The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Communicating with Design Clients: 3 Profit Areas
“Every design business sells some kind of product, which earns money for the company. This revenue contributes to the ongoing operation of your business and the creation of profit. No revenue, no cash flow. No profit, no long-term stability for the business. But selling products isn’t the only way that design businesses stay afloat. Let’s take a tour of the ways design firms make money, including billing for time, investing in real estate, selling physical products and licensing software or intellectual property.”
- 60 Mac Tips, Volume 2 Released
- 20 WordPress Plugins for Your Photography Website (2017)
- Securing Your Notoriously Insecure Dropbox: 6 Steps To Take For Safer Cloud Storage
“If you use Dropbox, you may be in for some startling news. Despite the fact that Dropbox was the first to bring cloud storage to the masses, it’s widely accepted that Dropbox is no longer the best of its class. One big drawback is that the vanilla Dropbox isn’t very secure, which can be problematic if you’re storing private or sensitive data on your account. But don’t give up on Dropbox yet! With a bit of effort, you can make it more secure.”
- Free Profile GUI PSDs for Social Networking Sites
- How an empty UPS envelope turned out to be marketing genius – MarketWatch
- The Font Detective
- Letterform Archive
- How to design your own font by Russell Mount – issuu
- 5 NFC Security Issues to Consider Before Your Next Contactless Payment
- Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal
- Top 10 Paperless Office Technologies that will Increase Your Productivity
- 7 Cool HTML Effects That Anyone Can Add To Their Website
- How to Find the Specs for Any Device You Own
- Designers, Calculate the Perfect Aspect Ratios with RatioBuddy
- 4 ways to cash in as a freelancer
- The 10 Most Followed People On Instagram: Should You Follow Them Too?
- 5 Incredibly Stupid Security Mistakes You Make Every Day
- People Over 40 Should Only Work 3 Days A Week, Experts Claim
- Do These 7 Dead-Simple Safety Checks to Make Sure Your Accounts and Devices Are Safe
- What Multitasking Does To Your Brain
HAVING 20 TABS OPEN ON YOUR LAPTOP WHILE SNAPCHATTING WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND, EATING A SANDWICH, AND LISTENING TO TAYLOR SWIFT IS OVERWHELMING. AND MAKES YOU MEAN.