Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 13 January 2015

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

  • Why Women Stay Quiet at Work (New York Times)
    Almost every time they start­ed to speak, they were inter­rupt­ed or shot down before fin­ish­ing their pitch. When one had a good idea, a male writer would jump in and run with it before she could com­plete her thought.Sadly, their expe­ri­ence is not unusua…
  • 11 tips that will help you win dig­i­tal in 2015

    We got togeth­er, and spoke with a few brand lead­ers on what can brands do to refresh their brand sto­ries in 2015. Take a peek:

  • Sites We Like: Type Genius & Typeplate

    In this week’s Sites We Like, you can check out a cou­ple of fun type ref­er­ences we found. Better yet, look how they prac­tice what they preach with some nice type choic­es of their own.

  • 38 of the Best vCard WordPress Themes for Your Online Resume
    Below you will find the best of the best vCard WordPress themes designed for easy set­up and admin­is­tra­tion. Most of these themes have unlim­it­ed col­or vari­a­tions or at least sev­er­al col­or schemes for you to choose. I guess you will have a hard time to …
  • Illustrator Marcos Chin – Selected Editorial Work from 2014

    This is a selec­tion of edi­to­r­i­al illus­tra­tions cre­at­ed by Marcos Chin, an award-winning free­lance illus­tra­tor based in New York City. All works you can see below were cre­at­ed in the first half of 2014 for dif­fer­ent projects and clients.

    Marcos Chin’s illus­tra­tive work has been pub­lished in count­less mag­a­zines and adver­tise­ments. In addi­tion, he also cre­at­ed art­works for book and CD cov­ers as well as dif­fer­ent sur­face designs. His impres­sive list of clients includes well known brands, pub­lish­ers and mag­a­zines such as Rolling Stone, Target, Neiman Marcus, Fiat, Sports Illustrated, Time, GQ, Vanity Fair, etc.

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  • Writer Beware: Evaluating Publishing Contracts: Six Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself
    That’s all very well. But (and I’m speak­ing gen­er­al­ly here, not in par­tic­u­lar about The Toast) this is exact­ly how writ­ers get screwed: by mak­ing assump­tions about a pub­lish­er’s inten­tions, by let­ting their emo­tions over­rule their busi­ness sense, and …
  • 7 Questions For Logo Design Legend Ivan Chermayeff
    THE 82-YEAR-OLD DESIGNER OF LOGOS FOR EVERYONE, FROM NBC TO MOMA, ON DIFFICULT CLIENTS, GRAPHIC DESIGN’S BOOM, AND HIS FEAR OF PAINTING
  • Amazon Offers All-You-Can-Eat Books. Authors Turn Up Noses. – NYTimes​.com
    It may bring in read­ers, but the writ­ers say they earn less. And in inter­views and online forums, they have voiced their complaints.

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