RAA In Practice | Adobe Creative Suite - Shortcuts and Specifics for Small Practice Presentation with Marcus Piper

Wednesday 7th August 1pm – 2pm

This one hour session offers 1 formal CPD point, performance criteria addressed are 2 and 34 from the AACA National Standard of Competency for Architects 2021.

The Session
In this demonstrative presentation Marcus Piper shared his screen and wealth of experience using Adobe Creative Suite to provide small practices and in-house design teams with a broad, but in-depth understanding of producing print and screen ready promotional documents efficiently and to industry standard.

This session focussed predominantly on Adobe InDesign but also cover font management and selection, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and preparing files for print.

Marcus Piper
Digital Craftsperson, Marcus Piper, has spent the last 25-years designing books, magazines, identities and collateral for clients across the Globe with a focus on the architecture, design and cultural sectors. POL Oxygen, Habitus, Indesign, inside (interior review), Mezzanine, Australian Aboriginal Art magazine, the British Crafts Council magazine and Swarovski’s Crystallized are a select few of the titles he has crafted along with books for Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, Neil Perry’s Rock Pool Bar & Grill and the monumental Sun & Shadow Spinifex Arts Project title of 2023.

In that time Piper has worked with iconic British designer Neville Brody, Frost Design, Clemenger BBDO, The Conran Shop, Grimshaw and Conde Nast along with a range of independent architecture and design firms in helping build their visual and verbal identities. He is part of Berlin-based type foundry NaN.xyz and balances design with an art practice where his work has been collected by the National Gallery of Victoria and JAHM.

Piper is based between Sydney and the far South Coast of NSW and is a Founding Committee Member of the Regional Architecture Association.

Members can access a free recording of this event here.