The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- How to Be a Better Graphic Designer Next Year
Graphic designers are everywhere, especially across the Internet nowadays. Every Pinterest/Dribbble/Ffffound user arrives online searching for inspiration in different things, and each and every user sees and relates to the design that they fin…
- Hand Lettering: Understanding Types of Type
This tutorial will help you understand the various kinds of typography that exist all around us, such as the typography you see in books, billboards, store signage and everything else in between. You’ll gain a great amount of knowledge to help you decipher typography characteristics and what their usage is in this day and age.
- The Ad Agency Is Dead – And Other Dumb Headlines
Headline-writers will continue to proclaim the death of advertising, and marketing, and agencies – and they’ll still be wrong.
- Your Content Is Killing You. Here’s Why.
The latest content marketing research from Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs found that less than 40% of marketers feel like their content marketing is effective. Worse yet, just two in 10 are effectively measuring their content ma…
- What Makes Great Design?
Have you ever thought about what makes a design great? Design inspiration is everywhere. Truly creative designers rely on inspiration from a wealth of resources surrounding them daily.
- President Obama Supports Net Neutrality, For All The Good It Will Do
The Internet exploded in empty rhetoric Monday over Barack Obama’s Congress-short, six years late endorsement of “net neutrality,” an issue that will likely continue to go nowhere fast despite the president’s full-throated tone.
- Stop Bashing Microsoft: 5 Ways In Which They’re Awesome
Microsoft doesn’t always get fair treatment. When it comes down to it, they’re a pretty awesome company. They invest huge amounts in research, create innovative hardware and software, develop great applications while supporting everything that’s come before. There’s been enough Microsoft bashing, now it’s time for some love.
Here are five reasons Microsoft is awesome. - Designing the Netherlands’ ‘iTunes of Journalism’
We tried lots of different things, but every time we ended up with Flipboardish designs: beautiful, but without the soul of the original newspaper or magazine. A tabloid article should look a bit trashy, an article from a stylish magazine should look, well, stylish, and an article from The New York Times should feel like it’s an article from The New York Times.
- DOs and DON’Ts of Social Media Pictures
You can put a lot of effort into your brand’s visual presence—finding the perfect header, choosing an impeccable profile photo—and still fall flat. To reach the full visual engagement potential of your social media pictures, here are DOs and DON’T for your page’s essential visual elements: profile photos, cover images, and picture posts.
Tags:
- The First Amendment: What Photographers Need to Know (And What To Do If You Are Arrested)
It’s becoming more and more common to hear cases where photographers are being harassed by law enforcement for documenting or filming, recently and most notably in Ferguson, Missouri this past August. It has become so much of an issue that the NYPD chief even issued an internal memo to remind his officers that “members of the public are legally allowed to record police interactions…”
- The Smiling Curve Shows Optimism in Writing, Publishing
“All of this is because of the Internet: by removing friction it removes the need for folks in the middle, and the result is that value will flow to the edges. In the case of publishing that is aggregators on one side, and focused, responsive, and differentiated writers and publications on the other,” says Thompson.
- The Digital Newsstand Needs to Recognize Its Real Rivals
“Without the false comfort of digital newsstands, publishers might be forced to stop holding their noses and plunge into the big scary world where they are competing with everyone on the web for time and money, not just the former rivals they used to face in your local newsagent.”