To add some “ oomph” to our profile, we’re going to make certain words bold and italic. Insert the rest of your profile information – this should include information such as how old you are, your ambitions, goals, and hobbies. Select all of the text you just inserted and change the Leading to 16pt – the leading is the space in between each line of text. I used Arial at 12pt for this section, and will do for all other sections of my text. Start filling in your profile section, including your name, email address, contact number, postal address and anything else you feel is necessary, such as your websites URL. For this I have again used the typeface Blue Highway, set to 21pt. Go through your two pages filling in all the header titles. Select a suitable typeface of your choice – I’m using Blue Highway Bold as it is the font used in my logo, and I want to keep my identity going throughout my brand. Double-click in header box and type in your words. It’s time to start filling in our content! Lets start with out main header, “ CV/Resumé“. Repeat the same steps again on our second page, where we will display some of our work. I’m going to have a profile image next to my profile text, and some icon images in the bottom left hand corner for my skills. Select the Rectangle Frame Tool, and repeat the steps again in places we want images. It’s now time to do the same but with image placeholders rather than text boxes. Keep on dragging out text boxes, making sure they’re well aligned. Drag out another text box for your first header and your basic information section, such as your name and contact details. You’ll notice when you drag out a new text box it will automatically snap to the alignment of other objects and/or important areas, such as the center of the page. This will be our text box for our “ CV/Resumé” title. Grab the Text Tool and drag out a selection in the top left corner of your page. However, it’s still a good idea to get some of the structure sorted. The next step is to start putting together some of our structure, which is possibly the hardest thing to do as we don’t actually know how much space we need for our different sections until it’s all written up. You’ll see that we have three different lines, a red one (which is our bleed line – any artwork that meets the edge of the page should meet this red line), the black line (this is our actual page) and our purple/pink line which is our margin line (all content such as text etc should be inside this line). Change your margins down to 5mm and your bleed up to 3mm. Select A4 as your page size, and change the number of pages to two, making sure Facing Pages is unchecked. When InDesign is open, go to File > New > Document. It’s now time to open up InDesign and set up a document.
It just helps avoid that “ what do I do?” phrase when you open up a blank screen in InDesign or any other application! Step 2 Sketches don’t have to take long – I spent just a couple of minutes on mine. It pays to get resumés professionally printed – if it lands you a well-paid job that you love it is well worth it! Front ↓ The CV I’m designing is going to be double-sided – yes, it costs a little more to produce, but it gives you a little bit of space to showcase some of your work and ultimately “wow’s” your hopefully future employer even more! Grab a piece of paper and sketch out a couple of ideas for your CV’s structure. Step 1Īs with all designs, we need something to refer to when designing.
If you haven’t already, you should check out our “ Getting To Grips With InDesign” series to brush up on your InDesign skills. We will be using basic tools and techniques (but ever so important ones!) to create the design.
In this tutorial we’re going to be learning how to use InDesign to create a clean and structured CV/Resumé design.