Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 14 May 2014

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

  • 10 Tips To Really Succeed After Graduating

    What if you turned a com­mence­ment address into info­graph­ics? You’d have less per­spi­ra­tion in audi­to­ri­ums, more inspi­ra­tion in the real world.

  • What’s The Difference Between A Font And A Typeface? 3 Design Experts Weigh In
    And does the dis­tinc­tion even mat­ter any­more? We ask design experts Gary Hustwit, Eddie Opara, and Tobias Frere-Jones to weigh in.
  • Using the Shape Builder Tool In Adobe Illustrator

    When cre­at­ing com­plex shapes in Illustrator, you can use dif­fer­ent shapes togeth­er to form one shape. Instead of tedious­ly draw­ing your com­plex shape with the pen tool, you can com­bine sev­er­al shapes togeth­er to cre­ate the com­plex shape that you’re look­ing for. The shape builder tool makes it easy to com­bine shapes into one cus­tom shape. Simply by click­ing and drag­ging your mouse, you can com­bine over­lap­ping shapes. This enables you to com­bine the parts that you want to, with­out includ­ing the pieces that you don’t want. By hold­ing down the Alt or Option key, you can sub­tract shapes from your selec­tion. This makes it easy to trim parts of the shape away that you do not want.

  • 10 Illustrators To Follow This Week
    From mag­a­zines and posters to greet­ing cards and t‑shirts, great illus­tra­tions can be found every­where, but their goal is the same: to con­vey ideas and mes­sages that words sim­ply can­not describe.
  • How to Automate Your Workflow in Adobe Photoshop (Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Actions)

    Not only is Adobe Photoshop a pow­er­ful hands-on image edit­ing tool, it’s a very pow­er­ful hands-off image edit­ing tool. Read on as we show you how to auto­mate repet­i­tive and rou­tine tasks so you can spend your time more cre­ative­ly, rather than crop­ping, cor­rect­ing, and oth­er­wise clicking.”

  • Top 50 Business Buzzwords of 2013

    The Global Language Monitor has announced its first annu­al Top 50 Global Business Buzzwords, a glob­al survey.

    Top 50 Global Business Buzzwords of 2013 rep­re­sent some five con­ti­nents, which con­tin­ues to con­firm the ever-expanding nature of the English language.””

  • The Freelance Generation
    “ONCE upon a time, it was only nat­ur­al to seek and secure a sta­ble job after you grad­u­ate, prefer­ably with an estab­lished com­pa­ny where you can build your resume based on the rep­u­ta­tion of the company.

  • How To Create a Custom Twitter Header for the New (Mid-2014) Twitter Profile Design

    The new Twitter lay­out is meant to look more per­son­al. You have your pro­file pic­ture on the left, fol­lowed by your bio under­neath. Under that, you can see pre­view images of all your pho­tos that you’ve uploaded to your Twitter account. These are com­mon­ly known as Twit pics that you’ve linked to your account. In the mid­dle, you’ll find infor­ma­tion such as your tweets, your videos and pho­tos, who you’re fol­low­ing, how many fol­low­ers you have, and your favorites. Underneath that, you’ll find all of your lat­est tweets. One handy thing that you can do is if you have a cer­tain tweet that you want to pro­mote, you can pin it to the top of your Twitter page. This is real­ly handy for pro­mot­ing a sub­scrip­tion link to your web­site or your lat­est web­site promotion.

  • How To Create a Custom Twitter Header for the New (Mid-2014) Twitter Profile Design

    The new Twitter lay­out is meant to look more per­son­al. You have your pro­file pic­ture on the left, fol­lowed by your bio under­neath. Under that, you can see pre­view images of all your pho­tos that you’ve uploaded to your Twitter account. These are com­mon­ly known as Twit pics that you’ve linked to your account. In the mid­dle, you’ll find infor­ma­tion such as your tweets, your videos and pho­tos, who you’re fol­low­ing, how many fol­low­ers you have, and your favorites. Underneath that, you’ll find all of your lat­est tweets. One handy thing that you can do is if you have a cer­tain tweet that you want to pro­mote, you can pin it to the top of your Twitter page. This is real­ly handy for pro­mot­ing a sub­scrip­tion link to your web­site or your lat­est web­site promotion.

  • A Book That Teaches You How To Take Great Photographs Without Using Jargon

    The book cov­ers five aspects of pho­tog­ra­phy, includ­ing com­po­si­tion, light and expo­sure. There are no dia­grams or tech­ni­cal terms that are dif­fi­cult to understand—instead, the author fea­tures images and uses sim­ple terms to describe why these images are visu­al­ly appealing.