Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 20 May 2014

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  • Amazing Photo-Realistic, Pencil-Perfect Drawings

    Don’t tell me you can tell the image below is a draw­ing and not a high-definition pho­to­graph, because I don’t buy it. In fact peo­ple were so skep­ti­cal this incred­i­ble piece of art was drawn by hand that young Diego Fazo had to put up some pho­tos of the work in progress just to lay doubts to rest. And look­ing at his-mind-blowing mas­ter­piece, can you real­ly blame peo­ple for ques­tion­ing it’s hand-drawn?

  • Why Photograph in Black & White? Commentary by Robert Bruce Duncan
    Why black and white, when col­ors are so bril­liant and images so eas­i­ly seduc­tive? When dig­i­tal manip­u­la­tion has become the norm, and flash has ulti­mate­ly dimin­ished the appre­ci­a­tion of the exquis­ite, yet per­haps too sub­tle, tonal range of ambi…
  • 5 Cool Mobile Apps No Entrepreneur Should Be Without

    Often, when you are a small start­up it is easy to get lost under a series of never-ending to do lists and paper­work. These time con­sum­ing tasks can make it hard for any entre­pre­neur to stay orga­nized. So, in an effort to make your busi­ness life much eas­i­er, here’s a look at five cre­ative and smart mobile apps that your smart­phone or tablet shouldn’t be without.

  • 30 Examples of Old Photo Restoration and Coloring Inspiration
    Dirt, scratch­es, and oth­er signs of pho­to­graph­ic age are removed from the pho­to­graph man­u­al­ly, by paint­ing over them metic­u­lous­ly. Unwanted col­or casts are removed and the image’s con­trast or sharp­en­ing may be altered in an attempt to restore s…
  • Writers and Self-Publishers Building Audience With Bundles

    For those that don’t know Phoenix, she’s a self-published author who also runs her own pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny – Steel Magnolia Press – togeth­er with romance author Jennifer Blake. In the last 18 months, Phoenix has also been exper­i­ment­ing with box sets and, as you will see below, the results have been astounding.”

  • How Hypocrites Become Our Heroes

    Knowledge Bombs You’ll Pick Up In This Episode:

    What it real­ly means if you’re labeled a hyp­ocrite (and how it can be a good thing if you are)
    How to find the hypocrisy in your own heroes
    And the hid­den insight your heroes are using to strength­en their integrity.

  • 3‑D Printing and the Future of Business

    The oppor­tu­ni­ties for small busi­ness­es to ben­e­fit from 3‑D print­ing are great, and it’s still ear­ly enough to rec­og­nize this emerg­ing trend and seize an advan­tage. One oppor­tu­ni­ty for the entre­pre­neur is to set up a busi­ness man­u­fac­tur­ing some par­tic­u­lar niche prod­uct. You have the design at the ready, with some pro­duced 3‑D pro­to­types. From there, it’s a mat­ter of plac­ing orders with var­i­ous com­pa­nies that are there to do the print­ing for you. In this sce­nario, you have no inven­to­ry, and you don’t even have to go out and buy a 3‑D printer.

  • 7 Signs You’re an Entrepreneur at Heart

    Entrepreneurs at heart cer­tain­ly are a breed apart. They’re ener­getic, charis­mat­ic, stub­born and per­sis­tent. If you tell an Entrepreneur that the sky’s the lim­it, they’ll tell you there’s a whole uni­verse out there.

    Entrepreneurs do how­ev­er, pos­sess some com­mon per­son­al­i­ty traits. These skills and traits can be devel­oped over years, but a true entre­pre­neur at heart is born with these qualities.

  • 25 Websites Designed with a Limited Color Palette

    Sometimes the best designs only make use of a select num­ber of colours, pro­vid­ing con­sis­ten­cy through­out the whole page. Today’s web design roundup show­cas­es 25 well designed web­sites that are all cre­at­ed with a lim­it­ed colour palette, these sites use just 3–4 colours through­out the whole design, reusing the same swatch­es from the colour scheme for back­grounds, text, and titles.”