Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 12 May 2015

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

• Writers Needed: Why are the sto­ries in video games so bad?
  That’s because the act of writ­ing for games and the skillset required is vast­ly dif­fer­ent from what you’d think or expect, and even peo­ple who do it pro­fes­sion­al­ly, toil­ing qui­et­ly behind the scenes, often seem frus­trat­ed at how poorly-understood the …
• Calligraphy, Lettering and Typography Designs for Your Inspiration
  Remarkable typog­ra­phy art­work inspi­ra­tion designs, quotes and illus­trat­ed art­work by pro­fes­sion­al graph­ics design­ers from all over the web. In this show­case, we’ve put togeth­er a list of some of amaz­ing typog­ra­phy design for your inspi­ra­tion. I hope you will enjoy it, and please let us know by com­ment­ing below:

  Tags: typog­ra­phy inspi­ra­tion

• A Much Better Revenue Model for Podcasting
  Sounds a lot like blog­ging in 2006. Problem is, with the excep­tion of a few huge sites, it didn’t real­ly work out that way for most blog­gers. Which is why think­ing in terms of con­tent mar­ket­ing and devel­op­ing your own prod­ucts took off in that field.

  Tags: ContentMarketing CM Podcast

• New book: Working with Images and Multimedia in eBooks
  Copy edi­tors, dic­tio­nary offi­cials and lan­guage experts seem to be com­ing around to using the gender-neutral ‘they’ in the sin­gu­lar, instead of ‘he or she.’

  Tags: Writing AmWriting

• Favourite Canadian logos, lov­ing­ly preserved.
  Our favourite Canadian logos, lov­ing­ly preserved.Tags: Canada Canuck Logo Branding Design
• Favourite Canadian logos, lov­ing­ly preserved.
  Our favourite Canadian logos, lov­ing­ly preserved.Tags: Canada Canuck Logo Branding Design
• 18 New Free Fonts for Graphic Designers
  Here are best free fonts list gath­ered for pro­fes­sion­al graph­ic design­ers. These fonts can make your design more attrac­tive and eas­i­ly get your viewersTags: Free Freebie Freebies
• $2.3 billion–annual pay­roll impact of the schol­ar­ly and sci­en­tif­ic pub­lish­ing workforce.
  Copy edi­tors, dic­tio­nary offi­cials and lan­guage experts seem to be com­ing around to using the gender-neutral ‘they’ in the sin­gu­lar, instead of ‘he or she.’

  Tags: Writing AmWriting

• Read the first ever arti­cle writ­ten about Apple
  Woz and Jobs in their ear­ly days at Apple. Apple’s not exact­ly hurt­ing for press cov­er­age these days. There was a time, though, when the com­pa­ny was desperTags: Apple
• 7 Top Authors Talk Twitter Tips and Social Media’s Effects on Literature
  Sometimes, 140 char­ac­ters are all an author needs.Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub marketing

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