Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 10 July 2015

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

• Is Programmatic Advertising the Future of Marketing?
  Machines are tak­ing over much of what mar­keters do today. It’s only recent­ly that a true rev­o­lu­tion in adver­tis­ing has become evi­dent. Fueled by the rise of ad-tech, or adver­tis­ing tech­nol­o­gy, the buy­ing and sell­ing of dig­i­tal adver­tis­ing is evolv­ing at a mind-bending pace.
• Why Women Apologize and Should Stop

  For so many women, myself includ­ed, apolo­gies are inex­orably linked with our con­cep­tion of polite­ness. Somehow, as we grew into adults, “sor­ry” became an entry point to basic affir­ma­tive sentences.

• Leading People When They Know More than You Do
  Four ways to avoid being derailed.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
• 50 Best Sites To Find Beautiful And Useful Free Icons
  Are you look­ing for high qual­i­ty icons for your web graphics?Tags: Free Freebie Freebies
• Three Subscription Revenue Models for Digital Content and Services

  As dis­cussed last week on New Rainmaker with Brian Clark, dig­i­tal prod­ucts and ser­vices plus sub­scrip­tion rev­enue are The Two Components of The Perfect Online Business Model. Let’s talk a lit­tle more about the sub­scrip­tion side of things.

  Tags: ContentMarketing CM AmWriting self­pub

• 10+ Services & Tools To Convert Designs To Codes
  After brain­storm­ing your designs, being able to final­ly see a work­ing end prod­uct is pret­ty much one of the more sat­is­fy­ing aspects of the soft­ware developmentTags: Webdesign
• What do read­ers want from front­mat­ter and endmatter?
  That got me to think­ing, which then got me to ask­ing ques­tions on Twitter, and final­ly, to set­ting up a wee ques­tion­naire. Rather than try to guess what peo­ple might want, I thought it was eas­i­er to just ask them, and 137 peo­ple gave me their opinions…
• How the Scooby Doo Gang Would Have Dressed Throughout the 20th Century

  In her delight­ful­ly titled “Scooby Doo, When Are You?” series, artist Julia Wytrazek has per­fect­ly imag­ined what Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Fred would have worn from 1910 through to the ’90s. I might be biased, but I like Velma’s looks the best.

  [PSB: I cor­rect­ed the errors in iO9’s headline.]

  Tags: Design Inspiration

• Federal judge orders can­cel­la­tion of Redskins’ trade­mark reg­is­tra­tions – The Washington Post
  The rul­ing backs a fed­er­al trade­mark board’s deci­sion that the team name is inel­i­gi­ble for sta­tus in the registry.

  Tags: IP IPLaw TM Trademark

• Federal judge orders can­cel­la­tion of Redskins’ trade­mark reg­is­tra­tions – The Washington Post
  The rul­ing backs a fed­er­al trade­mark board’s deci­sion that the team name is inel­i­gi­ble for sta­tus in the registry.

  Tags: IP IPLaw TM Trademark

• Why you should nev­er say “can’t” to your clients
  He made a very inter­est­ing point about two seem­ing­ly sim­i­lar words that can have very dif­fer­ent meanings.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
• 15 Useful CSS Tricks You Might Have Overlooked
  If you have been a fron­tend web devel­op­er for a while, there is a high chance that you have had a moment when you were try­ing to find out how to code somethingTags: CSS WebDesign
• What Publishers Must Understand about Ingenuity in the Digital Age
  According to Hepworth, the pub­lish­ing indus­try has been a dark, qui­et spot in this revolution.Tags: DPS DigitalMag emag
• Most Common Visual Content Mistakes and How To Fix Them
  This arti­cle gives you insight what visu­al con­tent mis­takes you’ve been doing as well as how you can fix themTags: Design Branding
• Thoughts on Becoming a Writer
  Do you want to be a writer? Are you in the process of becom­ing a writer? Maybe you’re already a writer!People often ask me how to become a writer. It seems like a sim­ple enough ques­tion, until you start con­sid­er­ing the seman­tics of the word w…
• 6 Common Stereotypes In Design [Infographic]
  If you are work­ing in the design indus­try, or are a keen fol­low­er of all things cre­ative, you are like­ly to have come across the stereo­typ­i­cal quirks that are often asso­ci­at­ed with creatives.Tags: Design
• Heavy metal-inspired typog­ra­phy rein­vents icon­ic logos
  These typog­ra­phy mash-ups blend heavy met­al logos and cor­po­rate brand­ing with unique results.Tags: typog­ra­phy inspiration
• Eco-Friendly Packaging Done Right In 20 Examples
  Here are 20 exam­ples of prod­uct brand­ing that adopts an eco-friendly, more organ­ic and nat­ur­al approach to cos­met­ics. By using sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing­ma­te­r­i­al like paper and reusable jars, fruits, flow­ers and leaves, as well as a natur…
• Influence People by Leveraging the Brain’s Laziness
  Our minds want to do what­ev­er is eas­i­est. Use that to your advantage.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
• Mr. Magazine on Virtual Relationships…Sort Of
  A staunch sup­port­er of print, Husni is also prag­mat­ic enough to under­stand that the medi­um must change to fit the new busi­ness mod­els. But nev­er for a moment imag­ine that a mag­a­zine can live in digital.Tags: DPS DigitalMag emag
• David Meerman Scott on the New Rules of Writing (and Profiting From) Great Books
  In this episode of Authorpreneur, host Jim Kukral and David Meerman Scott dis­cuss how David’s writ­ing dri­ves his speak­ing busi­ness, and more …Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub marketing
• How Much do the World’s Biggest YouTube Stars Make?
  It’s no secret that some of the most suc­cess­ful YouTubers are, well, suc­cess­ful. But just how big are the biggest YouTube stars?Tags: YouTube Media
• Get CC 2015 Add-ons sup­port now!
  UPDATE: July 7th, 2015 – �The Creative Cloud desk­top app version�2.1.2.114 update is now avail­able direct­ly with­in the appli­ca­tion, read on for how to check whether you have the lat­est ver­sion, if not you should be prompt­ed to update or get a noti­fi­ca­tion that it has updat­ed. – See more at: http://​blogs​.adobe​.com/​c​s​s​d​k​/​2​0​1​5​/​0​6​/​g​e​t​-​c​c​-​2​0​1​5​-​a​d​d​-​o​n​s​-​s​u​p​p​o​r​t​-​n​o​w​.​h​t​m​l​#​s​t​h​a​s​h​.​J​F​r​l​w​N​T​J.dpuf

  Tags: CreativeCloud Photoshop InDesign

• All Great Writing Boils Down to These 4 Emotional Appeals
  The appeal is the rea­son you give the read­er to read, sub­scribe, donate, share, or buy. Great writ­ers focus on these four emo­tion­al appeals in their copy.Tags: Writing AmWriting
• Do Freelance Writers Need Blogs?

  I chuck­led this morn­ing over the first page results for “Do Freelance Writers Need Blogs?” The answer is clear – you either do need a blog to be a suc­cess­ful free­lance writer, or you don’t, or maybe you do, or maybe you don’t…

  Tags: Writing AmWriting copy­writ­ing

• 7 most com­mon data visu­al­iza­tion mistakes
  In dataviz, as in any oth­er field, there are rules, best prac­tices, guide­lines and then there is com­mon sense. And con­trary to what we might believe, com­mon sense gets ignored quite often, as we’ll see in the exam­ples below.

  Tags: Design Business Infographics

• 14 Multi-Purpose WordPress Themes to Check Out
  Although vir­tu­al­ly any theme will have its strong points, as far as use­ful appli­ca­tions are con­cerned, we always try to include a few that would be ide­al for cre­at­ing spe­cif­ic cat­e­gories of web­sites, and we have done so here. The oth­ers, includ­ing tho…

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