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- Get Over Yourself: How Your Ego Sabotages Your Creativity
“One of the most destructive of creative sins is an over-inflated ego. When many people hear the word “ego,” they immediately think of the know-it-all manager charging into the room and insisting that everyone bend their life and work around his every whim. This is certainly one exhibition of ego, but there are less obvious types that we must be careful to avoid if we want to do our best creative work consistently. ”
- The Designer’s Guide to Working for Nonprofits
“Want to help make the world a better place? Industry experts offer these top tips for working with nonprofits.”
- Adobe Contributed Font Rasterizer Technology to FreeType Technology Used by iOS, Android, Linux, ChromeOS
“FreeType, an open source library for font rendering, is used either partially or exclusively by Android, Chrome OS, iOS, GNU/Linux and other free Unix operating system derivatives such as FreeBSD and NetBSD. This makes FreeType the font rendering software of choice for more than a billion devices. As a user of FreeType in their products, Google was looking to get the same high-quality text rendering for CFF fonts that their users currently enjoy with TrueType fonts. Google approached Adobe about getting Adobe’s rasterizer technology into FreeType and has been a key financial supporter of this project ever since. And because Google is such a strong supporter of open-sourced technology, all users of FreeType, as well as FreeType developers, will benefit from this contribution.”
- “Type:Rider” Is The Ultimate Video Game About Typography
“AVAILABLE NOW FOR IOS AND ANDROID, TYPE:RIDER–THE “FINAL FONTASY” OF VIDEO GAMES–ENCOURAGES PLAYERS TO LEARN ABOUT TYPE BY EXPLORING A WORLD OF FONTS, MARIO-STYLE.”
- Parallax Scrolling Brings NY Times Article to Life
“The New York Times gives longform journalism a shot in the arm with clever use of parallax scrolling and inspiring illustrations.”
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- 6 Tools That Make Tracking Your Online Reputation Easy
“If you’re spending hours tracking your brand online, you’re wasting your time. These 6 tools can make managing your online reputation a breeze.”
- Read Literary Fiction Before Dates or Meetings for Social Success
“The next time you have to go for a date or an important meeting, try reading some Chekhov or Alice Munro before you head out the door. It’s probably going to make that interaction go off well, says a new study.P
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- Correctly backing up data when moving from HDD to SSD
“Users like SSD drives because they offer speedy, reliable storage that fits comfortably into a PC, Mac, camera or mobile device. With no moving mechanical parts or fragmented storage blocks, SSDs enable quick boot times and improve the perform…
- Colour Pencil Drawings You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photos
“Check out these incredible photorealistic drawings, created with nothing but coloured pencils.”
- Should Illustrators Follow Trends or Set Them?
“Illustrator, author and lecturer Anna Wray ponders the thorny issue of whether creative professionals should be following trends or setting them.”
- Export Illustrator Layers and/or Artboards as PNGs and PDFs, Free Script
“Over the last year or so, I’ve cobbled together a couple Illustrator scripts that export multiple artboards in an Illustrator document as PNG files, and export multiple layers as PNG files. (See my previous blog posts here and here.) I’d been meaning to merge them into one script, but had never quite gotten around to it until Khoi tweeted that he was looking for a script that did just that, but to PDF format.”
- Elemental Photo Manipulations, Part 3: Air by Pariah Burke
“Elemental Photo Manipulations, Part 3: Air “Elemental Photo Manipulations” is a four-part series highlighting tutorials and inspirational amazing artwork combining photography with Photoshop in surreal, mind-bending, and sometimes startling ways. This is the third installment in the series, an all-tutorial installment in which you’ll defy the laws of physics by bending and twisting air, smoke, light, and even gravity itself. Pariah S. Burke “Elemental Photo Manipulations” is a four-part series highlighting tutorials and inspirational amazing artwork combining photography with Photoshop in surreal, mind-bending, and sometimes startling ways. This is the third installment in the series, an all-tutorial installment in which you’ll defy the laws of physics by bending, twisting, and molesting air, smoke, light, and even gravity itself.”
- Organize OS X fonts using Font Book smart collections
“Unlike standard font collections, smart collections will dynamically update based on search criteria.”