One of the tremendous things about working as a Creative is—well, the creativity.
Over my years working as a graphic designer, I’ve had the opportunity to work on projects for all kinds of clients—from political direct mail, to non-profits, to very large corporations. Variety is the “spice of life” and so it is for a designer.
And I’ve also gained the ability to be completely flexible, showing my muscle in InDesign one moment, and jumping into CSS the next.
While most of my formal training comes from the school of hard knocks, time and again I’ve proven myself as a competent, creative, hard working, and ever patient designer.
I consistently receive rave reviews from peers, managers, and clients; and I constantly work to improve and learn, and to satisfy an unquenchable thirst to be the best designer I can be.
Never a round peg in square whole, I lend myself to malleability and will never back down from tackling projects I’ve never tackled before.
All this is creativity in it’s purest form—molding yourself and your projects to make something out of nothing.
I got this posted on InDesign Secrets.com.
Original Post is here
Daniel T. wrote us to report a creative use for InDesign:
My current contract had used Quark for a long time; they recently purchased CS3 with the intent to switch over to InDesign, but because no one really knew InDesign, they were slow to get started.
I was stuck revising a pretty long text document in Quark—about 32 pages worth of exhibitor listings. I started out by assigning keyboard shortcuts to my Quark Style Sheets, and manually applying these to each paragraph. This was going to take FOREVER! I wanted to quit! I longed for InDesign’s “Apply xx Style then Next Style” command.
But alas.
Then, I had a bright idea.
I imported the unformatted text into InDesign and quickly set up paragraph styles. Then, using ID’s Apply Style then Next feature, I styled the whole 32 pages in one mouse click. (Woo-hoo!)
Then I exported the text as RTF, and then imported it into QuarkXPress, selecting the option to “Keep Style Sheets.” The text flowed in with all the style sheets intact! I needed to redefine the colors, as RTF doesn’t really keep them well, and tweak a few other things in the Quark version of the style sheets: but hours and hours and hours of endless clicking and arrow-downing evaporated into about 45 minutes.
Thank you, InDesign!
Daniel wins this weeks official InDesignSecrets chutzpah award for a great use of InDesign in the face of adversity! Plus, bonus points if you can write an AppleScript to merge the QX and ID workflow automatically.
To that I add: Excellent.
I’ve only just touched my little-toe in the deep waters that are WordPress—but so far, I’m impressed. (Which I guess is a typical sentiment—well, shit—I’ve said something trite.)
I look forward to importing and re-writing old content, as I never really got going, and to designing my blog from scratch—I’ve got the layout, I just need to recode things and wrap up the CSS.
Overall, this is fairly exciting!