Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 2 February 2016

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

• Alphabet (Google) Not Apple is Now the World’s Most Valuable Company
  The last time Google was more valu­able than Apple was in February 2010, when both com­pa­nies were worth less than $200 billion.Tags: Apple Google
• Increase Your Creative Output With 14 Time Management Tips Just for Creatives
  Improve your time man­age­ment skills to be more cre­ative and pro­duc­tive. The 14 time man­age­ment tips out­lined in this arti­cle will help to make sure your 2016 is your most pro­duc­tive year yet.

  Tags: Design Business

• Print Free Graph Paper
  Print Cartesian, engi­neer­ing, polar, iso­met­ric, hexag­o­nal, prob­a­bil­i­ty, Smith chart and log­a­rith­mic graph paper free from your computer.
• Five Techniques for Creating Impressionist or Abstract Photography
  Abstract and impres­sion­ist pho­tog­ra­phy leave things to the imag­i­na­tion and help you con­cen­trate on tex­ture, form, and colour. Instead of mak­ing every­thing look real, I invite you to use bold colours, shapes, and lines to make excit­ing images.Tags: Phở…
• Why It’s Never Too Late to Become an Entrepreneur [Infographic]
  They say age is noth­ing but a num­ber, and these stats prove it.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance Startup
• Who’s mess­ing with your Internet rights? And who’d tell you if they did?
  Fears of ter­ror­ism and oth­er threats have led many democ­ra­cies to increase sur­veil­lance of Internet users, and to pres­sure Internet com­pa­nies to cen­sor infor­ma­tion and share user data. Authoritarian gov­ern­ments have been doing that all along. What rig…
• 10 Things Editors Look for in Nonfiction

  Got a ter­rif­ic non­fic­tion project you’re try­ing to sell? Wondering if you have what it takes? Here are some signs of poten­tial future suc­cess as a non­fic­tion author:

  Tags: writ­ing amwrit­ing

• Guide To Using WebP Images Today: A Case Study
  WebP deliv­ers loss­less and lossy com­pres­sion for images. A guide on how to pro­vide a cross-browser sup­port for WebP today.Tags: Design WebDesign DesignforMobile
• How To Write an “About Me” Page That Gets You Hired
  An about page does­n’t have to be anxiety-inducing. Keep it sim­ple and put your inner-critic aside.Tags: Freelance amWriting Design
• Adobe’s Stylus And Digital Ruler (Ink and Slide) Are Now Just $30
  This bar­gain bin splurge is good for at least an after­noon of amuse­men­tand own­ing a tiny, odd piece of history.
• 10 Reasons Why Magazine Ads Are Great at Selling Books

  “For book pub­lish­ers seek­ing cred­i­bil­i­ty, rep­e­ti­tion, and a clos­er con­nec­tion with their tar­get buy­ers, the ben­e­fits of print ads may out­weigh even the most-used dig­i­tal media,” Winters continues.

  Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub

• A Brand New Graphic Design Concept Creating a Massive Demand for Fonts
  A rel­a­tive­ly new graph­ic design web­site FontBundles​.net has been break­ing the mould recent­ly with their inno­v­a­tive font bun­dles sav­ing cus­tomers ridicu­lous amounts of money.Tags: fonts typography
• The book agent’s touch
  An agent is a writer’s “objec­tive friend” and trust­ed by pub­lish­ers to find the best manuscriptsTags: Writing amwriting
• Less Content Marketing, More Quality Content
  It is incred­i­bly hard for a pro­fes­sion­al to think out­side their pro­fes­sion; but in an increas­ing­ly inter­con­nect­ed col­lab­o­ra­tive world, it has nev­er been more necessary.Tags: CM ContentMarketing
• Extract Images From Pdfs Using Acrobat DC
  Tips, tricks, and tuto­ri­als for the Creative CloudTags: PDF Acrobat
• How Freelancers Can Make More Money
  Wondering how you can make more mon­ey in your free­lance busi­ness? Click to read five tips to help grow your bot­tom line.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance

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