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Get organised with layers
Keep your work on separate layers so that you can adjust each detail in isolation whenever you want. Also name your layers, set up naming conventions and use layer sets to structure your work. At first this might take a little extra effort, but you'll be more than happy you did when you pass your piece to a colleague or open it in a few months to make small modifications.

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Designing food packaging
Food packages come in all shapes, sizes and materials, but the design principles remain the same whatever the product. Peskimo shows you how to liven up any label

Mastering InDesign preferences
InDesign is not just a tremendously powerful layout package, it’s also hugely customisable. Susannah Hall explains how to change the default settings to suit you

Creating a cardboard character
For a unique promotional item, there’s nothing like creating a cardboard character. Mark James, the man behind CardBoy, shows you how it’s done

Promo items with impact
Create an effective and technically complex piece of packaging that will launch a product in style

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TODAYS TOP FEATURES

Toy packaging then and now
The modern day strategies for packaging toys encompass pretty much every trick in the packaging designer’s arsenal. But has this always been the case? Dom Hall breaks open the bubble pack and finds out…

Wide-format printers - supersize your creativity
Wide-format printing used to mean outsourcing to a printer. Richard Wentk investigates whether the technology is a worthwhile in-house investment