Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 1 September 2014

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

  • The Bible’s a mess, but a design­er is fix­ing it.

    Although many con­sid­er Christianity’s mes­sage a thing of beau­ty, the typ­i­cal Bible is an ugly thing. Most edi­tions are a mess of num­bers, notes, translu­cent pages, and invari­ably tiny type. While the tra­di­tion­al arrange­ment makes for a great ref­er­ence tool, it’s any­thing but an easy read. Adam Greene, a book design­er based in Santa Cruz, California, thinks he can change that with a Kickstarter for a new ver­sion of the Bible titled Bibliotheca.

  • Create an Advanced Frozen Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator
    As with all of my vec­tor por­traits, I start with an ini­tial base image. Depending on the project you’re tak­ing on, you may need to car­bon copy your stock image or you may be able to get cre­ative. Advanced Vector Portraits focus­es on the latter …
  • The Secret Society For High-Achieving Women
    You may not have heard of C200, but you have def­i­nite­ly heard of its members.
  • 3 Ways to Squash Burnout and Boost Productivity

    You have no prob­lem keep­ing busy. No prob­lem cross­ing things off your to-do list. You mul­ti­task like it’s going out of style. But the weeks con­tin­ue to fly by and you can’t help but be dis­sat­is­fied with what you’ve actu­al­ly accom­plished. Not only that, but you’re exhaust­ed. Your cre­ative juices don’t flow the way the used to and you feel stressed and inad­e­quate. You’re tread­ing water.

    I got sick of this pat­tern. So I changed it.

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  • Elevating Wordmarks with the Power of a Custom Font

    It’s the peren­ni­al ques­tion for logo design­ers tasked with cre­at­ing a word­mark: to cre­ate the type from scratch, or to sim­ply mod­i­fy an exist­ing typeface?

  • Simple Steps to Make Branding Work for You
    Marketing and brand­ing prod­ucts goes beyond just cre­at­ing a clever slo­gan and a few good ads for print and web. What many star­tups tend to for­get is that brand­ing is a big part of the deal as well. Perhaps this is because these new com­pa­nies do…
  • Creative pro­fes­sion­als tak­ing back their cre­ative free­dom from developers

    However, the way the world sees design is chang­ing and the role of the design­er as a cre­ative force is on the rise. Leading the van­guard of super­star design­ers is Apple’s Jony Ive who, along with Steve Jobs, led Apple’s charge as the com­pa­ny that put design at the fore­front prod­uct devel­op­ment. From the iPhone to the Macbook Air to the lat­est Mac Pro; Apple has con­sis­tent­ly deliv­ered prod­ucts that look as good as they per­form, a seam­less merg­er of design and technology.

  • How to Render Short, Detailed Hair in Adobe Illustrator
    You’d think that long hair was the hard­est hair to ren­der… well that and curly hair, how­ev­er I have news for you. From my expe­ri­ence from vec­tor­ing hun­dreds of vec­tor por­traits, short hair has always been more time con­sum­ing and required more…
  • What the ‘Learn to Code’ move­ment is for­get­ting: Existing developers

    However, I’ve start­ed to won­der if by focus­ing so much on learn­ing code, we’re los­ing focus on how to sup­port one of our most impor­tant assets in the tech­nol­o­gy industry—existing developers.

  • How Fonts Affect the User Experience
    Several years ago, researchers at MIT con­firmed through a study that fonts can impact how we feel: A bad font can make us frown uncon­scious­ly, while a good font can make us feel happy.

    If fonts can influ­ence our emo­tions, then they can certain…

Curated by Pariah Burke