Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 12 August 2014

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

  • 6 Ways Brands Can Amplify their Marketing with Flipboard Magazines

    Fast for­ward to 2013 and the num­bers show that Flipboard now has 85+ mil­lion users!

    Why you should be on it? Our age of infor­ma­tion dig­i­tal­ly is con­stant­ly evolv­ing and with Flipboard’s strength you will be able to bring your social net­works such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn into one loca­tion. This can sit along­side your favorite news sources and any­thing else you want your cus­tomers to read, or watch (like YouTube videos). This is your own per­son­al­ized ver­sion of the web in a mag­a­zine format.

  • Free Old Wood Frames for Photoshop

    There are total of 12 old wood frames in this pack­age. Dimensions of all frames are 2400x2400px with res­o­lu­tion 300 ppi. Open PSD tem­plate in Photoshop and replace con­tent of your_image Smart Object lay­er. You can use Layer Comps (Window > Layer Comps) to quick pre­view all avail­able frames. In Photoshop Elements go to File > Place and place your image above your_image lay­er which you can delete.

  • Designer Rebrands Samsung’s Logo To Make It As Iconic As Apple’s
    A Dutch design­er imag­ines a bet­ter way to brand the Korean giant.
  • Want to Be Happier and More Productive at Work? Consider These Factors

    In the fas­ci­nat­ing book First, Break All the Rules, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, the authors dis­cuss their work to describe, among oth­er things, the qual­i­ties of the best work­places, the kinds that attract and retain the most pro­duc­tive employees.

    They devised twelve ques­tions. If employ­ees answered “yes” and were hap­pi­er in their work­places, they also tend­ed to work in busi­ness units with high­er lev­els of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, prof­it, reten­tion, and cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion. This shows a link between how employ­ees feel and how they perform.

  • 5 Scientifically Backed Ways to Seem More Powerful

    Mail clerk? Administrative assis­tant? Make the hon­chos look at you in a whole new light. Here’s how social sci­en­tists say you can make peo­ple think you’re more powerful.

  • Quotes from 17 Famous Graphic Designers

    If you’re look­ing for cre­ative inspi­ra­tion, then take a look at the work and philoso­phies of famous design­ers — they’re tal­ent­ed, wise and icon­ic for a rea­son! Here are 17 great quotes by the top graph­ic design­ers of our time

  • Adobe Illustrator tuto­r­i­al: Master dynam­ic gra­di­ent techniques
    Many works that look com­pli­cat­ed are real­ly made from sim­ple ele­ments. In this tuto­r­i­al, Russian artist Alexandra Zutto shows how to build up com­plex, beau­ti­ful images by patient­ly lay­er­ing and build­ing up small, straight­for­ward seg­ments, alway…
  • 5 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Consider When Starting a Service Business

    When you’re in the ser­vice business,success or fail­ure is often dic­tat­ed by the cus­tomer per­cep­tion of your busi­ness, and the qual­i­ty of oper­a­tional con­trols you have in place.

  • Amazon Asks Authors to Demand All eBooks Sell for $9.99 or Less

    As com­pelling as Amazon’s let­ter was, I’ll have to dis­agree: price-fixing, sell­ing all ebooks regard­less of length, sub­ject, or audi­ence at below $10 is not the best thing since the inven­tion of the paperback.

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