“Whatever anyone says, there’s simply nothing like it.”

Established in 1992, Artyg Arts & Types is a design studio specializing in the design and production of magazines and books of photographic illustrations in fields such as food, cookery and cosmetics.  The studio has worked for a number of clients, including VOGUE, publishers Seuil and Editions Balland, and regularly works for the Editions Flammarion. Their most recent book, Côté Crillon, Côté Maison (printed by Editions Flammarion), is prefaced by Alain Ducasse and Thomas Keller and presents 82 dishes and 300 recipes from Jean-François Piège, chef at Les Ambassadeurs, the gastronomic restaurant at the prestigious Hotel Le Crillon in Paris.

From the start, QuarkXPress® appeared to be “the best replacement solution for our previous tools,” said Christophe Auger, co-founder of the studio. Since discovering QuarkXPress, we’ve not missed an update, and all six of our workstations run under QuarkXPress 7. To broaden their customer base, Artyg Arts & Types has tested competitive page layout packages, but as Christophe Auger admits, When we need to speed up production or work on large files, nothing beats the flexibility and intuition of QuarkXPress.”“It’s not just habit that has kept us using the same page layout package for years,” he said. “QuarkXPress can easily manage large files and enables us to work in a transparent way with layouts, and more importantly, it’s enormously stable. The fact that it includes a number of European and foreign symbols (Chinese, Japanese and Arabic) is a huge bonus for us, because we work on books that are distributed internationally.”

Christophe Auger does not hide his satisfaction with each of these “beautiful books” created using QuarkXPress. “Whatever anyone says, there’s simply nothing like it: the ease with which you can access the most frequently used menus; PDF management optimization and the creation of high resolution PDF files; its unbelievable capacity to compile lots of files, images and fonts in a single document; etc. QuarkXPress really is a huge step forward in productivity for image production.”

“QuarkXPress 7 is a huge step forward in productivity for image production.”