Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 3 June 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • The Adobe Illustrator Story Movie
    Watch the Illustrator sto­ry unfold from its begin­ning as Adobe’s first soft­ware prod­uct, to its role in the dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing rev­o­lu­tion, to becom­ing an essen­tial tool for design­ers world­wide. Interviews include cofounder John Warnock, his wif…
  • All the New Stuff in OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”
    Apple took the wraps off of OS X at the WorldWide Developer’s Conference today, dubbed “Yosemite.” It’ll fea­ture a new inter­face with ele­ments of iOS 7’s “flat” design and col­or scheme, new inter­face, updates to iCloud and Mail, fea­tures to syn…
  • In-House Designers – How to Manage Every Day Disruptions

    As an in-house design­er or team, you aim to strike the del­i­cate bal­ance between mak­ing your client hap­py and keep­ing your work load rea­son­able. Plus, you have to deal with mul­ti­ple depart­ments and dif­fer­ent end goals. It’s a lot to tack­le, yet you still pro­duce top notch work.

  • All the New Stuff in iOS 8 (a good list)
    Today, Apple announced iOS 8 with a ton of new fea­tures. It’s not as visu­al­ly dif­fer­ent as iOS 7, but it’s still packed with all kinds of new stuff. Here’s a list of every­thing new.P
  • Logo Design Tips

    What makes a great logo? What are the basic prin­ci­ples and best prac­tise that one should adhere to? There’s a lot of dif­fer­ent opin­ions on what makes a great logo design. To help you nav­i­gate the whole area, we’ve com­piled a list of our top 7 tips to con­sid­er when design­ing your new logo.

  • 100s of Useful Free Photoshop Brushes
    hoto­shop brush­es are aid’s that do not nec­es­sar­i­ly make a design, but can help improve it and add more depth, but find­ing free brush­es that are use­ful can be a monot­o­nous task, but here I have attempt­ed to help you out. Below I have com­piled 1…
  • Want to Change the World? Start by Making Your Bed

    The fol­low­ing com­mence­ment address was giv­en last week to the grad­u­ates of the University of Texas by Naval Admiral William H. McRaven. McRaven is the com­man­der of U.S. Special Operations and over­saw the mis­sion that killed Osama bin Laden. As much as it pains me to post a speech that ends with “Hook ‘em horns” — it’s too awe­some not to share.

  • PixelMags’ piv­ot spawns a new dig­i­tal mag­a­zine dis­tri­b­u­tion service

    Publishers look­ing for more cost-effective ways to dis­trib­ute dig­i­tal mag­a­zines have a new option to con­sid­er: a “distribution-as-a-service” offer­ing from PixelMags.

  • 10 Imaginative Ideas From Genius Kids To Solve Our Global Waste Problem
    How come we have Google Glass before a recy­cling remote control?
  • 3 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW To Be More Attractive to Prospects
    Finding new prospects for your busi­ness is sim­i­lar to dat­ing. At the first encounter there is a lev­el of attrac­tion that caus­es a per­son to want to get know more about the indi­vid­ual who has caught their atten­tion. After learn­ing more about th…
  • 5 Tools for Creating Simple, Attractive Invoices

    In this arti­cle, we just want to focus one very crit­i­cal part of that process — the piece of paper that gets you paid. The fol­low­ing are all tools that can help you gen­er­ate sim­ple but attrac­tive invoices. 

  • Boost Word-of-Mouth Recommendations
    Satisfied cus­tomers can be the best advo­cates for your busi­ness, but how exact­ly do you win their sup­port? CustomerSure Communications Manager Doug Ackerman shares five steps for win­ning cus­tomer loy­al­ty and boost­ing word-of-mouth recommendatio…

Curated by Pariah Burke