BiBi Card

I originally thought that this project would be a piece of cake; re-creating a 3.5 x 5 BiBi card. Boy, was I wrong. That's not to say that this project was impossible or even incredibly challenging, it was just very tedious, maybe more so than it needed to be. I can't really complain though. For this project we have to re-create the front and back of the BiBi card on Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign. At first, before I did both of them, I was complaining about the fact that we had to do them twice, in 2 different programs. I figured, we had already used Quark once, so what can't we just do InDesign for this one? It turns out that by doing this project in Quark, even though I had used the program before, many of the shapes I had to make and effects I had to do were completely new. Although I was very reluctant to make it again in InDesign, I am glad I did, since I was able to learn how the program works, for the most part.

Although tedious, due to the extensive measuring to get the card just right, I found Quark Xpress much easier for me to understand. I was able to make the cards quickly and really focus on making them look as identical as possible. When I went to InDesign I had some issues. There were no real serious issues I encountered, since the How-To book really, really helped, but I just found InDesign generally more confusing. I thought that Quark was very straightforward in the way it presented the things you were able to do, but InDesign made it more complicated than necessary. Maybe I felt this because I had gotten so fond of, and used to Quark, that when something in InDesign was different, it was therefore unnecessarily more confusing.

Besides the obvious frustration between the two programs, I actually found this project incredibly helpful. Because I spent so much time on both programs, I now feel I have a much better understanding of how they work, for future reference. Although I have to say, Quark is definitely my favorite.