CS5 looks like it's going to be one of those "definitely worth it" upgrades. InDesign Secrets takes a look at what's new in InDesign CS5. And Photoshop CS5's content aware brush and content aware fill looks like it's going to take the cake as the best loved new Photoshop feature. Now I just have to wait for it to arrive at our office....
CS5!
Web Inspiration: Typography and White Space
These sites create structure, form and style simply and elegantly with creative use of white space, typography, lines and shapes.
http://ilovetypography.com/
http://aworkinglibrary.com/
http://barbariangroup.com/software/plainview
Package Design from Thymes
I like the interesting color combinations and textural/decorative elements in Thymes package design.
Book Cover Inspiration: Dark and Light
My favorite in this selection is The Imperfectionists. I like bottom weighted composition and expanse of black space. The high key image and off centered typography in Tinkers are elegantly executed. The suggestion that the most interesting part of the composition is off the frame (Genesis) and the hair silhouette 'O's (A Short History of Women) are also intriguing.
Easy Navigation between Master Pages
Quick tip: To easily navigate between master pages in Indesign, just hit the page up or page down keys. Even though the master pages don't appear connected, they are! (On a regular page when you zoom out you see the previous and next pages—it's not like that in master pages.)
Tea Towels and an Owl
Beautiful colors and patterns in these tea towels from flowie
This owl - too adorable! from kelly kay creative
How to Design a Cover in 1:55 seconds
I love this video "How to Design a Cover in 1:55 seconds" I saw posted on design:related. The video:
Keyboard Shortcut Solution for [None] Character Style
It's been a pet peeve of mine that I can't apply a custom keyboard shortcut for the character style [None] to remove all character formatting from the text in InDesign.
I finally googled it and there is a work-around, creating your own character style of "none" and assigning a keyboard shortcut to that. Here are the instructions at InDesignSecrets.com.
The Design Inspiration
The Design Inspiration has an good variety of logos, illustrations, fonts, websites, photos and patterns for design inspiration. Some of my picks from today:
Umbrella Sky
Silk Soymilk ad
Risen pattern
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