Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 4 December 2016

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

• Top 5 free tools for cre­at­ing infographics
• 3 Mindset shifts that will 10X your month­ly rev­enue & allow you to charge pre­mi­um prices
• 5 Tips to Write a Blog Post People Will Actually Read
• Fair Use or Infringement? A Look at Politics & Copyright
• 8 tips for cop­ing when you hate your job |
• What You Need to Know About Taxes If You Make Money from the Gig Economy
• How to Find and Subscribe to Calendars for Just About Anything with iCalShare
• What To Do When Your Client Base Starts Drying Up
• 35-year-old start­ed his com­pa­ny in his col­lege dorm — just sold to Oracle for $600 million
• How Publishers Can Build on Self-Publishing’s Victories
  shareePublishing
• How Typefaces Influence Your Message
• Word Processing On Your iPad? We Compare The Best Apps
• 4 Smart Tips for Designers Who Get a Cease and Desist Letter
• 5 Steps To Finding The Right Freelance Editor For Your Novel
• Designers Redesign The ‘Elderly People’ Road Sign To Make It More Positive
  According to them, the cur­rent sign has a deroga­to­ry con­no­ta­tion and implies dis­abil­i­ty and frailty. In an effort reimag­ine the road sign, they have called upon the design com­mu­ni­ty to cre­ate a new warn­ing sign that paints the elder­ly com­mu­ni­ty in a more pos­i­tive light. 

  Tags: Elderly Design

• Notes on How to Price Your Work Like a Hero
  There has nev­er been a blue­print that I’ve referred to when deter­min­ing my fees. I’ve always used my instinct more than obey­ing a set of instruc­tions, but I’ve learned to bear in mind the fol­low­ing points…�

  Tags: Design Illustration Business Freelance

• Furniture for the ulti­mate typog­ra­phy lover
• 5 things to know before try­ing a take-home genet­ics test that claims to reveal the secrets of your DNA
• Create com­pelling YouTube thumb­nails that attract attention
• What Happened When I Spent A Week Keeping My Mouth (Mostly) Shut
• 3 Skills That Will Help You Get More Freelance Writing Jobs
• Important Takeaways on Publishing and Promoting Your Own Book: An Interview with Mark Dawson
• How Protecting Freelancers Could Boost The U.S. Economy
• Don’t Be Fooled: The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams
• The Gender Pay Gap Is Still Widest In Tech, Says Glassdoor’s Chief Economist
• How to Use Tabletop Games to Become a Better Writer
• The 5 Types Of Clients To Dump So You Can Strengthen Your Business
• How to set your­self up for mas­sive suc­cess as a new­bie free­lance writer
  ReadItLater
• Four Improv Techniques That Can Help You Communicate Better
• The Upside to Being a Designer Outside of New York
• Common Mistakes New Freelancers Make (And How To Bust Them)
• The Four-step Process To a Great Brand Logo
• Here’s Why Infographics Outperform Blog Posts
• A lead­ing expert says pro­cras­ti­na­tion has almost noth­ing to do with will power
• InDesign Tutorial: Creating Separate TOCs for PDF Bookmarks and the Page

  Over on the InDesign Facebook Group a design­er asked for help cre­at­ing a PDF with two dif­fer­ent depths of tables of con­tents. He said, “I’m cre­at­ing a PDF man­u­al in InDesign. The Table of Contents [on the page] needs to…

  Keep read­ing InDesign Tutorial: Creating Separate TOCs for PDF Bookmarks and the Page on Pariah Burke Publishing & Design Consulting & Training.

• The Science Behind the Power of Storytelling
• The sci­ence behind pla­gia­rism, and tips for catch­ing violators
• Actually, Women Do Ask For Raises As Often As Men–They Just Don’t Get Them
• Should You Enter Writing Contests? This Author Says Yes
• Top 5 typog­ra­phy trends of 2016 |
• 10 Bold Rebrands That Made A Big Difference
• Why Publishers Are a Huge Threat to Ad Agencies
  shareePublishing
• Five CEOS On The Skills It Takes To Land The Corner Office
• Using Nulled Plugins and Themes
• The Writer’s Guide to Self-Publishing Costs and Royalties – Ink and Quills
  shareePublishing
• How to Explode Your Creative Business Through Shameless Honesty
  ReadItLater
• If you have these 5 traits, you might make an amaz­ing freelancer
• Freelancer Financial Planning: Take a Lesson From the Artists
• Colibri is a brows­er that thinks life is bet­ter with­out tabs
• Transition from Manager to Leader
• The Habits Your AI Personal Assistant Will Need To Learn Before You’ll Trust It
• How to Write Unexpected Story Events
• Last Known Person Born in the 1800s Turned 117 Today
  Emma Morano, from Vercelli, Italy, was born on November 29th, 1899. That makes her the last known liv­ing per­son to have been born in the 1800s. TODAY is her 117th birthday.
• 14 Creative Ideas for an Alternative Christmas Tree
• 7 Natural Ways To Fight Depression
• Slave to Perfection & The Dangers of Comparing Ourselves with Others
• 10 Lazy Ways to Appear Smarter
• 20 Famous Graphic Designers and How They Impacted The World
• Why Multitasking May Make You Less Productive
  Multitasking not only hin­ders pro­duc­tiv­i­ty but it’s actu­al­ly dif­fi­cult to pull off. According to a March 30, 2011, arti­cle pub­lished in Psychology Today, mul­ti­task­ing (engag­ing in two tasks simul­ta­ne­ous­ly) is only pos­si­ble when two conditions…
• Four Email Subject Lines That Make Everyone Hate You
• Startups Are Surviving Longer Than Ever
• Gone with Infringement: Mickey Mouse Copyright Lives On
• Which Brands Own These Signature Colors?
• The Real Reason Smart People Tend To Be Loners
• Why Adaptive Learning Matters
• This addic­tive web exper­i­ment knows exact­ly what you’re doing
  ReadItLater
• How amper­sand (&) came from a misunderstanding
  The shape of the char­ac­ter (&) pre­dates the word amper­sand by more than 1,500 years. In the first cen­tu­ry, Roman scribes wrote in cur­sive, so when they wrote the Latin word et which means “and” they linked the e and t. Over time the combine…
• Three Steps to Figuring Out the Ideal Client for Your Creative Business
• Why WordPress Isn’t Scared of Facebook, Snapchat, or the Future of Publishing
• A designer’s guide to typog­ra­phy and fonts |
• Need a Book Editor? 4 Factors to Help You Find the Perfect Fit
• 5 more ways how not to get cheat­ed by your design clients

  So instead of fight­ing a los­ing bat­tle, let’s focus on the kind of sit­u­a­tions that can be pre­vent­ed – sit­u­a­tions that hap­pen when good peo­ple go bad all of a sud­den. Let’s try to fig­ure out what habits we can build when work­ing with clients so we don’t get burned on the job.

  Tags:

  design

• Pitch Your Dream Clients: October Income Report from Nicole Dieker
• Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette
  An under­stand­ing of typo­graph­ic eti­quette sep­a­rates the mas­ter design­ers from the novices. A well-trained design­er can tell with­in moments of view­ing a design whether its cre­ator knows how to work with typog­ra­phy. Typographic details aren’t j…
• 25 Signs That You’re a Graphic Designer
  You can’t go to a restau­rant with­out secret­ly cri­tiquing the menu design.
• Singular They Drives Me Up a Wall (Grammar Gripe)
  Singular they is the use of they (or its inflect­ed forms, such as them or their) to refer to an enti­ty that is not plur­al, or not nec­es­sar­i­ly plur­al. Though sin­gu­lar they is wide­spread in every­day English and has a long his­to­ry of usage, debate…
• The Authenticity Paradox
  shareLeadership
• The Fastest Way to Become a Writer with Authority, Charge High Fees, and Easily Attract DREAM Clients

  If you’re pur­su­ing a paid writ­ing career, the last thing you’d want is to be writ­ing all the time with­out build­ing a decent income. Yet I’ve seen it hap­pen when writ­ers fall head­long into the trap of tak­ing every project that comes their way and doing it for low fees — much like a fac­to­ry churns out prod­uct at the lowest-cost possible.

  Tags: Writing AmWriting

• The cre­ative pro’s guide to the Pantone Plus Series
  The orig­i­nal Pantone Matching System (PMS) dates back to the late 1960s. Chemist and inven­tor Lawrence Herbert designed a sys­tem that matched a cat­a­logue of stock shades – sup­plied on the famous fan cards that are still used today – with st…
• How to Set Your Facebook Account to Delete or Memorialize You Upon Your Death
• When nice books are ille­gal | Phinney on Fonts
  So I was won­der­ing, “why do pub­lish­ers use the par­tic­u­lar com­bo of set­tings they do, that is bug­ging me?” It turns out the answer is “because that’s the only rea­son­able option Adobe makes eas­i­ly avail­able to them.”
  Although the PDF fo…
• 5 Apps Every New Parent Needs to Feel Baby Safe
• How to Use Liquid Layout in InDesign by Pariah Burke
  So what can liq­uid lay­out do for you? Short answer: It can save you hours or even days of rework­ing the same con­tent into dif­fer­ent lay­outs, page sizes, and ori­en­ta­tions. It can do every­thing Layout Adjustment can, but with a lot less man­u­al cl…
• Man gets tat­too of woman’s name in dozens of fonts.
  When all you have left is font mem­o­ries of Brenda.
• Interesting Discussion at Quora – What does a book pub­lish­er do for an author? Which of these ser­vices carry-over to the Ebook era? #prd­ctn
  What does a book pub­lish­er do for an author? Which of these ser­vices carry-over to the Ebook era?
• How Artificial Intelligence Will Redefine Management
  shareLeadership
• How to Disagree So People Will Listen
  shareLeadership
• How to Reap the Benefits of Your Holiday Marketing All Year Long [Infographic]
• Four Reasons to Self-Publish Your Children’s Book
  Here are some sur­pris­ing things I’ve learned that may give you the push to walk through the indie pub­lish­ing door:Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub fxl epub
• The Client’s Guide to Publishing Infographics
  When it comes to info­graph­ics, the dis­cus­sion usu­al­ly revolves around design and pro­mo­tion. And there are some great arti­cles and case stud­ies writ­ten about con­cep­tu­al­iz­ing and mar­ket­ing a suc­cess­ful info­graph­ic as well as pitch­ing them and co…
• How To Invest In Yourself.
  shareLeadership
• How the Best CEOs Get the Important Work Done
  shareLeadership
• LOL – a WTF ligature
  the char­ac­ters w, t and f in a low­er case ligature
• Work at dif­fer­ent man­age­ment lev­els | Lara Hogan
  shareLeadership
• 13 Proven Ways To Find Bestselling Book Ideas
• ePublishing with InDesign – The defin­i­tive how-to and why-to of Adobe DPS, EPUB, Aquafadas DPS, More…
  ePublishing with InDesign CS6 – The defin­i­tive how-to and why-to of Adobe DPS, EPUB, Aquafadas DPS, and More http://​abbrv​.it/​D​i​g​i​P​u​b​I​D​Pariah Burke | ePublishing with InDesignCreative pro­fes­sion­al print, web, and e‑publishing soft­ware and work­flow train…
• How to Make Your One-on-Ones with Employees More Productive
  shareLeadership
• Leaders Can Shape Company Culture Through Their Behaviors
  shareLeadership
• The Sleep With Me Podcast Tells Awesome, Boring Bedtime Stories to Help You Fall Asleep
• Tiny Steps to Overcome the Fear of Judgment
  “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judg­ment that some­thing else is more impor­tant than fear.” ~Ambrose Redmoon

  A cou­ple weeks back, I had my first singing les­son in over 15 years. I’ve been hop­ing to get back into musica…

• Stop Calling It A “Graphic Novel” : NPR
• What is the best online the­saurus? – Quora
• How to Use a Bullet Journal in Trello to Plan Your Day
• How to Search for Just About Any Tweet on Twitter
• What Great Listeners Actually Do
  shareLeadership

  ReadItLater

• Ask these 5 ques­tions to weed out bad clients early

  Heartache. Wasted time. Inefficiency.

  Can you do bet­ter? Can you waste less time on prospects that aren’t a good fit for your business?

  YES. 

  Ask these 5 ques­tions to become more effi­cient and weed out the prospects that aren’t going to do good busi­ness with you anyway.

• 8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M.
  shareFreelance
• To Succeed as a First-Time Leader, Relax
  shareLeadership
• Organizations Can’t Change If Leaders Can’t Change with Them
  shareLeadership
• Everything new in InDesign CC 2017! InDesign CC 2017 Updates
• Speed as a Habit
  shareLeadership
• If You Want to Be a Writer, Neil Gaiman Says You Should “Get Bored”
• Stephen King’s “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes”
• 13 Facts About Mr. Rogers That Will Make You Smile
• Capgras Syndrome in the Digital Age
  ReadItLater
• The Big List of IFTTT Recipes: 34 Hacks for Hardcore Social Media Productivity
  ReadItLater
• Why You Won’t Get Your Day in Court
• The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to (Actually) Learn to Write
• Bragging rights: when beat­ing your own drum helps (or hurts)
• How Freelance Writers Can Establish a Peer Relationship With Clients
  Why you need to rec­og­nize you can and should have a peer rela­tion­ship with clients and how to get there.Tags: Writing Amwriting copywriting
• This Is How To Improve Your Writing: 7 Easy Expert Secrets
• The Interrobang, part 1 of 2 – Shady Characters
• Human Attention Span Shortens To 8 Seconds Due To Digital Technology: 3 Ways To Stay Focused
• Awesome MacOS: A curat­ed list of awe­some appli­ca­tions, soft­wares, tools and shiny things for macOS.
• How To Write A Novel Using The Snowflake Method
• Brand Style Guide Part 2: Defining Your Logo by Pariah Burke
• Illustrator CC Working with 3D [Video]
• How To Avoid Game Of Thrones Spoilers For, Oh, The Next Year
• 9 top design trends of 2016 |
• If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women.
• Six of the Most Common Resume Flaws (and How to Fix Them)
  Tags:

  To

  share

• Why We All Should Be Investing in Design | Branding Magazine
• How Much Should Freelance Writers Charge Per Word?
  Most begin­ner free­lance writ­ers have no idea what they should charge per word. I know this because I recent­ly put the word out that I was look­ing for freelTags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
• Asimov on How to Be Prolific
• 4 Daily Habits of Remarkably Smart Bosses .com
  shareLeadership
• Let Your Workers Rebel
  shareLeadership
• Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss
  shareLeadership
• Make Strategic Thinking Part of Your Job
  shareLeadership
• Typographic Magic: How to Make an Ambigram – HOW Design
• 7 Ways to Boost Your Creativity
  Tags:

  To

  share

• What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team – NYTimes
  shareLeadership
• The Top 10 Lies of Entrepreneurs and Investors

  From my expe­ri­ence lis­ten­ing to pitch­es, I’ve seen two sets of top 10 lies: one of entre­pre­neurs and one of investors and I want­ed to share them with you so that you know what not to say and what not to believe.

• Photoshop Essential Color Settings — sRGB, Adobe RGB (1998), or ProPhoto RGB?
• 3 Steps for Getting Over Your Fears of Starting a Freelance Business
  shareFreelance
• 53 Freelancing Mistakes That Are Costing You Clients, Cash, and Credibility
  shareFreelance
• Design Is Never Done – Articles – Google Design
• How to Write Addictively Readable Paragraphs
  If you want your read­ers to come back for more, you need to learn the art of writ­ing addic­tive­ly read­able para­graphs. The secret of writ­ing is …Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
• A Simple Web Developer’s Guide To Color – Smashing Magazine
  ReadItLater
• 10 prin­ci­ples for smooth web animations
• 60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos (NSFW)
  A col­lec­tion of for-sale stock pho­tos that are com­plete­ly use­able because they’re so odd or poor­ly conceived.
• 7 Ways to Improve Your Writing, According to Experts | TIME
• How I Tripled My Salary in Less Than One Year After Getting Fired
  shareFreelance
• 21 Signs You’re Dating A Designer
  Buying gifts for them is stress­ful, and why did they have to ruin Arial for you?
• How to Be a Better Writer: 6 Tips From Harvard’s Steven Pinker | TIME
• Finding Motivation on Important But Non-Urgent Tasks
  shareFreelance
• Google is mak­ing it eas­i­er for any­one to design beau­ti­ful apps – The Verge
• Avoid These 10 Photoshop Faux Pas to Make Your Images Look Better
• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
• The 6 short phras­es you’ll hear good lead­ers say (a lot)
  shareLeadership
• This Web App Identifies Unnecessary Words In Your Writing
• 8 Businesses for Entrepreneurs Seeking Success Working From Home
  shareFreelance
• How 4 Words Control Your Career Decisions

  Did you know four lit­tle words form a sim­ple ques­tion that, in my expe­ri­ence, has a seri­ous impact on your career deci­sions? Let me prove it to you:

  Imagine you are in a room full of strangers.

  In order to strike up a con­ver­sa­tion, besides intro­duc­ing your­self and ask­ing a per­son their name, what’s one of the first ques­tions you’ll ask?

  ANSWER: “What do you do?”

• 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
• The 4 Most Effective Book Marketing Strategies That Work
  Unless you are a genius and your work is the best book ever in the his­to­ry of the entire world (and if you think it is, you need a les­son in humil­i­ty), you need to mar­ket your work. Trouble is, most writ­ers have absolute­ly no idea where to start. Here’s just a quick smat­ter­ing of the ques­tions I receive in a giv­en week:

  Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub

• Photoshop is a city for every­one: how Adobe end­less­ly rebuilds its clas­sic app
• 100 Blocks a Day
  shareLeadership
• 12 Most Striking Tendencies of Creative People
  Ever won­der what makes those wacky, cre­ative types tick? How is it that some peo­ple seem to come up with all kinds of inter­est­ing, orig­i­nal work while the rest of us trudge along in our dai­ly routines?
  Creative peo­ple are dif­fer­ent because they…
• A Comprehensive Guide to Keyboard Maestro
• How the Web Became Unreadable
  ReadItLater
• How to Transition from Freelance Work to a Full Time Position
  shareFreelance
• Beginner’s Guide to Putting the Internet to Work for You: Save 60 Minutes Every Day
• What Happened When We Tried To Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel
• Writing Morning Pages can offer many of the same ben­e­fits as meditation
• 5 Tips for Hiring Freelancers Who Will Boost Your Business
  shareFreelance
• Colorful Gradient Logo Adobe Illustrator Tutorial
• How to cre­ate a design style guide – 25 pro tips
  When hand­ing over a cre­ative project, most agen­cies for free­lancers include a doc­u­ment known as a style guide. This not only adds an addi­tion­al air of pro­fes­sion­al­ism to the work but ratio­nalis­es to your client the cre­ative choic­es you made and…
• A bet­ter Photoshop grid for respon­sive web design
• How To Work Out Your Hourly, Daily or Project Rate
  shareFreelance
• Photoshop Plugins you Won’t be Able to Live Without
• Living in an Extreme Meritocracy Is Exhausting
  shareLeadership
• A Super Simple Way to Make Landscape Photos POP Using Lightroom
• 19 Best Practices for Faster UI Mockups
• Introduction to Photoshop Scripting #Photoshop

  Automation is use­ful in the work of every design­er. It saves pre­cious time on repet­i­tive tasks and helps us solve cer­tain prob­lems more quick­ly and easily.
  You can auto­mate your work­flow in Photoshop with actions, which are pret­ty pop­u­lar and which most of you already know about and use. Today, we’ll intro­duce you to an advanced automa­tion tech­nique: script­ing. All you need for this is basic knowl­edge of JavaScript, which some of us Web design­ers already have.

• Revisiting Why Incompetents Think They’re Awesome
• 34 Photoshop Tutorials That Will Leave You Looking Like A Pro
• Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent
• 23 Collaboration Tools Used by the World’s Most Efficient Teams & Creatives
• The Retina Asset Workflow You’ve Always Wanted For Photoshop
• Self-Employed Estimated Taxes Made Easy
• Self-employment used to be the dream. Now it’s a nightmare.
  shareFreelance
• 128 Words to Use Instead of “Very”
• All About Literary Agents

  Okay, maybe not all about agents. I’m not sure I can fit twenty-two years of expe­ri­ence into a sin­gle arti­cle, but I’m going to do my best to boil down what you need to know about agents, what to expect and how best to max­i­mize your expe­ri­ence. Sound good? Great, then let’s begin.

• The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine
• 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Testing a Business Idea | Entrepreneur​.com
  You’ve got a busi­ness idea you’re jazzed about, but aren’t sure if it’s fea­si­ble. What you need to do is test the con­cept to see how it stands up to a series of rig­or­ous questions.

  “You are always test­ing,” says Andre Marquis, Executive Direct…

• Journaling Can Help You Out of a Bad Mood
• Pure CSS Used to Make Circles, Triangles, Weird Shapes
  All of the below use only a sin­gle HTML ele­ment. Any kind of CSS goes, as long as it’s sup­port­ed in at least one browser.
• A style guide for writ­ing on Medium
• Ten Things I Look For When I’m Hiring
• The Tyrant as Editor: Stalin’s Blue Pencil

Get these (and more) deliv­ered in the Today in Design and This Week in Design email newslet­ters: Click here to subscribe.