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Friday Links, vol. 10

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • ID2Office, the InDesign plugin that allows export to MS Word and Powerpoint format, has updated to a new version for CC 2015.
  • Grab some type samples from The Designer’s Foundry

Techniques

  • Create dynamic pull quotes in InDesign using tables (really!)
  • The Hamburger Menu Doesn’t Work
  • Listen to video games soundtracks while you work; they’re designed to maintain focus, eliminate distraction. As discussed on Reddit

Habits

  • What Stephen Curry Can Teach Us About Creating Successful Habits
  • Self-Discipline: what it is and why we are bad at it

Everything Else

  • A Visual History of the iTunes Application Icon.
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The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 38 - The InDesign Episode with David Blatner & Anne-Marie Concepción

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The Busy Creator 38 - The InDesign Episode with David Blatner & Anne-Marie Concepción

David Blatner (@dblatner) & Anne-Marie Concepción (@amarie) are veteran graphic designers and software instructors specializing in Adobe InDesign. The duo founded InDesign Secrets — the #1 Resource for all things InDesign — and host The InDesign Secrets Podcast. They also take the show on the road, organizing The InDesign Conference and the Print & e-Publishing Conference (PePcon).

Together, we discuss bad InDesign habits, underrated features, and how InDesign is evolving (or not) based on community feedback.


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Free Download: SimpleCal 2014

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SimpleCal 2014

All calendars suck. This is due in large part to their inability to see how the months stitch together. Often, the final days are crammed onto the same last row as the previous week. And what happens in a fortnight? Who knows.

A few years ago, I created for myself a simple calendar, which I’ve been updating ever since. Creatively, I named it SimpleCal. It features a seven-week view of each month, with weekends grouped on the right side, and shaded out to emphasize the working week. […] Full post →

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