Tips and Pet Peeves

Tips that Rusty gave us in class:

• Reasons why to be wary of reversed text on black and color backgrounds.
• Nesting files
• Setting up facing pages in InDesign
• Printing duplex on the laser printer
• How to manage negative space in a design - what are you trying to do with negative space?
• "Sexed" punctuation (from Weds.)

Other things I have learned from Rusty: Do's & Don'ts:

• Always use a grid
• no widows or hyphenations 
• Don't use text that needs to be readable to the general public smaller than 10pt
• Set up a margin and/or bleed. Margin Standard= .5 in.  Bleed Standard= .125 in.
• Don't use papyrus, comic sans, bleeding cowboy and many others
• Helvetica is super cool, yet super overused
• justified is NOT modern
• Black backgrounds are an easy fall-back

My Own Viscom Pet Peeves:

• The color red particularly with black
• huge documents/workspace. I like to design within a small area.
• serifs
• heavy strokes
• Photoshop in general