Design Business Links 22 April 2014

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

• The Best Apps for Any Kind of Writing

  “Writing is a very personal practice, and as a result you have a million writing-focused apps to choose from. From distraction-free apps that take up your whole screen to feature-packed mainstays like Microsoft Word, we’ve put together a guide …

• Before and After Special Effects Photos Show It Isn’t Very Hard to Shoot Your Own Movie

  “This is how Hollywood works. If you can use special effects, then you can shoot you movie even in your backyard. Let’s take a look at these pictures before and after special effects.

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• How To Motivate People – 4 Steps Backed By Science

  “Employees, spouses, kids — what does it take to get people motivated so you don’t have to nag them?”

• Pick a Color and Search Images That Include that Color – Multicolr Search Lab

  “We extracted the colors from 10 million Creative Commons images on Flickr. Search this collection by color. Addictive and very likely the best color search engine in the world*!”

• Color, Value & the Evolution of Logos

  “It turns out, our emotions are results of the precise science of effective logo design. In fact, psychologists proved that famous logos are so wired into our brains, that at the age of two, kids can already link a product with its logo in 67% of cases. Is there any doubt  about their value to your brand?

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• The 10 HTML Codes You Need to Know for Writing on the Web

  “The computer keyboard creates “dumb” punctuation marks that may not be acceptable in printed work but are common on web pages. It outputs straight quotation marks (”) while your writing may require curly quotes. You can only type hyphens using the keyboard while an em or en dash may have made your text look more elegant and professional”

• Want to Fail? Ignore Survivorship Bias.

  “Survivorship bias is often hidden in plain sight, but recognizing the bias when it exists could be the difference between building wealth over the long term and going broke. If a logical argument neglects to recognize that failure is a possibl…

• Dropbox Buys Loom For Photo Sharing, HackPad For Collaboration

  “The file sharing giant has acquired Loom, a photo sharing app that offered mobile users up to five gigabytes of free storage. Loom announced the deal on its company blog.”

• ‘Making It’, A Documentary About Surviving As An Illustrator

  Making It is an upcoming documentary film by director Anthony Francis Moorman and art director Woodrow Hinton that explores what it takes to make a living as artist. The film focuses primarily on a trio of illustrators, Andrew Bawidamann, Eric …

• 14 Mac Hacks That Will Change The Way You Use Your Computer

  These life-changing shortcuts are RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.

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