I’m very curious about the grid system.  I’m reading stuff in http://960.gs/.  Ahh gotta sleep. Will read some more later.

Final Project for Advertising 1.  Goal was to make up a single unified campaign of different mediums for Ebay; Full page magazine ad, Half Page ad, 3 column by 10″ newspaper ad and 2 Billboards of any size.

My concept is a flexible ad for any medium that uses humor to stop an audience and look an ad.  I also think that having funny photos on the ad would encourage a viral type of advertising on the web where people can forward it to friends.  The idea is to encourage people who never tried ebay yet.  “anyone can ebay”, “what would you sell?”

All the photos are copyrighted by their own photographers.  My apologies for not taking notes of the photo sources.

Credits to Bela Kerkay, for helping me out in polishing my concept.

Finally I found a solution for this weird problem unique to one computer in the network.  Reason being is that this pc is dual monitor and configured as landscape and portrait mode.  Indesign cs2 has the tendency to open its dialog box outside the monitor’s viewing window.

Problem:

Cannot save or open in indesign because the dialog box is missing or invisible.

Solution:

When you save or open a  file,  press Alt-Spacebar to open the drop down menu then press “S” for resize.
Press your arrow keys multiple times until part of the window shows up for you to grab it.  You may also press the “m” key to move the window until you can see part of it.  Hope this helps!

Credit to the original post I found to Marie-Celine.

Last night I was working on a calendar project, 12 month 2007-2009 8.5 x 11 size, b2back. Thought of things how to make this faster. One idea is to look for Office templates online and print is as PDF. Have this done, I will be able to place it on Illustrator. I managed to edit them the way I wanted but it just took so long since the PDF>Illustrator option makes the arrangements of types look so funky.

The second solution was finding a calendar generator online. The sites name is www.timeanddate.com/calendar. Worked out fine, I have more control on which year, holidays, week numbers, etc.

The only drawback is pretty similar from MS office. By the time you “place” it on illustrator inside your design, it will be tough to edit Months, Holiday Colors, font size and spacing since they’re all disarranged and not in table form.

Today, another idea came up to me. I looked for “calendar tutorials in illustrator”. Found some threads that talk about it, and another thread caught my attention. Some guy mentioned that InDesign may be the right tool for this. Well. Duh! Why didn’t I think of this before? I ended up going to Adobe’s Exchange site (online resource for anything adobe). Searched for tutorials in inDesign, keyword “calendar tutorial”, “calendar maker” or “calendar wizard” and returned me some scripts. So far is working fine! This is the first time i get to use a script (.js) in InDesign and its quite easy.

The script name:
Calendar Maker v2 Mac&PC
By Stephen Nichols September 16, 2004
12,670 Downloads

A Javascript (PC and Mac) version of the calendar maker originally created by Jan Suhr. Following requests, choices now include 1, 6 or 12 months per page and Letter or A4 page sizes.

SUPPORT INFORMATION
unzip the file and drop the calendar_maker.js file in your InDesign CS > Presets > Scripts folder, then run from the scripts palette.

-edit-
I just realized that this script is limited to certain year. This one is better: