Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 8 September 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • Hand-Sketching: Things You Didn’t Know Your Doodles Could Accomplish
    Is sketch­ing by hand more than a nos­tal­gic activ­i­ty? How is paper any dif­fer­ent from a screen, espe­cial­ly when hard­ware is becom­ing more and more sophis­ti­cat­ed? Is improv­ing your hand-sketching skills real­ly worth­while when high-tech soft­ware i…
  • For your inspi­ra­tion: 200 port­fo­lio websites
    To help with build­ing ideas for your own web­site, I have col­lect­ed 200 var­i­ous port­fo­lios of graph­ics design­ers, devel­op­ers, writ­ers, and oth­er dig­i­tal cre­atives. This is a mas­sive show­case gallery full of design inspi­ra­tion for unique portfoli…
  • Make Eyelashes Thicker in Photoshop
    Use paths to cre­ate thick­er eye­lash­es in Photoshop.
  • Photographer Captures the Reactions of Subjects While He is Nude

    Trevor Christensen’s series titled Nude Portraits might sound provoca­tive, but in actu­al­i­ty there aren’t any naked peo­ple fea­tured in it. The Utah-based pho­tog­ra­ph­er is the one who’s nude, and the images he cap­tures are of his sub­jects’ reac­tions to his cloth­in­g­less body. It’s not a trick or a sur­prise to them, and Christensen speaks to each per­son before­hand and explains what’s about to go on. But, even with the knowl­edge that he’ll be naked, the reac­tions are priceless.

  • 6 inspi­ra­tional mobile apps for graph­ic designers.

    When the cre­ative well runs dry, it’s impor­tant to know how to replen­ish it. To become inspired, you now only need to vis­it your device’s app store. Here are a few of the best apps for graph­ic design­ers and artists to kick start their next projects:

  • 10 Tips to Keep in Mind When Designing Websites for Startups

    There are times in the lives of design­ers when they have to craft web­sites for star­tups as opposed to cre­at­ing sites for estab­lished names in the busi­ness. Websites for star­tups are a real chal­lenge because very often a startup’s online iden­ti­ty is their sole brand­ing tool, a point of con­tact with their tar­get audi­ence and a sales out­let all rolled into one.

  • Scribble is a (real, hard­ware) pen that can sam­ple and repro­duce any color.
    What if you could have absolute­ly any col­or in your artist’s arse­nal? Imagine how large your tool set would have to be to pull off such a feat! The folks behind Scribble will blow your mind with an uncon­ven­tion­al answer: one pen. That’s all you…
  • Smooth Skin in Photoshop (Tutorial)
    During the course of this Photoshop I’m going to show you how to make skin look smooth.

    The Photoshop tech­nique itself is not com­pli­cat­ed, but does require you to be patient and work slow and accu­rate. If you can meet these require­ments, then …

  • 25 Innovative Websites that Buck Design Trends

    Certain trends have become so main­stream that the major­i­ty of mod­ern web designs all have sim­i­lar­i­ties in their lay­outs and styles. It’s still pos­si­ble to find unique web designs though, in today’s post I show­case 25 inno­v­a­tive designs that buck the pop­u­lar trends in favour of exper­i­men­tal ideas. These web­sites have all been cho­sen for their unusu­al nav­i­ga­tions, out of the ordi­nary lay­outs or clever uses of ani­ma­tions and effects.

  • Internet Hero Hunts Down All 74 Stickers From Apple’s New Ad
    If you watched that new Apple ad with dozens of stick­ers adorn­ing a MacBook Air and felt com­pelled to track down all 74 in real life, I have bad news and good news.

    The bad news is, uh, that’s a strange and unnat­ur­al com­pul­sion you’ve got ther…