The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- The 18 best blogging platforms on the internet in 2015
- The Number of Alcoholic Drinks That Makes You Look More Attractive – PsyBlog
The amount of alcohol that makes the drinker themselves look more attractive to others.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- Do You Have An Elastic Mind? 3 Traits Of Designers Who Do
Designers have gotten what they asked for: a seat at the corporate boardroom table. Now they have to adapt to a new working reality.Tags: Design Business
- How to get more from your agent
Whether you’re looking to get signed or want your agent to work harder for you, here’s how to get a better deal for both parties.Tags: Design Amwriting
- Author Platforms and Authority Sites – Writer’s Jargon or Necessity?
There are two terms bandied about in the freelance writing game that are fairly recent and subject to all hype and confusion. They are author platforms and authority sites.
The definition of both author platforms an authority sites is often not clear. Learn why freelance writers may need one or both.
- Why you shouldn’t take a client’s money
Which is why I tell potential clients not to hire me all the time. Sometimes more than once a week. Their reactions vary too: some are mad, some are upset and some totally get it. I write them long emails because I feel bad that I must break up our bu…
- Tested: Whether People Think Better on Their Feet or Seated
Do people really think better on their feet?
- What motivates kids 6–17 to read pbooks and ebooks?
- Two Typefaces, Five Days: Inside A Fabulously Nerdy Type Marathon
As part of its first ever font marathon, Monotype tapped two rising stars to create wildly different fonts in just five days.Tags: typography
- What ‘The Rat Pack’ Can Teach Us About Academic Prose
Not only are they funny and libatious, they can slip in and out of songs in order to dialogue with the audience or another musician. Sometimes it’s just to crack a joke, or other times its to call for a rhythm change or solo. But most importantly, The Rat Pack does so without ever losing rhythm. In a strange way The Rat Pack has made me think about the literary world–particularly academic writing.
- 25 Chrome Extensions For Awesome New Tabs
We previously wrote about new tab browser extensions that you can get for Chrome and Firefox. Since then, more and more extensions are popping up, offering a variety of content that will display itself whenever you open a new Chrome …
- How To Get Smarter
Bestselling author and accelerated learning expert Tim Ferriss explains how to get smarter in a hurry and master any skill.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- Best Windows Parodies to Celebrate 25 Years of Windows 3.0
Last month was Windows 3.0’s 25th anniversary.
It’s the operating system we all love to hate, but therein lies the key. It’s 25 years of a love-hate relationship. Microsoft’s imperfections are a part of our lives; they make us nostalgic, they make us laugh. It’s about celebrating the imperfections, so we trawled through several parodies on the web to uncover the best of the best—and really, there are plenty of unfunny spoofs out there.
- 5 perfect pencils for pro designers and illustrators
Whatever your design discipline, every designer needs a decent pencil – here are 5 great ones.
Tags: Design
- Magazine published with 16,000 unique covers
Graphic design trade mag utilizes digital printing tech to create genuinely unique issues.Tags: VDP
- 20 Everyday Activities That Keep Memory and Thinking Sharp
These 20 activities have been linked to reduced risk of developing memory and thinking problems.
- 20 Everyday Activities That Keep Memory and Thinking Sharp
These 20 activities have been linked to reduced risk of developing memory and thinking problems.