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- 5 Best Printed Marketing Methods For Freelancers
“If you don’t know how to market yourself effectively, you’re going to have a tough time obtaining and maintaining clients; especially the type of clients that you need to actually make a success of your freelancing career, rather than the ones who take advantage.
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- The Ten Best Airline Coach Seats
“From endless waits to security checks to hopeless delays, just getting on to a flight sucks. But once you’re onboard, these ten companies give you the best service for the least bucks.”
- How to Use SVG Image Sprites in Web and Mobile Design
“Despite being scalable, saving bandwidth and an obvious candidate for Responsive Web Design, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) are relatively rare on the web. The reasons?
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- Free Photoshop App Icon Template for iOS App Icon Creation
“App icon template is a free Photoshop resource that makes it easier for you to make icons. Edit a single object and it’ll automatically render out all the various sizes required on iOS & Android. Build in textures and colors make it easy to get started and the bundled actions make exporting a breeze.”
- Sean Adams on Typography [Audio]
“Sean is President ex officio and past national board member of AIGA, and President ex officio of AIGA Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the Aspen Design Conference, and AIGA Fellow. He teaches at Art Center College of Design. Sean is a frequent lecturer and competition judge internationally. Adams is the co-author of Logo Design Workbook, Color Design Workbook, and the series, Masters of Design. AdamsMorioka’s clients include The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Adobe, Gap, Frank Gehry Partners, Nickelodeon, Sundance, Target, USC, and The Walt Disney Company.
” - What Does it Mean to be Simple? “Simple” User Experience Design
“All designers say simplicity is important, but what does it really mean to make something simple? Most of the time we think it means less, that by removing stuff we achieve simplicity. We think by keeping content above the fold we’re helping people focus, or by using bullets instead of paragraphs more people will read it, or by cutting text in half it becomes more clear. But simple doesn’t mean “less”. A better definition would be “just enough”.”
- Apple recalls last year’s MacBook Air due to faulty SSDs
Apple has just announced that it is recalling certain models of last year’s MacBook Air lineup — if you have an Air with either a 64GB or 128GB SSD drive, your drive could be faulty and in need of replacement
- Apple recalls last year’s MacBook Air due to faulty SSDs
Apple has just announced that it is recalling certain models of last year’s MacBook Air lineup — if you have an Air with either a 64GB or 128GB SSD drive, your drive could be faulty and in need of replacement
- How-To – Wide-Angle Composite Photography
“I enjoy photography and love the look of a wide angle shot. The problem for me, and possibly for you too, is that I don’t have a thousand dollars to drop on a sweet wide angle lens. This posed a problem for me when I was planning my trip to Europe this past July. I knew I would be in front of these massive buildings and wouldn’t be able to back up enough to get the whole subject in frame. As you can see below, I can’t get it all into my viewfinder.
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- A Quick Guide to Sans-Serif Fonts
“The Sans-Serif has gained the reputation as a “modern” style of typography, but we can find some very early examples of sans-serif type, written in Latin, Estruscan, and Greek letterforms. The first documented usage of sans-serif type was in 1723, by Scottish scholar Thomas Dempster, in his book De Etruria regali libri VII. One of the earliest foundries to design sans-serif type was Caslon, a foundry that was making typefaces in the Estruscan language during the mid-18th Century.”
- Standing on Weekdays Burns Calories Like Running 10 Marathons a Year
“We’ve already talked a lot about how sitting all day is killing us, but what you might not know is just how good simply standing for a few hours a day can be. A new study found remarkable health benefits of standing versus sitting.P
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