![]() Who hasn’t? So what if you like to balance your bank account-using InDesign? It just so happens that InDesign is a pretty amazing tool. HOW TO DO THINGS IN INDESIGN THAT YOU SHOULD REALLY DO IN ILLUSTRATORĪs the ol’ adage says, “If your only tool is a hammer-everything starts to look like a nail.” But hey-it happens! We fall in love with a favorite tool and we try to make it do everything. And he gets a particular thank you for agreeing to helm a meeting in which he has no idea what will be thrown at him. Nigel is not only one of LAIDUG’s most popular presenters, but he has appeared more times than any other speaker. But after a respectful among of time, we’ll move along to the next question. It’s okay to disagree, suggest how you would do something, or even ask an unknowable question. But there will also be some ground rules, the most important of which is that no member hog the floor. On meeting day, you’ll still be able to ask questions from the floor. To keep things organized, we ask that you submit questions in advance particularly if they are complex, or deal with issues that might involve some research. (Let’s not put him on the hook for merging general relativity and quantum mechanics or the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa.) Well, anything as long as it’s related to InDesign. Instead, we’re giving you a chance to pose questions about anything at all to world-renown InDesign expert Nigel French. The September LAIDUG has no predetermined subject. His work has been featured in Jeffery Deitch Gallery, the Armory Show, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. Jon was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 Art and Style list for 2020 and was the Frank Staton Chair in Graphic Design at Cooper Union 2018-2019. Jon is also a co-founder and design director of Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of color, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of color. Now he is co-founder of the Brooklyn–based design studio Morcos Key with Wael Morcos.Īs an educator, Jon has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons School of Design, and currently teaches at Cooper Union. ![]() After receiving his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Jon began his design career at Grey Advertising in New York City before moving on to work with HBO, Nickelodeon, and The Public Theater. Jon(athan) Key is an artist, designer, and writer originally from Seale, Alabama. In constructing the book, the authors asked: “What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?” In its final form, the book includes a luscious set of recipes, archival tweets and more from over 100 contributors that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, and resilient world that emerging and renowned Black artists are producing today.Īnd in designing the book, over the three-year process, the designers asked: “How do we construct a non-linear experience to hold the various type of content to encompass the vastness of Blackness in InDesign? From indices to physical hyperlinks, the book flows in a non-linear yet interconnected fashion. The design is a compendium organized with multiple ways of accessing the variety of entries. Crafted using InDesign, Black Futures combines original artwork, essays, roundtable discussions, one-on-one interviews, poetry, and other forms of expression to pay tribute to the myriad modes of communication that have been championed by Black creatives from the height of the AIDS crisis into the speculative future. ![]()
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