The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- What’s Really Wrong With Facebook
Facebook is changing its privacy policies at the beginning of the new year. As usual, everyone’s wondering if they should be worried about it.. When it comes to Facebook, the answer is usually yes–but not for the reasons most people think.
- 2015 Will be Defined as a ‘Human Era’ for Branding
We’re entering a new ‘Human Era’ for branding – find out what that means and more…Tags: branding
- Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries: How to Detect Image Manipulation
Verifying and certifying photographs as authentic is big business in the photography industry, especially for photojournalists, media editors, competition judges, police services, and courts. Online and custom services analyze an image’s metadata, using complex and evolved algorithms to detect changes. Pixels can also be mapped and filters applied to images to reveal alterations. Another method known as “JPG ghost detection” analyzes a file to see if the image has been saved multiple times at different quality settings — a sign that the image has likely been manipulated.
- Making Audio Editing Visual and Intuitive for All with Adobe Sneak Peak Technology
“I wanted to make it as easy as possible. If you look at the apps that are available today for podcasting they either behave like tape recorders — you can turn them on, you can turn them off, you can pause, you can fast forward or rewind. Or, you get a full audio editor with a waveform. There’s nothing that’s in between that’s capable of producing a professional quality broadcast without having to take a course in digital audio editing. This [technology] fits right in that area.”
- 4 Essential Layout Trends for 2015
What you find here is an interesting blend of trends and unusual layouts that will hopefully inspire you to assess the fundamental structures your applying to web design. Let’s dive in and take a look…
- Dyecol, Beautiful Color Generator for Your Web Projects
dyecol is a beautiful color generator for your web projects. dyecol generates colors at random and they’re beautiful.
- Language study: Johnson: What is a foreign language worth? | The Economist
JOHNSON is a fan of the Freakonomics books and columns. But this week’s podcast makes me wonder if the team of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt aren’t…
- The ghost of Steve Jobs is very angry at Apple over the rumored iPad stylus. Wait, what?
Jobs’ thoughts brought to you by the people who understood him least.Tags: MacWorld
- Notes on the first Italic typeface
Whenever we think about the invention of the italic typeface we invariably think of the year 1501, when the italic type, commissioned by Aldus Manutius and cut by Griffo, was employed to set a new series of small pocket books, first published in 1501.
- Top 3 Design Questions about Navigation Menus
The number and order of navigation categories, and use of hover menus for touchscreens are frequently asked questions that arise when organizing information on a website or application.Tags: UI UX
- Protect Your Work from Digital Thieves
Media lawyer Asad Ali answers the five most frightening legal questions to help you keep your work safe.
Protecting your intellectual property online can be a legal minefield, so it’s important for anyone operating or posting their work on the web to be aware of where they are most vulnerable. As a partner solicitor at Blacks Solicitors LLP in Leeds, specialising in media, music and entertainment law, I regularly work with clients in the web development, graphic and web design sectors.
- 50 awesome literary t‑shirts for book lovers
A selection of the coolest literary t‑shirts that will help express how much you love books. Tees from Etsy, Zazzle, Threadless, Society6, CafePress, and Amazon.
- Discover the emotional life of fonts [TED Video]
Every typeface has a personality that influences our interpretation of the words we read by evoking our emotions and setting the scene.Tags: typography
- Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right
Lychee is the perfect place to store all your photos. No storage limit, no compression, no loss in data. We even support and display your EXIF and IPTC Metadata. And if you want, you can make your photos public for your audience. With just one …
- Social Media Image Size Cheat Sheet for 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Thankfully, help as it hand, via this quick and simple social media image size cheat sheet, which has been updated for 2015 and comes courtesy of Constant Contact.
- Stop Believing TV’s Lies: The Real Truth About “Enhancing” Images
- How to Leverage Pro Bono Work to Gain More Work
Well, you can always go pro bono to build up your professional portfolio first. Want to know how? I’ve put together a quick guide on how to leverage pro bono work to gain more work.
Tags: Freelance