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AIGA Professional Design Practices

AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design, Second Edition, edited by Tad Crawford, provides guidelines for designer-client relationships and myriad business topics. Each chapter is written by a different expert, on topics including setting fees, writing contracts, management structure, handling large projects, publicity, licensing, and ethical issues. New topics in the second edition include orphan works, sales tax, [...]

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How to Share and Synchronize Content in QuarkXPress

Synchronized items and shared composition zones are two of the breakthrough features in QuarkXPress 7 — and carried on in QuarkXPress 8. There are many ways to learn how to use these features, including David Blatner’s Real World QuarkXPress 7. CreativePro.com has an excerpt from the book that shows you how to synchronize and unsychronize content, and [...]

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Learn QuarkXPress 7

QuarkXPress 7: Upgrading from Version 6, by Erika Kendra, is a step-by-step, hands-on training manual for learning the new features of QuarkXPress 7. It includes a CD containing all the example files in the book. If you learn best from step-by-step books, this is the best one I’ve found. 196 pages, $34.99 from Against The [...]

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