Welcome!

Thanks for visiting the website for Desktop Design, a full-service design firm, located in the Chicago area. We offer complete design, consulting, and training services, suitable to any need and budget. We have worked with fortune 100 companies, small businesses, charitable organizations, as well as a few start ups!

Design

Desktop Design has designed brochures, catalogs, newsletters, magazines, books, and corporate identities for all types of clients. No job is too big or too small. We can complete your project in a timely, cost-effective manner. Desktop Design also has artists and illustrators on staff. We can create the perfect logo and business identity or execute the ideal cover illustration for your next book. Let us provide a free project estimate.

We offer the following design services in-house:

Print Concept design Design for print Print production Logos and corporate Identity	Web Design for web Website production Database- and shopping cart-driven website design
Book Book design Book production Design for online publications	Video Videography (We have cameramen on staff!) Digital video editing and production DVD authoring
Illustration Pencil, ink and electronic illustration Flash and GIF animations

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Consulting

With over 20 years of design and production experience, our knowledge is your knowledge. Desktop Design has helped many companies set up design and production departments, helped to troubleshoot design or production problems, specified hardware and software for electronic design and production and solved many other challenges.

We offer the following consulting services in-house:

Print

Process planning
Solutions for design problems
Solutions for problems on press
Identity solutions
Track job’s path from delivery to press
Identify workflow and technological inefficiencies
Assess job communications

Web

Website evaluation
Website troubleshooting
Assess current website
Develop customer-based Web strategy
Implement web strategy to drive sales

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Training

Desktop Design provides professional training in groups and in one-on-one situations. We can conduct the training in our facility or on site in your own office or training center. We are experts in most of the professional design and production applications and we can provide anything from refresher or upgrade training all the way to comprehensive in all aspects of electronic design. It is training that counts. We do not waste your time with frivolous exercises with examples that do not relate to your work. Our training lessons and examples have been drawn from real-world projects!

We provide comprehensive training for the following applications and areas of interest:

Applications
Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Acrobat Adobe FrameMaker Adobe Premiere & Premiere Pro	QuarkXPress FileMaker Pro MS Word Ms Excel Ms PowerPoint	Dreamweaver MX Firework MX Flash MX Final Cut Pro Motion
Technologies and Techniques
Design for print Design for web Design for electronic distribution	Print production Production workflow eCommerce	Videography Video production Video editing

Click here to check out our custom training guides

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Call us today at 847-677-6666 to get all the details.



	On May 1, 2007 we gave a session at the Pixel/Vector Conference on Photoshop for the Web. A handout was not provided at the session. A PDF handout will be available for download in a few days. Check back soon for details.

	Check out our training guide for Photoshop CS! It’s the best around!


	Check out our training guide for Photoshop 7! It’s the best around!