The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- All Great Writing Boils Down to These 4 Emotional Appeals
The appeal is the reason you give the reader to read, subscribe, donate, share, or buy. Great writers focus on these four emotional appeals in their copy.Tags: Writing AmWriting
- 7 Top Authors Talk Twitter Tips and Social Media’s Effects on Literature
Sometimes, 140 characters are all an author needs.
- Choosing Fonts for Tight Tracking
Lately, we’ve been developing a taste for tight letterspacing. Our clients have been doing the same: designers know that tight tracking is an effective way to make any message seem more immediate and energetic. But not every typeface is designed for close quarters, and the wrong font can ruin the effect. Here are a few things to consider when setting type tightly.
- For Color Fans: The PANTONE Café Is A Colorful, Vibrant Rainbow-Hued Delight
PANTONE fans, you have another color-coded establishment to check out, after the PANTONE hotel.
Located on the promenade of the Grimaldi…
- All Great Writing Boils Down to These 4 Emotional Appeals
The appeal is the reason you give the reader to read, subscribe, donate, share, or buy. Great writers focus on these four emotional appeals in their copy.
- Do Freelance Writers Need Blogs?
I chuckled this morning over the first page results for “Do Freelance Writers Need Blogs?” The answer is clear – you either do need a blog to be a successful freelance writer, or you don’t, or maybe you do, or maybe you don’t…
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- What are Optotypes? About the history of eye charts and their fonts.
My graphic design students love to design posters using the classic eye chart composition, and they frequently ask “What typeface should I use for this?” Not having a definitive answer has always been frustrating, so I decided to investigate to find out what typeface is used on eye charts.
- 45 Cool T‑Shirts For Designers And Creatives
Show some love to a designer today by gifting him or her one of these cool t‑shirts for a job well done. Even better, gift these before the project starts
- Arial, Helvetica or Myriad Pro? Take The Quiz!
Love fonts? Spend hours looking at type options, to the point where the words don’t make sense anymore? If you can tell your Helvetica from your Arial, this quiz is for you. Share your score!
- Arial, Helvetica or Myriad Pro? Take The Quiz!
Love fonts? Spend hours looking at type options, to the point where the words don’t make sense anymore? If you can tell your Helvetica from your Arial, this quiz is for you. Share your score!
- The Last Word on Helvetica?
Helvetica: good, bad, evil?
Perhaps this article should have ended at the question mark in its title. And by the end of it, you may well concur. However, in the meantime, and before I get started — and I promise this won’t take long — let me be clear, I am not, I repeat, not (inbold for emphasis) a Helvetica hater.
- The Last Word on Helvetica?
Helvetica: good, bad, evil?
Perhaps this article should have ended at the question mark in its title. And by the end of it, you may well concur. However, in the meantime, and before I get started — and I promise this won’t take long — let me be clear, I am not, I repeat, not (inbold for emphasis) a Helvetica hater.
- Designers Redesign The ‘Elderly People’ Road Sign To Make It More Positive
According to them, the current sign has a derogatory connotation and implies disability and frailty. In an effort reimagine the road sign, they have called upon the design community to create a new warning sign that paints the elderly communi…