Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 5 February 2016

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

• Gorgeous Color Palettes Based On The Most Popular Colors Of 2015
  Italian brand­ing agency Dumma Branding has come up with a col­lec­tion of gor­geous col­or palettes based on the most used col­ors of 2015. 

  The…Tags: Design Inspiration

• 7 Books & Resources on Package Design
  These excel­lent books and resources on pack­age design pro­vide inspi­ra­tion, advice and crit­i­cal tools for cre­at­ing great packages.
• 10 Intriguing Backstories Behind Common Symbols
  We’re sur­round­ed by sym­bols that we seem to instinc­tive­ly under­stand but rarely ques­tion where they orig­i­nal­ly came from. Often, the his­to­ry of com­mon sym­bols is more con­vo­lut­ed than we might think.

  Tags: Typography

• The Future of the Bank Branch Is in Trouble — Here’s Why
  The era of the bank branch is over.

  To bet­ter under­stand what the bank of the future will look like, BI Intelligence sur­veyed 1,500 banked mil­len­ni­als (ages 18–34) on their bank­ing behav­iors and pref­er­ences — from their pre­ferred bank­ing devices, to what bank­ing actions they per­form on those devices, to how often they per­form them.

  Tags: Millenials

• 8 Powerful Reasons to Automate Everything On Your Mac

  This arti­cle is for begin­ning and inter­me­di­ate Mac users who are not tak­ing advan­tage of Mac automa­tion tools, which are pow­er­ful­ly use­ful for per­form­ing repet­i­tive tasks, and get­ting things done more efficiently.

  Tags: OSX Mac Productivity

• Sans Serif Fonts: Most Popular Typefaces, Best for Webfonts
  Sans Serif Fonts con­tin­ues to grow, and prob­a­bly, new val­ue will be found in cre­at­ing and trans­form­ing exist­ing forms to cre­ate new ones.Tags: typog­ra­phy design

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