Creative Community Bulletin 15 January 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • 12 Tools For More Mindful Living
    “LIVING A MORE MINDFUL LIFE IS WORTH THE EFFORT, BUT REMEMBERING TO FOCUS AND KEEP YOUR MIND IN THE MOMENT IS DIFFICULT. HERE IS A TOOLSET DESIGNED TO HELP YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS.”
  • Could be bet­ter writ­ten, but good point: What design­ers with end­less clients and refer­rals do but you don’t (yet)

    “Unless you are so absolute­ly amaz­ing at your design work that your projects save or earn your clients buck­ets of mon­ey, you’ll find that many clients actu­al­ly val­ue some aspect of your rela­tion­ship more than your design skills. (Think about how many below-average design­ers retain clients.)”

  • Top 11 Logos of 2013 As Voted By You

    “These are the top 11 logo designs of 2013 as vot­ed by you (the awards that won Logo Of The Month) on Logo Of The Day site.”

  • Six Things Every Designer Should Know About Copyright

    “The art & design world has been abuzz late­ly with copy­right issues and, since we’ve been talk­ing a lot here about orig­i­nal and authen­tic design, I thought it would be help­ful to gath­er some good infor­ma­tion about copy­right straight from the peo­ple who know it best: the lawyers. Here are some help­ful tips to read through before you even put pen to paper (or “pen­cil” to iPad).”

  • Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
    “Western economies, par­tic­u­lar­ly that of the United States, have been built in a very cal­cu­lat­ed man­ner on grat­i­fi­ca­tion, addic­tion, and unnec­es­sary spend­ing. We spend to cheer our­selves up, to reward our­selves, to cel­e­brate, to fix prob­lems, t…
  • 3 Signs You Are Too Creative for a 9‑to‑5 – The Atlantic
    “Your plight as a cre­ative per­son may not be imme­di­ate­ly appar­ent to regular-brained peo­ple, who don’t mind going to an office every day for decades. Here are the lessons I learned from this arti­cle and the reac­tion to it, about cre­ativ­i­ty in a…
  • Nine Great Uses for Private Browsing that Don’t Involve Porn
    Wow! Some great uses here, from Web design and WordPress test­ing to log­ging into Facebook on some­one else’s com­put­er with­out screw­ing that per­son­’s login.

Curated by Pariah Burke