Creative Community Bulletin 5 February 2014

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

  • Digital First Newspaper Chain ‘Unbolts’ Digital from Print

    Digital First Media CEO John Paton has just launched a company-wide effort called Project Unbolt that is aimed at detach­ing dig­i­tal from the news­pa­per chain’s dying lega­cy print oper­a­tions — but there is a long road between that and becom­ing tru­ly digital

  • Do Barcodes Work Better If They’re Beautiful?
    The cre­ator of “aes­theti­codes” says he hopes to dec­o­rate the world with inter­est­ing, inter­ac­tive surfaces.
  • Responsive Design is Still the Future of Web Design

    Responsive design has been an emer­gent prac­tice for web design­ers since Ethan Marcotte’s 2011 book intro­duc­ing the con­cept in detail. But two and a half years lat­er, adop­tion of the prac­tice has been slow, even though this year it’s like­ly more peo­ple will access the Web via smart­phones, tablets and oth­er new devices than desk­top and lap­top computers. 

  • Icon Fonts: Pros and Cons of the Font Awesome
    Here is a brief intro­duc­tion to such fonts and where the Awesome font fits into a style that may still be in its infancy.
  • The Most In-Demand Job Skills Of 2013

    If you’re in the mar­ket for a new job, you might want to con­sid­er the tech sec­tor. According to LinkedIn, the most desir­able skills in 2013 were dom­i­nat­ed by tech

  • Type gurus team up with Monotype to be the Spotify of Fonts
    The ‘Spotify of Fonts’, Monotype is the new home for more than 100 type­faces from David Quay and Freda Sack, aka The Foundry.
  • Motorola Just Hired One Of The World’s Greatest Interaction Designers

    DISNEY RESEARCH’S IVAN POUPYREV HAS LEFT FOR MOTOROLA MOBILITY’S TOP SECRET INNOVATION LAB, RUN BY THE FORMER HEAD OF DARPA. LEAVE IT TO THIS GUY TO TURN MOTOROLA INTO A UX JUGGERNAUT.

  • Behind the Scenes at Adobe
    And now you can get an inter­est­ing peek behind the scenes at who these folks are and how they work in an inter­view at with prod­uct own­er, Yogesh Sharma over at the Illustrator blog. The inter­view tells the tale of how the new Live Corners featu…
  • 7 Ways to Keep Employees Happy
    MARRIOTT HOTELS AND SOUTHWEST AIRLINES KNOW THAT KEEPING THEIR EMPLOYEES HAPPY AND MOTIVATED IS HOW TO KEEP THEIR CUSTOMERS SATISFIED. HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM THEM.
  • 5 Ways The Macintosh Changed Creativity Forever
    “RELEASED 30 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, THE APPLE MACINTOSH REVOLUTIONIZED HOW ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS WORK. HERE, WE TALK TO A HANDFUL OF CREATIVES–INCLUDING THE INVENTOR OF MACPAINT AND THE DESIGNER OF MANY OF THE MAC’S MOST FAMILIAR ICONS–ABOUT H…
  • Smart Bezel’ Could Make Future iPads Feel Bigger [Patent]

    Not only would the tech­nique described allow ges­tures — such as swipes — to con­tin­ue off the nor­mal sur­face of the screen, but it would also allow spe­cif­ic vir­tu­al but­tons for tasks such as scrolling to be incor­po­rat­ed into the iPad’s bezel.”