Creative Community Bulletin 30 September 2013

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

  • DIY Address Labels WITH PICTURES in Microsoft Word – a Graphic Howto

    “DIY Address labels in Microsoft Word is a PICTORIAL (a graph­ic how­to) cre­at­ed by Pariah Burke of iamPariah​.com The pic­to­r­i­al goes into detail about where to find tem­plates in MS Word, how to use the label tem­plates, insert­ing images and much more. Read the com­plete Graphic Howto on our Pinterest Board or down­load the PDF here.”

  • Dynamic Duos: The Role Of Design At Pinterest

    BY PUTTING VISUALS FIRST, THE SOCIAL SCRAPBOOKING SITE HAS REDEFINED THE INTERNET EXPERIENCE IN A WAY THAT IS BOTH ADDICTIVE—AND WIDELY COPIED.

  • The Future, According To Evernote’s CEO, Is Not Paperless
    “We declared a cease­fire between pen and dig­i­tal,” Libin said at the Evernote Conference in San Francisco. “We want to elim­i­nate the stu­pid uses of paper, but we want to embrace the good uses.”
  • Adobe: “We want this device to define a generation”
    Adobe’s vice-president of expe­ri­ence design, Michael Gough, explains the think­ing behind its new dig­i­tal pen and dig­i­tal ruler – and how this is only just the start of Adobe’s hard­ware ambitions.
  • Kickstarting: Smarter Icons That Live Like Software

    And that’s a real shame because an hour spent real­ly nail­ing a mon­ey con­ver­sa­tion can pay div­i­dends that are orders of mag­ni­tude larg­er than fid­dling with any­thing else less uncomfortable.

  • Yahoo! Too Chicken to Change their Logo

    “They call them­selves a multi-billion dol­lar com­pa­ny and yet they don’t have the guts to fol­low through with a bold logo redesign. After 18 long years of the same tired logo, peo­ple antic­i­pat­ed some­thing huge and dra­mat­ic from Yahoo. Instead, they wit­nessed a fruit­less process, which result­ed in one of the world’s lamest logos.”

  • Mirror Paintings (Photographs)

    “Beautiful land­scapes reflect­ed in strate­gi­cal­ly placed mir­rors look like pho­to real­is­tic art­works paint­ed on canvas.

    Large mir­ror on painter’s easel was pho­tographed in the desert near the Joshua Tree National Park in California.”

  • 44 Useful Free Photoshop Files For Designers
    “Here we have put togeth­er a beau­ti­ful and use­ful col­lec­tion of some extreme­ly help­ful free PSD files that we have seen in 2013. PSD files are great resource for every design­er. This is the rea­son why design­er com­mu­ni­ty con­stant­ly releas­es new …
  • How Apple And Microsoft Agree On The Future Of Design
    With so much atten­tion paid to Apple’s new mobile soft­ware, iOS 7, it’s worth not­ing the extent to which Microsoft spear­head­ed flat design. The refresh­ing UI of Windows 8 and Windows Phone sparked a debate around the pros and cons of skeuomorph…
  • How to switch back to Chrome’s old ‘New Tab’ page

    “A Chrome soft­ware engi­neer explained the rea­son­ing back at the start of the “New Tab” redesign process:

    While you can search straight from the [address bar] in Chrome, we’ve found that many peo­ple still nav­i­gate to their search engine’s home page to ini­ti­ate a search instead. The goal is to save peo­ple time by help­ing them search and nav­i­gate the Web faster.

    That’s great for grand­ma, but for those of us who use Chrome all the time and know our way around the brows­er, it’s a frus­trat­ing change.”

  • Twitter Will Now Alert Users When Disaster Strikes
    THE SERVICE IS THE RESULT OF A TIE-UP BETWEEN THE SOCIAL MEDIA SITE AND SEVERAL OF THE WORLD’S HIGH-PROFILE AGENCIES, INCLUDING THE WHO AND FEMA.
  • This $35,000 Set-Top Box Grants You Access To “The Bel Air Circuit”
    This $35,000 Set-Top Box Grants You Access To “The Bel Air Circuit”
  • Be Smart. Don’t Use Dumb Quote Marks
    If you ever see a typog­ra­phy lover, smeared with blood, bel­low­ing while hold­ing a steam­ing human heart above his head, the point of con­tention was very prob­a­bly the use of smart quotes ver­sus dumb quotes. Now a fan­tas­tic new site–part Internet…
  • Why Most Companies Fail At Content Marketing

    “Like exer­cise, if you want to see results, you have to put in the work. You know it’s impor­tant, and you don’t doubt it’ll pro­duce results at some point or oth­er. But most peo­ple quit after just a few short weeks.

    Those com­pa­nies that stick to a plan and con­tin­ue to devel­op great, use­ful con­tent con­sis­tent­ly … well, they’ve built a thriv­ing business.”

  • New iPad Presentation App to Rival PowerPoint?

    “Share what’s impor­tant to you with­out being in the room.
    Create a clear, engag­ing, stun­ning video. Effortlessly.”

Curated by Pariah Burke