Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 19 January 2015

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

• Twitter to Pocket, Pocket to Evernote, a System for Reading, Research, and Clipping

  I need­ed a bet­ter way of get­ting what I want­ed to keep in Evernote, but at the same time, keep Evernote clutter-free. Eventually, I came up with a process that has been work­ing very well for me. In involves using Pocket. Pocket is a “save for lat­er” ser­vice like Instapaper for Readability. It allows you to grab links, images, videos, etc. and save them for lat­er review. Pocket also strips out the clut­ter from the arti­cles and presents them in an easy-to read fash­ion. Lots of appli­ca­tions inte­grate with Pocket, mak­ing it easy to send arti­cles and oth­er items. Best of all, Pocket inte­grates with Evernote, allow­ing you to send items from Pocket to Evernote.

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  Evernote

  Pocket

• Unmark is the beau­ti­ful, min­i­mal­is­tic to do app for bookmarks
  Tags: Digg Diigo OpenSource
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Selects the Eight Books Every Intelligent Person on the Planet Should Read
  If you read all of the above works you will glean pro­found insight into most of what has dri­ven the his­to­ry of the west­ern world.
• Stop smok­ing now: 10 great anti-smoking ads

  Despite of know­ing the harm­ful effects of smok­ing, many and many peo­ple are into this habit. However, there’s a hope that cre­at­ing aware­ness and edu­cat­ing them can open their eyes and grad­u­al­ly decrease their smok­ing habit. It’s real­ly chal­leng­ing for a copy­writer or an art direc­tor to build suc­cess­ful anti-smoking cam­paign. And in this today’s blog, we have the col­lec­tion of 10 cre­ative and inspir­ing anti-smoking ad cam­paign. Have a look at these cam­paigns below.

  Tags: inspi­ra­tion

• Submit Your Book to The New England Book Show

  In sup­port of our new mem­bers, we have expand­ed our cat­e­gories to include a broad­er spec­trum of sub­mis­sions. The new cat­e­gories are: Children’s Books, Young Adult Books, Reflowable eBooks, Fixed Layout eBooks, and Small/Self Publishers.

  A notable and dis­tin­guished jury will draw togeth­er at Emerson College Bordy Theater to con­sid­er design, com­po­si­tion, paper, print­ing, and bind­ing. Winners will be cel­e­brat­ed at the 58th Annual New England Book Show, which will be held on May 5, 2015 at the Boston Symphony Hall.

  Tags: eprd­ctn self­pub epub indiepub

• Submit Your Book to The New England Book Show

  In sup­port of our new mem­bers, we have expand­ed our cat­e­gories to include a broad­er spec­trum of sub­mis­sions. The new cat­e­gories are: Children’s Books, Young Adult Books, Reflowable eBooks, Fixed Layout eBooks, and Small/Self Publishers.

  A notable and dis­tin­guished jury will draw togeth­er at Emerson College Bordy Theater to con­sid­er design, com­po­si­tion, paper, print­ing, and bind­ing. Winners will be cel­e­brat­ed at the 58th Annual New England Book Show, which will be held on May 5, 2015 at the Boston Symphony Hall.

  Tags: eprd­ctn self­pub epub indiepub

• Free Fonts Download For Designers

  Download the best com­ic free font of this month! An excep­tion­al type­face free font Gagalin is such a nice typog­ra­phy that real­ly makes you feel good. A pure 100% com­ic font designed by Iordanis Passas is lit­er­al­ly the best com­ic free font I’ve ever saw and down­loaded. You should also try this free font for your web design project.

• BREAKING: Shutting Down: SocialFolders, a Great Service That Synced Facebook (and more) Pix and Videos to Desktop
  While many peo­ple are still active­ly using the ser­vice, and some new ones sign up every day, we haven’t been able to make a viable busi­ness out of it. More fund­ing would be need­ed to main­tain exist­ing chan­nels, devel­op new ones and pro­vide the support…
• How Designers Turn Data Into Beautiful Infographics
  BEHIND THE SCENES OF INFORMATION ARCHITECTS’ CREATIVE PROCESSES.

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  infographics

• Your First 90 Days in a New Position You Should Have 30 Coffee Meetings
  Whether it is Day 1, Day 91, or Year 10 at an orga­ni­za­tion, rela­tion­ships, impact, and growth are the keys to suc­cess and ful­fill­ment in any posi­tion, at any lev­el. Actively devel­op­ing these three fac­tors will lead to high­er job and per­son­al satisfact…
• This crowd-designed video game could be an inspi­ra­tion for all types of businesses
  “This kind of chang­ing dynam­ic makes peo­ple that have backed Star Citizen think their voice mat­ters in some way. They think, ‘This is a uni­verse I can real­ly care about, and if we voice issues they might get changed.’ I haven’t seen that in any tra­di­tion­al game consumer/publisher rela­tion­ship,” Roberts said.

  Tags: ForwardThinking

• Hootsuite and Evernote Pilot Your Social Media Millennium Falcon
  Is it a stretch to say that Hootsuite and Evernote work togeth­er like Han Solo and Chewbacca? Sure, but we’re going to run with it any­ways. I’ve part­nered up with Evernote Expert Jason Frasca to present you with these clas­sic maneu­vers designed…
• A mock­up is worth a thou­sand PowerPoint slides (or How to get angels to invest by mak­ing mocks) | Jason Calacanis

  Decks are death.

  By send­ing a deck to an investor you are the snowflake in the blizzard.

  Now, if you take the time and you make a mock­up of your idea? Well, now you’ve sep­a­rat­ed your­self from 9 out of 10 pitch­es an angel gets.

• 20 Most Useful 3D Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials
  20 Most Useful 3D Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials that I use on a reg­u­lar basis to make my designs and work stand out from the crowd. I could have used some ready-made fonts to sub­sti­tute the hard work, how­ev­er, I decid­ed to play around with the Power…
• Photoshop Bad Habits (and How to Break Them) [Video by Paul Trani]

  Chances are there are some things you might be doing in Photoshop, unaware that there is an eas­i­er way. In this video you’ll see some bad habits, and the more effi­cient way of doing things.

• 6 Cool Instagram Tricks to Take Your Account to The NEXT Level
  Looking for cool Instagram tricks to improve your account? No prob­lem. These 6 tips will have you doing things on Instagram you did­n’t think were possible.Tags: Instagram
• Illustrating Barcodes to be More Impactful and Fun
  Barcodes grace almost every prod­uct we sell. Concidering how much pack­age real estate they com­mand, why should­n’t they be more fun?Tags: barcodes
• News Sites Designers Hate
  In news that will make Web design­ers every­where smile, two big sites, The Huffington Post and ESPN, are plan­ning redesigns in the com­ing months. Still, that leaves plen­ty of oth­er sites that are in sore need of some visu­al attention.

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• Your Content Feed is Broken
  Our con­tent feeds should be expe­ri­enced as stream of infor­ma­tion to be con­sumed over lin­ear time.
• TypeTalk: Eight Timeless Typefaces

  Fonts that are in vogue come and go, with pop­u­lar type­styles con­stant­ly being replaced by new­er, trendi­er designs. But even with the hun­dreds of new type­faces being released each year, there are some that don’t seem to age, and con­tin­ue to look fresh while serv­ing their typo­graph­ic purpose.

  Here are eight type­faces that, in spite of hav­ing been around for dozens—and in some cas­es hundreds—of years, don’t appear to have an expi­ra­tion date any time soon. 

  Tags: typog­ra­phy

• Counterpoint OUP: No, we haven’t banned books on pigs – but sen­si­tiv­i­ty is key in glob­al publishing
  Jane Harley: At Oxford University Press we have to bal­ance children’s cul­tur­al and learn­ing needs, while retain­ing some healthy com­mon sense

  Tags: eprd­ctn cen­sor­ship

• Oxford University Press Tells Authors Not to Mention Pork (or any­thing else which might offend over­seas markets)

  “Now, if a respectable pub­lish­er, tied to an aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tion, is say­ing you’ve got to write a book in which you can­not men­tion pigs because some peo­ple might be offend­ed, it’s just ludi­crous. It is just a joke,” said Naughtie, prompt­ing a cho­rus of out­rage in the Daily Mail, which quot­ed Tory MP Philip Davies describ­ing the sit­u­a­tion as “non­sen­si­cal polit­i­cal correctness”.

  Tags: eprd­ctn cen­sor­ship

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