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- Prototypo, streamlining font creation
Prototypo includes over twenty parameters to modify all built-in glyphs at once. Hobbyist and professional type designers can play, experiment and refine a wide range of body text fonts.
- 15 Bizarre (And Insane) Programming Languages, from BrainF*ck to Malbolge
“Welcome to the world of esoteric programming languages (aka esolang), where programmers push the conventions of language design. These languages are not meant to be easy to use. Quite the opposite, they are designed to challenge, frustrate and…
- 30 Career Moves You Should Make By The Time You Are 30
Making these moves in your twenties will pay off in your thirties and beyond.
- How to make your flight attendant like you
if you’re good to them, they’ll be extra nice to you. So here’s how to charm them.
- A Designer’s Funny Response to Being Asked to Do Free Work
Brooklyn-based designer Dan Cassaro recently received an email that invites him to submit an artwork for free to be displayed at a large event held at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
His reply is a funny and sarcastic one that cleverly highlights why…
- Can the police stop photographers from taking photos? – Know Your Rights
The shooting of unarmed 18-year old, Michael Brown, in Ferguson County, Missouri has once again made police brutality a topic of conversation across the media landscape. Some may think that police brutality is on the rise, but more likely, its …
- 7 Tips To Boost Your Productivity
As the name suggests, this popular trend encompasses techniques that can help you achieve great results by doing less than you need to. Today I’d like to share just a few of those techniques. Hopefully, they will help you achieve the best results for the task you’re facing, in the shortest amount of time.
- 7 Tips To Boost Your Productivity
As the name suggests, this popular trend encompasses techniques that can help you achieve great results by doing less than you need to. Today I’d like to share just a few of those techniques. Hopefully, they will help you achieve the best results for the task you’re facing, in the shortest amount of time.
- Can I Use that Picture? Infographic walks you through using images from the Internet
Can I Use that Picture? The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images
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244Need to use an image but not sure if you have the legal and ethical right to do so? Understanding the laws for using images can be a bit tricky, especially because there is wiggle room within the laws. And, with the mass distribution of images on the internet, it’s no wonder we’re all asking the the same question over and over again: can I use that picture?
- How to Price Your Freelance Projects
There’s no standard rate for Graphic Design, and understandably – this makes pricing a bit of a thorny subject in the industry. With each project being unique it’s quite difficult to publish rates at all. I’ve never billed the same amount for two different projects.
- Are Magazine Apps Dead? A State of the Art Roundtable
What went wrong? Are iPad apps dead, or do they still have a bright future? I reached out for answers to some of the smartest magazine makers I know, folks who have been active in creating dynamic editorial products on multiple platforms, from print magazines to daily newspapers to websites. And of course, they’ve all been integral in the development of some memorable magazine app projects. I asked them about the lack of enthusiasm for apps, how the production system has affected app creation, and whether there’s a future for digital magazines on the tablet platform.
- Survey Reveals Keywords Do Still Matter on Your Resume
Most of us assume keywords only really matter when it comes to getting your resume past a bot and into human hands. A new survey of over 3 million resumes, all ranked by hiring managers, reveals that keywords are still important to people, too,…
- Photoshop Tutorial – How to Remove Cellulite
“Whenever summer is nearing cellulite extinction is first on the agenda of most women out there. Before you actually get rid of it, you can get a taste of a cellulite free world through Photoshop. Lets see how you can get there sweat free.”
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- Multiple Master Fonts and OpenType: The Adobe Originals Silver Anniversary
“This is the seventh in a series of articles from Tamye Riggs, a longtime lover of type who is working with us to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Adobe Originals type design program. This post explores multiple master fonts and Op…
- Why the Flat Design Trend is Hurting Usability | Vandelay Design
“The flat design trend has taken over the graphic design world in a very short amount of time. One of the first big interfaces to go flat was Windows 8. However, it wasn’t until the release of Apple’s iOS 7 last summer, June 10, 2013 that we really saw a huge increase in the many interfaces, websites, apps, and more that adopted a flat design. Before then, most designs were skeuomorphic with lots of 3D effects, gradients, and texture. ”
- Photoshop tutorial: Fantasy light effects in Photoshop
“Usings Photoshop and Illustrator, it’s possible to create a fantasy scene using brushes and blur effects to their fullest.”
- Freelancing Pitfalls to Avoid
A freelancer is essentially a one-person company. While you are enjoying the pleasures of being your own boss without the rigors of company life, you’re also exposed to all the pitfalls the world of business is going to dish out. So, you have t…
- Small-scale publishers carve niche
By far the biggest boom in new titles, however, has come from self-published authors. More than 391,000 books were self-published in the US in 2012, an increase of 422 per cent since 2007, Bowker data show. In terms of total book titles bearing an ISBN, self-publishing now outstrips all the combined titles put out by conventional publishers like Random House and Simon & Schuster, which rose to 301,642 in 2012, up 6.1 per cent since 2007.
- Is All Press Good Press? Making Reporters Fall in Love with Your Startup
In the world of small business marketing, consumers tend choose one product over another solely because of how recognizable a brand is. While an off-brand product will usually be less expensive, many would rather spend the extra cents (or dolla…