Student Outreach: October 2012 Archives

Shortcuts to Success: Check for Spelling Errors

Tips and Tricks 10.25.12 posted by The Editors

Sure, there are huge lists of InDesign keyboard shortcuts out there, but are you going to sit down and memorize them all? We're here to help you learn some handy new ones, one by one, making it easier to add them to your mental list. Each week, we'll highlight a different shortcut to help you work faster, better and smarter.

SPD-U SHORTCUT OF THE WEEK

Check Spelling

command + I

If your resume has a spelling error in it, you're toast. Type command + I to run InDesign's spell check, before you print a final document. While that's a good habit, it's also smart to get it proofread, too. "I hope your well," has no misspellings, but it's still grammatically incorrect.

Got a favorite keyboard shortcut you'd like to share with everyone? Email it to us at spdstudentoutreach@gmail.com and we'll include it in our series, along with your own commentary if you'd like.

This week's shortcut brought to you by Joseph Caserto

Get Your Red Hot Career Advice TONIGHT!

Student Events 10.24.12 posted by Student Editors

Our "Ask the Pros: Live!" Event is happening tonight at the Type Directors Club on W.36th St in Manhattan, and our amazing group of speakers are chock-full of great advice for you on how to get a job. Doors open at 6:30 and the event starts at 7.

Buy your ticket now for $10 using the form here (SPD Student Members are FREE!!). Pre-advance sales close at 5pm. After that, you can buy tickets at the door for $15 general admission (student members are still free).

Looking forward to seeing you tonight!

SPD-U

Ask the Pros: Live! Featuring...
Elliot Stokes

Ask The Pros 10.22.12 posted by Student Editors

Our Ask the Pros: Live! event is happening THIS Wednesday, October 24, and to help you get the most out of it, we'll be featuring our awesome panelists over the next few days. Space is limited for the event, so register beforehand to reserve your spot and get the discounted ticket price!

Today we meet designer Elliot Stokes, currently Designer for Every Day with Rachel Ray. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 2010, studying design and making a lot of posters for WUOG, the college radio station. He also made pencil drawings and greeting cards in his free time.

As a senior, he entered our annual Student Design Competition and won first place (check out his award-winning entry here), granting him a magazine internship in New York. After his summer internship at Inc. magazine, he took a position at Fast Company doing marketing design, occasionally helping with editorial pages.

Later Elliot applied for a position at Rachael Ray after thinking he belonged in editorial. He's now primarily a designer at the magazine, but frequently he makes small drawings and does title lettering as well. Sometimes he'll also do freelance jobs if they come up, for clients such as the NYTimes, Fast Company, and Nylon Guys.

To help prepare for Wednesday's event, we asked Elliot what was something he knows now about career/job-hunting that he wish he knew in the beginning. Read on for his advice ...
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Ask the Pros: Live! Featuring...
Dennis Huynh

Ask The Pros 10.21.12 posted by Student Editors

Our Ask the Pros: Live! event is happening next Wednesday, October 24, and to help you get the most out of it, we'll be featuring our awesome panelists over the next few days. Space is limited for the event, so register beforehand to reserve your spot and get the discounted ticket price!

Today we meet art director Dennis Huynh, currently the Senior Associate Art Director for Entertainment Weekly (a job he just started, so he'll have lots of fresh job-hunting advice to share!)

Dennis grew up in the suburbs of Boise, Idaho and studied design at Walla Walla University in Washington state. Having grown up a school yearbook and newspaper kid, he wanted to focus his career in magazine editorial design. He spent a few years at a boutique branding firm in Washington state working on corporate communications and small publications, then moved to Cincinnati Magazine to serve as their assistant art director before moving to New York. While here, he's worked as an art director at Tennis and Cooking Light before recently moving to Entertainment Weekly.

To help prepare for Wednesday's event, we asked Dennis what was something he knows now about career/job-hunting that he wish he knew in the beginning, and he advice was spot-on ... read on to hear it and join us Wednesday to hear more! ...
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Ask the Pros: Live! Featuring...
Jen Sharpe

Ask The Pros 10.20.12 posted by Student Editors

Our Ask the Pros: Live! event is happening next Wednesday, October 24, and to help you get the most out of it, we'll be featuring our awesome panelists over the next few days. Space is limited for the event, so register beforehand to reserve your spot and get the discounted ticket price!

Today we're introducing Jennifer Sharpe, an editorial human resources/recruitment rep. If you've ever applied for a job through one of the corporate websites and wondered what happens next, she'll be able to fill you in!

Jennifer is Associate Director of Staffing at Time Inc. the world's largest magazine publisher and home to brands including TIME, PEOPLE, FORTUNE, Sports Illustrated, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly. Jennifer joined Time Inc. in 2009 and is responsible for the recruitment of mid- and senior-level editorial talent for the company's print and digital businesses. In addition, she oversees the recruitment for all entry-level talent and Time Inc.'s exclusive internship programs around the country.

To help prepare for Wednesday's event, we asked Jennifer what was something she knows now about careers and job-hunting that she wishes she knew in the beginning. Read on for her answer and join us Wednesday to hear more...
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Ask the Pros: Live! Featuring...
Yuko Shimizu

Ask The Pros 10.19.12 posted by Student Editors

Our Ask the Pros: Live! event is happening next Wednesday, October 24, and to help you get the most out of it, we'll be featuring our awesome panelists over the next few days. Space is limited for the event, so register beforehand to reserve your spot and get the discounted ticket price!

Today we're introducing illustrator Yuko Shimizu. Yuko is an award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City. Her first career was in corporate PR where she spent 11 years after graduating from college before switching gears to illustration. She graduated from MFA as Visual Essay from SVA in 2003.

Her work has been seen on The Gap T-shirt, Pepsi cans, Visa billboards, NIKE, Microsoft and MTV ads, as well as on pages of The New York Times, TIme, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. She has won numerous awards world-wide including being selected by Newsweek Japan as one of the "100 Japanese People The World Respects" in 2009. Her first monograph is published from Gestalten of Germany, and her first children's book Barbed Wire Baseball is due to be out spring of 2013 from Abrams Books. She is also a member of illustration faculty at School of Visual Arts.

To help prepare for Wednesday's event, we asked Yuko what was something she knows now about her career that she wishes she knew in the beginning. Read on for answer and join us Wednesday to hear more...
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Ask the Pros: Live! Featuring...
David Curcurito

Ask The Pros 10.18.12 posted by Student Editors

Our Ask the Pros: Live! event is happening next Wednesday, October 24, and to help you get the most out of it, we'll be featuring our awesome panelists over the next few days. Space is limited for the event, so register beforehand to reserve your spot and get the discounted ticket price!

Today meet David Curcurito, Design Director of the always-inspiring Esquire. For seven-and-a-half years, David has been developing a visual language for Esquire Magazine that he likes to describe as reckless and irresponsible. Under his direction, Esquire has been defying traditional newsstand cover design with heavy type and nearly illegible cover lines. His jam-packed design treatment was revolutionary at the time and Esquire's covers have since defined their own niche and became instant classics.

Read on for more on David....

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Shortcuts to Success: Use That Color Again

Tips and Tricks 10.18.12 posted by Student Editors

Sure, there are huge lists of InDesign keyboard shortcuts out there, but are you going to sit down and memorize them all? We're here to help you learn some handy new ones, one by one, making it easier to add them to your mental list. Each week, we'll highlight a different shortcut to help you work faster, better and smarter.

SPD-U SHORTCUT OF THE WEEK

Apply the Last-Used Swatch

comma

If you want to apply the same color swatch to multiple objects, select the object and type comma. The last color you used will be applied to either the fill or the stroke, depending on which one you've activated.

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Ask the Pros: Live! Featuring ... Jamie Bartolacci!

Ask The Pros 10.17.12 posted by Student Editors

Our Ask the Pros: Live! event is happening next Wednesday, October 24, and to help you get the most out of it, we'll be featuring our awesome panelists over the next few days. Space is limited for the event, so register beforehand to reserve your spot and get the discounted ticket price!

Today we're introducing freelance designer Jamie Bartolacci. Since graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2007, Jamie has worked as a freelance editorial designer, contributing to Jane, T the New York Times Style Magazine, Glamour, Conde Nast Traveler and Women's Health. At Glamour, she was given the opportunity to work on their first-ever tablet edition and has since worked on Conde Nast Traveler's and Women's Health's digital editions. Jamie also worked on SuperFreakonomics: The Super-Deluxe, Super-Illustrated Edition at Number 17 and Earth (the Book) at Pentagram. Currently she works at Rodale in the mobile design and development group, designing Women's Health for the iPad.

To help prepare for the event, we asked Jamie what's one thing she knows now about her career and job-hunting that she wish she knew starting out ... read on to find out her answer. And attend the event to hear even more great advice! ...

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Get a FREE Book: SPD-U is Celebrating 200 Likes on Facebook!

Students 10.12.12 posted by Student Editors

The SPD-U Facebook Page has hit 200 fans; WOO HOO! To say thanks we're giving away TEN copies of our annuals: beautiful hardcover volumes of the best publication design in the world (list price: $60). Like SPD-U on Facebook to learn how you can snag one. Don't forget to tell your classmates to like our page, too, so they can get in on the fun. Stay tuned, we just might have more stuff to give away when we hit 250! Cheers, SPD-U

Shortcuts to Success: Change Type Size

Tips and Tricks 10.11.12 posted by Student Editors

Sure, there are huge lists of InDesign keyboard shortcuts out there, but are you going to sit down and memorize them all? We're here to help you learn some handy new ones, one by one, making it easier to add them to your mental list. Each week, we'll highlight a different shortcut to help you work faster, better and smarter.

SPD-U SHORTCUT OF THE WEEK

Increase or Decrease Type Size

command + shift >

command + shift <

This week's shortcut is a twofer! Changing the size of your type couldn't be easier. Select type with the Type Tool. To make it bigger, hold down the command and shift keys, and type the greater-than symbol (period key), or to make it smaller, type the less-than symbol (comma key).

The default increment is 2 pt, but I always change it to 1 pt. Go to the InDesign Menu > Preferences > Units and Increments, and type 1 pt in the Size/Leadiing field.

Got a favorite keyboard shortcut you'd like to share with everyone? Email it to us at spdstudentoutreach@gmail.com and we'll include it in our series, along with your own commentary if you'd like.

This week's shortcut brought to you by Joseph Caserto.

Upcoming Events at SPD-U

Student Events 10.08.12 posted by The Editors

• Ask the Pros: Live! Join us Wednesday, 10/24 for the inside scoop on how to get a job (and FREE books too!). Space is limited so RSVP now.

• Keep up-to-date on our Facebook page!

Shortcuts to Success: Instantly Match Text Formatting

Tips and Tricks 10.04.12 posted by Student Editors

Sure, there are huge lists of InDesign keyboard shortcuts out there, but are you going to sit down and memorize them all? We're here to help you learn some handy new ones, one by one, making it easier to add them to your mental list. Each week, we'll highlight a different shortcut to help you work faster, better and smarter.

SPD-U SHORTCUT OF THE WEEK

Paste without Formatting

command + shift + V

You're just about to send a layout on its way, when a new deck lands in your email inbox. Make the change in lightning speed!

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"Ask the Pros" Coming to You LIVE! on Oct. 24

Student Events 10.02.12 posted by Student Editors

Like our "Ask the Pros" online series where the pros answer all your job-hunting questions? Then you're going to love this speaker panel event on Wednesday, 10/24!

Come hear our panel of awesome magazine design professionals answer your most pressing questions about resumes, portfolios, interviews and all-things-career-related. We'll cover print design, tablet design, illustration and more. Tons of great advice to be had, AND we'll be giving away FREE SPD BOOKS!!!

So submit your questions to us when you sign up for the event, email 'em to us at spdstudentoutreach@gmail.com or arrive ready to ask them yourself on the 24th! Click through for the details and to reserve your spot now, space is limited! … MORE

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