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- The Dangers Of Sitting At Work All Day [Infographic]
You probably know this. We’ve talked about it before. Sitting all day kills you. Slowly. Whether you’re in front of the tele or working with computers, staying sedentary has very serious health risks. That’s why we encouraged you to take a look at these exercise videos, and work at a standing desk (but don’t repeat these mistakes).
- Rules for Best Practice Email Design: Coding Practices
Writing markup for email takes HTML back to the old school. These tips will help those of you who don’t recall the days of flannels, pagers, and the Discman, or who think of tables only as something to eat off or store data in.
- Graphic Designers Ask: How much should I charge?
This is probably on of the most frequently asked questions in the graphic design business. Everyone is looking for a silver bullet – but there are no silver bullets. About ever five to ten years someone asks the question and I answer it. I’ve …
- 5 Design Legends That Switched Gears in the Middle of Their Careers
Reality is messy and our lives often wander a bit as we explore our path, and the greats were no exception. Below we explore five of the legends in graphic design and highlight how they changed gears in their career.
- How to bring a graphic novel to life in 3D
Cinesite’s Richard Clarke reveals how fur generator Yeti helped bring 300: Rise of an Empire’s hyper realistic world to life.
- Photoshop Technique: Adaptive Contrast
Learn a better way to increase contrast using Photoshop. This Photoshop technique protects your image from having blown out highlights and shadows while you increase contrast. Follow this Photoshop tutorial to learn how to apply this new techni…
- What staring at a screen all day is doing to your eyes
With computers, though, this problem is exacerbated by posture. When most people stare at a computer screen, they look straight ahead, so the eye is more widely opened than when looking down at a book. This means that a greater surface area of …
- The Big List of IFTTT Recipes: 34 Hacks for Hardcore Social Media Productivity
IFTTT is one of our favorite tools (and one that I’d imagine you might love as well). We use IFTTT in a number of neat ways, and there are loads of different options available through IFTTT for powering up your social media marketing. I thought I’d share a few of our favorites and some that might help you work smarter, too.
- 15 Designers Reveal [Surprising] Secrets For Staying Productive
Strategies include everything from setting timers to taking nature walks to listening to black metal.
- 5 ways to improve your online portfolio
Here are some tips on reassessing and improving your creative portfolio website.
- Let’s fund each other’s design studies
Graduate debt isn’t going away anytime soon, on either side of the pond. Chiara Bajardi makes the case for sharing the burden with the wider creative community.