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- Designing for iOS 7: Guide to Getting Started
“And if you already have an app running on the platform, chances are that you designed with the new iOS in mind but are thinking about going back and making a few necessary tweaks.
Either way, you want to design for the new interface so that y…
- 11 Reasons Why You Should Drink Coffee Every Day
“There really can’t be any adult in this great big world that has never tried coffee. It’s consumed everywhere, and judging by the amount of Starbucks locations in the United States alone, (in 2012, there were 10,924!) we love our caffeine.
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… - Open Letter to AIGA: Status Quo or Transformation? A False Choice
“Recently, AIGA sent members a slick brochure titled “Stimulating thinking about design. Giving designers voice.” It described AIGA’s mission and goals, strategies, and opportunities. It also posed a choice between either a “status quo” option …
- How to Create Interactive InDesign Forms and Buttons in InDesign
“Before InDesign CS6, if you wanted to add a form to a document you had to do design the look of your form in InDesign and then add the functionality in Acrobat. For the best results you had to create very simple boxes otherwise Acrobat wouldn’…
- Apple’s Backwards Business Model Upends Everything We Know
“Legions of management consultants will tell you this shouldn’t work. But it has worked like crazy so far. And if Apple’s latest twist on it succeeds, the big question is how its competitors — software companies, for the most part — will strike back.
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- Art View Improves Quick Look icons, thumbnails, previews for Creative Cloud and Creative Suite users
“Art View is a major time saver that allows graphic designers to preview, inspect, and reveal dependent font and image files from within Apple’s Quick Look preview feature.
” - 6 Career Tips from a Creative Manager
“Embarking upon your design career can be fairly daunting. So how should you go about it? Well who better to ask for advice than an actual creative manager; in this case George Burton from boohoo.com.
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- Designers, Crafter, Bloggers: Get 100 Free Labels from Worldlabel.com
“This offer is ONLY valid for Crafters, Bloggers and Designers with websites, Etsy stores or blogs ESTABLISHED more than 6 months ago. Proof of such will be requested. This offer is subject to notice and cancellation at anytime.”
- Typography for the Aging Eye
“Here are some guidelines for setting typography targeted towards the aging eye and those with some degree of visual impairment. NOTE: If designing for readers with more specific visual impairments or limitations, be sure to do your research as they might call for a different approach to maximize legibility and readability.
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- 10 Strategies to Help Your Content Go Viral
“When content goes viral, it can get upwards of a million views. That’s a lot of people looking at one piece of media. You might believe that nothing is done out of the ordinary, and that it’s random what content goes viral. However, that isn’t the case.
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- Making a Mask From Transparency in a Layer in Photoshop
To create a mask on a layer based on the transparency of another layer, in the Layers panel, select the layer that you want the mask to be added to. Then…
- The Dribbblification of Startup Names
“Flickr is the first big company I can remember with funky spelling. But they were just the tip of the iceberg. Countless startups have joined them in this trend. There are a few variations of the funky spelling startup name:
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- 50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials for Experts and Beginners
“Here is 50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials You Need to Learn. Most of these tutorials are for advance users but some of them are for beginners and intermediate.
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- These Pedestrian Maps Are a Feat of Design, Data and Diligence
“Within a week of moving to New York City, you gain a grasp of “the grid” — streets run east-west, avenues run north-south, and everything follows a pretty simple numerical system. That is, until you get below Houston or pop into another borough. New York is known as a walkable city, but many of the walkers quickly lose their bearings in its concrete jungle. In fact, 10% of New Yorkers are lost at any given time.
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- 13 Creepy Halloween Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials
“As you might have noticed we are in the Autumn spirit here at Design Reviver, over the next two weeks we will be sharing design tips that are particularly focused on the current season. On Monday we shared with you 30 Amazing Autumn and Fall wallpapers, today we are going to share with you 13 Creepy Halloween tutorials for creating amazing images in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Check back next week when we post more Halloween themed articles.”
- InRealLife – a Documentary About Your Connected Life
“The unintended consequences of our digital convenience is only starting to be understood decades after we blindly welcomed the machines into our lives. InRealLife is a documentary that delves deeper into that rabbit hole.”