13 Go To Fonts, 7 Fonts to Avoid

Whether you’re designing for a book or a presentation choosing the right type face is important. The font you choose helps shape the tone of what you create. As with any endeavor, it helps to have a trusted resources you can always turn to. Here...

Set A Tone, Choose A Font

Choose a font that sets an appropriate tone for your content. Your choice of font is like choosing an accent for words to be read in. Read this quote in these six fonts. Did the font influence the way you hear them in your head...

The Best Online Resources Teaching Adobe Photoshop CS5

Where can you learn about the new features in Adobe Photoshop CS5? Here’s a list of some of the best resources online right now. – Video Tour of Photoshop CS5 New Features at Adobe – 41 Short Videos on CS5 at Adobe. – 7 Videos...

SCAMPER

SCAMPER Having trouble coming up with new ideas? Get thousands of ideas with one word. Try SCAMPER. In 1939 advertising executive Alex Osborn, “the father of brainstorming”, first proposed a set of nine strategies for creative thinking, seven of which were later rearranged by Bob...

Use PDFs to Make Blurb Books

Want to design your Blurb book with something other than BookSmart. Want to use InDesign or Quark? Make a PDF with them. Then make a Blurb book from the PDF. This way, you’ll have all the refined control of professional design software and still get...

Blurb's BookSmart Makes Design Easy

Blurb’s BookSmart software makes designing books easy. Don’t know how to use InDesign or Quark? No worries. Just want to make a book? Can do. It’s great to use software that intuitively teaches you how to use it as you work with it. Daniel Milnor...

Blurb Widget Makes Online Book Previews Easy

Blurb’s new book preview Widget lets you preview as much or as little of your Blurb book as you like online. You can embed it on any blog or webpage. Visitors can view your book as a virtual page turning book or as thumbnails. They...

How Long Will Blurb Books Last ?

How long will your Blurb books last? 100 years in dark storage, 45 years in average display conditions, before visible fading occurs. Blurb books are printed with HP Indigo presses. HP shares Henry Wilhelm’s permanence data. “The study gives pages printed with HP Indigo presses...

Volcanic Eruptions in Iceland

Iceland’s got fantastic eruptions going on right now. With four active volcanoes ready to blow this could be the beginning of something much larger. This prelude is dramatic enough. See video footage here. Find out about my August Iceland workshop here.

Getting the Best Color from Blurb

The image above graphs Blurb’s ICC profile inside sRGB. Graph Blurb’s new ICC profile and you’ll find something interesting. Blurb’s printers exceed SWOP (standard web offset presses) and they exceed sRGB in cool blues and yellows. What this means is you’ll get the most saturated...