The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- The Last Word on Helvetica?
Perhaps this article should have ended at the question mark in its title. And by the end of it, you may well concur. But, in the meantime, and before I get started — and I promise this won’t take long — let me be clear, I am not, I repeat, not (in bold for emphasis) a Helvetica hater.
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- New Book – The Business of ePublishing 2015 by Pariah S. Burke
The Business of ePublishing 2015 explains in thorough detail what professional publishers, designers, and traditional, independent, and hybrid authors need to know about the world and business of digital publishing in 2015 and beyond. It goes beyond the rhetoric and paranoid proclamations rampant in social media, blogs, and news outlets to provide provable, unbiased insight into the users, devices, formats, and real world economics of ebooks, fixed-layout ebooks, digital textbooks, digital magazines, and more for all levels of publishing—enterprise, small- to medium-sized publishers, indies, and self-publishers.
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- How Shake Shack Made a 70-Year-Old Font Hot Again
Washington DC has its first official font. All of the city’s communications will be set into Neutra, the same typeface used by the beloved hamburger chain Shake Shack.
Tags: Typography fonts
- How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Brand Identity
In this article we are going to highlight a few different ways you should be using Twitter toactively grow your following, while also establishing yourself as an expert and standing out from the crowd. At the same time, I’ll also cover a few different examples and resources to help you achieve these same results.
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- How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Brand Identity
In this article we are going to highlight a few different ways you should be using Twitter toactively grow your following, while also establishing yourself as an expert and standing out from the crowd. At the same time, I’ll also cover a few different examples and resources to help you achieve these same results.
Tags: Twitter
- Please shut up: Why self-promotion as an author doesn’t work.
So if you’re a writer who worries as much as I do about online marketing, the best advice I can give you is to chill out and write the next book. To focus your energy on the one thing that’s in your control: writing the best book you possibly…
- A Beginner’s Guide to Kerning Text Like a Designer
Have you ever looked at a word you’re typesetting and thought something just looked off?Type is a funny thing in that it can be a sort of optical illusion. If you were to typeset a word with exactly equal spacing between each letter, it wouldn’t actually look evenly spaced. That’s because letters have unique shapes, like puzzle pieces, and need to be fit together in the way that works best for each pair.
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- Why The Internet Needs IPFS Before It’s Too Late
IPFS eliminates the need for websites to have a central origin server, making it perhaps our best chance to entirely re-architect the Internet — before its own internal contradictions unravel it from within.
- Playboy ‘No Nudes’ Is What Happens When Platforms Rule
Playboy, once the premier adult magazine, plans to cover up its models and go PG13. As first reported by The New York Times, the magazine will move away from full nudity under a redesign planned for its March issue. “This means the models, celebrities and, yes, Playmates will not be naked for the first time since our founder Hugh Hefner laid out the first issue in 1953,” the company says.The move is a stark example of how content is dictated by the platforms that drive readers to stories.
- How Digital Publishers Can Use New iOS9 Features Increase Subscriptions
iOS9 offers publishers an opportunity to take advantage of some new features and are significant for digital publishers. Arguably they will benefit advertising oriented apps better than pay-wall apps, but they might even drive publishers to take down …
- 5 Tips to Choose the Best Name For Your startup
Your startup name should be unique, creative and memorable. For that, you must name storm to select a name, run a test and check for the trademark elements.Tags: Branding Marketing Startups
- New Internet Copyright and Enforcement Rules: Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
You’ll notice that all of the provisions that recognize the rights of the public are non-binding, whereas almost everything that benefits rightsholders is binding. That paragraph on the public domain, for example, used to be much stronger in the first leaked draft, with specific obligations to identify, preserve and promote access to public domain material. All of that has now been lost in favor of a feeble, feel-good platitude that imposes no concrete obligations on the TPP parties whatsoever.
- Broken: Fixed, The App That Fixes Your Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked In San Francisco, Oakland & L.A.
Fixed, a mobile app that fights parking tickets and other traffic citations on users’ behalf, has had its parking ticket operations blocked in three of its..
- Simple questions for writers
1. What is it for? If this piece of writing works, what will change? What action will be taken? The more specific you are in your intent, the more frightening it is to do the writing (because you might fail).…Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
- Five obvious writing rules that aren’t that obvious
4. Trust the reader. You don’t have to spell out your plots completely. The bad guy doesn’t have to detail his evil plan. It should become obvious sooner or later anyway. Admittedly, I kind of knew this all along. In fact, in my first novel, I even make fun of the “bad guy monologuing” cliché.
- Publishing Technologies: Best Practices From Top Digital Magazines
- A study on logo treatments and brand perceptions from Siegel+Gale