Creative Community Bulletin 06 August 2010 Through 13 August 2010

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 06 August 2010 through 13 August 2010:

• Scott Bakula: There WILL be a Quantum Leap movie | Blastr –

  to recap—Big-screen Quantum Leap, yes; Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett, no; Scott Bakula as … some­thing, yes.

• 6 bizarre cov­ers to boot­leg sci-fi, fan­ta­sy and hor­ror DVDs –
• What I Would Change About Design Job Bidding Websites — Workflow: PrePress –

  But for all their ben­e­fits, they can be improved. And they should be improved. Here are my top three sug­ges­tions for design job bid­ding websites.

• (Awesome) Explosive ‘Expendables’ Interview on YouTube –

  <strong>Tags:</strong>

  <a href=“http://www.diigo.com/user/iampariah/expendables” rel=“tag”>expendables</a>

  <a href=“http://www.diigo.com/user/iampariah/youtube” rel=“tag”>youtube</a>

• Study: iPad own­ers are self­ish elit­ists, non-owners are inde­pen­dent geeks –

  Hey we did­n’t say it, we only repeat­ed it. Consumer firm MyType has done a study of the opin­ions of 20,000 peo­ple, and have deter­mined that iPad own­ers are wealthy, sophis­ti­cat­ed, edu­cat­ed, and score very low in tests designed to chart altru­ism and kind­ness. In short, they’re rich and smart, but also spoiled and cruel.

• Why Designers Should Be Using Adobe Fireworks –

  Currently, many design­ers use Adobe Photoshop to cre­ate a web­page design and then pass it off to a devel­op­er. The devel­op­er will dis­sect the file, add in some code behind the scenes and out­put the final comp for the client. In this cur­rent work­flow, it increas­es the project expense every time a devel­op­er has to touch this file just for comping/proposal pur­pos­es. But what if a design­er could very eas­i­ly add inter­ac­tiv­i­ty to the comp? Perhaps you need to mock up an entire site and not just a splash page? Well then this is where Fireworks steps in.

• InDesign Love – 59% People Agree (400 opin­ions) –
• InDesign Hate – 41% People Agree (282 opin­ions) –
• girl quits job on dry erase board expos­es far­mville boss called her hopa theCHIVE –

  We received the fol­low­ing pho­tos last night from a per­son who works with this girl. Her name is Jenny (not con­firmed) – we’re work­ing our con­tact for Jenny’s last name. Yesterday morn­ing, Jenny quit her job with a (flash)bang by email­ing these pho­tos to the entire office, about 20 employ­ees we’re told. Awesome does­n’t begin to describe this office hero­ine. Check back as we will be updat­ing if we get more details.

• Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Branding –

  Using the right tools will sure­ly help your pro­file and work stand out among the rest. Another ben­e­fit of per­son­al brand­ing is the quickly-recognized pop­u­lar­i­ty. You prob­a­bly won’t see your name up in lights in any big city for your free­lance projects, but you’ll be rec­og­nized much more online and can even devel­op a com­mu­ni­ty among oth­ers inter­est­ed in your work.

• Create Truly Personalized Labels in Adobe Illustrator using PDF Templates –

  A com­pre­hen­sive tuto­r­i­al on design­ing labels with Adobe® Illustrator. This tuto­r­i­al is based on address labels, how­ev­er the tech­niques can be applied to CD Labels, Mailing labels, even busi­ness cards, name bagdes and oth­er paper medi­um were dupli­ca­tion of the design is required.