#10248
Sometimes the most simple techniques can really dress up your publication. One of the most popular sections of the Creative Layout Techniques workshop is on 'Typography'. Today, let’s take a look at yet another of our '101 things you can do with Type.' If you’ve got color, or grayscale printing capabilities you may want to consider a textured letter. This technique is easily done with your favorite painting program and a little vision.
#10203
Design, Typography and Graphics Magazine
Design, Typography and Graphics is the official publication of the Design and Publishing Center. It offers tips and tricks for design, printing, photography and publishing of all kinds.
Design and Publishing Center. Journals>Graphic Design>Typography
#10249
Dirty Dozen Typefitting Tricks for Designers
One of the most frequent questions from workshop attendees is 'What do I do about too much text?' Did you ever notice how any publication is like a container? No matter how much space you've got, it always seems to get filled up. Have you ever had a client call with 'just a few' revisions and additions and it turns out to be several pages? What I'd like to know is how come the article can get bigger but the page can't! So many people in my workshops say 'But Fred, I can't use your great graphics tips because I have too much text!' Here are a few suggestions for those times when you're on deadline, and the copy is just a few lines longer than the space you've designed for it...
Showker, Fred. Design and Publishing Center (1996). Design>Typography
#14162
Duotones are a combination of two grayscale images, using two negatives and two printing plates. Sometimes we see super print quality using two blacks, to add midtones or highlights to an image, or to extend an image's overall tonal range. Back in the '80s the Time-Life Photography series of books used Black and metalic Silver inks to produce probably some of the best high-grade black and white photographic images ever printed. They're no longer in print, but you can find them in most better public or university libraries.
Design and Publishing Center (2002). Design>Publishing>Graphic Design>Color
#10204
An article about current usability research, with general guidelines to follow.
#13593
Web design, tips and tricks, letters from readers, reviews, and even critiques of YOUR web pages.
#18523
Website Redesign Without a Nervous Breakdown
It doesn't matter whether you're working for a company or working as a freelancer with clients. It happens to all of us. That sigh of relief we breathe when the website we've been designing is finally 'finished.' Truth be told, a good website is constantly in flux, taking advantage of the web's fluid and flexible nature. Unlike other marketing and sales materials, changes made to your website can be relatively painless-or at least less painful than throwing out a box of brochures because you've decided to change your branding or your focus. It's hard to throw those away, no matter how outdated or inaccurate they may be; when you do, it's hard to see anything else but dollar signs hovering above the trash can. The web offers unparalleled flexibility in making changes. Whether it be adding or changing content, switching graphic elements or including features that allow customers to more easily interact, these changes typically requires only the desire, the technical know-how and the budget to support both. Go into a site redesign blindly, however, simply adding and subtracting elements and pages based on hunches or what one visitor has commented on doesn't make any sense.
Marshall, John. Design and Publishing Center (2003). Design>Web Design>Redesign
