Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 20 February 2015

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

• Investor: Adobe to buy cloud startups
  He may have a point. Just this week, Adobe com­plet­ed its acqui­si­tion of pho­to image com­pa­ny Fotolia and in September it bought Aviary, a devel­op­er of mobile soft­ware devel­op­ment kits. Adobe has also embraced the cloud in a big way, mov­ing most of its core soft­ware to the cloud and charg­ing for it as a sub­scrip­tion start­ing in May 2013. Since it made this move, Adobe’s stock has gone up more than 50%.

  Tags: Cloud VC invest­ing

• Investor: Adobe to buy cloud startups
  He may have a point. Just this week, Adobe com­plet­ed its acqui­si­tion of pho­to image com­pa­ny Fotolia and in September it bought Aviary, a devel­op­er of mobile soft­ware devel­op­ment kits. Adobe has also embraced the cloud in a big way, mov­ing most of its core soft­ware to the cloud and charg­ing for it as a sub­scrip­tion start­ing in May 2013. Since it made this move, Adobe’s stock has gone up more than 50%.

  Tags: Cloud VC invest­ing

• When, Why and How To Use Graphic Watermark in Lightroom
  Tutorial on how, when and why to set­up and use graph­ic water­mark option in Lightroom 5.Tags: pho­tog­ra­phy Lightroom
• When, Why and How To Use Graphic Watermark in Lightroom
  Tutorial on how, when and why to set­up and use graph­ic water­mark option in Lightroom 5.Tags: pho­tog­ra­phy Lightroom
• When, Why and How To Use Graphic Watermark in Lightroom
  Tutorial on how, when and why to set­up and use graph­ic water­mark option in Lightroom 5.Tags: pho­tog­ra­phy Lightroom
• Live Font Interpolation on the Web
  We all want to design great typo­graph­ic experiences—while serv­ing users on a huge array of devices. But today’s type is inflex­i­ble and doesn’t scale. We can solve this prob­lem by mak­ing web­fonts more sys­tem­ized and context-aware, and live web font interpolation—the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of a font’s design in the browser—can help us get there. Andrew Johnson points the way.

  Tags: typog­ra­phy mobile typog­ra­phy ux ui

• Expenses or invest­ments: What are you sell­ing poten­tial clients?
  Does your poten­tial client end up feel­ing like they’re los­ing mon­ey by hir­ing you, or do they feel like they’re gain­ing a lot of push for their busi­ness­es to earn more mon­ey because of the work you do?Tags: Freelance free­lanc­ing freelancer
• 4 Things to Monitor About Your Brand Online
  Your PR efforts are for nought if you don’t pay atten­tion to what oth­ers say about it. Here are 4 things to con­sid­er when mon­i­tor­ing your brand online.Tags: branding
• NOOK Press by Barnes & Noble now offer­ing cov­er design services.
  Let our team of experts help you with cov­er design, illus­tra­tion design, and edi­to­r­i­al ser­vices. Check out the book print­ing from NOOK® Press.

  Tags: eprd­ctn self­pub epub indiepub

• NOOK Press by Barnes & Noble now offer­ing cov­er design services.
  Let our team of experts help you with cov­er design, illus­tra­tion design, and edi­to­r­i­al ser­vices. Check out the book print­ing from NOOK® Press.

  Tags: eprd­ctn self­pub epub indiepub

• Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create Cool Infographics

  Infographics, such as the one oppo­site, are great visu­al tools for com­mu­ni­cat­ing large amounts of data. Breaking down large amounts of abstract data, they place the infor­ma­tion in con­text and trans­form it into tan­gi­ble and use­ful knowledge. 

  Tags: Illustrator vec­tor info­graph­ics

• Photoshop is 25 Years Old Today. Celebrate the Past and Get a Peek at the Future
  Today makes 25 years with Adobe Photoshop.… quite a feat if you think about all the ways the tool has affect­ed the media land­scape. From pho­tog­ra­phers and design­ers to archi­tects and doc­tors, Photoshop has become syn­ony­mous with dig­i­tal imag­ing. I’ve been a Photoshop user since 1991… it’s amaz­ing how much has changed in that time. Let’s take…

  Tags: Photoshop Photoshop25

• My Amazon best­seller made me nothing
  My nov­el shot to the top of the site’s best­seller list last sum­mer. You won’t believe how lit­tle I got paidTags: AmWriting
• Google may have food­ie social site named ‘Tablescape’ in the works
  It’s either a bril­liant idea, or a real­ly mis­guid­ed attempt at social — it’s hard to say right now. According to a new report, Google is once again mak­ing an

  Tags: SocialMedia Google G

• Is Google mak­ing the web stupid?
  Jazz became pop­u­lar because an opera-loving engi­neer devel­oped radio, which opened the door for an ignored art form to spread. And rock and roll was enabled by the tran­sis­tor radio and the FM band. More sub­tly, con­sid­er the fact that…Tags: Google
• 10 typog­ra­phy tricks every design­er should know
  Banish kern­ing calami­ties and learn to love lead­ing with our expert tips and tricks for per­fect typography.

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