Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 20 October 2014

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

• The Designer’s Guide to Getting a Life
  You may have the design job of your dreams but work isn’t every­thing, right? Leading design­ers explain what they do to avoid burnout.
• Create Custom Type from Existing Fonts
  Typefaces you already own can be as effec­tive in com­mer­cial art as cus­tom let­ter­ing, reveals illus­tra­tor Steven Bonner.
• City/regional mag­a­zines: The hid­den price for not launch­ing dig­i­tal edi­tions is depend­ing on free circ to main­tain readership

  Many region­al mag­a­zines have begun grow­ing their ‘ver­i­fied’ cir­cu­la­tion lev­els to com­pen­sate for falling sub­scrip­tion and sin­gle copy sales, while ignor­ing dig­i­tal as an alter­na­tive approach 

• How to Look Better in Photos Based on Your Body Type (for Subjects and Photographers)
  There’s no need to be ashamed of your body and pos­ing for pho­tos does­n’t have to be painful. We’ve talked about how to look your best in pho­tos but there are cer­tain things you can do bet­ter depend­ing on your body’s shape or your features.

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• Foreign Affairs Uses Drupal to Dramatically Streamline Publishing Workflow and Integrate Their Digital Edition

  While deliv­er­ing a multi-platform strat­e­gy is essen­tial in pub­lish­ing today, devel­op­ing a sin­gle, uni­fied work­flow that enables seam­less pub­lish­ing to all of these platforms—including the iPad– is not always easy. Foreign Affairs set its sights on this goal and part­nered with DPCI, an inter­ac­tive tech­nol­o­gy agency with deep roots in pub­lish­ing and exten­sive Adobe DPS exper­tise, to tack­le the job. Together they deliv­ered a game-changing work­flow that elim­i­nat­ed count­less hours of tedious work while deliv­er­ing a con­sis­tent brand expe­ri­ence across prop­er­ties and improv­ing speed to market.

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