The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Adobe Ink & Slide Win the Popular Science Best of What’s New Award!
I’m proud to announce that Adobe Ink & Slide just won Popular Science’s 2014 Best of What’s New award in the gadgets category.
- Superhero Caps Inspire Typography, Design, AND Comic Book Geeks Simultaneously
Graphic designer Eddy Ymeri has taken his twin loves of typography and comic book superheroes and created something truly unique: Superhero Caps. Using Risograph digital printing, he’s crafted three-dimensional paper models (5 1/2‑by-6-inches) that you build yourself from pieces you punch out from 11-by-17-inch, 80 lb. Cover sheets. Perhaps most impressive is the thought that Ymeri has clearly put into the choice of typeface he used for each “cap.” Take the one he used for X‑Men’s “Archangel”:
- Adobe Ideas: A New Name, A New Look, A New App
Recently, Adobe Ideas, our popular vector drawing app for iPad and iPhone, that’s been downloaded over 2.2 million times since May 2013, grew up and got better. Adobe Illustrator Draw is a transformation that means a newer, more modern version of the full-featured drawing app that people have come to rely on.
- ImageOptim Better Save For Web – PNG Compressor for Mac
ImageOptim is a free app that makes images take up less disk space and load faster, without sacrificing quality. It optimizes compression parameters, removes junk metadata and unnecessary color profiles.
ImageOptim seamlessly integrates the best optimization tools: PNGOUT, Zopfli, Pngcrush, AdvPNG, extended OptiPNG, JpegOptim, jpegrescan, jpegtran, and Gifsicle.
It’s excellent for publishing images on the Web (easily shrinks images “Saved for Web” in Photoshop) and also useful for making Mac and iPhone/iPad applications smaller (if you configure Xcode).
- 7 Tech Logos Before They Became Iconic
Some of the world’s most ubiquitous logos had humble beginnings. In 1975, Carolyn Davidson was paid $35 to develop the Nike logo and the “Swoosh” we’ve come to recognize has remained more or less intact for nearly forty years.
Meanwhile, Pepsi paid the Arnell Group $1 million to develop its updated logo in 2008. There are companies who’ve paid tens of millions for logo design.
But what of iconic tech logos? Surely Apple’s logo—that sleek, silver symbol of global innovation—came into the world fully formed. As it turns out, tech logos often have long, dark histories of their own, and we’ve highlighted a few famous examples.