Design Business Links 7 April 2014

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

  • A Freelancer’s Guide to Prospecting

    First let me start by say­ing this is a nit­ty grit­ty guide to prospect­ing. This isn’t fluff and it prob­a­bly won’t make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

  • 20 Expert Tips to Improve Your Bitmap Illustration
    “Rob Carney speaks to the world’s top illus­tra­tors to give you essen­tial tips for pro­gress­ing your bitmap illus­tra­tion career.

  • Get Easier Updates With These Alternative App Stores For Mac

    Tired of man­u­al­ly installing and updat­ing Mac apps? Check out these alter­na­tives to the Mac App Store, offer­ing down­loads and updates the App Store can’t.

  • 100 Brilliant Examples of Print Advertising
    “Print ads can still be the most pow­er­ful medi­um for get­ting your mes­sage across, as these high­ly inno­v­a­tive print adver­tis­ing cam­paigns show.

  • Save Hours of Work With InDesign

    That’s right, I said min­utes. With a rarely-mentioned fea­ture called Data Merge, you can bring your graph­ics into an InDesign doc­u­ment, and you can set up your text fields where each set of infor­ma­tion will go. Then, you match the columns of your excel spread­sheet with the fields you’ve placed on your doc­u­ment. Watch the video below to see how all of this works. You’ll be sav­ing hours of work in no time.

  • The State of Web Design in 2014
    “New trends throw up new chal­lenges and there are plen­ty of web design­ers who passed 2013 with fly­ing col­ors. But, 2013 is over and done with and we are look­ing at a new year, with new design­ing trends and all the chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with imp…
  • 5 Things About Owning a Start-Up They Don’t Teach in Business School
    “Without any guides on how to men­tal­ly han­dle my new start-up, I dove right in head-first and found myself “doggy-paddling” my way through, try­ing to keep my head above water. Fast for­ward near­ly two years and I’ve learned invalu­able lessons th…
  • 7 Things You Didn’t Know Bitly Could Do
    “But if you’re only using Bitly to gen­er­ate short­links, you might be miss­ing out. Bitly also per­son­al­izes your links, bun­dles URLs by theme, auto­mat­i­cal­ly gen­er­ates bit­marks for your blog and more.”
  • Hustle Like Voodoo Doughnut: Be You and Forget the Rest

    The famous Voodoo Doughnut has a cult fol­low­ing and can boast expan­sion past the US and into Japan (and even Tanzania). According to Copyblogger, there’s three things they do that set them apart:”

  • 30 Free Macbook Mockup PSD Designs

    In this com­pi­la­tion below, you’ll find some of the best free Macbook Mockup Design PSDs which might handy for your design projects. This is not the tra­di­tion­al long list with all the avail­able PSD tem­plates on the inter­net but it’s an refined col­lec­tion of best hand­picked PSD templates.

  • How Advertisements On Your Website Could Make Or Break You

    If you’re going to mon­e­tize your site with ads, here are a few impor­tant tips that you must keep in mind.”

  • OneNote vs. Evernote for Different Needs and Note-taking Styles
    “Now that Microsoft OneNote is free for Mac and Windows, the price and cross-platform bar­ri­ers to this much beloved note-taking tool are gone. But how well does OneNote stack up to (the also awe­some) Evernote, Lifehacker read­ers’ favorite note-…
  • How to Stop Clients Breaking their Contracts
    “Andy Rutledge, co-founder of Unit Interactive, out­lines how to write prop­er con­tracts for your clients.

  • The 90 Best Tumblr Blogs for Designers
    “UPDATED! There are some great Tumblr blogs cov­er­ing graph­ic design, pho­tog­ra­phy, illus­tra­tion, typog­ra­phy or 3D. We’ve picked the best…

  • Why doing peo­ple favours can win you more free­lance work
    “You don’t have to bill for every lit­tle thing, says Sam Piggott. The odd favour can send your career flying.

  • Discover how to build an app for iOS, Android, or Windows with these easy-to-follow tutorials
    “Want to build an app for iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows? These app tuto­ri­als will tell you how.