Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 30 September 2014

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

  • The Dangers Of Sitting At Work All Day [Infographic]

    You prob­a­bly know this. We’ve talked about it before. Sitting all day kills you. Slowly. Whether you’re in front of the tele or work­ing with com­put­ers, stay­ing seden­tary has very seri­ous health risks. That’s why we encour­aged you to take a look at these exer­cise videos, and work at a stand­ing desk (but don’t repeat these mistakes).

  • Rules for Best Practice Email Design: Coding Practices

    Writing markup for email takes HTML back to the old school. These tips will help those of you who don’t recall the days of flan­nels, pagers, and the Discman, or who think of tables only as some­thing to eat off or store data in.

  • Graphic Designers Ask: How much should I charge?
    This is prob­a­bly on of the most fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions in the graph­ic design busi­ness. Everyone is look­ing for a sil­ver bul­let – but there are no sil­ver bul­lets. About ever five to ten years some­one asks the ques­tion and I answer it. I’ve …
  • 5 Design Legends That Switched Gears in the Middle of Their Careers
    Reality is messy and our lives often wan­der a bit as we explore our path, and the greats were no excep­tion. Below we explore five of the leg­ends in graph­ic design and high­light how they changed gears in their career.
  • How to bring a graph­ic nov­el to life in 3D

    Cinesite’s Richard Clarke reveals how fur gen­er­a­tor Yeti helped bring 300: Rise of an Empire’s hyper real­is­tic world to life. 

  • Photoshop Technique: Adaptive Contrast
    Learn a bet­ter way to increase con­trast using Photoshop. This Photoshop tech­nique pro­tects your image from hav­ing blown out high­lights and shad­ows while you increase con­trast. Follow this Photoshop tuto­r­i­al to learn how to apply this new techni…
  • What star­ing at a screen all day is doing to your eyes
    With com­put­ers, though, this prob­lem is exac­er­bat­ed by pos­ture. When most peo­ple stare at a com­put­er screen, they look straight ahead, so the eye is more wide­ly opened than when look­ing down at a book. This means that a greater sur­face area of …
  • The Big List of IFTTT Recipes: 34 Hacks for Hardcore Social Media Productivity

    IFTTT is one of our favorite tools (and one that I’d imag­ine you might love as well). We use IFTTT in a num­ber of neat ways, and there are loads of dif­fer­ent options avail­able through IFTTT for pow­er­ing up your social media mar­ket­ing. I thought I’d share a few of our favorites and some that might help you work smarter, too.

  • 15 Designers Reveal [Surprising] Secrets For Staying Productive
    Strategies include every­thing from set­ting timers to tak­ing nature walks to lis­ten­ing to black metal.
  • 5 ways to improve your online portfolio
    Here are some tips on reassess­ing and improv­ing your cre­ative port­fo­lio website.
  • Let’s fund each other’s design studies
    Graduate debt isn’t going away any­time soon, on either side of the pond. Chiara Bajardi makes the case for shar­ing the bur­den with the wider cre­ative community.