Creative Pro

2-Day course about design­ing, devel­op­ing, deploy­ing, and mar­ket­ing eBooks, e-Magazines, e-Catalogs, and more in ePUB, MOBI, PDF, and other for­mats, pre­sented by pub­lish­ing and work­flow experts Pariah Burke, Sally Cox, and Steve Dolan.

New free esem­i­nar series to dis­cuss the tools and trade of pro­fes­sional design.

I’m cur­rently updat­ing my book, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, for InDesign CS5, and I’m look­ing for tes­ti­mo­ni­als for the back cover.

Radio inter­view in which Scott Shepard and Gene Gable spoke with guest Pariah Burke about Quark ver­sus InDesign, Twitter, design­ers in social media, and Pariah’s newest projects to inform, con­nect, and empower cre­ative professionals.

The appar­ent Pepsi logo 2008 redesign treat­ment is a les­son in how to screw up a 100+ year old iconic brand while daz­zling the client with bull­shit on a level stag­ger­ling far beyond any­thing before seen in the busi­ness of logo design and branding.

Surely there must be a book­mark­ing ser­vice that allows sim­ple, fast link sav­ing, and, through a prop­erly built RSS feed, sharing.

Yup, call­ing some­thing the Holy Grail is pretty bold–and overused. In this case, how­ever, it really does apply.

Yesterday I released Page Control, a plug-in for InDesign CS and InDesign CS2, devel­oped in coop­er­a­tion with DTP Tools. Page Control answers a … »

After a cou­ple of weeks as lead fea­ture sto­ries, my two-part “Add Reader-Friendly Finishing Touches to Your PDFs” have been used as the foun­da­tion for PDFZone​.com’s “Making the Perfect PDF” spe­cial report. My afore­men­tioned arti­cles are the two leads, … »

…And boy are my arms tired.

I just got back from a rapidly setup 1-day con­sul­ta­tion in Dallas, Texas. It was the work­flow obser­va­tion and under­stand­ing phase, where I go in, learn how a cre­ative work­flow runs cur­rently and the agency’s goals … »

There’s now a full-chapter excerpt of my book, Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work, avail­able for down­load over at Designorati.… »

Today REVdrink​.com offi­cially launched. It’s a unique site that com­piles all the tuto­ri­als and how-to arti­cles and books I write into a cen­tral list. Currently REVdrink​.com cat­a­logs tuto­ri­als I’ve writ­ten for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign in my books and in … »

Powells Bookstore, a mas­sive Portland book­seller that has become a regional must-see tourist attrac­tion, lists my books. Check it out:

Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job

Special Edition: Using Creative Suite 2. I’m a con­tribut­ing author to … »

Wednesday morn­ing I deliv­ered my final drafts (“author review”) of the chap­ters I’m con­tribut­ing to Special Edition: Using Adobe Creative Suite 2 (Que, 2005). So, bar­ring any last minute changes to my illus­tra­tions and fig­ures, I’m done with that book.

All of … »

The truth about Pariah revealed!
Live Paint self-portrait of Pariah S. Burke July 2005

I have a con­fes­sion to make: That’s me. It’s a photograph–I have no depth, wrin­kles, or nos­trils, and liv­ing with one-piece hair saves on con­di­tioner (once in a while I ArmorAll it).

When Mattel was going … »

I have to call my mother and tell her she wasn’t full of it.

I just got an e-mail from a mag­a­zine edi­tor com­pli­ment­ing my abil­ity to write humor­ously in a how-to arti­cle to appear in her pub­li­ca­tion. Humor, she notes, is … »

While cruis­ing Amazon​.com I ran across this inter­est­ing lit­tle book enti­tled Adobe Illustrator CS2 At Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job. The author is Pariah S. Burke.

My first book–on Amazon now!

I was floored! I’m still a lit­tle … »

A year from now, if some­one asks Detroit Pistons’ for­ward Rasheed Wallace if his tat­too hurt, the answer will be an angry “yes.”

As reported below (Tattoo Artist Claims Copyright Infringement Over Nike Ad), Portland, Ore. tat­too artist Matthew Reed … »

After read­ing a rather bab­bling mind-flush I had vented into a friendly design-related forum I con­tribute to, some­one asked me how to get started writ­ing articles.

To be hon­est, I don’t know.

I real­ize that may sound incred­i­ble con­sid­er­ing the … »

I got offi­cial word yes­ter­day that the pub­lisher liked my pro­posal and out­line for an Illustrator CS 2.0 (aka Illustrator 12) how-to book. So, pend­ing my con­ver­sa­tion with the acqui­si­tions edi­tor about con­tract and scheduling–which shouldn’t pose any issue at all–I’ll … »

Warning: Babble to follow.

Completely by acci­dent I stum­bled across this–follow this link, about 1/3 of the way down the page.

For me, this is pro­fes­sional val­i­da­tion as a jour­nal­ist! As, if not the num­ber one, one of Adobe’s top 5 … »

I’m in Texas for a cou­ple of weeks–this past week and next. I got here last Sunday, and have spent time work­ing with some won­der­ful peo­ple in Dallas and Fort Worth.

On this trip, my job sites are not Top Secret or … »

As part of a multi-phase restruc­tur­ing of this site–not to men­tion mov­ing to a host­ing com­pany that actu­ally works–the Quark VS InDesign cat­e­gory of I Am Pariah​.com has moved to its own domain name: Quark VS InDesign​.com

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