Creative Community Bulletin 1 January 2014

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

  • Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design via @NYTimes

    Akshay Kothari’s first assign­ment at the D.school — for­mal­ly known as the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University — was to rethink how peo­ple eat ramen noo­dles. His last D.school assign­ment led to a news-reading app that was bought by LinkedIn for $90 million.”

  • 100 Beautiful Happy New Year 2014 Wallpapers
    Ring in the New Year on your desktop.
  • 25 Awesome Mac Apps For Designers
    “Apple prod­ucts with Mac OS X oper­at­ing sys­tem are quite pop­u­lar among design­ers and dig­i­tal artists. So today I have col­lect­ed 25 awe­some apps for design­ing pur­pos­es. Mostly of them are for pro­cess­ing images and edit­ing pic­tures but you will a…
  • 40 Best Free PSD Flyer Templates

    Looking to orga­nize a par­ty , event, fes­ti­val etc then you would def­i­nite­ly need to a styl­ish pro­fes­sion­al fly­er to invite your guests. Apart for par­ty pur­pos­es a fly­er is an impor­tant adver­tis­ing tool for busi­ness. Cheap and effec­tive. Feedtip has made an effort to pro­vide you a list of 40 PSD free fly­er tem­plates that are eas­i­ly cus­tomiz­able on Photoshop. Edit and use accord­ing to your needs. Enjoy your party !

  • About Small Business Branding

    There are count­less paths to mas­ter­ing the arts of mar­ket­ing and graph­ic design—I know of at least three: via the class­room, through a men­tor, and on-the-job.”

  • You Were Born to Sell: Dismantling the Myths of Self-Promotion

    Working hard at mak­ing some­thing isn’t a guar­an­tee of suc­cess. In fact, when you ship your project or work, your job has only just begun.”

  • You Were Born to Sell: Dismantling the Myths of Self-Promotion

    Working hard at mak­ing some­thing isn’t a guar­an­tee of suc­cess. In fact, when you ship your project or work, your job has only just begun.”

  • Logo Thief – A Website that Curates Plagiarized Logo Design Cases
    “The peo­ple behind Logo Thief, a web­site recent­ly launched to name and shame the logo thieves want to stop this ille­gal acts. The blog keep track and doc­u­ments var­i­ous cas­es of logo design pla­gia­rism and name peo­ple who rip-off the designs of o…
  • 40 Free Fonts Ideal For Retro And Vintage Designs

    Vintage and retro style designs can be a beau­ti­ful thing. By using a com­bi­na­tion of rough tex­tures, grunge pat­terns and brush­es meant to add an aged or used appear­ance, design­ers can eas­i­ly pull of this time­less look. To com­pli­ment this aged appear­ance, it is impor­tant to use the prop­er typog­ra­phy to help match the style you are try­ing to rep­re­sent. To help you out, I’ve round­ed up 40 attrac­tive retro and vin­tage fonts to use in your designs.

  • Table Desk 2.0 by Bee9 » Yanko Design

    Deceptively sim­ple and high­ly adapt­able, the Bee9 Tablet Desk 2.0 is designed to rede­fine not what a desk is, but where you can put it. Its sim­ple yet effec­tive tablet slid­ing sys­tem adapts to the user’s needs quick­ly and eas­i­ly. The drop-leaf design’s mate­r­i­al fru­gal­i­ty and small foot­print make opti­mum use of lim­it­ed space, mak­ing it per­fect for the apart­ment or small stu­dio. Watch it in the making!”

  • A Simple Guide to Taking Better Holiday Party Photos

    Speaking of office light­ing, beware of over­head flu­o­res­cent lights. They’re hor­ri­ble for pho­tog­ra­phy and make every­one look like a ghoul. Avoid any portrait-type pho­tographs with this type of light­ing unless you want your co-workers to hunt you down after the hang­overs subside.”

  • The 2013 WordPress Themes That Broke New Grounds in Creativity

    The year 2013 saw the intro­duc­tion of some awe­some WordPress themes that have tru­ly brought a new rev­o­lu­tion in the WordPress devel­op­ment are­na. Millions have been ben­e­fit­ted from the themes and plug-ins that have been launched in dif­fer­ent months of this year. Whether it’s about enhanc­ing the blog­ging expe­ri­ence or adding that per­fect charm to your exist­ing web­site, WordPress has def­i­nite­ly served as a mag­ic wand. WordPress pro­gram­mers have been con­tin­u­ous­ly using cre­ative themes to keep pace with devel­op­ment cycles. In today’s blog, I’ll take you through ten of the most pop­u­lar themes that have ruled in the year 2013.

  • Basic Principles of Flat Design – And Resources to Get You Started!
    “The flat design is an emerg­ing design style that uses flat shapes and icons. It basi­cal­ly revolves around the use of rec­tan­gles, cir­cles, tri­an­gles and oth­ers shapes with the absence of oth­er design ele­ments like shad­ows, strokes and gradients…