40 Creative Logo Designs

As you start working on next year’s book, company logos can be a great source of inspiration for designs, phrases, themes and more. Here are 40 great-looking logos to consider for your graphics notebook…

-Adam

50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design

Here is a treasure of free lessons on typography, grid design, color theory, design theory and usability. Enjoy!

YearbooksCA.com Updated

The camp website has been fully updated with details of our logo contest, a general schedule, class descriptions and more. This year, you can even register and pay for camp online! Don’t forget our on-time registration discount expires June 15. Visit yearbooksca.com for more info.

InDesign Mag’s Tip of the Week

This week’s tip: Applying Effects to Multiple Objects Quickly

From InDesignmag.com:

“Apply Effects to Objects Quickly You just spent 30 minutes in InDesign’s Effects dialog box, settings options for the perfect effect. Now you want to apply the same effect to several other objects in the file quickly and easily.

Apply your settings in the Effects dialog box (Objects > Effects >) while no objects are selected to make your settings the default for the document. InDesign will automatically apply your perfect effect to each object you draw after that.

Or, select the formatted object and create a new object style in the Object Styles panel. Use Quick Apply (Command-Return/Ctrl-Enter) to format subsequent objects with the new object style even faster. Or finally, copy and paste formatting from one object to another. Double-click on the Eyedropper tool first to select which formats you want to copy. Then select the objects you want to format with the Selection tool. Switch to the Eyedropper tool and click on the object with formatting you want to copy.

– Renée Dustma”

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Photoshop Tour is Back in Town

The Maximum Photoshop Tour is coming back to Sacramento on Thursday, April 30 at the Convention Center downtown. If this seminar is anything like the past events put on by Photoshop master Scott Kelby’s company, we’ll be learning the latest tips, tricks and techniques and walking away loaded with magazines, plug-ins and more. These are always outstanding seminars and at $89 you don’t want to miss the chance. For more info and to sign up, visit the Kelby Training site here. See you there!

HJ’s eDesign in the News

EffectiveUI is the interactive application company that Herff Jones partnered with for the updated version of our eDesign online page creation software. They’re exhibiting some of their work at this week’s Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and showcasing eDesign along with what they’ve done for The Discovery Channel and RealityV program for the military. Check out the wire story here