Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 29 January 2016

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

• Barbie Expands Collection to Include ‘Tall, Curvy and Petite’ Dolls
  Barbie, long the stereo­typ­i­cal blue-eyed blonde bomb­shell, has been giv­en a makeover. The icon­ic doll will now be avail­able in three new body-types — tall, petite and curvy.

  Tags: RealGirls Barbie

• How Does Reddit Work And Why Should You Use It? [Infographic]
  The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Reddit #InfographicTags: reddit
• Are You Stuck In Neutral?
  Admittedly, noth­ing can feel more unbal­anc­ing for a woman entre­pre­neur than being stuck in neutral.Tags: wom­enin­biz herbusiness
• 7 Skill-Building Photography Exercises That Really Work
  There are lots of exer­cis­es that can help “devel­op your pho­to­graph­ic eye”. Here are the most effec­tive ones that we’ve found.Tags: Photography
• Turn A Casual Acquaintance Into A Business Relationship 

  You can nev­er know every­body, but sol­id busi­ness rela­tion­ships will allow you to find the peo­ple you need in lit­tle more than one or two connections.

  Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership

• Why Language is Your Most Powerful Marketing Tool
  With the num­ber of English-speaking inter­net users far out­weighed by oth­er lan­guages, it has nev­er been more cru­cial for busi­ness­es to move away from a one-size-fits-all approach and to invest instead in a ful­ly local­ized, mul­ti­lin­gual website.Tags: M…
• Automotive Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw a Car Cutaway
  How-to draw­ing les­son on cre­at­ing a dig­i­tal illus­tra­tion of a see-through cut­away car with com­plete tuto­r­i­al show­ing line art con­struc­tion and tech­ni­cal draw­ing of cars.Tags: Vector Illustrator amdrawing
• Using “Pharma Bro” and Other Pop-Culture Epithets
  Not long after Martin “Pharma Bro” Shkreli stepped out of the media spot­light, the noto­ri­ous­ly greedy for­mer pharmaceutical-company exec­u­tive briefly popped

  Tags: Writing AmWriting copy­writ­ing

• How to Use Tints and Shades in Your Designs
  Get clever with your col­or choice by using tints and shades.Tags: Design GraphicDesign
• 8 Brand Identity Trends to Look Out for in 2016
  Discover what 2016 holds in store for brand iden­ti­ties with this use­ful infographicTags: Branding Design
• The Way Designers Pick Materials Is Broken–And This Lab Wants To Fix It
  From cel­lu­lose gui­tars to shape-shifting walls, Eastman Innovation Lab wants to intro­duce design­ers to emerg­ing mate­r­i­al science.Tags: ID
• Up and Running with Markdown
  Get start­ed with Markdown, the light­weight text for­mat that allows you to cre­ate doc­u­ments, rich text, or HTML markup using any plain text editor.Tags: MD Markdown
• Writing Habits that Will Improve Your Productivity in 2016

  But let us say “no more” to them. Let us make 2016 the year when writ­ers broke free from the clutch­es of var­i­ous sorts of unpro­duc­tive behav­ior. Let us make it the year when pro­cras­ti­na­tion was put to rest, and when our lev­els of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty went off the charts.

  Tags: Writing AmWriting inspi­ra­tion

• Content Marketing Is Easier When You (Partially) Delegate These 12 Tasks
  The only options are to embrace the mar­ket­ing ceil­ing or start del­e­gat­ing some of the mar­ket­ing work.Tags: CM ContentMarketing writ­ing copywriting

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