Randy Ricker, Senior Vice President, Graphic Design Practice North America, Aquent joins host Scott Sheppard for an overview of the job placement, portfolio review and other valuable services they provide to graphic designers. Find out more at http://www.aquent.com

Pete Rivard, Principal Instructor for Digital Imaging, Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis, MN joins hosts Scott Sheppard & Gene Gable to discuss designing for flexography and packaging. Pete explains that in 1914, Dunwoody College was founded by the folks who also began General Mills and has enjoyed a close relationship with the packaging industry as one of the nation’s key technical resource for print education. Pete also discusses some key points of what makes designing for flexographic printing processes so uniquely exciting, and different from traditional offset processes.

He also discusses details of their technical curriculum for flexographic printing, prepress, and design. Pete shares some insights on the overall process of flexo and package printing, which unlike other processes include finishing the piece, bag, box, label within the press run. Designing the page layout needs to consider these factors, as do the variety of substrates available which are used in package design. Package designers often use 3D tools to help visualize final printed boxes or other pieces to better understand the overall folding configuration which need to be addressed in the final print file. He also details the differences between flexo and gravure printing.

Packaging and flexographic printing are one of the major growth areas for designers available in the print industry today, find out more about Dunwoody’s courses at: http://www.dunwoody.edu/graphics/

Design News of the Week with Jay Nelson

This week’s Jay shares the results of the Pantone Color of the Year for 2009: PANTONE 14-0848 Mimosa established annually by the Pantone Color Institute. He also discusses Google’s new archive of Life Magazine’s Photo Archive that makes millions of their images searchable and available for reference dating back to 1750′s. Jay also explains the Copyright Clearance Center’s ReadyImages Service that provides easy access to a large collection of images having only to pay a small annual fee. Find out more at http://www.copyright.com

For more on Jay Nelson and his Design Tools topics visit: http://www.design-tools.com

Mordy Golding, Partner, Mogo Media joins hosts Scott Sheppard and Gene Gable for an update on their latest conferences and some trends he sees among the designers participating in their popular events. Mordy is an author, trainer, and former Product Manager of Adobe Illustrator so much of their workshops feature tips and techniques of using Adobe tools in their workflow. Mordy explains the challenges many designers face today in having to design for multiple mediums, and how they work with their clients who demand their projects are instantly compatible across print, web, video, etc.

Design News of the Week with Jay Nelson

This week Jay gives us an update on his favorite new features available in the recently released Adobe Acrobat 9 which includes the ability to include Flash and other multimedia components. The new version also includes a supporting website http://www.acrobat.com, that makes is very easy to collaborate and share documents across locations.

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

Mordy returns after the news to discuss their fall conferences one held in conjuction with the Create Chaos conference held in Orlando this October 13-17, and also some in-depth Adobe InDesign Conference Master Class held in Seattle, November 10-13 at Adobe’s office which are also their HQ for the Adobe InDesign development team.

Mordy Golding has been doing alot of work lately about designing for mobile content platforms and shares some of the exciting news and tools now available that help creatives distribute their content to mobile phones. One of the keys to successfully designing for this platform is to understand how users will interact with the content available on their handheld device. Hear some market trends and tips on tools you can use to develop.

Find out more about Mordy on his website at: http://www.mordy.com/
Learn about Mordy’s conference sessions and Mogo Media at: http://www.mogo-media.com