Adobe Removed Pantone: What To Do

Adobe Removed Pantone: What To Do

I’ve been working with pantone for roughly 25 years. In that time Pantone has been a comfortable safe pace. A place where colour nerds could wonk out about 5% differences in hues. Those days seem to be mostly over. Pantone Connect verdict? Pantone Connect is the drunk...
Mistakes. They happen.

Mistakes. They happen.

Yes. Mistakes happen. Yes. We make them. Mistakes teach designers what they’ve missed, and what they don’t know. Mistakes also give us the opportunity to show integrity, and to make things right. I think mistakes are the single greatest opportunity to show...
An Age Old Christmas Book Chronicled

An Age Old Christmas Book Chronicled

So I have this book… my Dad gave it to me in 1979. It’s a Christmas book about Santa’s workshop. I treasure this book. I keep it in a box and it only comes out once a year for about 2 weeks. Thing is, this is one of those pop-up books with flaps and tabs...

The Uncertain Vagaries of CMYK profiling

Lately we’ve been working with a myriad of suppliers who print a myriad of products. We’ve found out some interesting things regarding printing and colour calibration. The biggest thing it seems, (though unsupported by any empirical data) is that with the...

How are you proofing your projects?

Remember to turn Overprint Preview ON. It recently occurred to us that some very simple pdf tricks can assist many of you when you are proofing your projects with us. Have you ever printed a piece and noticed the reversed (white) logos were missing, even though you...