Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 11 June 2014

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

  • 5 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes
    Every good design­er needs their own col­lec­tion of trusty Photoshop brush­es. These are a invalu­able tool to pro­duce fine works with­out los­ing pre­cious time repro­duc­ing each part of the project.
  • The Easiest Way to Figure Out the Perfect Desk & Office Chair Height
    So we all sit too much. That’s not just some rhetoric about our mod­ern work­ing world. No, this is a fact that is def­i­nite­ly backed by sci­ence. If we’re all sit­ting so much, we should be putting more thought into HOW we’re sit­ting and yet, so m…
  • Advanced Gmail Filters to Manage Your Email Messages

    Gmail fil­ters help you auto­mat­i­cal­ly sort email mes­sages based on rules. So if your boss has sent an email mes­sage, the fil­ter can mark it as impor­tant. If the email has the word “Unsubscribe” some­where in the mes­sage body, it can be marked as a pro­mo­tion­al mes­sage and so on.

  • The Best Time of Day to Do Just About Anything
    From avoid­ing crowds to tak­ing advan­tage of your body’s nat­ur­al rhythms, there’s a best time of day to do just about any­thing. Here’s a list of some of the best.
  • Northern White-faced Owl Sits on Illustrator’s Hand While He Uses a Wacom Tablet 

    Apropos of noth­ing, here’s a quick video of a Japanese illus­tra­tor who goes by the name Satsuma, work­ing with a Northern white-faced owl perched on his hand. The clip is humourous in and of itself, but it’s espe­cial­ly fas­ci­nat­ing to see the sta­bi­liza­tion of the bird’s head and eyes while he works. Strangely mes­mer­iz­ing. (via Tastefully Offensive)

  • 4 Months Later, Prediction of ‘New Internet Domain Extension Landrush’ is Laughable

    The Sunrise and Landrush peri­ods are the only times you’ll ever be able to pur­chase a domain direct­ly from reg­istries, the orga­ni­za­tions that man­age domains and make sure they direct users to the cor­rect web­sites when typed or clicked in a brows­er. After Sunrise and Landrush comes gen­er­al availability—the time when any­one can buy a domain from a reg­is­trar, com­pa­nies such as GoDaddy or 1&1.

  • 70 New High Quality Free Fonts For Professional Designers

    Below you’ll find a Fresh Collection of High-Quality Free Fonts by which you can save mon­ey and focus on mak­ing great applications.

  • Get more clients through social with this small but vital change
    I learned that the hard way while work­ing for a com­pa­ny that was try­ing to build a bet­ter social media pres­ence and following.

    We were strug­gling with hard­ly any engage­ment on any of our social net­works. Everything we post­ed was met with deaf …

  • How to Make Sure Facebook Doesn’t Filter Out Page and Friend Updates
    Facebook does­n’t auto­mat­i­cal­ly show you all the con­tent shared by your liked pages or even friends, and recent­ly Facebook page own­ers have been expe­ri­enc­ing extreme declines in audi­ence reach. If there are pages or friends you always want to se…
  • Has Your Online Security Been Breached? 6 Signs That Say It Has

    A breach in your secu­ri­ty usu­al­ly doesn’t stay secret for long, how­ev­er. Someone who has your account cre­den­tials for one or more web­sites has prob­a­bly tak­en them with a pur­pose in mind, and their actions will leave a trace. Here are the most com­mon warn­ing signs.