Design Business Links 19 February 2014

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

  • 6 secrets of cre­at­ing the best respon­sive content
    “In the RWD era, says Erik Boman, con­tent strat­e­gy mat­ters more than ever. Sites that work for every­one require deep thought about images and text.

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  • Startup Memories — The Beginning of Photoshop [Video]
    “In this doc­u­men­tary, the founders of Adobe Photoshop – John Knoll, Thomas Knoll, Russell Brown, and Steve Guttman – tell the sto­ry of how an amaz­ing coin­ci­dence of cir­cum­stances, that came togeth­er at just the right time 20 years ago, spawned …
  • 3D print­ed typog­ra­phy is an ani­mat­ed delight
    “Find out how typog­ra­ph­er Ben Johnston and 3D print­er Mark Simmons cre­at­ed this incred­i­ble piece of design.

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  • Adventures in Pro Video Editing, and Why Adobe takes a Bite out of Apple. | Doug Luberts (.com)Adventures in Editing, and Why Adobe takes a Bite out of Apple. » Doug Luberts (.com)
    “The main con­tenders were Avid Media Composer 7, Final Pro Cut 7, Final Cut X (10.1), and Adobe Première CC. A few words on each:”
  • Wonderful Optical Illusions Of 3D Typography Popping Off The Page

    “Skilfully manip­u­lat­ing the viewer’s per­spec­tive, he cre­ates typo­graph­ic illus­tra­tions that appear to cut into and pop up from the paper on which they are drawn.
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  • Discover the secrets of dig­i­tal­ly sculpt­ing faces
    “Titouan Olive uses ZBrush to take you through the key stages of cre­at­ing char­ac­ters with accu­rate mus­cle and bone structures.”
  • 10 Expert Tips for Designing Packaging in Adobe Illustrator
    “We reveal 10 expert tips for improv­ing your pack­ag­ing design skills – from using fea­tures in Illustrator to the best plug-ins you can buy to improve your workflow.

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  • 10 stand­out free fonts for head­lines and titles
    “Get the right font for your head­lines and titles with this list of bril­liant free fonts.

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  • Essential UI Design Tools & Resources For Web Designers
    “Looking for some must to have type UI design tools and resources? Well, if your answer is yes then look no fur­ther. Here, we are pre­sent­ing a fan­tas­tic col­lec­tion of some most essen­tial and must to have User Interface (UI) design tools for the…
  • Amazing Typography: Take It On SVA Posters by Sagmeister & Walsh

    ” “Take it On” posters for the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. We looked around our stu­dio and real­ized that the Sagmeister & Walsh team is root­ed in the SVA com­mu­ni­ty. Stefan teach­es at the MFA Design depart­ment, Jessica teach­es at the BFA Design depart­ment, and Santiago was a stu­dent at the BFA Design depart­ment. We embraced the max­im by lit­er­al­ly tak­ing on the typog­ra­phy on our faces. We worked with renowned pho­tog­ra­ph­er Henry Leutwyler and cre­ative retouch­er Erik Johansson to achieve this poster series which is now dis­played through­out the NYC sub­way stations. ”

  • The Complete Guide to Making Animated GIFs
    “Animated GIFs are some­thing of an inter­net art form, shared by all. Yet, they are cre­at­ed by a com­par­a­tive­ly small slice of the inter­net. There’s no rea­son you can’t join in the fun, though. From begin­ners to advanced tools, we’ve got the ulti…
  • How Can I Fall Asleep Faster?

    “The lat­est sleep research has revealed a good night’s rest is more impor­tant than we ever thought. Sleep does­n’t just rein­force mem­o­ries and make you feel alert the next day—it flush­es dan­ger­ous pro­teins from your brain, main­tain­ing your men­tal health into old age. So how to fall asleep fast and get the best rest pos­si­ble? The experts at Stack Exchange chime in.
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  • 10 Tips for Using Evernote Effectively

    “Evernote is a tool for keep­ing track of, well, every­thing. At least every­thing as far as dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion goes, or infor­ma­tion that can be dig­i­tized. Evernote com­pris­es a Web-based ser­vice and clients for Windows, Mac OS X, mobile devices, and exten­sions for Web browsers. It’s a ser­vice I’ve been using for years, and over that time I’ve picked…
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  • Print This Four-Week Calendar to Use Seinfeld’s Productivity Plan
    “Maxium Barrault want­ed to imple­ment Jerry Seinfeld’s pro­duc­tiv­i­ty secret of form­ing a chain by cross­ing off the cal­en­dar every day, but apps like Habit Streak Plan weren’t doing it for him. Barrault had mul­ti­ple habits he want­ed to form. So he…

Curated by Pariah Burke