Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 28 April 2016

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

• ‘The Jungle Book’ mag­ic revealed: Behind the scenes of a VFX masterpiece
  They’re doing a lot with hand pup­pets these dayTags: VFX motion design
• Wattpad Launching Multichannel Network for Storytellers, Producing Stories for Film, TV, Print
  The goal is to part­ner with the enter­tain­ment indus­try to co-produce Wattpad sto­ries for print, film, tele­vi­sion, and dig­i­tal platforms.Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub
• 5 Techniques To Beat Work Overload – Productivityist
• Barnes & Noble’s Longtime Leader, Leonard Riggio, Is Stepping Down
  During his tenure, Mr. Riggio steered the com­pa­ny through heady days of explo­sive growth in the 1980s and 1990s, when Barnes & Noble expand­ed nation­al­ly and opened its first superstores.Tags: amwrit­ing eprd­ctn epub selfpub
• Easy To Use Tools For Hard Projects | InstantShift
• Being A Developer After 40
• Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, According to a New Study
• How do work, edu­ca­tion and race affect divorce rates? Data sheds light on trends
  An analy­sis on the site Flowing Data, run by sta­tis­ti­cian Nathan Yau, took a clos­er look at rates of divorce and mar­ry­ing mul­ti­ple times. The analy­sis is based on U.S. Census data.
• We’ve Reached Peak Smartphone–And That’s Good

  Now the real tri­al isn’t find­ing a good phone—it’s find­ing a bad one. And that isn’t a bad thing (as bor­ing as it is for every­one cov­er­ing it).

• What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?
• 6 Work-Life Balance Tips for Entrepreneur Parents
  Entrepreneur par­ents can bal­ance par­ent­hood and their businesses—it just takes a lit­tle bit of plan­ning and support.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance Startup Parenting

• Amy Cuddy, Body Language Expert, Reveals What It Takes to Have ‘Presence’
• Behind the Scenes (Video) of Erik Johansson’s Amazing Photography / Photoshop Piece “Impact”
  This is an image I’ve been work­ing on for the past months. I want­ed to cre­ate an image where a lake is break­ing up as a mir­ror. I want­ed to make the effect look as real­is­tic as pos­si­ble so I decid­ed to buy 17 square meters of mir­rors last sum­mer and broug…

  Tags: Photoshop pho­tog­ra­phy

• 10 Bizarre Punctuation Marks That Didn’t Stick – Listverse
• How To Clean Up & Optimize Your WordPress Install
• 4 Surprising Ways Facebook Can Improve Your Life
• While the Net Screams “Uninstall QuickTime on Windows!” Adobe Says That Can Break Creative Cloud
  Windows users who also use Adobe Creative Cloud soft­ware might be stuck with vul­ner­a­ble QuickTime soft­ware on their sys­tems for quite some time.Tags: QuickTime
• 120 Photoshop tips, tricks and fixes
  Photoshop is an easy tool to use and a dif­fi­cult one to mas­ter, but help is at hand with our com­pre­hen­sive list of tips, tricks and fix­es for Adobe’s show­piece soft­ware. Whether you’re look­ing for tips on using lay­ers, advice on mas­ter­ing the pen tool…
• Everything You Should Know About Location-based Marketing Technologies
• Another [Awful] Way to Monetize Ebooks

  Imagine a ser­vice where you can down­load all the ebooks you want, for no charge. The con­tent is locked and it becomes acces­si­ble as you answer a sur­vey ques­tion every few pages. Or maybe you answer a few sur­vey ques­tions at the start of each chap­ter. Either way, rather than cash or cred­it card, you’re pay­ing for the ebook with your data and opinions.

  Tags: ePublishing eprd­ctn epub self­pub

• 4 key free­lance hur­dles to overcome
• 6 Ways to Make Your Personal Website More Effective
• How to spot a bad client BEFORE you start work­ing with them
• Color Matching Systems II: Best Practices for Choosing & Using Color
• Pocket Paper Notebook Showdown: Moleskine vs. Field Notes
• The Design School Guide To Visual Hierarchy
• Harriet Tubman to Replace Former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill
  Changes to the $10 are com­ing, too, but Alexander Hamilton will remain on the bil­l’s front. But on the back of the saw­buck, suf­frag­ists who fought to give women the right to vote will be added, includ­ing Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul.
• Five Signs You May Be Sabotaging Your Writing Career
• Brilliant Logos – 7 Methods to Reach an “Aha” Moment
• Earth Day 2016: We’re not doomed (Opinion) – CNN​.com
  There’s plen­ty of cause for doom and gloom this Earth Day. But with cli­mate change, we’re final­ly start­ing to get things right. CNN’s John D. Sutter explains.Tags: EarthDay
• Luck Is a Bigger Contributor to Success Than People Give It Credit For
• How to Distress a Photo Using a Grunge Texture and Displacement Map
• Overcoming imposter syndrome

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