xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
25th March 2008

VizThink: Visual Thinking Workshops in NYC (5/2) and CHI (5/7)

“Are you a visual thinker? Do you want to hone your visual thinking skills? Do you want to learn from some of the best in our industry? Then the Visual Thinking Workshop is for you! VizThink is offering a series of one-day workshops all around the United States. These workshops will help you improve your visual thinking skills. The first workshop series will be run by Dave Gray and Karl Gude.

Apparently separated at birth, together they will show you how to visualize your ideas so you can think and communicate with greater clarity and effectiveness. Working individually and in small teams, you will learn and practice visualization techniques that have been successfully used to improve innovation and accelerate change at some of the world’s leading companies. After completing this workshop you will have a toolkit for thinking and presentation effectiveness — your presentations of complex information and strategies will never be the same.”

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25th March 2008

Extensis Typecaster – Fonts find true love in this modern world.

“What;’s your true type? What type do you click best with — and which types spell doom? In five quick questions, we’ll decipher your identity.” (Thanks Design Observer!)

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25th March 2008

Turn Photoshop Layers On/Off in InDesign.

“InDesign lets you control the visibility of layers in your placed Photoshop graphics. That can be pretty handy when you find yourself designing a series of related ads that require minor changes to the same image.

In InDesign, select a placed Photoshop graphic and choose Object > Object Layer Options. This gives you a dialog box where you can toggle the eyeball next to any layer to turn it on or off.”

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