The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- 3 Shakespearean Insults
Great insults pepper the comedies and tragedies of William Shakespeare. (Though the Bard of Avon is known for his terms of endearments as well.) From A Midsummer Night’s Dream to King Henry IV, here are a few of our favorites.
- 8 Self-Publishing Secrets For Designing An eBook Cover
This isn’t just a topic of vanity and of having a “professional looking cover”, though. It’s a truly important part of your self-publishing journey.
A good ebook cover is a visual and emotional glance into the contents of your writing. But if you design your own ebook cover, there are some important things you need to take into consideration.
Tags: eprdctn selfpub epub indiepub amwriting
- Twitter Is Deleting Custom Backgrounds, So Take One Last Look At Yours (If It’s Not Too Late)
Home and Notifications backgrounds are on the way out on Twitter. It was fun while it lasted!..Tags: Twitter Lame homogenize
- You don’t get to play the gender card to promote piss-poor writing
When you use “People are only attacking me because I’m a woman” as a marketing tool, you hurt every other female professional out there on the Internet. A tweet today got me irrationally, stupidly, Peter Cohen-levels of angry. Namely, this tweet by Qu…
- Why ‘doing your best’ may not be the best career path
This idea seems pretty harmless, right? You’re forging ahead, doing what needs to be done as an entrepreneur to create a product or service that is useful in the world.
Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
- Why ‘doing your best’ may not be the best career path
This idea seems pretty harmless, right? You’re forging ahead, doing what needs to be done as an entrepreneur to create a product or service that is useful in the world.
Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
- 5 Ways Freelancers Can Deal With Isolation
Working alone is one of the main detractors of freelancing. Click to read some tips on how to fight off isolation and loneliness when you work from home.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
- Tastee Apple: How One Business Copes With Extreme Seasonality
Can you imagine doing a year’s worth of business in a couple of months? That’s the reality at Tastee Apple. Here’s how the founder handles the ebb and flow.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- Model Citizens and Protected Images: Work-for-Hire and Right of Publicity
If a photographer and model were hired specifically for an ad campaign, does the work constitute a work for hire? Does the model have a right to publicity? Who owns the copyright in the images?Tags: Copyright IPLaw IP Photog
- Model Citizens and Protected Images: Work-for-Hire and Right of Publicity
If a photographer and model were hired specifically for an ad campaign, does the work constitute a work for hire? Does the model have a right to publicity? Who owns the copyright in the images?Tags: Copyright IPLaw IP Photog
- Chris Pirillo says what we all feel: Flash should die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPRyOuUGQqU&feature=youtu.be&t=3m7sTags: Flash HTML5
- 10 Useful Image Tools Every Social Marketer Needs
To do this manually is a pointless venture because now there are plenty of tools that can help you manipulate your images into the dimensions and sizes suitable for most, if not all social networking sites out there. Here are 10 great tools that have …
- Is Art School Necessary for a Career in Graphic Design?
If you want to pursue a career in digital arts or graphic design, is it worth getting a degree? Can you get by without one? What exactly does the degree do for you, anyway?Tags: Design Business
- Is Art School Necessary for a Career in Graphic Design?
If you want to pursue a career in digital arts or graphic design, is it worth getting a degree? Can you get by without one? What exactly does the degree do for you, anyway?Tags: Design Business
- Keyboard Maestro 7.0 released today. I’m excited about trying it out.
Version 7 refines the editor in a variety of ways, adding autocomplete, inserting actions by name, coloring and renaming actions, integrated access to the wiki help, macro triggering and modification history and much more.Tags: Mac OSX productivity
- Create a Google Map with Addresses of your Google Contacts
Learn how to create a Google Map using the current postal addresses of your Google Contacts. The maps are automatically saved in your Google Drive.