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If you’re looking for a little design inspiration, check out the list of 10 design-related movies from Graphic Design USA magazine. The list runs the gamut from “Helvetica” and “Objectified” to documentaries on Eames and Glaser.

Throw one or all of these in your favorite digital movie queue, and you’ll be ready when you need inspiration (or just procrastination!). See it here.

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To simplify the Tools palette in QuarkXPress 8 and above, Quark rethought how the tools work together. So, for the “box shapes” they simplified your choices to a rectangle, circle and starburst. To make a rounded-corner rectangle, create a rectangle and then change its corner style in the Measurements palette.

Try this: create a rectangle box, then look in the Classic tab of the Measurements palette. There, you’ll see a “Box Corner Radius” control. This gives you all the corner shapes you had before: rounded corner, concave, and beveled.

In QuarkXPress 9, you can also use the new ShapeMaker feature (Utilities> ShapeMaker) to create a box where each corner is shaped differently:

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Elusive Icons are 271 vector icons specifically developed for Bootstrap, but since they’re collected into a Web font, they will work with custom projects as well. These clean, simple icons cover a wide variety of needs for Web and mobile apps. Use them freely, from http://aristeides.com/elusive-iconfont/

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To select an object that is beneath another object in a stack of objects, do this:

In InDesign: Command-click the stack. Each Command-click will select the next item down.

In QuarkXPress: use Command-Option-Shift instead.

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