I got asked to do a presentation on InDesign and DPS for an event next week.  I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with the tools.  So instead of using a canned demo, I decided to build something from scratch, to at least start to understand the tools.

 

As for content, I struggled for a bit, and then realized I could use some photo's of Philly to be the starting point of a photo journey through a few of my local neighborhood spots.  So these are all photos I've taken while on foot in Philadelphia.  Results below.  

For the cover I went with a couple different weights of Proxima Nova.  Then I snuck Penn's colors into the shield for Philly on Foot. 

For the prison shots, I went with Chapparal Pro.  I liked how it looked, and having a few weights to work with really helped make it easy for me to make that call. 

The Art museum section was my least favortite part of this.  I don't think the pictures came out very well, but I did sort of rush them.  That being said I tried to take some new choices here.  I did the title in Trajan Pro, I figured the call to the typography of the classical world matched the way the architecture does the same.  Maybe a bit obvious, but I'm okay with it. 

 

Then for body copy I went with Myriad Pro.  Trajan Pro would have been difficult to read as body copy since it is only caps. I went with Myriad cause it looked right, I figured both being Adobe Foundry fonts, they should at least pretend to work together well. 

 

In any case, there is it. I'd lke to add to it over time. I'd like to expand what I have, and maybe add more camera sessions, especially as the weather warms up.