Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 3 August 2015

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

  • August 2nd is National Coloring Book Day : down­load some­thing for every­one to relax, col­or and enjoy
    Here we are in the heat of the sum­mer, and August 2nd is National Coloring Day! No mat­ter where you are or what you’re doing, it’s a refresh­ing treat to dig into those crayons, col­ored pen­cils, mark­ers or your favorite media and do some art. When you …
  • Pinterest hires for­mer Apple design­er Susan Kare

    As part of the orig­i­nal Macintosh team back in the 80s, Susan Kare cre­at­ed some of Apple’s ear­li­est type­faces and icons, but now the famous design­er is ready to bring her icon­ic skills to Pinterest, as the company’s newest design lead.

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  • 75 Secrets of Success from the World’s Most Successful People
    These prin­ci­ples of very suc­cess­ful busi­ness lead­ers have enabled them to achieve their high­est career goals. Implement these into your life and you will see an improve­ment in your career.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
  • The Easiest Languages for Native English Speakers to Learn
    Depending on your cir­cum­stances, some lan­guages can be hard­er to grasp than oth­ers. If English is your first lan­guage, these lan­guages are wide­ly con­sid­ered to be the eas­i­est to learn how to speak, read, and write.
  • The Easiest Languages for Native English Speakers to Learn
    Depending on your cir­cum­stances, some lan­guages can be hard­er to grasp than oth­ers. If English is your first lan­guage, these lan­guages are wide­ly con­sid­ered to be the eas­i­est to learn how to speak, read, and write.
  • Boston’s WTF/LOL Problem
    It’s not just the Olympics that the city can’t retain, it’s peo­ple too. Young peo­ple in par­tic­u­lar want to be where the action is, and they per­ceive that the action is not here (they’re most­ly right). Look at Aileen Lee’s lat­est update to her uni­corn list, and you will quick­ly grasp why every grad­u­at­ing col­lege stu­dent in the Boston region is try­ing to vacate the premis­es like Paul Revere scream­ing “the Brits are” …. dammit his­to­ry, get out of here!

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  • Fair Use in Blogging: Can Bloggers Use Copyrighted Images?

    Bloggers should fol­low the fair use doc­trine in order to avoid infringe­ment issues on copy­right­ed images.

    With an abun­dance of pho­tos avail­able on the inter­net, the urge to sim­ply Google a pho­to and use it on your web­site is hard to resist. And while it may seem like everyone’s doing it, that doesn’t make it okay: Those are copy­right­ed images, and the own­er of the copy­right can have sev­er­al dif­fer­ent avenues for recourse in order to be com­pen­sat­ed for your use of the image.

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  • Fair Use in Blogging: Can Bloggers Use Copyrighted Images?

    Bloggers should fol­low the fair use doc­trine in order to avoid infringe­ment issues on copy­right­ed images.

    With an abun­dance of pho­tos avail­able on the inter­net, the urge to sim­ply Google a pho­to and use it on your web­site is hard to resist. And while it may seem like everyone’s doing it, that doesn’t make it okay: Those are copy­right­ed images, and the own­er of the copy­right can have sev­er­al dif­fer­ent avenues for recourse in order to be com­pen­sat­ed for your use of the image.

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  • 15 WordPress Plugins to Supercharge Search Function
    One impor­tant ele­ment of any web­site is the search fea­ture. With this, peo­ple can find for what they’re real­ly look­ing for through your site, instead of justTags: WordPress
  • Angry’ music makes you hap­py say experts
    Music with angry lyrics can help calm lis­ten­ers down and make them feel hap­pi­er, a study has suggested.
  • How to Customize Your Resume to Get the Job

    Here’s the short answer: You use your applic­a­ble skills and rel­e­vant expe­ri­ence to prove it.

    For the full expla­na­tion of how to actu­al­ly do this, read on. 

  • How Fast Fashion Retailers Built Billion-Dollar Businesses by Stealing Designs

    How do fast fash­ion retail­ers steal fash­ion designs with­out being sued for copy­right infringement?


    It’s a busi­ness mod­el that’s been adopt­ed by fast fash­ion retail­ers seek­ing to cap­ture a cer­tain con­sumer at a cer­tain price point: she’s young, fash­ion con­scious, and has dis­pens­able income. Brands like Zara, H&M, and Forever 21 have cor­nered the mar­ket on sell­ing bil­lions of dol­lars worth of copy­cat designs, but what are the legal ram­i­fi­ca­tions for these com­pa­nies? How are they get­ting away with it?

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  • Check out the new book Type Porn by Nigel French & Alex Hoggarth
    A col­lec­tion of the ubiq­ui­tous, yet often unseen, signs and let­ter­ing of our urban land­scapes.�
    Type Porn cel­e­brates the beau­ty of the under­val­ued, the skill of the crafts­man­ship, and the mash up of over­lap­ping styles made more beau­ti­ful by the pas­sage of time.�

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  • No sh*t, Sherlock: Sarcasm makes you smarter and more creative
    A shock to absolute­ly no one, being sar­cas­tic is total­ly good for you. Go ahead and be as sar­cas­tic as you’d like. A new study from researchers from sev­er­al busi­ness schools includ­ing Harvard and Columbia sug­gests that both deliv­er­ing and rec…
  • Brand Manual and Identity Template Free Download

    Brand Manual and Identity Template – Corporate Design Brochure – with real text!!!

    Minimal and Professional Brand Manual and Identity Brochure tem­plate for cre­ative busi­ness­es, cre­at­ed in Adobe InDesign in International DIN A4 and US Letter for­mat. Get …

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  • Convert your port­fo­lio into a lead gen­er­at­ing machine with these 50 long-tail keywords
    50 long-tail key­words to add to your online port­fo­lio | Web design | Creative BloqTags: design mar­ket­ing freelance
  • Pocket starts rec­om­mend­ing arti­cles and videos in a new pub­lic beta
    “The idea is that they’ll help you cut through the noise and make sure you don’t miss sto­ries you’d actu­al­ly want to come back to,” says Nate Weiner, the com­pa­ny’s founder.