Creative Community Bulletin 17 December 2013

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

  • Digital mag­a­zine edi­tions see big gains in read­er­ship, engagement
    “The num­ber of down­loads of mag­a­zine edi­tions cre­at­ed with DPS since its launch in March 2011 passed the 150 mil­lion mark this month. Downloads have increased 115% year over year, and DPS-created apps have three times as many unique month­ly rea…
  • Which Professions Have the Most Psychopaths?

    psy­chopath doesn’t just mean some­one who cuts you up with a chain­saw — though the major­i­ty of peo­ple who do things like that are psy­chopaths. What’s the definition?
    Psychopathy is a per­son­al­i­ty dis­or­der that has been var­i­ous­ly described as char­ac­ter­ized by shal­low emo­tions (in par­tic­u­lar reduced fear), stress tol­er­ance, lack­ing empa­thy, cold­heart­ed­ness, lack­ing guilt, ego­cen­tric­i­ty, super­fi­cial char­ac­ter, manip­u­la­tive­ness, irre­spon­si­bil­i­ty, impul­siv­i­ty and anti­so­cial behav­iors such as par­a­sitic lifestyle and criminality.
    So which pro­fes­sions (oth­er than axe mur­der­er) have the most psy­chopaths? What about the least?”

  • Facebook is the Cigarette of 2013 – 5 Reasons Millennials Are Quitting Facebook
    “Facebook is the cig­a­rette of 2013, the “bad habit” many are try­ing to kick. And the doubts seem to be stem­ming from Facebook’s younger users.”
  • 10 Amazing Word Cloud Generators
    ” 10 amaz­ing word cloud gen­er­a­tors for you. Word cloud can be defined as a graph­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of word fre­quen­cy, where­as word cloud gen­er­a­tors sim­ply are the tools to map data, such as words and tags in a visu­al and engag­ing way. These ge…
  • How to Negotiate Like an A$$hole: Amazon Edition
    “In the book The Everything Store, Brad Stone takes an inside look at the rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Bezos is noto­ri­ous for his belief in the long term, which leads to the com­pa­ny sac­ri­fic­ing short-term prof­its to help fuel future growth. T…
  • How to Make the Airport Less Crappy (and More Fun)

    Those of us who have been fly­ing for a while may remem­ber when head­ing to the air­port was def­i­nite­ly an adventure—it was a place you did­n’t go often, and it was full of sights and sounds you did­n’t get to expe­ri­ence fre­quent­ly. Watching the planes take off and all of the food and gift shops were fun, not a chore to slog through on the way between secu­ri­ty and your gate. It can be that way again, even if the odds (and the air­lines them­selves) are stacked against you.”

  • 20 Awesome Tools That Will Have You ‘Pinteresting’ Like a Pro

    Pinterest already offers users some great tools to help them get their accounts get noticed, includ­ing a Follow Button and Pin It but­ton which can eas­i­ly be installed on any web­site. But with such an active com­mu­ni­ty, it’s no sur­prise that there are a ton of oth­er inter­est­ing tools, apps, and sites which aim to enhance the Pinterest experience.”

  • In Case You’ve Been Living Under a Rock (or Monster Deadline) Pencil by FiftyThree Seeks to Redesign Tablet Drawing

    Great tools inspire great ideas. Pencil is the most nat­ur­al and expres­sive tool for get­ting ideas on Paper. Advanced tech­nol­o­gy meets beau­ti­ful design to keep you in the flow, with­out need­ing to switch tools. With Erase, Blend, and adap­tive Palm Rejection, Pencil puts cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ty in your hands.”

  • Don’t Talk About It, Be About It: Social Brand Identity

    Social media is not a space that brands can uti­lize, but rather a space that brands MUST uti­lize if they want to remain rel­e­vant. The orig­i­nal social plat­forms are con­tin­u­al­ly adapt­ing and evolv­ing, while new­er plat­forms con­tin­ue to emerge – result­ing in a wide vari­ety of plat­forms to show­case your brand. Each social plat­form requires a unique approach, but one thing should remain con­sis­tent: your social brand identity.”

  • Fast Changing Technologies in Graphic Design, an Interview with Top Designers
    Joanna Designs pos­es the ques­tion to Chris Spooner, Eric Karjaluoto, Jacob Cass, T.R. Eisenberg, and David Airey.
  • 5 Things We Learned About Advertising Tech in 2013

    The adver­tis­ing tech­nol­o­gy mar­ket came a long way in 2013. Agencies say they’re now buy­ing more of their media through pro­gram­mat­ic chan­nels, pub­lish­ers are all now embrac­ing it, and a range of ven­dors went pub­lic. Here are five things we learned about ad tech­nol­o­gy in 2013:”

  • Creating an International Social Media Strategy that Works
    “Social media now con­nects peo­ple across the globe. Facebook has more than 1 bil­lion world­wide users, with 2013 fig­ures from check­face­book list­ing Brazil as the sec­ond largest coun­try on the net­work. Meanwhile, Mexico and Egypt took the top two…