The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Motivation: This Force Has 3 Times The Power of Rewards
What can change behaviour two or three times more powerfully than rewards?Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- Why I Run Four Different Versions of Acrobat
But as much as I love getting new features from the continuous update cycle with Adobe’s cloud services, I still keep all my old versions of Acrobat installed. The reason is because each new version of Acrobat, while it has new and exciting features, …
- Have you seen Story Wars? A “collaborative and competitive storytelling website.”
Story Wars is collaborative and competitive storytelling website. Take turns writing the story. Vote on which chapter should be included.Tags: Writing AmWriting
- Write Your Emails Backwards for Better Responses
Do your emails go unanswered?Do you write lengthy explanations about what you need, only to be ignored?If you want better response rates to your emails, you need to get to the point.A great technique to ensure that your emails are acted upon …
- How To Know If Your Logo Design Is Successful
Give your logo at least one or two years before you starting asking if your logo design is a success or failure. You will start getting hints by then.Tags: Logo Branding Design
- How To Know If Your Logo Design Is Successful
Give your logo at least one or two years before you starting asking if your logo design is a success or failure. You will start getting hints by then.Tags: Logo Branding Design
- Shining a Spotlight on Gender Bias in Conference Speaking
“Congrats, you have an all male panel!“Tags: Women STEM feminism
- Shining a Spotlight on Gender Bias in Conference Speaking
“Congrats, you have an all male panel!“Tags: Women STEM feminism
- Who makes more money, traditionally-published authors, self-published, or hybrids?
- The Future of Interaction Design
- 30 Inspirational Chalk Lettering Designs & Wall Murals
In this age of digital design I find the old analogue techniques of hand lettering and sign painting extraordinarily impressive. The use of traditional mediums such as chalk require real talent, which is why professional typographers are still being hired to create stunning murals in trendy cafes and restaurants. In today’s design showcase I present 30 inspirational examples of chalk lettering designs by admirable artists who use traditional techniques to create fantastic typography.
Tags: Design Inspiration
- The Complete and Logical Guide to Winning At Your Own Life In 19 Super Difficult Steps
This guide works when anything shitty happens. Someone criticizes you online? Read this. Someone wants a refund on something that took you five years to build, and they’re mean about it? Read this. You got fired from a job or by a client? Read this. Zombie apocalypse? Well… in that case, what’s probably more important is non-perishable provisions and zombie-smashing devices (but maybe afterwards, read this).
Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- How to Know What to Blog About
If you’re a blogger who wants to make money but you don’t read books about business, creative thinking, being an entrepreneur, marketing, or writing…then you’ll fail to create and run a profitable blog.
Tags: Blogging
- Is RSS Dead? A Look At The Numbers
RSS isn’t dead: millions of people still use it. Let’s look at a few numbers.Tags: RSS
- I’m looking at WordsFlow, a new InDesign plug-in for Word-to-InDesign workflows. Whitepaper here:
In this feature walk-thru of WordsFlow, we’ll be following Madeline, a layout/production artist at a travel magazine, who’s using the Em Software WordsFlow plug-in to streamline production. Let’s see how it helps her as she works on layout for an article on San Diego beaches.
Tags: InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create jewel-encrusted gold 3D type
Bring a sense of fun to typography design by adding a golden sheen and sparkling gems. Karol Gadzala shows you howTags: Illustrator vector
- 7 Ancient Internet Trends That Affect The Web Today
Today’s web might not look or feel like the web of the 1990s, but you’d be surprised by how much of it is actually the same when you dive beneath the surface.
- Become a Brand Publisher: Step-by-Step Guide
A brand publisher has solid processes and structures that allow its team to create the types of brand contentneeded in a repeatable and scalable way.Tags: ContentMarketing CM