Celebrating 10 years with KelbyOne!!
As a graphic designer of 20+ years, and a user of InDesign for the same length of time, that is a question I get asked a lot when I talk to other designers who haven’t braved the wonders of the little “Id” icon in their tool bar. InDesign is used to create printed items such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books, and also digital items such as interactive PDFs and ebooks.
Just to give an overview of what InDesign is to the lovely readers of this blog, it’s an application that is part of the Creative Cloud. It actually celebrates its 20th birthday this year!
Back in the day, us ‘desktop publishers’ used a piece of software called Quark Xpress. This was launched around 1987 and became the industry standard. Adobe originally had a program called Pagemaker, which it purchased from Aldus, and this was the competition to Quark. From this, InDesign was created as a strong competitor and was released in 1999. It was the first native Mac OS desktop publishing application and was very quickly adopted by the design industry, especially when in Creative Suite 3, it was bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat.
So, that’s your history lesson! Why am I talking about this?
My working history with KelbyOne (formerly NAPP) celebrates 10 years this year. I started out as an official NAPP Evangelist way back in 2009 when I became a member of NAPP and offered to help get NAPP more recognised in the UK. This proved to be a successful relationship. I visited my first Photoshop World in Las Vegas to meet Scott and the Photoshop Guys. I have guested on Scott’s blog before detailing that part of my history so I won’t repeat it here brendaclarksellshomes.
Here are the links to get my background:
2010 – In The London Tube with Scott Kelby and Glyn Dewis
2010 – Scott’s Recap Post of His London Visit
2012 – My first guest post for ScottKelby.com
2016 – My second guest post for ScottKelby.com
2018 – My third guest post for ScottKelby.com
KelbyOne – The Personal Side of Dave Clayton
Over the course of those blogs I talk about how it all began, the evolution of me as a content creator for KelbyOne, and how those experiences led me to not only teach and present alongside my best mate, Glyn Dewis, but to also now co-host a podcast with him. Glyn was introduced to me back in 2010 by Scott. The podcast is called He Shoots He Draws, and it’s a weekly photography and design podcast. We are currently on episode 76 as you read this. We are really pleased with the success, and with over 115,000 downloads worldwide, people certainly don’t mind listening to us both chat with each other and our guests.
Stay with me, this is heading back to InDesign, I promise!
I would like to add at this point, all these things began happening for me at the age of 42! Yes, 42!
In a world where everything is instant and everyone wants instant success and gratification, my story is one of patience, dedication, and networking. Anyone who has met me has probably done so at an event. I try to attend as many as I can afford given that I live in the UK, that I can designate time for and travel to, which means being away from my family for anything from 5 to 14 days. Over the past 10 years I have put myself in positions that have taken me out of my comfort zone, and it’s paid off and still pays off.
I never thought I would get to write for an industry leading magazine, nor teach video content training for a leading training provider, let alone stand up in front of hundreds of people and teach graphic design. KelbyOne gave me these opportunities and I have stepped up to each one with both enthusiasm and nervousness!