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- A Visual Search Engine That Curates Inspiring Images From Design Websites
“This search engine curates images from design resources such as Dribbble and The Dieline. All you have to do is type in what you’re looking for, and an imageboard of results will show up.
” - Inspired by Paper in a Digital World
“She calls it “a magazine for the creative and curious.” Article topics range from vintage haberdashery to gig posters, to baseball, sign-making, fabric design, and creative workspaces. Vintage printed materials are showcased, as are stories about crafting alphabets from every material imaginable. She has a thing for typewriters. Of course.”
- Delete Your Way to Productivity (And Not Just in Email)
“Whether you have too much email, too many creative blocks, or a myriad of distractions, it’s time to metaphorically (and sometimes literally) press the delete key and make your work surmountable.”
- How Rituals Unleash Your Creativity
“What is the first thing you do in the morning? The last thing you do at night? Your first action when taking on a new project? Your impulse when receiving good (or bad) news?
” - 5 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work
“Mistakes such as these may not be picked up by software, such as Microsoft Word, which will also not take account of the fact that capital letters may be required in the middle of a sentence, or that a word has been correctly spelled but incor…
- Free Vector Rulers, Triangles, and Protractors
“Time for some geometry now ;) Here’s a set of vector rulers, triangles, L‑shapes and protractors. It includes color, wood, steel and transparent plastic vector rulers in both metric and inch measure systems. The sizes are: ruler (12 inches / 30 centimeters); 60 degree triangle (10 inches / 25 centimeters); 45 degree triangle (6 inches / 15cm); L‑shape ruler (12 inches / 30 centimeters); 180 degree protractor;
” - Google removes underlined links, says goodbye to 1996
Google started life as a research project in 1996 to crawl the internet and create a search engine. 18 years later, Google is now removing the last of the design left over from that era. Starting today, the ’90s-style underlined links are being removed from Google search results. It truly marks the end of an era of the web, with underlined links a familiar method used by web developers to highlight links on sites like Geocities, Altavista, and pets.com. It’s the biggest visual change today, but Google is also tweaking other parts of its desktop search results.
- How to Be Creative Even When You Least Feel Like It
“In Manage Your Day-to-Day, Seth Godin tells us: “Lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don’t feel like it.” So how do we do that? Michael Nobbs — who suffers from the debilitating disease Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome — tells us how it’s done:
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