Event Archives

Browse our growing archive of past events and revisit in-depth tutorials, expert insights, and proven design strategies—available on demand whenever you need them.

2025

Pricing for InDesigners: The Truth About Hourly, Project and Value-Based Pricing

Collaborating Without Chaos: Smarter Editorial Workflows in InDesign

So You THINK You Can Style: Find Out What You Don't Know

Working with Color in InDesign and Illustrator

Ink on Paper Essentials Adobe for Print Perfection, Part 2

MATE, an AI-Powered Plug-In for InDesign Scripts, GREP and Repetitive Tasks

Creating Effective Infographics with InDesign

How a Type Designer Uses InDesign

Ink on Paper Essentials Adobe for Print Perfection, Part 1

2024

The Process of Writing Books Directly in InDesign

Plug-ins and AI Enhance InDesign Report Workflow

Major Announcements from Max 2024 Including Previews of 2025 Apps

InDesign Gets Superpowers with a Little Help from Its App Friends

Things You Didn’t Know Data Merge Could Do

Let’s Talk Layouts

Can Science Inform Graphic Design?

How to Play (Adobe) Bridge

How to Fall in Love with Typography

The Intersection of Text and Image

How to Edit and Export Video in Premiere Pro (for Use in InDesign ePUBs)

Typographic Features in Adobe Express for InDesign Users

2023

Create Fonts for InDesign (And Other Apps)

Libraries: InDesign, CC, and an MS Secret

InDesign for 2024: New Features, Extensibility, Express and AI

The Art of Org Charts

Glyphs and the Glyphs Panel: Unlocking Creative Possibilities in InDesign

Efficient and Accessible InDesign Practices Most Designers Don’t Use

InDesign Goes to Prison

InDesign in Architecture and Landscape Design

InDesign in an AI World

A Fresh Take on Interactivity in InDesign

Historical Black Publications Inspire Contemporary InDesign Projects

Before InDesign—Pagemaker & Postscript & Macintosh Led a Revolution

2022

What’s New in InDesign 2023 (And Illustrator and Photoshop)

An Introduction to Affinity Publisher

InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom and Photoshop: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

20 Most Common InDesign Mistakes

Book Design Part 2: Creating an eBook from a Print File

Book Design Part 1: Style Automation in Print Books

Right-to-Left Typesetting and Design in InDesign

Pre-Press Procedures and Processes in InDesign

Interactive PDF Forms and UX Design With InDesign

Taming Wild Assets With Adobe Bridge

The 28 Tips and Tricks of February

Fonts: Goodbye Type 1, Hello Variable, Hello Color

2021

InDesign Digital Publishing Essentials

Designing Black Futures

Data Merge With InDesign

Nigel French: Ask Him Anything!

Introduction to Color Management

How to Do Things in InDesign That You Should Really Do in Illustrator

How to Do Things in InDesign That You Should Really Do in Photoshop

Using InDesign Scripts to Get Creative

Image Capture for InDesign: from Scanners to Cameras

10 Tips for Creative Cloud Libraries

Adding Interactivity to InDesign Documents Session 2

Adding Interactivity to InDesign Documents Session 1

Story Editor or In Copy (Or Both)

2020

The 12 Days of GREP-Mas

What’s New, Updated and Reimagined in InDesign 2021

InDesign Layout and Grid Strategies

Automation and Scripting in InDesign

Recent Feature Upgrades to InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator

Introduction to Fixed-Layout EPUBs

InDesign Tips, Tricks and Secrets

Back to the Basics

Awesome InDesign Tables (and Layouts with Tables That Don't Look Like It)

2019

Magazine Art Directors Talk About InDesign

The Old and the New: InDesign for Letterpress

Right-to-Left Typesetting and Design in InDesign

Conquering Complexity in Non-Fiction Book Design

Intermediate Level GREP Workshop

Cage Match: InDesign vs. FrameMaker

What is InCopy and Why Should You Care?

2018

What's New in InDesign 2019: Things You Will Like and Things You Might Hate

InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom and Photoshop: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

The Future of Fonts in InDesign: Variable Fonts and Color Fonts

Preparing PDF Files for Printing and Field Trip to International Printing Museum

Working with Color in InDesign

So You Know InDesign. Now What?

Design and Prototype with Adobe XD CC

2017

What's New in Adobe InDesign 2018

InDesign and Word: Getting Them to Play Nice Together

Muse: Embarking Upon a Codeless Web for Print Designers

A Full Day of InDesign Coolness

A Fireside Chat with Erica Gamet and Jonathan Levit

InDesign Digital Publishing MVP Tactics

TruEdit, a Content Management System for InDesign PLUS: What's New in InDesign 2017

2016

Using Photoshop to Make Props for Period Films (and Field Trip)

Type Tips and Tricks

Responsive Design with Adobe Muse

Designing for Large Format

Size Matters! Measurements in InDesign for Print, ePub and Web

Pricing Graphic Design

Getting a Grip on InDesign’s GREP

2015

So You Think You Know How to Set Type

10th Anniversary Meeting: 10 Years of InDesign: Blatner's Favorite Tips

What’s New in InDesign CC 2015 and Muse CC 2015

Building Books and Other Long Documents

Using InDesign and Illustrator to Create Movie Props

Creating Accessible PDF Files from InDesign for People with Disabilities

Introduction to Calibration Including How to Calibrate Your Monitor and Printer

2014

InDesign In Fashion

What’s New in InDesign CC 2014 and Muse CC 2014

From Paste-Up to InDesign

Scripting InDesign…from the Ground Up

Jump into Adobe DPS Interactivity to Create an App

Muse II: Applying your Print Design Skills to Web and Mobile Content

2013

Magic of OpenType Advanced Features

Muse: Creating Websites for Desktop (and Mobile!) Using the InDesign Skills You Already Know

What’s New in InDesign CC and Aquafadas Digital Publishing System

Design Lessons from Things We Do Over and Over (10 Years of L.A. Times Oscars Coverage)

From Mundane to Fantastical: Making Your InDesign Documents Say Wow!

A Media Synthesis

Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition

2012

CS Apps for Dummies: What They Do and Which One to Choose if More Than One Do the Same Thing

PDF Blow-Out and Ad Agency Tour

Using DPS to Create Magazines on Tablet Devices

Typography, OpenType and InDesign

Muse: Create Websites Using an InDesign Interface

2011

Books, Magazines, Android and iPad

InDesign for Beginners, Novices, Amateurs and Students (aka InDesign for Dummies)

InDesign for eReader, Mobile and Tablet Publishing

Ad Agency Workflow, plus InDesign CS5.5

Mastering the Power of Styles in InDesign

InDesign and Image Masking

2010

InDesign Automation (Scripting, Extensions, XML)

Creating Interactive Documents Using InDesign

Production Efficiency

Back in Business, Back to the Future

2007

Photoshop Extended CS3 & Illustrator CS3

InDesign CS3 Tips and Tricks

2006

OpenType Functionality in InDesign

2005

Overview of InDesign CS2

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