The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- New Book – The Business of ePublishing 2015 by Pariah S. Burke
The Business of ePublishing 2015 explains in thorough detail what professional publishers, designers, and traditional, independent, and hybrid authors need to know about the world and business of digital publishing in 2015 and beyond. It goes beyond the rhetoric and paranoid proclamations rampant in social media, blogs, and news outlets to provide provable, unbiased insight into the users, devices, formats, and real world economics of ebooks, fixed-layout ebooks, digital textbooks, digital magazines, and more for all levels of publishing—enterprise, small- to medium-sized publishers, indies, and self-publishers.
Tags: eprdctn selfpub epub indiepub dps writing amwriting
- 5 Things You Don’t Learn in Graphic Design School [Video]
5 Things You Don’t Learn in Graphic Design School http://youtu.be/1HUpaRdzHnw Becoming a Graphic Designer is a challenge and if you go to Design School you will hopefully find teachers and mentors that can hep you on your journey to being a Successful Graphic Designer.
- Photographer’s Fantastic Copyright Infringement Policy FAQ
Here is a closer look at how I am dealing with copyright infringers, packaged in the form of an FAQ:Tags: Photography Copyright IP IPLaw
- Inside the Mind of a Freelancer [Infographic]
Inside the mind of a freelancer InfographicTags: Freelance freelancing freelancer
- Mesmerizing Illustrations by Brian Edward Miller
Brian Edward Miller is a super talented American artist that comes up with some simply mesmerizing artworks, like the one you’ll see in this post.Tags: Illustration Inspiration
- These Fonts Made a Big Impact on World History
Typography is instrumental to many forms of communication in daily life, being used in modern advertisements and designs that we encounter every day. Typographers have practiced their craft for centuries, relaying different concepts and feelings through the intricacies of our species’ form of communication. Along the way, typography has played interesting and vital roles in culture, history, and of course, politics. Here are a few fonts that have left their mark on history.
Tags: typography history
- Should You Redesign Your Logo?
This is one of the major questions, since many small businesses are often found redesigning their logos. Even some established businesses also redesign their logos whenever they feel that their business is not doing so well and the revenue growth is not matching their expectations. But experts believe that redesigning a company logo every now and then may greatly impact the business of the company as consumers may it find to remember.
- Illustrator Tutorials for 2015
Latest Illustrator tutorials can improve your drawing and take your skills to a new level. These tutorials help how to create vector graphic and illustration design resources and tips and techniques. In this collection we’re gathered new Illustrator CS6 and Illustrator CC tutorials which can help to create Vector Graphics in Adobe Illustrator. I hope! these illustrator tutorials can enhance you’r illustration skills and improve the quality of your works.
Tags: Illustrator vector
- 9 Photo Composition Tips, As Seen in Photographs by Steve McCurry
Here’s a great video on photographic composition, created by The Cooperative of Photography using tips and photographs by legendary photojournalist Steve McCurry. Each of the 9 composition tips is illustrated with examples from McCurry’s impressive body of work.
Here are the 9 tips covered in the video:Tags: photography
- The Cost of Paying Attention. If you want yours back you’re going to have to pay for it.
Attention is a resource; a person has only so much of it. And yet we’ve auctioned off more and more of our public space to private commercial interests, with their constant demands on us to look at the products on display or simply absorb some bit of corporate messaging. Lately, our self-appointed disrupters have opened up a new frontier of capitalism, complete with its own frontier ethic: to boldly dig up and monetize every bit of private head space by appropriating our collective attention. In the process, we’ve sacrificed silence — the condition of not being addressed. And just as clean air makes it possible to breathe, silence makes it possible to think.