Creative Community Bulletin 25 October 2013

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

  • 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.


  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”