Blog Posts - Author: Michael Streubert

Over the last few years, I’ve become a massive proponent of Paragraph Styles, even to the point where I’m happy to set up a unique style for all repeatable type treatments in any InDesign document that crosses my desk.  Paragraph styles are a powerful feature in InDesign that often go overlooked and underutilized. While they can seem clunky to set up, their efficiency in making global changes should always offset the initial time investment. 

Presentation isn’t everything; but it’s certainly massively important. This is something I’ve picked up over my career by watching some of the best designers sell their work.

There comes a time in every designer’s career when a dark cloud descends over our pastoral workspace and someone commissions an original design created in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

Do you think InDesign is the perfect page layout tool? Well, I do too. But I'm digging deep to find 5 things that could use a tune-up to make it even more perfect-er!

Here's a short list of some of the mostly commonly confused terms designers find themselves explaining to non-designers.