Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 4 February 2016

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

• Logo Design Price List Template from the Logo Smith

  This isn’t so much a fixed price menu, in that these are real­ly only price ‘guides’ to pro­vide con­text to a client, and to at least give them a start­ing point from which to come up with their own budget.

  Tags: Logo Branding design busi­ness

• Multitasking is Killing Your Brain
  New research sug­gests the pos­si­bil­i­ty that cog­ni­tive dam­age asso­ci­at­ed with multi-tasking could be permanent.
• 7 Creative Ways Regular People Made $1 Million
  Getting rich is a long-term game, for the most part — but there are some less con­ven­tion­al ways to make mil­lions rel­a­tive­ly quickly.
• 25 New Photoshop Tutorials to Improve Your Photo Manipulation and Retouching
  Amazing new Photoshop tuto­ri­als that will improve your design, enhance and retouch skills. These Photoshop tuto­ri­als, tech­niques and tips are very help­ful to

  Tags: Photoshop Photography

• How I became a mil­lion­aire quickly

  If you want­ed to, you can become a mil­lion­aire in under five years.

  I was able to do it soon­er than that, but it was­n’t that easy. There have been many sac­ri­fices to make and obsta­cles to over­come, but I was deter­mined to make it hap­pen. Dealing with adver­si­ty was my great­est teacher and it allowed me to build the type of resilience that helped me walk through the fire.

  Tags: Entrepreneur free­lance brass­balls

• How to Vectorize Watercolor Doodles in Illustrator
  When you’re done, let your water­doo­dles dry and then scan in your work at 300 DPI, color.Tags: Vector Illustrator amdrawing
• How to Design a Logo: 5 Expert Tips
  What it takes to get from an ini­tial idea to an end prod­uct, let alone one that becomes icon­ic, can seem a daunt­ing task. The fol­low­ing five tips offer a frame­work in how to design a suc­cess­ful logo.Tags: Logo Branding
• Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion Will Invert the Media Industry
  Over the past cen­tu­ry, tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments have mas­sive­ly reduced the cost and time need­ed to cre­ate and cir­cu­late con­tent. Though this has lib­er­at­ed artists, con­sumers are now drown­ing in a vir­tu­al­ly infi­nite sup­ply of things to watch, lis­ten to and read. The answer to a world where atten­tion is the key con­straint, not cap­i­tal or dis­tri­b­u­tion, isn’t Big Media – it’s the Influencer Curator.

  Tags: CM ContentMarketing

• InDesign Version and Down Save Chart from Markzware
  Tags: InDesign Layout editorial
• Adobe Connect Goes Flash Free! (see also http://​BurkeAssists​.com)

  Today, I’m pleased to announce a new update to Adobe Connect that enables cus­tomers with­out Adobe Flash Player installed on their com­put­er to attend an Adobe Connect meet­ing, vir­tu­al class­room, or webi­nar. Flash is no longer required.

  Tags: VPRES GoToMeeting WebEx

• Up and Running with the iPad Pro
  Learn how to set up and use the iPad Pro, the largest, fastest Apple tablet.Tags: iPadPro
• Design 101: Text Rules You Need to Follow in 2016 to Achieve Awesome Design
  There’s one thing that most designs have in com­mon: text. We’ll help you get it right.

  Tags: typog­ra­phy design

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