Creative Community Bulletin 3 January 2014

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

  • The Difference Between High Achievers and the Unsuccessful Is Grit
    “Perhaps even more than tal­ent or sheer luck, “grit” is the one qual­i­ty that sets high achiev­ers apart from every­one else. And there are ways we can cul­ti­vate it in ourselves.”
  • Value Engineering For Designers, Keeping Clients Coming Back
    “While those are all tac­tics that are com­mon to help bring in cus­tomers and get the excit­ed about your work, excite­ment will only last for so long. One thing that will last and keep clients com­ing back is if you prac­tice the con­cept of val­ue en…
  • 4 Ways Digital Technology Boosts Innovation…And 4 Ways It Hinders
    “AND FOUR WAYS IT HINDERS IT. HERE, WE CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE ON BOTH SIDES.”
  • Eye Tracking 101: How Your Eyes Move on a Website
    “Knowing how the view­ers of your site real­ly see it can help to shine light on new and/or missed oppor­tu­ni­ties with­in your cur­rent design. It may also bring out the need for new ele­ments or changes.

  • The One Thing That Truly Motivates Creative Talent–And How To Foster It
    “Intrinsic moti­va­tion is the mojo that breathes life into curios­i­ty and life­long learn­ing, into build­ing new and bet­ter skills, into mak­ing indi­vid­u­al­ly defined tal­ent lev­el bloom into some­thing of val­ue to the whole. It push­es us to go beyond …
  • Facebook Tracks When You Don’t Publish a Status or Comment, Doesn’t Like You Self-Censoring

    So Facebook con­sid­ers your thought­ful dis­cre­tion about what to post as bad, because it with­holds val­ue from Facebook and from oth­er users. Facebook mon­i­tors those unpost­ed thoughts to bet­ter under­stand them, in order to build a sys­tem that min­i­mizes this delib­er­ate behav­ior. This feels dan­ger­ous­ly close to “ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN,” a mot­to of the epony­mous dystopi­an Internet com­pa­ny in Dave Eggers’ recent nov­el The Circle.”

  • Hyperrealistic Pastel Drawings of Greenland

    Greenland is an absolute­ly beau­ti­ful place to vis­it as you can see from this col­lec­tion of art­work. The only thing is you’re not actu­al­ly look­ing at pic­tures from a cam­era, but rather some of the most pho­to­re­al­is­tic draw­ings you will ever see!

    Check out these amaz­ing life­like Greenland illus­tra­tions cre­at­ed by artist Zaria Forman below:”

  • The Year the Book Became a Luxury Object
    “As e‑books strip down and phys­i­cal books class up, there’s one rea­son left to buy the paper kind: beauty”
  • Seven Clever Ways to Use Your Phone’s Camera for More Than Just Photos
    “Smartphone cam­eras keep get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter, but they can do more than just take beau­ti­ful pho­tos. They can turn your smart­phone into a trans­la­tor, prod­uct price match­er, a scan­ner, and more. You just need to know how to use it.”

  • The Surprising Reason We Have a 40-Hour Work Week (and Why We Should Re-Think It)

    Surprisingly, Ford didn’t do it for sci­en­tif­ic rea­sons (or sole­ly for the health of his employ­ees). Rather, one of the main rea­sons he came up with the idea to reduce the work­ing hours of his staff was so employ­ees would have enough free time to go out and real­ize they need­ed to buy stuff.”