Briefcase/bag May 10, 12, 10:12 a.m.

Can anyone recommend a well-made and well-designed briefcase? I love Porter bags, but don't want to pay $500. Somewhere in the $300 or less range would be ideal. I want something I can use for decades. So I guess that means leather or canvas would be best.

I need enough room for a 15" MBP, iPad, notebooks, etc. Shoulder strap preferred.

InDesign Question: Baselines Feb 28, 12, 12:11 p.m.

Does anyone know how to make your baseline grid apply to the pasteboard? I'm dealing with digital magazine content that will scroll (yeah yeah, I know, it should be HTML5), and the overall design depends heavily upon a baseline grid. If a text box is completely off the page, i.e. on the pasteboard, it loses its grid alignment.

Is it even possible to fix this?? It's driving me nuts.

Metagramme 3.0 Jan 2, 12, 8:04 a.m.

Happy New Year everyone! New year, new look, new site, tons of new work.

http://www.metagramme.com

The new site is a customization of Emil Olsson's Layers theme. There are one or two kinks to work out, but in general I think it's ready for prime time. :)

MacBook/iPad High res Dec 29, 11, 12:31 p.m.

Where do you guys get high-res images for skinning websites and iPad apps? I went to Apple's press photo pages and their EULA looks like it would prohibit use on, say, a portfolio website.

I looked at LiveSurface and their computer screens are outdated. No iPad images.

I need something I can use without restriction on my new website.

Version Tracking Aug 9, 11, 7:41 a.m.

I'm designing a digital (iPad) magazine for a client. I need to share copy files with the print design team. Both the in-house print and out-of-house digital teams use InDesign for page layout. The editors use InCopy for its live version tracking capabilities (i.e., every time you open an InDesign layout, if the editor has changed the copy it will automatically update). The problem with InCopy is that it tracks stylistic changes (Character/paragraph styles, line breaks, etc.) I can't use these InCopy files for the digital edition, because it would create confusion with CMYK > RGB color palettes, wrong text breaks, and cross-pollination with different text styles. The latter mainly stems from the fact that the digital magazine is simpler and more streamlined than its print counterpart.

So, to my question: Does anyone know of a platform we could use for writing copy, linking to InDesign files, and keeping track of version changes? Something simpler than InCopy, which almost seems to be too smart for its own good (in this case). Something that would track copy changes without recognizing styles. Would a Google Doc work? At this point I'm waiting for stories to reach completion before starting on the digital design, which is a major handicap. I'm finding it's pretty much impossible to meet the client's deadline to work this way. I suggested creating two separate InCopy files for each story, but the editorial team didn't like that suggestion.