Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 30 December 2014

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

  • 30 Business Company Facebook Templates
    Facebook Templates are the great pre-designed solu­tion for rep­re­sent­ing your com­pa­ny on the web. You just need to add some con­tent like pho­tos, videos and text infor­ma­tion to get a seri­ous pro­fes­sion­al look­ing page for your busi­ness on Facebook…
  • An Expert’s Advice on Why Creative Pros Often Struggle with Social Media

    When peo­ple trust you, have con­fi­dence in your brand, see you con­stant­ly going out of your way to answer their prob­lems and dilem­mas, then they start to like you.”

  • Printing From Your Mobile Device Made Easy
    Of course, print­ing from your mobile is not always as easy as print­ing from a com­put­er. But it can be, as long as you have the right tools for the job. Check out this handy info­graph­ic that shows you eight dif­fer­ent ways you can print from your…
  • Plus-Size Woman Asks 21 Photoshop Pros to Make Her Beautiful in Their Countries’ Aesthetics

    The rela­tion­ship between weight and beau­ty is quite obvi­ous­ly one that varies from per­son to per­son — so when we begin dis­cussing it in terms of nation to nation, lines get blurred. That being said, I was so fas­ci­nat­ed by these women’s work that I became increas­ing­ly curi­ous as to how edi­tors would treat a pho­to of me if asked to edit it, what with my chub­by cheeks, dou­ble chin, thick shoul­ders and chest and rounder, fuller face. What would they do with these traits? Would they all slim me down in the aid of “mak­ing me look beau­ti­ful”? Would they fid­dle with my messy hair? How would they see me, as a plus-size woman, and how would they “fix” me? What would they make of my face with­out make­up, in its tired, “just woke up” state? One edi­tor said, “You have weird face. I make bet­ter,” whilst anoth­er asked me, “Are you a porn?” But over­all, each Photoshop “expert” (a term I use loose­ly as some edi­tors were newbies/rookies, whilst oth­ers had decades of expe­ri­ence), took well to the task at hand. All I asked was for them to make me look beau­ti­ful, whilst keep­ing in mind the looks they see in the fashion/beauty mags of their coun­tries. They were each com­pen­sat­ed with $5–30, the amount always set by the edi­tor him/herself. And so, here’s what “beau­ty” means to all of them.

  • 3 Simple and Efficient eBook Marketing Tips Every Author Should Know

    Marketing an eBook might be a time-extensive process that will require you to devote your resources to sell­ing it to poten­tial read­ers, and estab­lish­ing your own audi­ence. Thanks to the sim­plic­i­ty of the strate­gies pro­vid­ed above, you should be able to get peo­ple to read your eBook – and become inter­est­ed in your future ones – pret­ty soon.