Creative Community Bulletin 23 January 2014

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

  • Six Mobile Safari Tips That Will Improve Your Browsing Experience

    Mobile Safari offers a pret­ty great expe­ri­ence on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch­es. Because it’s Apple-made, you can do a lot more with it—especially if you know a few tricks.”

  • The Top 10 Grammar Mistakes to Avoid Making
    “It’s not a pret­ty graph­ic, but the infor­ma­tion is valu­able. Citing grammar-checking ser­vice Grammarly, the graph­ic shows that the most com­mon errors are sim­ple spelling mis­takes (some­thing eas­i­ly fixed with a quick spell check). The next three…
  • How to Use Colors for More Effective Landing Pages
    “We all know that col­ors play a large role in our mar­ket­ing efforts, but have you ever tak­en a clos­er look at how col­or may be affect­ing your bot­tom line?

  • How I Earned A Lot More on Projects by Changing My Pricing Strategy
    “So I rethought everything.

    The result was pow­er­ful: In 2004, I only worked 19 days, and made over $200,000.”

  • Create an Award-Winning Trippy Self Portrait with Photoshop
    “Draw a cool pat­tern. I drew mine the old fash­ioned way – with pen­cil and paper. The fin­ished draw­ing was then scanned so I could col­or it in Photoshop.”
  • Tags and hash­tags: The ulti­mate guide to using them effectively
    “Researching the right key­words, expres­sions, tags and hash­tags is more essen­tial than ever. The case for key­words is pret­ty much won. But many mar­keters still over­look the impor­tance of research­ing tags and hashtags.”
  • How to Feel Confident Sharing Your Creative Work In Public
    “Are you ter­ri­fied of pub­lic speak­ing or per­form­ing? Do you have a col­lec­tion of poems or short sto­ries you nev­er show any­one? Maybe a base­ment full of water­col­ors you keep safe­ly hid­den away? If fear is get­ting in the way of your shar­ing your …
  • A Winning Culture Keeps Score – Harvard Business Review

    People often think of cor­po­rate cul­ture as “soft” because it involves squishy things like val­ues and expec­ta­tions. That’s true as far as it goes—but win­ning cul­tures have a hard, metrics-driven ele­ment as well. A cul­ture that feels upbeat and pos­i­tive but doesn’t con­tribute to prof­itable growth or beat­ing the com­pe­ti­tion is des­tined for the dustbin.”

  • Photoshop par­o­dy ads poke fun at touch-ups
    “These bril­liant ads by artist and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Anna Hill mar­ket Photoshop as make-up.

  • The Top 10 Design-Related Movies

    There’s noth­ing bet­ter than see­ing what some of the great design­ers have done to help boost your cre­ative ideas and spur you on. So in no par­tic­u­lar order, here’s a run­down of 10 of the best design doc­u­men­taries cov­er­ing every­thing from typog­ra­phy to street art.”

  • New Apple Mac Pro Gets Unboxed [Video]

    Now we have an unbox­ing video of the new Apple Mac Pro, the video is from the guys over at MacFormat, and is around 15 min­utes long, it gives us a good look at Apple’s new high end Mac.”