The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- 10 Awesome HTML5 Canvas Examples
Canvas is a great feature in HTML5 that allows us to draw graphics on web browsers using JavaScript. For instance, it can be used to manipulate photos, draw and animate shapes, play videos or renders hardware-accelerated 3D graphics with WebGL support! Sky’s the limit. But it has also been used to make really awesome digital arts by pros… In past few months I have encountered many great examples of HTMl5 canvas, and today I am going to list some of them here for you to enjoy.
Tags: HTML5
- Design 101: The Pros and Cons of Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign [Infographic]
We want to start with the basics of the “Suite” three, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. What are each programs strengths and weakness? We want you to be a “Suite” three pro!Tags: Design101 CreativeCloud
- Typographically-Correct Strokes in Illustrator [Video]
If you just add a Stroke to type in Adobe Illustrator, the Stroke will be in front of the letterforms, which makes an ugly mess of the type and drives typographers crazy. In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel reveals some tips and tricks as well as secret
Tags: Illustrator Typography
- Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype
People are putting butter in their coffee. And hey, if you’re just craving a new flavor experience, more power to you. The problem is that Bulletproof Coffee, the company behind the trend, is claiming that drinking a mug of fatty joe every morning instead of eating breakfast is a secret shortcut to weight loss and mental superpowers, and now the butter coffee has developed a cult of highly caffeinated, shiny-lipped adherents.Bottom line: It’s almost certainly a bad idea. Ultimately, it seems to me that Bulletproof Coffee is a scheme to get you to buy some very expensive magic beans. There are better ways to get healthy, and there are tastier was to drink coffee that don’t involve coating the inside of your blender with butter every morning. Keep it balanced, folks.
Tags: BPC Bulletproof
- How to Stay Focused and Engaged in Long Meetings
Meetings are an inevitable part of the job for many people, and sometimes you know you’re going into a meeting that will drag on and on. How do you prepare yourself to be engaged and alert? Here’s a few of methods to survive those long haul meetings.
- Why Cards Are the Future of the Web
The aggregation depends on:
- The person consuming the content and their interests, preferences, behaviour.
- Their location and environmental context.
- Their friends’ interests, preferences and behaviour.
- The targeting advertising eco-system.
Tags: UX
- Your Totally Complete Guide to Customizing the WordPress Post Editor
But there is another option. You can use plugins or create your own code. Through using plugins or by coding by hand, TinyMCE can replaced or modified to give you more features to help you stand out from the crowd.
- 27 Funny Posters And Charts That Graphic Designers Will Relate To
So we thought, why not collate a few good ones into one cool post? Who knows, it might even drive some sense into an unreasonable client and make him/her change his/her attitude?