Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 2 September 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • You Don’t Own Your Logo (and Why You Think You Do): Why Copyright Transfer Matters

    Payment Does Not Confer Automatic Copyright or Intellectual Property Ownership

    So, this sce­nario may be extreme, after all, you have com­mis­sioned a logo – your brand iden­ti­ty – and what else are you going to do with your brand iden­ti­fy apart from use it wher­ev­er and when­ev­er you can? However, this is a good illus­tra­tion of the poten­tial curve balls that exist between cre­atives and clients, and why it makes good sense for both par­ties to know explic­it­ly, from the out­set, what is expected.

  • Free Photoshop and Illustrator Flat MockUps of Stationery Items
    A col­lec­tion of flat sta­tionery items to cre­ate great pre­sen­ta­tions for your brand­ing projects. All objects are avail­able in both PSD and AI for­mats so you can eas­i­ly rescale or change col­ors. Big thanks to Vlad Cristea for his large contributi…
  • Top 10 Free Programming Fonts

    When your pro­fes­sion involves writ­ing code for sig­nif­i­cant­ly long peri­ods of time, even decep­tive­ly triv­ial things such the font you’re using can make a huge difference.

    This is a list of fonts for peo­ple who love code.

  • Design Principles for Newspaper Website Layout
    Today we are going to talk about styles in web­site design, and the accent we make is on the news­pa­per style. In this post, you will find out the most dis­tinc­tive fea­tures of this design and get some use­ful tips to fol­low to gain bet­ter outcome …
  • Scripting Illustrator – How to Meld a Gradient into a Flat Process Color
    We want this script to per­form a very sim­ple task. In Adobe Illustrator, when a user selects some objects filled with a CMYK Gradient Color, and exe­cutes this Script; the objects shall get con­vert­ed into a Flat CMYK fill. This flat fill will be…
  • Cloud Storage Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and More Compared
    The price of stor­age has got­ten so cheap that most of the seri­ous options you would con­sid­er are almost giv­ing it away. Dropbox, MediaFire, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive all offer 1TB for $10 a month or less. And MediaFire’s $2.50 fire s…
  • HTML5: More Flexibility in Form Design

    Forms have grown more ver­sa­tile with HTML5. The input ele­ment is now able to con­tain email address­es and dates and mark­ing input fields as manda­to­ry or pre­pop­u­lat­ing them with con­tent is no longer a case for JavaScript – just to name a few of the most valu­able addi­tions. But then, there’s even more to it. Did you know you can now have more than one “sub­mit” but­ton and did you know that you can now have input and select ele­ment liv­ing out­side your form ele­ment? We’ll walk you through this…

  • Paula Scher on Designing Adaptable Brand Identities
    Pentagram part­ner, Paula Scher has released her first online design class on Skillshare focused on design­ing flex­i­ble and adapt­able brand identities.
  • Inspiring Digital Art: The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes

    There is def­i­nite­ly an air of Daenerys Targaryen in the above art­work by Bojan Jevtić. And in the same way she rose from the ash­es with three baby drag­ons in her arms, the woman in Jevtić’s piece looks like some­one reborn in red fire. There is a fan­tas­ti­cal ele­ment to his dig­i­tal art, one which com­bines com­put­er effects with portraiture.