Inspiring business card designs

26 Aug 2008 1 Comment

by eviltwinin Design, illustration

It’s been quite a while since I’ve paid any attention to print design, but I discovered this wonderful article, showing very nice examples of what you can do with a business card.

Business card

Business card

Business card

Take a look at the rest here: Inspiredology – Cooler Business Cards

Damn you, Myriad!

05 Aug 2008 No Comments

by eviltwinin Design, tutorial

I don’t know if I’m the only one who’s getting annoyed because whenever I start a new file I have to constantly change the font from Myriad. Just because it’s the Apple corporate font, doesn’t mean we all want to use it ALL THE TIME.

So, anyway, apparently you can change it – and here is how:

  • 1. Open up Illustrator CS3
  • 2. Go to File > Open, and open up: C:/Documents and Settings/{Username}/Application Data/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS3 Settings/New Document Profiles. You may have to go to your folder options first to make sure you can see hidden folders (Open up a folder window, Go to Tools > Folder Options, then click on the ‘View’ tab and select ‘Show hidden files and folders’)
  • 3. Open up one/any/all of the default document templates, depending what you use.
  • 4. Go to Window > Type > Character Styles
  • 5. Double click on ‘Normal Character Styles‘ in the ‘Character Style Options‘ panel
  • 6. Then click on ‘Basic Character Formats‘
  • 7. Change the options to whatever you want
  • 8. Save and close the file

So now whenever you create a new file using the template you changed, it will have your font options as default.