Creative Community Bulletin 11 September 2013

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

  • How Color Impacts Your Purchases [info­graph­ic]
    “A lot of fac­tors are tak­en into account when a com­pa­ny pre­pares to sell their items. Things like col­or, look, feel, and tone all come into play. Many times we don’t real­ize how sig­nif­i­cant the role of col­or plays when it comes to our purchases…
  • Adobe Announces PDF Print Engine 3
    “Announcing Adobe PDF Print Engine 3, the next-generation ren­der­ing plat­form, opti­mized for end-to-end PDF work­flows. Print Engine 3 com­bines per­for­mance opti­miza­tions with a new scal­a­bil­i­ty frame­work to pow­er high-speed dig­i­tal press­es, large …
  • Redesigned Google Logo Gets Updated With Flatter Look

    Yahoo may have received all of the atten­tion late­ly for it’s bor­ing new logo change, but it appears that Google might be chang­ing the design of it’s logo as well.”

  • 18 inspir­ing quotes from lead­ing design­ers and artists at Reasons to be Creative

    Wisdom from Jon Burgerman, Mr Bingo, Hellicar & Lewis, Erik Spiekermann and oth­ers cap­tured at the Reasons to be Creative conference.”

  • How to Create a Portrait in the Pop Art Style using Adobe Illustrator

    In this tuto­r­i­al we will learn how to cre­ate a vec­tor por­trait in Pop Art style. We will try to repro­duce the style of Roy Lichtenstein, one of the best rep­re­sen­ta­tives of this trend. To cre­ate the raster effect and fine-tune it, the Phantasm CS vec­tor Halftone tool was applied. To per­form this tuto­r­i­al, you can use any pho­to, so why not make a self-portrait in the Pop Art style? Let’s get started!

    Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) is one of the most famous American artists work­ing in the Pop Art style. We will be repro­duc­ing his style, and I think it would be appro­pri­ate to show you some of his works.”

  • Study: To the Human Brain ‘Me’ is ‘We’

    This would seem the neur­al basis for empathy—the abil­i­ty to feel what oth­ers feel—but it goes even deep­er than that. Results from the lat­est study sug­gest that our brains don’t dif­fer­en­ti­ate between what hap­pens to some­one emo­tion­al­ly close to us and our­selves, and also that we seem neu­ral­ly inca­pable of gen­er­at­ing any­thing close to that lev­el of empa­thy for strangers.”

  • 50 Great Gifts for Designers and Color Lovers
    ” If you’ve got a friend with a per­son­al­ized license plate that reads ROYGBIV,* find­ing a suit­able hol­i­day gift will be a rel­a­tive­ly easy task. From candy-colored iPad sleeves to a kelly-green espres­so mak­er, I’ve round­ed up some of the best (a…
  • Average Salaries Of Web Developers And Designers Across The Globe [info­graph­ic]

    Check out this inter­est­ing info­graph­ic by Staff​.com com­par­ing annu­al salaries (in USD) of graph­ic design­ers, web design­ers, web devel­op­ers, soft­ware devel­op­ers and med­ical tran­scrip­tion­ists in India, Canada, UK, USA, Australia and oth­er coun­tries across the globe.”

  • 2,500 Kick Ass Photographers on Google+

    I’ve met more pho­tog­ra­phy friends on Google+, than any oth­er social network.

    As I’ve got­ten involved with Google+ I’ve shared my cir­cles of pho­tog­ra­phers. When Google+ first start­ed out and I built my pho­tog­ra­phers cir­cle up to 500, I shared it, then 1,000, then 1,500, then 2,000. Last week my pho­tog­ra­phers cir­cle on Google+ hit 2,500 and I shared it again.”

  • What dig­i­tal pub­lish­ers could be doing with metadata
    “Digital pub­lish­ers are final­ly clu­ing in to the fact that they could (and should) be using data to bet­ter mar­ket their dig­i­tal pub­li­ca­tions to their audiences.”
  • Apple Toilet Designed by Milos Paripovic

    Designed by Milos Paripovic under the code name “iPoo”, Apple toi­let is made out of the same alu­minum that is used in Apple notebooks.”

  • Gamifying Your Life 
    “Designing Digitally, Inc. uses Gamification and Game Based Learning method­olo­gies to cre­ate engag­ing, edu­ca­tion­al, and enter­tain­ing cor­po­rate train­ing solutions.”
  • The Power of a Hand-written Note
    “One of the eas­i­est ways to sep­a­rate your­self from the com­pe­ti­tion is also one of the most for­got­ten, a hand­writ­ten note. Seriously, most of us can bare­ly write a check with­out mak­ing a mis­take, sim­ply because we’re so used to typ­ing and textin…
  • The Top 10 Lies of Entrepreneurs and Investors

    From my expe­ri­ence lis­ten­ing to pitch­es, I’ve seen two sets of top 10 lies: one of entre­pre­neurs and one of investors and I want­ed to share them with you so that you know what not to say and what not to believe.

  • Digitize Your Large-Format Film At A Fraction Of The Price With This DIY Scanner
    “With a bit of elbow grease and a DSLR, a few large-format-film-buff hack­ers have built a rig to scan in pho­tos at a much high­er res­o­lu­tion than your aver­age desk­top scanner.”
  • Clip-On Device Lets You Read eBooks While You Run

    Consisting of a tiny clip-on device that can be attached to a head­band or the col­lar of your shirt, the sys­tem works with an e‑reader app on your tablet to track the move­ments of your head and shoul­ders. Keeping the text bounc­ing in sync with your eyes, the sys­tem essen­tial­ly makes read­ing while run­ning in a sta­tion­ary posi­tion as easy as read­ing while stand­ing motionless.”

  • 4‑Dimensional Photography: Artistic Time-Lapse Collages

    Motion pic­tures aside, the nature of pho­to­graph­ic rep­re­sen­ta­tion implies freez­ing space in time – a moment cap­tured and pre­served, inde­pen­dent of what comes before or after.”