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Freelance Designer, Donna Berger joins hosts Scott Sheppard and Gene Gable to share some tips on finding success as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Donna spent much of her career in technical roles at various prepress and publishing industry suppliers including Agfa, Scitex, and Kodak but transitioned back to her love of design and is now working independantly from her Lowell, MA studio. She has also done extensive illustration work for children’s books. Donna explains that her background in marketing and PR helps her maintain her contact base and reach out to potential clients via ads, direct mailings, promotions, and networking conferences.

Donna shares some tips about how and where to advertise including listing your services and contacts in industry sourcebooks. She explains how your personal portfolios can help define your style, even if you have a broad background but consistancy helps leave your impression on your clients when they are looking for something specific.

To contact her and see more of her work visit: http://www.donnaberger.com

Design News of the Week with Jay Nelson

This week Jeff Gamut fills in for Jay with some news that QuarkXpress 8 is actually shipping. After announcing the upgrade and new features the product is now hitting the shelves. Jeff also shares a tip about creating a book of your typefaces using Veenix Software’s Type Book Creator. Find out more at http://www.veenix.com.

For more information about Jay and Design Tools visit: http://www.design-tools.com.

Mary Gay Marchese, Marketing Manager, Markzware joins Inside Digital Design to discuss some of the features available in their conversion tools products that allow you to seamlessly exchange file contents and layouts between popular layout programs including QuarkXpress, InDesign, and even Microsoft Publisher. These time saving tools can help designers and prepress operators maintain the integrity of the files and also easily make last minute edits.

Mary Gay also explains some of their other popular pre-flighting and conversion tools and shares some examples of how having access to these utilities have saved the day with some of their key clients. They are constantly developing new tools and are recruiting beta testers to be involved in their development process. If you would like to sign up simply send Mary Gay a note at pr (at) markzware (dot) com.

See their full line of products at: http://www.markzware.com