Major companies using InDesign

[rpilato@adobeforums.com]

I've read that Wal-Mart and Starbucks use InDesign. What are some of the other major companies using it?

[Sandee_Cohen@adobeforums.com]

From the Adobe Web site:

Ad Agencies Cline Davis & Mann
Publicis West
Flying Machine
Wieden+Kennedy
LPK
Ogilvy
JWT
Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Inc.
Deutsch Inc.
Flat Inc.
GSD&M
Sagmeister Inc.
Worldstudio
Wunderman

Magazine publishing Rodale
Clear magazine
The Magazine Group
Future Network USA
MacAddict and Mobile PC magazines
Big Magazine Incorporated
Hearst Magazines

Newspapers Metroland Printing, Publishing & Distributing Ltd.
Cox Newspapers
The Arizona Republic
Digital Technology International
The Virginian-Pilot

Book publishing Lonely Planet Publications

Corporate Design Staples' Easy Button
Perkins Eastman
Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc.
MEDIUM Design Group
REI
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Commercial printers Group360 Inc.

Education Savannah College of Art and Design
California College of the Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Rochester Institute of Technology
The School of Visual Arts

[willmark@adobeforums.com]

Corporate Design We use InDesign too!

<http://www.wegmans.com>

If you live in the North East of the US, you might have heard of us... ;)

Mark

[Bob Levine]

Great store. I pop into the Bridgewater, NJ location once in a while.

Bob

[Bob Levine]

Just take a look at the ads in the paper as well as walking down the
magazine rack in the store. It shouldn't be all that hard to pick out
the companies using (or in the case of some, overusing) InDesign.

The first sign of a company switching over is way too many drop shadows. <g>

Bob

[Steve_Traynor@adobeforums.com]

You can't have enough drop shadows. Even my drop shadows have drop shadows!

st

[DavidT]

A guy sending in a job asked me what I used for layout.

I replied, "InDesign".

He said, "You must be feeling pretty isolated, then."

I said, "But most of the pdfs I get in are created in InDesign. Check the properties in Acrobat every time you get a pdf."

He said, "Nobody I've heard of apart from you uses InDesign."

I said, "You must be feeling pretty isolated, then."

[DavidT]

<http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/customerstories.html>

[Gerd_Kalesse@adobeforums.com]

Standard Bank, one of the big 4 banks in South Africa, uses InDesign. We have never looked back. In fact, all our affiliates and contributing ad agencies in the rest of Africa now have to follow our lead.

Except for the learning curve, I have not heard any complaints.

The days of having to accommodate the odd old Quark user are nearly over for us.

Hurrah!

Gerd

[Wayne Guy]

We bought Quark 7 to accomodate one client (they're worth it). I couldn't believe what a pain it is to make a press-ready PDF. I got frustrated and recreated it in the real DTP software.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Quark has always had problems with PDF. InDesign wins that hands down.

Here's what Taz Tally wrote about PDF in QuarkXPress 7 in a generally laudatory article in American Printer:

"QuarkXPress 7 has stuck with JAWS as its PDF Export function. While Quark has done extensive testing with the new and improved version of JAWS, I remain unconvinced of the consistent usability of JAWS-generated PDFs in prepress. (Besides, it is slower than molasses flowing in January.) I still recommend printing PostScript from QuarkXPress to Distiller-watched folders for generating prepress-bound PDFs."

[willmark@adobeforums.com]

I love the excuses the Quark-diehards use to justify their continued support of an eroding product.

[Stu_Bloom_x@adobeforums.com]

Vurtually every newspaper company has (a) converted to InDesign, or (b) is in the process of converting to InDesign, or (c) is seriously thinking about converting to InDesign.

In the newspaper industry, Brand Q is dead, dead, dead.