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Visit to The Icecreamist
Icecreamist: (adjective if using to describe) 1. A person or persons addicted to or obsessed with ice cream. ‘An extreme ice cream fanatic.’
2. A person or persons subscribing to ‘Icecreamism’ as an ideology.
Icecreamism: (Noun) 1. A term used to define people suffering from an addiction to or obsession with ice cream. 2. A philosophical or [...]
October 6th, 2009 by Elzette Roelofse
How to use Data Merge to Personalise Documents in Indesign
Personlise prints, such as company Christmas cards and party invitations with Data Merge in Adobe® InDesign®. Data Merge is the ability to create fields (name, surname, message) in your Adobe® InDesign® document. It can automatically populate from comma-separated values (.csv) or a tab-delimited (.txt) file. The easiest would be to create these fields as columns [...]
September 30th, 2009 by Elzette Roelofse
London Girl Geek Dinners’ date with Norton
Real life, for every person has so many security risks every day. If that is not enough, so does everyone’s virtual world. Con Mallon, European product developer from Norton, spoke at London Girl Geek Dinner, 30 September 2009 about their new cloud-based anitvirus. Even though the big world out there seems dangerous, according to his [...]
August 25th, 2009 by Elzette Roelofse
Choose Your Colour (Part 2): Litho vs. Digital Printing
1. Litho Printing
Litho printing (Offset printing) is also known as lithography or lithographic printing. Litho printing works on the basic principle that oil and water do not mix.
2. Digital Printing
Digital printing is a four process colour reproduction method that uses electronic files and dots to produce an image using ink and toner. It is basically [...]
August 11th, 2009 by Elzette Roelofse
Choose Your Colour (Part 1): CMYK vs. Spot Colour Printing
When it comes to designing, it is all about concept, layout, font and typography. The other very important thing is colour.
There are two basic usage of colours when designing print artwork.
1. CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black)
2. Spot Colour Process
Read the rest of my post at PrintQuote where I have blogged for Printhouse Corporation.
October 7th, 2009 by Elzette Roelofse