Month: April 2012

My Experiments have been successful in the sense of creating a broad range of imagery to choose from for my magazine insert. In paticular i favour the biscuit type and the chocolate type. How I’m going to make these two elements work together I’m not sure. it’s almost a recipe for a cheesecake!

Further experimenting into food typography, biscuits was possibly more fun than the chocolate.

Handling Text in Indesign

Moving on the text, my notes; InDesign is not brilliant for using text for the spellchecker etc. always write in word. You can flood the text so that it fits across many columns. To link a text box, you drag one out, and then click the bottom white box and you can either click on […]

moving on from chocolate, I’ve decided to experiment with other materials, such as custard.

I sat the type up and realised it started to drip! Why not take some pics. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Paragraph Styles Indesign

Notes on handing Paragraph Styles If you know that you have to repeat the same style of text, you can highlight the text change to what you need OR go to a paragraph style, and create it to be replicated for all of them. You need to pre prepare this with sketches; you have to […]

Baseline Grids and Indesign

Baseline grids are to set the text to create a vertical rhythm through the design. they help give unity to design and helps the text to be easier to read to the viewer. Without it, readers can be known to get lost. It sits the text onto the grid lines which means in a book, […]