The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Logo book author Michael Evamy on what makes great logo design
If Pentagram’s Micheal Bierut reckons a book can “make better designers of all of us,” its likely to be a pretty useful tome. The designer was heaping praise on Logo: The Reference Guide to Symbols and Logotypes by Michael Evamy, which is just about to launch its new mini edition with publisher Laurence King.
Tags: Design Logodesign
- The Complete Guide to Choosing (or Building) the Perfect Standing Desk
Standing desks are popular, but choosing a good one is no easy task. You could go with a motorized, whole desk replacement, or DIY a simple solution. You could even buy an adjustable attachment to go on top of your existing desk. Let’s talk about what…
- Could you be a ‘super-forecaster’?
Most intelligence agencies rely on the informed hunches of trained specialists. But there are people from ordinary walks of life who routinely do far better at predicting events than the experts. Tara Isabella Burton meets some of them.Tags: Futurism
- A Scientific Explanation for Why Nice People Finish First
You may have heard the saying “nice guys finish last,” but there is plenty of evidence that says being nice is far more advantageous. This video explains why being nice is almost always the best way to go.
- A Designer’s Guide To Setting The Mood With Lines
Want to imbue an air of refinement with a single brushstroke? Rikard Rodin, who blogs at Zeven Design, put together a handy little infographic on how designers can use lines to set the mood, drawing from the “mood lines” in the book Landscape Architecture by John Ormsbee Simonds.
Tags: Design
- 10 Free Tools For Creating Your Own Maps
Maps are handy for a lot of reasons. Not only do they help us navigate through certain areas, they also enable us to learn more about the world and what it has to offer. What if you’re someone who wants to create a map instead?
Tags: Maps Cartography
- Call to Action: 40 Best Button Photoshop Tutorials
A web button is a very small but the most important design element of any website design that not only provide functionality but also adds in the aestheticTags: Photoshop
- Launch Files & Applications on a Scheduled Date with Calendar for Mac OS X
If you’ve ever wished you could schedule the opening of a specific file, or set an application to launch on a specific date, either on a one off basis or on a recurring scheduled event, you can actually do both right in Mac OS X with the help of none other than the default Calendar app. This is an astonishingly useful feature that is largely unknown, but it’s extremely easy to use. We’ll cover how to launch specific files on a schedule, or just an application. Just like a standard alert or event, you can create repeat schedules with these as well. If you’ve ever created a generic event or Reminder in OS X before, this is quite similar.
Tags: OSX Mac Productivity
- The Awful Irony of Self-Bias
I have recently been studying bias and how it impacts team performance. I stumbled upon a type of bias that people have about themselves, a self-bias called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs