CHICAGO—June 13, 2013—InnerWorkings, a leading global marketing supply chain company, today announced a contract extension with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world's largest hotel companies. The agreement builds...… Read More

Designed by Printed by This is it, folks. Today — all day and all night (into tomorrow morning when we manually close the online entry form) — is the last day to enter. Make it rain! There will be no… Read More

Designed by Printed by The final deadline for the FPO Awards is this Wednesday! There will be no additional extensions.Please note the drop-dead deadline dates:Wednesday, June 12, 2013Complete online entry forms and postmark materials.Monday, June 17, 2013Materials due in our… Read More

It's getting really close! Just 1 month away from the package design event of the year! ELEVATE YOUR PACKAGE DESIGN CAREER at the The Dieline Package Design Conference:… Now in it's 3rd year, The Dieline Package Design Conference has become Read More

It's right around the corner! Just 6 weeks away from the package design event of the year! ELEVATE YOUR PACKAGE DESIGN CAREER at the The Dieline Package Design Conference:… Now in it's 3rd year, The Dieline Package Design Conference has Read More

Designed by WAX Printed by Hans Thiessen (using rubber stamp) I've seen construction workers make notes and write phone numbers on pieces of leftover materials they picked up around the site. So, perhaps it is a natural extension to design… Read More

When you need to see what has changed in a QuarkXPress project, try AthenaSoft’s FusionXT… for QuarkXPress 9. This $79 XTension helps you compare and merge QuarkXPress project stories, assets, geometry and much more, side by side. Changes to the Read More

Al-Yaum Media House recently signed a contract to extend its large KBA Continent at the WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference in Dubai. The newspaper publishing house is located in Saudi Arabia’s third-largest city, Dammam. The KBA hybrid press for coldset/heatset production… Read More

Parham Santana, The Brand Extension Agency, collaborated with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, to refresh its licensed consumer products packaging worldwide. Parham Santana… Read More

Sit back and relax while taking control of your landscape with Arandell’s extensive selection of Multi-Channel Solutions. Organize Implement Accomplish While the core of our business at Arandell is high end, premier catalog printing, we also offer multi-channel strategies that… Read More

You put a lot of pride into your business cards, especially if you’re a designer. It’s an extension of you and your artistic sense: It’s your “Mini Me,” if you will. The last thing you want to see is your… Read More

It’s true: if you have any version of QuarkXPress (3 or higher), you can upgrade to version 9.5 for just $349. (QuarkXPress 3 is now more than 20 years old, so I feel justified in saying “any version”.) Visit Quark’s… Read More

For 2013, Caribou Coffee sought to refocus and evolve its brand presence. The exploration led to a core insight that became a theme for the new campaign: “Life is more than coffee. That’s why there’s coffee.” The theme is an… Read More

I’m creating an EPUB book in QuarkXPress, and the client gave me a PDF containing his suggestions along with some product images for the book. He’s not easily available, so I didn’t want bother him to re-send me the images… Read More

Badia Software’s BigPicture ($59.99, or $14.99/month) is an XTension for QuarkXPress 9/8/7/6/5/4 or a plug-in for InDesign CS6/5/4/3 that lists all the pictures in a project, and shows all the vital information about them (color model, format, file size, effective… Read More

"Sweet Earth Natural Foods are made by laidback fanatics, which made them a natural fit for BrandCory. We found fertile creative ground in the tension between their passion for hand-crafting enlightened, nutritious vegetarian foods and their distinctly NorthernCal sensibility. The… Read More

Neenah Paper In today’s world of online shopping, sometimes a customer’s only physical contact with a brand might be the packaging.… Retailers must think of packaging as the presentation of the product, reflecting the quality of both the product and Read More