Yes, that’s right. This is one of the things I actually do for a living. The backstory is actually valid. Our occupational health department offers, among other things, FAA flight physicals. Many of our local pilots seem not to know this, though, and are going to other cities to get the physicals done. So to promote our much-more-convenient […]
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Inverting black and white colors in InDesign CS5
One of the truisms about programmers is that they prefer not to have to do the same thing twice. That’s why the good ones tend to start keeping code libraries, and the really good ones start doing subtle and elegant things with objects. Coming from a programming-for-clients background I eventually ended up in graphics (which was what […]
How to make handwriting fonts look like real handwriting in InDesign CS5
Okay, I’m afraid you’re going to have to tolerate a little gloating. I’m working on our annual report again — these things always end up being such massive projects for just a few pages of document — and this year I’m doing it as a journal or scrapbook. I’ve got these borders that look like pasted-in pages; I’ve […]
The go-to writing app for iPad: Notebooks
With National Novel Writing Month approaching in November, it’s hardly surprising that interest has picked up in writing apps for iPad. Within this group there’s a subset of demand for “distraction-free” writing programs.* I’m not entirely sure where this trend toward minimalism is coming from, though Pages may have a lot to do with it; it’s a lovely […]
Clipart abuse
I know it’s not really fair to rip on clipart, because it’s such a mixed bag, and particularly since I’m not the best freehand artist to begin with. It’s hard to feel safe in my little glass house. Photography and vector art seem more my forté. But every once in a while I run into something that just […]
More logo madness!
Well, not madness, at least not now. The madness actually kicks in near the end, when I go off on a rant about the one typeface I truly love to hate. I mentioned recently that I’ve been set some logo-design tasks by several departments wanting to internally brand their work, purpose, or function. One of those designs was finally […]
Words and logos
They’re on the minds of a few people around work lately. We’ve got some pretty significant changes coming over the horizon, many having to do with a multi-year rollout of an EMR system. EMRs are basically there to store patient records digitally rather than on paper. This is a stupefyingly obvious concept, and it might be shocking to […]
iPad wallpapers
Yup, just getting into the same swing of things as everyone else. I’ve got a couple of warm, rich graphics, initially designed to act as a background for Notebooks, but useful for iPad wallpaper too. These are scaled to 1024 x 768 at 132 DPI, basically matching the reported display resolution of iPad G1. They were composed in InDesign, […]
You can tell a lot about a man…
…from the way he chooses to draw women. Yeah, seriously. From a clipart site.
Okay, NOW I’m done.
There’s always something. Just tweaked it a little, basically rearranging the layout — and added a reference to landscape, since as it was before there was no real sense of ground. Everything just sort of floated in a void.
Finished. Fertig. Geschvinkta. Terminado.
That design I’ve been working on since last week, with all those little bits and pieces? Done.
Elements of a design 5
Bunnies and birdies, and that (I believe) completes the major construction on this project. Now it’s just a question of putting it all together.
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