A lot of little things please me about this book cover: the misty horse photo - burnt to reds and yellows, the white tab, the simple and understated typography, the flowering line art bursting out from the side.
Old Border Road
Holiday Cards from Cocky Rooster Design
I love how the type wraps around and within a form to create a holiday shape. Beautifully executed! From Cocky Rooster Design.
My Work: Japanese Magnolia Card
I design a holiday ecard every year for colleagues, friends and family. This year I decided to create a frosty top layer partially wiped away to reveal a flower (japanese magnolia from our garden - my husband's photo).
The Difference between FSC and SFI
As a designer, I use a lot of paper. I use the most paper when printing jobs for clients. Nothing like printing 25,000 copies of something to use up a ton of paper. These days I often get asked to choose certified paper for print jobs. So what's the difference between FSC and SFI certifications?
These two older articles from Treehugger explain FSC vs SFI: Article 1 and Article 2. In summary:
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- Never harvests more than what grows back
- Protects biodiversity and endangered species
- Saves rare ancient trees
- Guards local streams
- Supports the local people
- Uses narrow skidding trails so as not to disrupt the rest of the forest
- Prohibits replacement by tree plantations
- Bans toxic chemicals
- Bans genetically modified trees (no GMO)
Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
- Allows large clearcuts
- Allows logging close to rivers and streams that harms water supplies
- Allows use of toxic chemicals
- Allows conversion of old-growth forests to tree plantations
- Allows use of genetically modified trees
Some certification is probably better than no certification and I think SFI certification is improving its standards but at this point, I'm choosing FSC.
From a purely practical point of view, if you are a tight print schedule, FSC tends to be more responsive with my local vendors (getting back within hours) rather than SFI (24-36 hrs).
Florida Gardener's Resource
This beautifully realistic flower on the cover of Florida's Gardener's Resource caught my eye. I like the background texture and typography too. It's also a nice layout/design inside - lots of photos, type is well organized and pleasing to read. A good resource for my bookshelf!
Prana's Beautiful Footer
I love this oversized footer on Prana's website. The design is subtle and artsy and calming.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Typography: Ligature, Loop & Stem Poster
Everything you ever wanted to know about the the actual parts and pieces of a font is on this elegant typography poster from FPO.
Paste It in InDesign
Copying and pasting bits of text is even more efficient when you take advantage of all the Paste options InDesign has to offer. Most of the time, when I'm pasting in text, the box or the text area I'm pasting into already has a style applied. I want to make sure the text I'm copying takes on the new style, leaving any previous formatting behind. The following options help keep that formatting in place while pasting text.
When pasting into InDesign from outside of InDesign (email, web, MS Word, etc), make sure your preferences are set up correctly to strip away any extraneous formatting. Under Preferences > Clipboard Handling, check "Text Only" in the "When Pasting Text from Other Applications" box.
When pasting within InDesign, from one text box to another, use Edit > Paste without Formatting (Shift-Cmd-V).
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