The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- How to Build a Meaningful Career – HBR
Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? What practical steps can you take today or this month to make sure you’re not just toiling away at your desk but you’re doing something you genuinely care about?
- 20 Pattern Tutorials For Your Future Designs
Today, I’d like to share 20 pattern tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator that you can use in your future designs. The best part about these tutorials is that you can set your imagination free and customize each pattern as you like. From nature-inspired patterns to more abstract themed ones, there’s plenty for you to choose from. Some of these tutorials require 2–3 hours of your time but it’s definitely worth it.
- Becoming Well-Spoken: How to Minimize Your Uh’s and Um’s
But the most famous fillers of all — the type that comes in for the most attention and disdain – are “uh” and “um.” To many, um’s and uh’s are tantamount to “verbal viruses” that clog up the language of the uncivilized and uneducated. Many public speaking experts recommend attempting to scrub your speech clean of this pesky padding.
Tags: Leadership Presenting
- 5 Ways Creativity Creates Productivity
Today, business leaders are completely and utterly focused on productivity. Meanwhile, creativity is the spark of a new idea so incredible that it interrupts whatever you’re doing to get it onto paper. Creativity leads to productivity, if that workplace environment is developed and nurtured in a way that allows the two to peacefully co-exist.
- An illustrator fights his creations
In this new series, Solis takes it a step further by fighting with his illustrations. Do not worry for the poor little drawings though, they do fight back and hurt him pretty bad. As usual, the drawings are very well executed and detailed, which makes the interactions feel more real.
Tags: Illustration Inspiration
- 6 TYPOGRAPHY TRENDS TO WATCH FOR THIS YEAR
Web design has come a long way in the past few years. Full-screen videos on homepages, responsive high-resolution slideshows, and phones with more internet-based functions than computers would have been unthinkable at the beginning of the decade, but now they’re commonplace.
Tags: typography
- It’s official: Americans should drink more coffee – The Washington Post
It also said that consuming as many as five cups of coffee each day (400 mg) is tied to several health benefits, including a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
Tags: Coffee
- A Shocking Look at the Technology Available to the North Korean People
In North Korea’s isolation, they’ve developed their own Internet. Their own technology industry. Even their own tablet computers. And they’ve even used information technology and the Web as a weapon of war. A powerful tool to further their own foreign policy interests.
Tags: DPRK NorthKorea