Creative Community Bulletin 8 November 2013

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

  • How To Create More Profitable Websites

    If this is your mind­set, you’re leav­ing mon­ey on the table. I’ve learned
    that results (not design) make the biggest dif­fer­ence between the web
    design­ers who earn a lot and those who don’t.

    In oth­er words, you should be mak­ing web­sites that make your clients
    more mon­ey. By think­ing like a busi­ness own­er, you’ll be able to charge
    a much high­er hourly rate. This mind­set starts by view­ing your
    web­sites as more than just a pret­ty face.”

  • How to Screw with Car Salesmen (and Get a Better Deal)
    “Not every car sales­man is out to get you, but they have that rep­u­ta­tion for a rea­son. Many will try to sell you more expen­sive pack­ages you don’t want, trick you into pay­ing more than they adver­tise, and lie to get what they want. You can sit …
  • The Kleenex Connection: 5 Mental Tricks To Jumpstart Creativity While Waiting In Line
    “BREATHE, LOOK AROUND, EAVESDROP. YOUR NEXT BIG BREAKTHROUGH COULD BE ONE OBSERVATION AWAY.
  • Apple font “beau­ti­ful as type­face, total­ly sucks as an inter­face” — insights from a famous designer

    Noted design­er Erik Spiekermann has called Apple’s type­face choice a “youth­ful fol­ly.” Speaking at Gigaom’s Roadmap, he explained what he meant and offered oth­er insights into how he sees the world of design.”

  • Multi-Resolution Images With srcset
    “What if the brows­er had a way of know­ing which images to load with­out fetch­ing any unused resources? We can already achieve some­thing sim­i­lar with CSS using a com­bi­na­tion of media queries for pix­el den­si­ty or res­o­lu­tion to dis­play hi-res backg…
  • The easy guide to design move­ments: Modernism
    “The Modernist school has had a huge influ­ence on the his­to­ry of design – and con­tin­ues to do so today. Aaron Kitney explains why.

  • Start Something: The Power of Side Projects
    “Would you take your side projects more seri­ous­ly if you found out some­one would pay you tens of thou­sands for it?

  • Entrepreneurs, It’s the “Age of Context”. Make Your Fortune By Removing Friction
    “As entre­pre­neurs, we strug­gle to come up with inno­v­a­tive ideas that change the world. But you can build a bil­lion dol­lar com­pa­ny by sim­ply remov­ing friction.

  • Why Work Loneliness Isn’t a Personal Problem (And How to Conquer It)

    Loneliness seems like such an intense­ly per­son­al, pri­vate prob­lem, but it’s much more than that. At work, lone­li­ness is yet anoth­er effect of the inad­e­quate atten­tion paid to the human side of get­ting stuff done togeth­er. Whether it’s the iner­tia of inter­act­ing with the same peo­ple every day in a way that’s unique from all your oth­er rela­tion­ships, there’s a pre­vail­ing sense that work is this realm where you just deal—that it’s not some­thing you can improve. P

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  • Understanding the Affordable Care Act
    “On Thursday, November 7th, OPEN Forum will live stream an inter­ac­tive dis­cus­sion by a pan­el of con­sul­tants, well-versed in health­care pol­i­cy. Our pan­elists will break down the Affordable Care Act and the health insur­ance exchange marketplace, …
  • Nested Symbols in Edge Animate by Tom Green [4 Min Video]
    ou can cre­ate sym­bols, place them in oth­er sym­bols and even con­trol their play­back in the Animate time­line. Here’s how.
  • 8 Cues Creative Agencies Should Take From Musicals

    But a deep­er look reveals that the two actu­al­ly share a com­mon cur­ren­cy – per­sua­sion – and it turns out there’s quite a lot of trans­fer­able wis­dom beneath those flash­ing lights. Here are eight lessons lift­ed from Broadway that can also dri­ve cre­ative suc­cess in advertising:

  • Katy Perry Album ‘Prism’ A ‘Biosecurity Concern’ In Australia Because It Includes Plantable Seed Paper

    The 29-year-old singer, who has been encour­ag­ing her fans on Twitter to enjoy the col­ors of her album, includ­ed seed paper in the deluxe album with the hope that fans would plant the paper and “spread the light.” Seed paper is a hand­made paper con­tain­ing plant seeds that can grow when the paper is plant­ed. While the pur­pose is tame enough, offi­cials Down Under are con­cerned that copies bought over­seas may con­tain plant seeds for­eign to Australia, there­by pre­sent­ing an inter­na­tion­al secu­ri­ty issue. Albums bought in Australia con­tain Swan River daisy seeds, which are not con­sid­ered a biose­cu­ri­ty concern.”

  • Your Google+ Pictures Will Pop Up With Caller ID on Android
    “If you have a pro­file pic­ture attached your Google+ account, Android 4.4 KitKat smart­phone users will soon see it pop up with caller ID when you’re calling.

    This is a step toward more eas­i­ly iden­ti­fy­ing a caller, from busi­ness­es to co-workers…

  • How Flat Design Is Preparing iOS For The Gadgets Of Tomorrow
    “IOS 7’S NEW LOOK ISN’T JUST A FRESH COAT OF PAINT. IT’S A POWERFUL DESIGN LANGUAGE THAT CAN BE EXTENDED TO THE IWATCH, ITV, AND ICAR OF THE FUTURE.