Design Business Links 22 April 2014

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

  • The Best Apps for Any Kind of Writing
    “Writing is a very per­son­al prac­tice, and as a result you have a mil­lion writing-focused apps to choose from. From distraction-free apps that take up your whole screen to feature-packed main­stays like Microsoft Word, we’ve put togeth­er a guide …
  • Before and After Special Effects Photos Show It Isn’t Very Hard to Shoot Your Own Movie

    This is how Hollywood works. If you can use spe­cial effects, then you can shoot you movie even in your back­yard. Let’s take a look at these pic­tures before and after spe­cial effects.

  • How To Motivate People – 4 Steps Backed By Science

    Employees, spous­es, kids — what does it take to get peo­ple moti­vat­ed so you don’t have to nag them?”

  • Pick a Color and Search Images That Include that Color – Multicolr Search Lab
    “We extract­ed the col­ors from 10 mil­lion Creative Commons images on Flickr. Search this col­lec­tion by col­or. Addictive and very like­ly the best col­or search engine in the world*!”
  • Color, Value & the Evolution of Logos

    It turns out, our emo­tions are results of the pre­cise sci­ence of effec­tive logo design. In fact, psy­chol­o­gists proved that famous logos are so wired into our brains, that at the age of two, kids can already link a prod­uct with its logo in 67% of cas­es. Is there any doubt about their val­ue to your brand?

  • The 10 HTML Codes You Need to Know for Writing on the Web

    The com­put­er key­board cre­ates “dumb” punc­tu­a­tion marks that may not be accept­able in print­ed work but are com­mon on web pages. It out­puts straight quo­ta­tion marks (“) while your writ­ing may require curly quotes. You can only type hyphens using the key­board while an em or en dash may have made your text look more ele­gant and professional”

  • Want to Fail? Ignore Survivorship Bias.
    “Survivorship bias is often hid­den in plain sight, but rec­og­niz­ing the bias when it exists could be the dif­fer­ence between build­ing wealth over the long term and going broke. If a log­i­cal argu­ment neglects to rec­og­nize that fail­ure is a possibl…
  • Dropbox Buys Loom For Photo Sharing, HackPad For Collaboration
    “The file shar­ing giant has acquired Loom, a pho­to shar­ing app that offered mobile users up to five giga­bytes of free stor­age. Loom announced the deal on its com­pa­ny blog.”
  • Making It’, A Documentary About Surviving As An Illustrator
    Making It is an upcom­ing doc­u­men­tary film by direc­tor Anthony Francis Moorman and art direc­tor Woodrow Hinton that explores what it takes to make a liv­ing as artist. The film focus­es pri­mar­i­ly on a trio of illus­tra­tors, Andrew Bawidamann, Eric …
  • 14 Mac Hacks That Will Change The Way You Use Your Computer
    These life-changing short­cuts are RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.