Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 1 December 2015

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

  • Star Wars Vector Art Exhibit of Orlando Arocena

    In advance of a major Star Wars–themed art exhib­it, at the Hero Festival in Marseille, France (November 7 and 8, with a sec­ond show­ing December 3 through 15), Orlando shared some of his pop­u­lar Star Wars trib­ute images with us, as well as giv­ing us a first look at some new Star Wars work.

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  • 10 Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs
    Typography is more than just pick­ing a font and a point size from some drop-down menus on your computer.Tags: Typography fonts design
  • 20 Gifts for Graphic Designers

    It’s that time again! Food and fam­i­ly and find­ing the per­fect presents. Whether you’re try­ing to win the heart of a graph­ic design­er in your life, or just brows­ing the web for gifts to give your­self, we’ve got you cov­ered. *Drumroll* It’s HOW’s list of Gifts for Graphic Designers: 2015 edi­tion. We’ve col­lect­ed just a few of our favorite design-related gifts for this year so you can avoid long lines at the ever-dreaded shop­ping mall.

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  • Investing in Design and Why Design Matters More Than Ever to the Enterprise

    Most peo­ple respond instant­ly and uncon­scious­ly to designs they like, so orga­ni­za­tions can’t escape the impor­tance of the role of design. It doesn’t mat­ter if we’re talk­ing about mar­ket­ing for things we use every day or influ­enc­ing people’s deci­sion about where they will spend their well-deserved vacation.

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  • 100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals
    Photography as both a pro­fes­sion and a hob­by is an incred­i­bly expan­sive top­ic that cov­ers a remark­ably vast range of sub­jects from sci­ence and art. No mat­ter where you lie on the pro­fes­sion­al spec­trum, there is sim­ply always more to learn. We spent co…