Creative Community Bulletin 08 May 2009 Through 13 May 2009

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 08 May 2009 through 13 May 2009:

  • Contrary to pop­u­lar belief, Twitter was invent­ed in 1935. – The Next Web – Robot Messenger Displays Person-to-Person Notes In Public
    Source: Modern Mechanix (August 1935)
  • What kind of open are you look­ing for? – Seth Godin – If you hear some­one talk­ing about “open source,” it’s quite pos­si­ble that this isn’t what they mean. One major soft drink com­pa­ny, for exam­ple, was talk­ing about turn­ing their brand open source. Pretty unlike­ly. Do you think that they meant allow­ing any­one to use their brand in any way they chose on a share and share alike basis? As change swirls around, the terms mat­ter.

    Mike sent me a list of dif­fer­ent types of open. I amend­ed as below:

  • Web Embedding Allowed | Typophile – Help cre­ate the list of pio­neer­ing foundries who are not afraid of the dig­i­tal future. (Did that sound like an agen­da? Oops.)
  • ‘Make it Big’ by Blogging an inter­view with Jeff Fisher and Sheri L Koetting – Have you ever con­sid­ered start­ing your own blog but then decid­ed not to because of the time and effort involved? After all, who has time to cre­ate and update a beau­ti­ful­ly designed site, on top of attend­ing to work-related tasks?

    Well, two notable design indus­try pro­fes­sion­als, Jeff Fisher and Sheri L Koetting, say it’s an activ­i­ty you can’t afford to pass up, espe­cial­ly for those look­ing to land a job in this tough busi­ness cli­mate. Blogs, they say, are one of the most pow­er­ful self-promotional tools avail­able to help cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als mar­ket their skills and talent.

  • Project Scheduling – 14 Designers Share Their Advice — Workflow: Freelance – Given the com­plex­i­ties of the var­i­ous phas­es of the web design and devel­op­ment process – includ­ing many vari­ables often revolv­ing around pend­ing client feed­back – I have often won­dered how oth­er web design­ers go about sched­ul­ing their own projects.
  • Typeface != Font — Jon Tan ? – A type­face is not a font. A font is not a type­face. It’s been said before, but con­fu­sion still resigns supreme
  • Creating an Elevator Speech: How Looking In The Mirror Can Help Your Business | Freelance Folder – One of the most effec­tive ways to get new clients is through face-to-face con­tact. Those in your exist­ing social cir­cle and new acquain­tances can both lead you to new clients — as long as you can describe your free­lanc­ing busi­ness to them quick­ly and accurately.
  • Universes and light effects: the best design­ers V2 – Here’s the sec­ond episode of “Universes and light effects: best design­er”. Today we are with five incred­i­ble design­er who loves to cre­ate illus­tra­tions with with clouds, light effects and galaxies.
  • TypeTalk: Ambigrams | CreativePro​.com – Ambigrams come in many forms. The most com­mon ambi­grams are sym­met­ri­cal, and include rota­tion­al (upside-down), bilat­er­al (viewed in a mir­ror or from behind), chain (con­tin­u­ous words, such as in a cir­cle or a spi­ral), and totem (ver­ti­cal and mirror-image sym­me­try). Less com­mon are asym­met­ri­cal ambi­grams, which have more com­pli­cat­ed characteristics.
  • Color Tools, Resources and Tutorials for Photoshopers – This arti­cle is a roundup of some of the best new appli­ca­tions, resources, arti­cles, and tuto­ri­als for choos­ing a col­or scheme for your project.
  • Why you should tell Facebook “what’s on your mind” – Until recent­ly, I answered them only spo­rad­i­cal­ly. “How friv­o­lous, I thought, and what a waste of time.” Now I real­ize how wrong I was.

    It all start­ed with a freak acci­dent. A few weeks ago, a speed­ing bicy­clist struck me as I got off a bus in Boston. Something (maybe the painkillers) made me think it would be a good idea to men­tion it on Facebook. That post led to a raft of well wish­es (always nice when you’re feel­ing crap­py). But one of them made me sit up and take notice – painful as that was.

  • Twitter Down, World Stops — I Am Pariah – In a world that is increas­ing­ly becom­ing defined by 140 char­ac­ters, is there life with­out Twitter? Has it become “I tweet, there­fore I am”? And, if one can­not tweet, does one there­fore no longer exist?