Links & stuff

Here are some other sites and resources that deal with designing for print.

Design related sites & blogs

• I like the podcast of INDESIGNsecrets but the site is great as well.
• It is always a joy to read ‘The Simpleton‘.
• A recent discovery: Designorati
• Notes on design is an interesting blog.
• Allgraphicdesign has an incredible collection of links to design and prepress related sites.
• Publish – for the Dutch speaking design community.

Newsletters

Format is an e-mail magazine dedicated to publishing. It is interesting for other users as well as it also covers fonts, new software on the market, info on scripting,…

Newsgroups & forums

You can obviously visit the vendor forums, such as the extensive Adobe ones. Ever since prepressforums was purchased by WhatTheyThink, you have a choice of independent forums. There is no clear winner yet so have a look at:

• b4print – My personal favorite!
• Prepressforum
• PrintPlanet
• Allgraphicdesign

Books

The Non-Designer’s Type Book

I bought this book a few years ago and really liked it. Robin Williams gently explains the basics about type and what to use for which occasion. ISBN-13: 978-0201353679

Real World Adobe InDesign

There are editions of this book for every version of InDesign. I loved earlier books by Olav Martin Kvern and still have fond memories of his ‘Real world’ book on PageMaker: in-depth information, knowledgeable, yet easy to read. The CS4 edition of this book is high on my shopping list.

Real World Color Management

This book co-authored by the late Bruce Fraser is without any doubt the best overview about color management on the market.