The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Your brain craves infographics – and here are 13 visual reasons why
Enjoy this great infographic about infographics and see why visuals work so well for distributing informationTags: Datavis Infographics
- Tax Issues With Bartering Photography Services
In fact, bartering is so common that the definition I just gave you is straight from the IRS. What does this mean? Uncle Sam wants a piece.Tags: Photography
- Create a Photo Manipulation of an Emotional Dancer in a Forest in Photoshop
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a scene of an emotional dancer in a forest. You’ll learn how to combine and blend different stock photos in a cohesive scene, adjust color, use layer mask, manage lighting, work with group and more.
Tags: Photoshop
- How to Make Your Social Media Profile Picture Impress For a Job Search
You know this, so how can you use it to your advantage? One place to start is with a professional looking profile picture. This is the first thing they’ll see if they look you up, so it helps to make yours one that’s actually worth seeing! The infographic below from AvidCareerist provides you with some quick tips that you can use to create a professional profile picture that will make potential employers take a second look! Check it out, and feel free to add your own tips in the comments section below!
Tags: SocialMedia
- Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design: Chip Kidd
“An excellent introduction to graphic design through [the author’s] own excellent work. Anyone interested in the subject, including most practitioners, will find it delightful.”—Milton Glaser
- Video Course: Design and Self-Publish Your eBook in InDesign CC
In this course you will learn how to use Adobe InDesign CC to create EPUBs. Pariah Burke will start off by showing you how properly setup an InDesign document for EPUB. Next learn how to work in InDesign to properly format and edit content while allow…
- Feedback made easy: Add comments on Dropbox files
With comments, you can now have conversations around Dropbox files, both on the files you own and the files people share with you. This keeps your conversations organized in one place, and provides a way to gather feedback in just one step. Here are a…
- How to Stay Organized With a Tickler File
Learn how to create and manage a Tickler File system using the GTD methodology. The tickler file will ensure you never lose track of reminders, contract end dates, upcoming events, subscriptions etc.Tags: Productivity timemgmt
- How to Stay Organized With a Tickler File
Learn how to create and manage a Tickler File system using the GTD methodology. The tickler file will ensure you never lose track of reminders, contract end dates, upcoming events, subscriptions etc.Tags: Productivity timemgmt
- California forced to take signatures for horrifying “shoot the gays” ballot initiative
One opponent of the measure has filed the “Intolerant Jacka** Act” to counteract the egregious anti-LGBTQ proposalTags: LGBT LGBTQ
- Genres in Fiction Writing: Literary Fiction vs. Everything Else
- How to Transition from Freelance Work to a Full Time Position
As appealing as the freedom of freelancing can be, it’s also a challenge, and sometimes you find yourself wanting to stick with one of your freelance clients for good. The company culture, the ability to focus on one client, the coworker camaraderie—there are lots of reasons to transition from freelancer to employee. But how do you convince them you should be on staff?
- 8 Simple Questions to Ask Yourself Before Publishing Your Book
- Photography Copyright Misuse: Only The Smile Remained
There are many blogs that discuss the legal ramifications of using other people’s images without consent – photography copyright misuse. However, what about the person who receives consent or a non-exclusive right to use a specific photograph and then digitally altered their photograph? Will this act be considered a copyright infringement? The answer is likely contained in the license agreement.
Tags: Photography Copyright IP IPLaw
- The Remedy for Unproductive Busyness
It’s very easy to succumb to the temptation of staying busy even when it is counterproductive: It is the way our brains are wired. But there is a remedy that we can employ to translate that predisposition into productivity.Research points to two reasons we often feel busy (but not necessarily productive) —�and they are both self-imposed.
- The Remedy for Unproductive Busyness
It’s very easy to succumb to the temptation of staying busy even when it is counterproductive: It is the way our brains are wired. But there is a remedy that we can employ to translate that predisposition into productivity.Research points to two reasons we often feel busy (but not necessarily productive) —�and they are both self-imposed.
- The Remedy for Unproductive Busyness
It’s very easy to succumb to the temptation of staying busy even when it is counterproductive: It is the way our brains are wired. But there is a remedy that we can employ to translate that predisposition into productivity.Research points to two reasons we often feel busy (but not necessarily productive) —�and they are both self-imposed.
- 5 Ways to Be a Responsible Writer
Each time a client agrees to exchange hard-earned money for fine prose, a bunch of responsibilities lands on your plate – and clients will hold you to them.
Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
- $1.08 billion–annual amount spent on non-corporate elearning materials.
- 22 Fun Gradient Mesh Tutorials in Adobe Illustrator for Beginners
Tutorials, screen cast and written, to help ease you into mastering Gradient MeshTags: Illustrator vector