Creative Community Bulletin 5 September 2013

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

  • Before & After: Whitley Neil Gin Package Design

    The new pack­ag­ing reflects the qual­i­ty of Whitley Neill’s super-premium liq­uid that has won a series of indus­try awards. Inspired by the brands African her­itage, the new design fus­es a matt black bot­tle with con­tem­po­rary labelling to con­vey the product’s hand craft­ed excel­lence. Whitley Neill’s sto­ry of dis­cov­ery is weaved through the design, detail­ing the spe­cial­ly select­ed African botan­i­cals that make up this vibrant and con­tem­po­rary gin.”

  • HOW’s Top 10 Best Websites for Designers for September

    Are you look­ing for design inspi­ra­tion? Check out this month’s Top 10 Websites for design­ers, assem­bled by HOW’s art direc­tor. You’ll notice a vin­tage theme with graph­ic design work from the 1960s fea­tured on Grain Edit and letterheads1960s. Typography also shows well here through the curat­ed images on Type Hunting and the web­fonts by Hoefler & Frere-Jones.”

  • Adobe Debuts Photoshop Photography Program: $9.99 Month for #Photoshop CC, #Lightroom, #Behance, 20GB

    Beginning today, cus­tomers who own Photoshop CS3 or high­er are eli­gi­ble for a spe­cial Creative Cloud mem­ber­ship offer that includes all of the fol­low­ing for just $9.99/month:”

  • 10 Creative & Unique Guitar Designs #Guitar #GuitarGod
    “Jam with your fans and friends with these ful­ly func­tion­al, awe­some look­ing and trendy gui­tars, and you will auto­mat­i­cal­ly gain the lime­light in the crowd. Post us your views on this col­lec­tion as well as the ones among these which you liked m…
  • Misery Land: 30 Pop Culture Icons Twisted by Illustrator Dave Macdowell

    From Bambi Fight Club through cocaine, Burger King, Kill Bill, Obama, Hello Kitty, the Lord of the Rings, and The Big Lebowski, let satir­i­cal cre­ations by Dave Macdowell blow your mind!”

  • US Magazines See Digital Growth Even as Newsstand Sales Decline
    “Looking at indi­vid­ual titles with­in the cat­e­go­ry, Cosmopolitan post­ed a decline of 23.9% in news­stand sales, Glamour fell by 28.8% while Oprah Magazine dropped 22.7%.

    But more pos­i­tive­ly for Cosmopolitan and Oprah Magazine, their dig­i­tal subs…

  • The Tech-Savvy Artist [Infographic]
    “Aside from the cre­ative skills, artists of this gen­er­a­tion must be equipped with the right tools of the trade. The advance­ments in tech­nol­o­gy today plays an impor­tant part in shap­ing cre­ative ideas and send­ing these ideas across var­i­ous platfo…
  • Burnt Out? Ilise Benun Gives Her Advise for Getting Back Your ‘Startup Passion’
    “What’s your best advice for get­ting your “start­up pas­sion” back, so that your mar­ket­ing is effective?”
  • 5 Stories Behind User Interface Design #UI #UX

    As impor­tant as user inter­face design is to the indus­try, not every design­er is well-versed in UI. So whether you’re expe­ri­enced in user inter­face or you spe­cial­ize in anoth­er area of design, we’ve com­piled five unique user inter­faces (UI) and the sto­ries behind them for a sneak peak into this wild world.”

  • Charles Bukowski: Don’t Waste Your Life

    Author Charles Bukowski in a let­ter to a friend about final­ly “break­ing free” of his job and being able to write:”

  • Kickstarter for New Sketchbooks & Notebooks for Thinkers

    There isn’t a sketch­book or note­book out there that we feel tru­ly under­stands how those of us use them on a dai­ly basis. After a lot of search­ing over near­ly two decades we decid­ed to make the book that we want to use. We’ve cre­at­ed many pro­to­types and are ready to place our first order for manufacturing—and that’s where we need your help. Without a sig­nif­i­cant amount of orders the man­u­fac­tur­ers can­not make any books at all.

    We’re a small group of thinkers (design­ers, illus­tra­tors, writ­ers, entre­pre­neurs and the like) that love to sit down with a note­book or sketch­book and give birth to inter­est­ing thoughts and ideas. While today’s dig­i­tal age is fantastic—we love technology—we’ve found that our best work always starts on paper.”