Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 31 December 2014

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

  • A Collection of Minimal Icons for Subtle Design Work

    Minimalism is def­i­nite­ly the go-to style in the mod­ern web, and icons help you clean up the inter­face, putting quick­er infor­ma­tion at the user’s dis­pos­al. This time around, we have a series of ele­ments that take advan­tage of both things: Minimal icons. We’ve put togeth­er some of the most inven­tive, fresh and use­ful ele­ments all around the web, all for free and ready to be applied with­in your next project. Check it out!

  • A Collection of Minimal Icons for Subtle Design Work

    Minimalism is def­i­nite­ly the go-to style in the mod­ern web, and icons help you clean up the inter­face, putting quick­er infor­ma­tion at the user’s dis­pos­al. This time around, we have a series of ele­ments that take advan­tage of both things: Minimal icons. We’ve put togeth­er some of the most inven­tive, fresh and use­ful ele­ments all around the web, all for free and ready to be applied with­in your next project. Check it out!

  • 10 Important Photography Tips for Designers

    We’ve tried to put togeth­er 10 cru­cial pho­to tips which should help you any giv­en day, shoot­ing any giv­en sub­ject. Do use this as a ref­er­ence as often as you need to.

  • 5 Signs You’re Sabotaging Your Business

    Most suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs have dealt with their own spe­cial cock­tail of busi­ness blind spots. Thankfully there’s a way to rem­e­dy them and get back on track. Gallup research has iden­ti­fied ten tal­ents of suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs. Next, they delved deep­er into nine poten­tial blind spots that can harm their ventures.

    Here’s a clos­er look at five of the nine Gallup find­ings and how you can eas­i­ly resolve these setbacks.

  • Frankendesign – When Re-Using Old Designs Makes Sense

    Do you all know the sto­ry of Frankenstein’s mon­ster? A mad sci­en­tist attempts to cre­ate a liv­ing crea­ture using parts from a myr­i­ad of indi­vid­u­als. Designers often have a lot in com­mon with this clas­sic tale, using ele­ments from their old designs to cre­ate new ones for com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent clients.

  • 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2014 and Beyond

    This year’s group includes a great mix of social media tal­ent and lead­er­ship includ­ing: inde­pen­dent con­sul­tants, major brands, an indus­try ana­lyst, a reporter, entre­pre­neurs, authors, pub­lic rela­tions and mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als and an aspir­ing astro­naut head­ed for Mars.