Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 14 August 2014

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

  • 8 Things Every Design Firm Should Know About Running A Business
    You have two exit strate­gies: death and quit­ting. Until then, here’s how to make the most of your business.
  • The 10 Best Social Media SlideShare Presentations of 2014

    So here’re 10 awe­some SlideShare pre­sen­ta­tions, all hav­ing to do with social media. You’ll find strate­gies, big-picture ideas, stats, research, and more. If you’ve got a favorite of yours that didn’t make the list, I’d love to hear about it! Feel free to share in the comments.”

  • John Maeda: Fall in Love with Technology through Great Design [Video]

    His con­clu­sion: “The new eco­nom­ic climb will be pow­ered by great design.”

  • Why Businesses Should Always Have a Model Release

    Any graph­ic mate­ri­als that pro­motes some­thing; whether prod­ucts, a busi­ness­es, or char­i­ta­ble caus­es, and the graph­ics con­tain images of rec­og­niz­able peo­ple, — always have those peo­ple sign a mod­el release. Of course, there are non-commercial uses that may also require a mod­el release, (see When To Use A Model Release) but com­mer­cial uses almost always require a release. One might think that hav­ing mod­els sign releas­es before using their image would be obvi­ous, but far too often usage agree­ments are just hand­shakes, and that is not good. For busi­ness­es, in par­tic­u­lar, releas­es should be stan­dard pro­ce­dure for sev­er­al reasons.

  • Top 7 Things Clients Do that Frustrate Freelancers

    There is no hid­ing the fact that, although there are lots of good clients out there, even the best clients can do things that can trig­ger a free­lancer to lose inter­est in the project, the client and any future work­ing rela­tion­ships with that client. It might be things the clients aren’t even aware of, that they might do out of habit, or when stressed. Regardless of the rea­sons, it can be frus­trat­ing, and from a freelancer’s per­spec­tive, they should not happen.

    In no par­tic­u­lar order, here are 7 things that real­ly can tick off freelancers:

  • Top 7 Things Clients Do that Frustrate Freelancers

    There is no hid­ing the fact that, although there are lots of good clients out there, even the best clients can do things that can trig­ger a free­lancer to lose inter­est in the project, the client and any future work­ing rela­tion­ships with that client. It might be things the clients aren’t even aware of, that they might do out of habit, or when stressed. Regardless of the rea­sons, it can be frus­trat­ing, and from a freelancer’s per­spec­tive, they should not happen.

    In no par­tic­u­lar order, here are 7 things that real­ly can tick off freelancers:

  • Good dis­cus­sion in com­ments – The Benefits of Sketching by Hand

    Allows for flex­i­bil­i­ty: “Because of our brain’s lim­it­ed pro­cess­ing capac­i­ty, exter­nal­iz­ing our ideas on paper makes it eas­i­er to restruc­ture them, trans­form­ing the ini­tial struc­ture into a new one.”

  • How to Respond to a Getty Images Demand Letter #IP #copy­right #iptroll

    Getty Images has cre­at­ed an entire busi­ness around send­ing let­ters to sus­pect­ed copy­right infringers and demand­ing exor­bi­tant pay­ments in return for not being dues. Getty’s heavy-handed approach has been the top­ic of angry con­ver­sa­tions through­out the blo­gos­phere, claim­ing they are noth­ing more than extor­tion. By pray­ing upon those with­out legal knowl­edge, the com­pa­ny scares peo­ple into pay­ing exor­bi­tant fees far beyond what is required. Unfortunately, the major­i­ty of peo­ple don’t know how to respond, so they com­ply with the demand.

  • iPad Usage: Where Did All My Storage Space Go?
    The iPad is capa­ble of telling you where all your space has gone through the iPad usage in the set­tings. This screen will break down your stor­age prob­lems by list­ing all the apps on your iPad, start­ing with those that are tak­ing up the most spa…
  • 18 Rules For Using Text
    Here are 18 rules for using text in any doc­u­ment. And you shall nev­er break any of them. If your doc­u­ment con­tains text, adhere to these rules.