Pantone Colors? How much do you really know about it?

So how much do we all really understand Pantone colors? For instance at my work the corporate Pantone is a green number 377. I generally use 377 C, since a lot of what we do ends up on coated papers, though sometimes not. In the cases that I use a nice, uncoated paper, generally Cougar 100lb cover and 10 lb text, I use 377 U.

C = coated, and is always the best for coated papers? Right?
U = uncoated, and is always the best for uncoated papers? Right?

Well what about CV, CVC or other off shoots? When are they appropriate? How do you handle the print colors for your brands?

Discuss.

• Vuel Egham
• 7 responses
•  Animation, Branding, General, Graphic design, Production

Creative Processes—Who Owns What in Your Organization?

Recently, a superior found some minor errors in some large printed guides that I had created for our companies user conferences. The edits were incorrect days, dates or times, on ancillary pages in the guide. They were oversight by me and the communications team due to short turn around times, and an immense workload.

Here is my question: In your organization, who owns the content? When you receive content for a large project, do you always receive the final content or are you often getting partial content in Word documents, partial updates in emails, and lots, and lots of hand written edits?

I have been told recently that I always must own content that should never be wrong (times, dates and locations). Is that how it is in other organizations (particularly in house creative teams). Do you have someone on your teams that reviews the final content for those sorts of things, or should that be left to the designer? What processes do you have in place to avoid such errors?

• Vuel Egham
• 9 responses
•  General, Graphic design, Production

for those who code…

…there’s a new sheriff in town.

I have used several web design applicaitons throughout the years, beginning with hand-coded HTML back in 1996, to Dreamweaver 1.0 through MX, the freeware app Smultron, and finally settling down with the excellent skEdit last year. All of them have had good point and bad points, but are effective coding tools. Lately, I have used Transmit for all my FTP duties. Together they are a good one-two punch in my daily workflow.

Now the good folks at Panic Software have unveiled a beautiful new app that aims to make the life of any web designer/developer easier and more fun. It’s called Coda and it comes with the prettiest UI I’ve seen in a while. I downloaded the demo and have been using it for a day now and have to say that it seems pretty solid. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

• Rick
• 3 responses
•  News, Production, User interface, Web

sign company recommendations

Having kicked my sign company to the curb last year, I am in the market. I started using IG Signs in American Fork recently for small projects and have been very pleased with their service and quality thus far. It’s time for our big annual project as we are gearing up to reskin our booth for the tradeshow season. Who is everyone else using?

• wade
• 3 responses
•  Production