Links & stuff

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

Design related sites & blogs

• My Essential Design Resources on Speckyboy.com is a great collection of links
• I like the podcast of INDESIGNsecrets but the site is great as well.
• It is always a joy to read ‘The Simpleton‘.
• Another classic: Designorati
• Notes on design is interesting.
• Allgraphicdesign has an incredible collection of links to design and prepress related sites.
• Publish – for the Dutch speaking design community.

Newsletters

I am currently not subscribed to any design related newsletters. Suggestions are appreciated – please use the comment function for this.

Newsgroups & forums

You can obviously visit the vendor forums, such as the extensive Adobe ones. Linkedin has many dedicated groups about prepress and printing. It still prever the independent forums tough.

• b4print – My personal favorite!
• Prepressforum
• PrintPlanet

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.