Pariah Burke Consulting & Training with Creative & Publishing Workflow Expert Pariah S. Burke | Informing & Empowering Creative Professionals™

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.

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.

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.

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 … »

…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 … »

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 … »

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 … »

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 … »

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

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 … »

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 … »