The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Top 10 Ways to Find the Best Place to Live
Where should you move to? Where will you feel at home? These are complicated questions with many variables to consider, so today we’re taking a look at tips on finding the right neighborhood (or city or state) for you, and maps and statistics t…
- Top 10 Tricks for Shopping at Amazon
We love Amazon for its convenience, variety, and prices. We also love tricks and tips that help us save money and reap more benefits when shopping the mega online store. Here are ten of our favorite Amazon tricks.
- How to Fix LinkedIn’s Biggest Annoyances
Love it or (most likely) hate it, LinkedIn is the leading social network for your career, whether you’re looking for a job or just want to stay in touch with others on a professional level. It’s also incredibly frustrating to many of us. Here’s…
- This Graphic Shows How to Remove Embarrassing Photos from Social Media
Even if you think you’re sharing or storing photos privately online, there’s always a chance that your pictures could inadvertently get into the wrong hands. Here’s how to completely remove photos you don’t want shared from Facebook, Google, In…
- Is Smarter Technology Dumbing Down the Human Race?
As a child, you memorized your friend’s phone numbers; now you just add them to your phone. You used to memorize directions; now you just use your GPS. Are humans becoming stupid?
It depends what you mean. You could argue we’re becoming less good at memorizing things, including phone numbers and directions. But does that mean we’re less intelligent?
Not necessarily. Intelligence is more than rote memorization, of course. But is not using our brains to memorize things making us less intelligent, due to lack of practice? And are the many distractions the digital world offers keeping us from learning new things, or thinking deeply?
It might be an impossible question to answer, but many have tried, Let’s take a look at just a few of the prominent thoughts out there.
- An Introduction to Icon Fonts with Font Awesome and IcoMoon
I’ll demonstrate the great things we can achieve using icon fonts but first I’ll take a look at what icon fonts are and what are their pros and cons. Then, we’ll examine two popular icon fonts and we’ll see different examples showing how we can use them in our projects.
- 3 things you didn’t know you could do with InDesign
Adobe InDesign is well-known for its publishing capabilities. With this powerful tool, you can create books, magazines, posters, brochures, flyers – more or less anything you can think of when it comes to print design. But did you known that InDesign has some other cool features?
- 3 things you didn’t know you could do with InDesign
Adobe InDesign is well-known for its publishing capabilities. With this powerful tool, you can create books, magazines, posters, brochures, flyers – more or less anything you can think of when it comes to print design. But did you known that InDesign has some other cool features?
- 18 Mac Hacks That Will Make You A MacBook Pro
Did someone say EMOJI KEYBOARD?!
- 4 Creative Photoshop Artists Who Cleverly Manipulate Landscapes [PHOTOS]
A lot of artists have different tools that they use to create a particular form of work. Some people use paper as a medium whilst others prefer a more digital art form. Then there are those who utilize Photoshop as a tool in order to make somet…
- Prioritize Your Goals with Warren Buffett’s Two-List System
Warren Buffett might best be known for his financial advice (which is usually very simple), but we might also learn a few things from him about productivity and achieving our goals.
- How to be a creative director
What qualities do you need to become a creative director and how do you become one? Leading creative directors offer their views.
- 6 Reasons Why Perfectionism Kills Your Productivity
Perfectionism sounds like a first world problem, but it stifles creative minds.
- 7 Amazing Color Scheme Tools for Designers or Anyone
Colors are tricky. It might seem easy enough to pick a handful of colors that look good together, but as any designer who has spent hours tweaking shade after shade to no satisfaction can tell you: it’s tricky.
- Does this surreal animation spark your creativity?
Portals is a visual treat set in a bioluminescent world. Director Simeon Sokerov and concept artist Viktor Mazhlekov say its aim is to spark the imagination.
- 7 Steps To Getting A Business Loan – Forbes
While it is not as easy as it once was before the Great Recession, all banks and other lenders still need to loan money to small business. The key is to know how to do it and get the best terms. Here is a simple 7 step process: