Design Business Links 14 March 2014

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

  • 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: