Indesign CS4 – Start a document with a two-page spread
Instead of beginning the document with a right-facing page, you can delete the first page and begin your document with a left-facing page that’s part of a spread.
Important: Because of the settings that make it necessary to keep a left-facing page as the starting page, it can be difficult to insert spreads into a document when following this method. To avoid this difficulty, it is best to work in the document with a right-facing page starting page (which should be left blank). When you have inserted all of the pages needed in the document, delete the first page by following the steps below.
1. Make sure page 1 of the document is blank.
2. Choose File > Document Setup. Be sure the document contains at least three pages and that the Facing Pages option is selected. Click OK.
3. In the Pages panel, select all the pages except page 1. (The easiest way to do this is to select page 2 and then Shift-select the last page of the document.)
4. In the Pages panel menu, deselect Allow Selected Spread To Shuffle.
5. Select page 1. In the Pages panel menu, choose Delete Spread.
To add a spread to a document that starts on a left-facing page, first make sure Allow Selected Spread To Shuffle is deselected and Allow Document Pages To Shuffle is selected. Then, insert three pages, and delete the extra page.
Font Conference (humor)
Did you ever wonder what our beloved fonts looked or for that matter sounded like? Check out the wonderful world of the font conference on www.collegehumor.com where ‘comic sans’ saves the day!!
New Wrangler Site
Wrangler s have mixed eye-candy and interactivity to create a whole new interactive site, which we are louindesign are loving!!!
So if you have a few minutes, check out Wrangler Blue Bell Spring/Summer Collection. You’ll be glad you did so!
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[Newspaper] Design
I’ve worked in the newspaper industry as designer for many years. My most recent post was a production manager for the regional media group, RiverMedia. Working on newspaper design has ment working within a grid system, using an established design template.
At the end of the day Design for whatever reason is about taking information and making it appealing to the target audience. Design in newspaper industry does exactly that, we the deisgners take the written word of journos and make them ‘pretty’ in layout, colour, images etc to make the reader stop a minute and read there article or for that matter pick up the paper in question.
Jacek Utko
However over the last few years there is one rising star of this industry who is changing the face of Newspaper design, Jacek Utko, from Poland. Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%.
Jacek believes that Newspapers are dying for serious reasons. Simply changing the look cannot save them, but design coherent with strategy and content can be used as a tool to completely change the product, the process, and the future of the industry.
To complete his designs, Jacek uses a more holistic approach which engages many departments within the newspaper, which he calls inner branding. He believes that the Front Page, is a poster, an intimate, artistic statement. A personal interpretation of reality; a channel to talk to readers. One of the Newspapers Jacek redesigned is Puls Biznesu (Poland), which lead to the highest branch’s recognition – Worlds best Designed Newspaper by SND. see below for some of Jaceks groundbreaking work. Read more…
How to create a simple Gallery in Flash CS4
Check out http://tuts.flashmint.com/how-to-create-a-simple-image-gallery-in-flash-cs4/ for this full tutorial.
In this tutorial you are shown how to create a simple image gallery with thumbnails in Flash CS4. We will apply a couple of simple, yet nice transitions to the images and thumbnails. This will require you to get the hands a bit dirty in animation and action scripting. I am promised this is easy and fun!
Award Winning Irish Designers
While researching for my design portolio, I came across some really nicely designed websites by award winning Irish designers. So if you have a few minutes maybe you’d like to browse through my selection. Of if you want to view my web portfolio why not visit www.louindesign.com
www.whitenoisestudios.com
This is a beautifully designed flash site, by talented design studio based in Belfast. Incredible use of white space, not too overloaded with info, just enough to entice you to browse some more. Particularly like the section on ‘our people’ which not only gives a face to the company but also a bit of personality. Also worth a check out is there ‘talk to us page’.
Whitenoise also won award at the IDI awards for ‘Whitenoise Book 6: An Experiment in Typography’.
