The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Easy Color Transitions with Illustrator’s Blend Tool
Since all Illustrator objects are vectors it’s much easier to create dynamic effects from basic shapes. Gradients can be applied onto a single shape or they can be created by blending multiple shapes together.
Tags: Vector Illustrator
- What are Optotypes? About the history of eye charts and their fonts.
My graphic design students love to design posters using the classic eye chart composition, and they frequently ask “What typeface should I use for this?” Not having a definitive answer has always been frustrating, so I decided to investigate to find out what typeface is used on eye charts.
Tags: Typography
- 10 Effective Steps To Make Goal Setting Work For You
Hundreds of people have talked about the importance of goal setting. Thousands or even millions of people know that setting goals can help you achieve moreTags: Entrepreneur Freelance
- Creating Background Video For Web Pages
The intention of this 4‑parts series is to show you how to do it and ensure it plays smoothly. It is simply not enough to put a video a video into a on a web page and expect it to play smoothly everywhere and on every device.Tags: Webdesign
- New to Freelance Writing? 9 Ways to Make Money as a Beginner
So, you want to be a professional writer? No problem.
Seriously: no problem. I’m not going to say that becoming a professional, paid writer is easy – at some point, you’re going to need to sit down and type out a few thousand original words – but it isachievable.
Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
- Team behind Delicious releases Dmail, a Chrome extension to make Gmail messages self-destruct
With Dmail, you can revoke access to any email at any time, and, in a release arriving soon, you’ll be able to stop recipients from forwarding your message to others, too.
Tags: Gmail
- Bringing Down the In-House: 30 Stellar In-House Design Projects
Exceptionally talented, likely overworked, and woefully under-appreciated: Does that sound like an in-house designer to you? – See more at: http://www.howdesign.com/in-house-designer-blog/stellar-in-house-design-projects/#sthash.7aUuDZur.dpufTags: Des…
- The Creativity Diet – What to Eat to Be More Creative (Recipes + Infographic)
There are food types that can help you maintain high energy levels and be more productive & creative. Here are 3 recipes containing beneficial ingredients.
- Some Books Refuse to be Written
– MARK TWAINTags: Writing AmWriting selfpub epub
- How to Get Paid For Doing What You Love
If you want to get paid for doing a job that you absolutely love, then this article is definitely for you. Here’s how to get paid for doing what you love.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
- Guy Kawasaki on Entrepreneurship: focusing your pitch, predicting new markets, capitalizing on social media
Evangelist, author, and speaker Guy Kawasaki shares his thoughts on a variety of topics centered on entrepreneurship, including focusing your pitch and prototypes, predicting new markets, and capitalizing on social media.In this interview-style course…
- An Unofficial Guide To Goodreads For Readers And Writers
I am digital marketer who works in traditional publishing, and I am also a writer. And though I am not self-published, I have two words for those who are: Goodreads STAT.Tags: Writing AmWriting selfpub epub
- These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could Be Worth Billions – Bloomberg Business
Drug companies are exploiting rare mutations that make one person nearly immune to pain, another to broken bones
- Top 10 websites for free, non-cheesy stock photography
There are many times when a creative professional needs a decent picture to complete a project or a bit of content. But many stock photography websites are either too expensive to subscribe to or seem to have too many cheesy images of stuffy character…
- Google, Amazon, Verizon, others to help NASA devise drone air-traffic control system
Google Inc., the company that brought order to the Internet, has set its sights on doing the same for the flocks of commercial drones expected to someday clog the skies.Tags: Drones
- Is The Future Peer-to-Peer Book Content Distribution?
Let’s fast-forward to the day when we’ve all become peer-to-peer content distributors. Rather than relying on centrally-managed and hosted sites and services that handle everything from reviews to downloads, this peer-to-peer model means we’re doing a…
- Is The Future Peer-to-Peer Book Content Distribution?
Let’s fast-forward to the day when we’ve all become peer-to-peer content distributors. Rather than relying on centrally-managed and hosted sites and services that handle everything from reviews to downloads, this peer-to-peer model means we’re doing a…
- Misuse of sexual-harassment policies by pusillanimous college administrators creating campus panic
The misuse of sexual-harassment policies by pusillanimous college administrators is creating a campus panic.Tags: HigherEd Business
- Using Wacom Tablets with Illustrator (49-minute video course by Kevin Stohlmeyer)
If you’re serious about digital illustration, there’s a good chance you use, or want to use, a Wacom tablet. But are you getting the most out of your tools? In this course, Kevin Stohlmeyer shows how to optimize your Wacom tablet for use with Illustra…
- Ways to Organize Your Writing Cabinet [Infographic]
Ways to Organize Your Writing CabinetTags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
- Our Last Stand Against Undemocratic International Agreements That Ratchet up Term Lengths and Devastate the Public Domain
Few arguments around copyright are as self-evidently fact-free as the length of its term. Defying economic reasoning, the astonishingly long period of restrictions has only grown over the years, and frequently the newer, longer terms have been retroactively applied to earlier works. The argument against term extension, and retroactive term extension in particular, is so obvious that the Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman reportedly agreed to sign a Supreme Court brief opposing the most recent extension only on the condition that it used the word “no-brainer.”
- Zeldman: Give me file hierarchies, or give me chaos. Dropbox’s success is in part because of file hierarchies.
Even in an age when the biggest operating systems in the world actively eschew file hierarchies, Dropbox is thriving — its service matters deeply to countless users. Why? In part it’s because the company works hard at making file hierarchies useful, that they focus on the outcomes of file management and not just on the files and folders.
Tags: Dropbox
- 8 Tips for Running a Virtual Meeting Like a Rockstar
Many companies, like us, now have dispersed team members. We love the freedom to hire amazing people regardless of where they live. As a manager, however, how do you run meetings like a rockstar when your entire team is not around the same phys…
- Virtual Meetings Will Erase Face to Face – BusinessWeek
Forget hauling your briefcase on a no-frills airline flight to attend a stuffy convention. Online events are the best, most cost-effective places to exchange information and meet and greet. Pro or con?
- Can Jet.com Take on Amazon and Win? – The New Yorker
Vauhini Vara on Jet.com, which promises to offer the lowest prices on the Internet for millions of products.
- Can Jet.com Take on Amazon and Win? – The New Yorker
Vauhini Vara on Jet.com, which promises to offer the lowest prices on the Internet for millions of products.
- NEW: How to Prioritize Your News Feed in Facebook for iOS
Read our guide to figure out how to sort through the noise and fine-tune your Facebook Feed experience.Tags: Facebook
- THURS – LIVE #AskAdobeCare Twitterchat | Pariah Burke on Fixed-Layout EPUB eBook Creation in InDesign
Chat live with epublishing expert Pariah Burke, author of best-selling books and videos on epublishing with InDesign, about the most exciting, interactive, and visually rich type of ebook–fixed-layout–and how anyone from enterprise to professional, small press to self-publisher, can use InDesign CC 2015 to publish amazing ebooks filled with imagery, animation, video, audio, and much more for children’s, travel, cooking, photography, and other types of books.
- If You Want To Write, You Can
Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Tags: Writing AmWriting selfpub epub
- Can Your Book Pass This Simple Test? [Infographic]