Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 7 November 2014

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

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Efficient Adobe Illustator Users
    We all use Adobe Illustrator in dif­fer­ent ways, to dif­fer­ent ends. But we can all ben­e­fit from mak­ing our work­flow more effi­cient. Here are sev­en ways you can auto­mate or elim­i­nate monot­o­nous, repet­i­tive tasks, so you can focus on being more cr…
  • How Apple’s Famous “I’m A Mac” Ads Branded Fanboys For Life
    Few ad cam­paigns in recent times have been as mem­o­rable as the “Hello, I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” series from a few years back. The ads showed Justin Long as the hip embod­i­ment of Mac users and John Hodgman as the stiff per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of PC folk…
  • Summary of January 1st B2C tax­a­tion changes for sell­ing to Europeans

    From 1 January 2015, changes will be made to the European Union (EU) VAT place of sup­ply of ser­vices rules involv­ing busi­ness to con­sumer (B2C) sup­plies of dig­i­tal ser­vices (broad­cast­ing, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and e‑services). The place of tax­a­tion will be deter­mined by the loca­tion of the con­sumer, and dig­i­tal sup­plies will be taxed at the VAT rate applic­a­ble in the consumer’s mem­ber state.

  • The Future of Adobe’s App Interaction Looks Pretty Awesome | WIRED

    Adobe recent­ly released a video in which it showed off forward-looking fea­tures for its suite of apps on the tablet. In the video, you see a woman manip­u­lat­ing a chair’s ori­en­ta­tion just by twist­ing her hand in the air, you see paint being splat­tered from a smart­phone onto a tablet and a cir­cu­lar vec­tor draw­ing bend­ing a line in real time. It looks like The Future, and tech­ni­cal­ly it is. But in many ways, what Adobe is show­ing us is already the present.