Creative Community Bulletin 1 October 2013

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

  • How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks
    “this leaves you unpro­tect­ed against mali­cious users in the same cof­fee shop, so there are a few set­tings you should always make sure to tweak when you’re con­nect­ed to a pub­lic net­work. We’re going to show you which set­tings are the most import…
  • Best 50 Niche Job Boards–Design, HealthCare, More

    Where to post job open­ings? Niche job boards attract top tal­ent, giv­ing you qual­i­ty can­di­dates with expe­ri­ence or inter­est in your spe­cif­ic indus­try. Niche sites to post jobs include not only niche job boards, but also niche com­mu­ni­ties and pub­li­ca­tions. In post­ing 125,000+ jobs for 25,000+ com­pa­nies, SmartRecruiters found that 62% of open jobs are post­ed to niche job sites. Niches are just a good way to tar­get what­ev­er type of tal­ent you are look­ing for.”

  • This Video of Steve Jobs Led to Invalidation of Apple’s Patent

    A German court recent­ly sided with Samsung (SSNLF​.PK) and Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Motorola Mobility and declared one of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) so-called “rubber-banding” patents to be invalid based on the con­tent of a six-year old video pre­sen­ta­tion by Steve Jobs, reports Foss Patents. Under German law, pub­lic demon­stra­tions of an inven­tion before the patent is filed can be used as exam­ples of pri­or art when decid­ing whether or not to grant a patent.

  • 8 Really Geeky But Creative Ways To Use QR Codes At Home

    You may say that QR codes are fads, some may say QR codes are awesome…the moot point is that it’s a tool, and with a bit of thought, QR codes can be used in fun and use­ful ways around the house too. Here are a few I put togeth­er with some nice exam­ples found around the web. If you believe in doing things dif­fer­ent­ly, read on.”

  • 14 weird and won­der­ful uses for Helvetica
    “Think Helvetica’s a bor­ing type­face? Check out the inven­tive uses these cre­atives have put it to, and you may think again!”
  • Attorneys: Patent Law Differences Invalidate Apple Patent in Germany But Hold Up in U.S., Japan #PTO #Patent

    Since Jobs pub­licly unveiled the rubber-banding fea­ture dur­ing the orig­i­nal iPhone pre­sen­ta­tion five months before pri­or­i­ty date for the German patent, his demon­stra­tion of this fea­ture was an eli­gi­ble exam­ple of pri­or art. It should be not­ed that, at the time of Jobs’s pre­sen­ta­tion, European patent laws did not allow inven­tors any grace peri­od before fil­ing their patent applications.

  • Men should wear make­up: Looking younger and bet­ter isn’t just for women. – Slate

    “You know, you don’t real­ly need make­up,” Rose Hill told me when we first met. We were at Hill’s stu­dio in Los Gatos, Calif., where I’d come to see what a good make­up artist could do for a man (i.e., for me). Hill, who’s 60, has been doing make­up for film, tele­vi­sion, the­ater, and com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­phy since she was a teenag­er. She’s worked on Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, every tech exec­u­tive you can name, and Hugh Jackman—“my most favoritest per­son in the whole world,” she said as I thumbed through her portfolio.”

  • Rules of Graphic Design Poster Series

    The Rules of Graphic Design poster series was designed to present a daunt­ing amount of infor­ma­tion in the most acces­si­ble and approach­able man­ner. Swiss International style’s influ­ence is appar­ent in the ratio­nal use of grid struc­ture, high­ly con­trast­ing col­or scheme, reduc­tion of infor­ma­tion to its most nec­es­sary attrib­ut­es, and use of a sans serif type­face. I rephrased all of the rules I was pre­sent­ed with, extrap­o­lat­ed and fleshed out para­graphs describ­ing the rea­son­ing behind the basis of each rule, and devel­oped an exam­ple for each one.”

  • Jack the Ripper mys­tery solved by top detec­tive after 125 years
    “THE Jack the Ripper mys­tery that has kept the world enthralled since the killer first struck on the streets of Victorian London has been blown apart on the 125th anniver­sary of the gris­ly crimes by a for­mer mur­der squad detective.”

  • Are Requests for Proposals a waste of money?
    “Requests for Proposals are com­mon­place for any agency. But Brian Pullen believes RFPs are wast­ing time and mon­ey, and that there are bet­ter ways to hire agencies.