may have missed the final section: the Wacky Website of the Week.

For this section, I comb the Web for stuff that is, frankly, a little odd. It usually has nothing to do with design or photography or being a creative professional. But it is usually good for a laugh. So check out our backlog and start laughing: http://www.creativepro.com/article/creativeprose-wacky-web-site-week-archive.

Terri Stone - Editor in Chief

Scanning Around With Gene: Colorful Produce Crate Labels

For almost 70 years, fruit and vegetable growers used colorful labels to distinguish their brands and show off their point of origin. Here are just two samples from the amazing selection Gene Gable found:

Related Reading: Matchboxes have been another, albeit much smaller, highly graphic form of advertising.

Create a Table of Contents in InDesign

Don't create a table of contents (TOC) by hand! Let InDesign's automatic TOC feature generate it for you. The big bonus (besides no human errors): If your document changes, one click updates the entire TOC! Sandee Cohen shows you how.

Related Reading: For ideas on what your TOC could look like, read this article.

Best of the Blogs: Old School and New Skills

Don't have time to keep up with design and photography blogs? Keep calm and read on. In Pamela Pfiffner's latest blog round-up you'll find the most popular fonts of 2011, an amazing type book from 1912, a Herb Lubalin video from the 1980s, and a Photoshop cooking demonstration from 2007. Plus, there are plenty of Photoshop how-tos, digital photography tips, and design ideas.

Related Reading: Take a deeper dive into one of the finds Pam discovered.

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