Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 9 March 2016

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

• Husband’s Illustrations For Wife Capture Love At Its Simplest

  Illustrator Andrew Hou had trou­ble express­ing his love for his wife with words, so he decid­ed to do it through art instead.

  Tags: Design Inspiration

• These Pun-Heavy Posters About Graphic Design Will Make Creatives Chuckle (or Groan) | Adweek
  Sara Heffernen’s “Graphic Design Pun Cards” make gen­tle sport of design­ers’ com­pul­sive, per­fec­tion­ist ten­den­cies, while being dad-jokey enough to elic­it groans from the rest of us.Tags: Design
• 21 Women Disrupting Tech
  Happy International Women’s Day. This year, the theme is “Pledge For Parity,” mean­ing com­mit­ting to achiev­ing equal­i­ty around sta­tus and pay. Last year, the..
• 5 Tips to Make Your Design Portfolio Stand Out in 2016

  Making sure you have a port­fo­lio that makes a good impres­sion is a good start. Here are 5 tips to make your design port­fo­lio stand out in 2016.

  Tags: Design Business

• Video Breaks Down Color Theory Into Fun, Bite-Sized Pieces Of Information
  Motion graph­ic artist Rhea Lelina Manglapus has cre­at­ed a video that breaks down the col­or the­o­ry into easy to grasp, bite-sized information. 

  Tags: Design

• Peeple Launches Today. Here’s Its Plan to Profit from Harassment

  When news of Peeple, the so-called “Yelp for peo­ple” that lets you rate any­one you know like a restau­rant, swept the web last year, I was hor­ri­fied. A tool that lets my abu­sive ex-boyfriend write what­ev­er he wants about me and post it for the Internet to see? A tool that lets any­one with my cell phone num­ber start my pro­file on the web­site with­out my con­sent? A tool that sends noti­fi­ca­tions to my phone with­out my per­mis­sion, the­o­ret­i­cal­ly allow­ing my ex to over­ride my block of his number?

• 10 Best Grammar Resources for Aspiring Writers
  There are plen­ty of resources that can help them make few­er mis­takes and catch the ones that do find their way into their writ­ing. For aspir­ing writ­ers who need tips about gram­mar, here are ten of the best places to look for them.Tags: Writing AmWriti…
• The new mind con­trol. Subtle Internet influ­ence can flip elec­tions, manip­u­late what we say, think, do
  The Internet Has Spawned Subtle Forms of Influence That Can Flip Elections and Manipulate Everything We Say, Think and Do
• 7 More Things You Didn’t Know Adobe Illustrator Could Do
  7 More Things You Didn’t Know Adobe Illustrator Could DoTags: Vector Illustrator
• Learn How to Make Your Writing Funnier With This Video Lesson
  Whether you want to tell sto­ries, write a killer speech, or just make your busi­ness mem­os a lit­tle less hum­drum, humor is one of the best ways to engage an audi­ence. This video les­son gives you some prac­ti­cal tips you can apply to your writ­ing to make…
• How Creatives Can Improve Their Relationship With Marketers
  With the increased pres­sure to cre­ate con­tent that cuts through the noise, it’s imper­a­tive that cre­atives and mar­keters work well together.

  Tags: CM ContentMarketing Design

• Nothing Snowballs Online Like Fear
  How online fear feeds polit­i­cal smear cam­paigns, stock mar­ket rumors, and ISIS propaganda.
• Nobody Knows Anything

  Publishing com­pa­nies and Hollywood stu­dios rou­tine­ly pro­duce works they pre­dict will sell based on past suc­cess of sim­i­lar works. It’s a flawed method of deci­sion mak­ing, but it’s the best we’ve got.

  Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub

• How to Draw and Paint: 95 Pro Tips and Tutorials
  These draw­ing tuto­ri­als and tips resources from top artists will help every­one from novice to pro.Tags: ampaint­ing amdrawing
• 4 Times You MUST Communicate With Your Freelance Writing Clients

  Making sure you com­mu­ni­cate with your free­lance writ­ing clients is impor­tant. There are, how­ev­er, times when it’s more than impor­tant, it’s crucial.

  Tags: Writing AmWriting copy­writ­ing

• Illustrator Tutorial: Create the Wicked Witch of the West
  “I’ll Get You My Pretty” has tak­en on a whole new mean­ing in this tuto­r­i­al. The Wicked Witch of the West now dons a styl­ish col­lec­tion of haute cou­ture cloth­ing to be rivaled only by her fab­u­lous­ly evil atti­tude. Join me in a mad­den­ing ride through fo…
• 7 Tools for Building Online Portfolios Quickly and Easily

  What these tools have in com­mon are sim­plic­i­ty of use, afford­abil­i­ty, inno­v­a­tive and time-saving func­tion­al­i­ties. You will not be bur­dened by a host of fea­tures you have lit­tle or no use for. Some on the list are ori­ent­ed towards port­fo­lio build­ing, but with the right tools, the sky’s the limit.

  Tags: Design

• Awesome Steampunk Photo Manipulations and Photo-Realistic Illustrations
  There are many, many fans of steam­punk style which is a large sub­genre of sci­ence fic­tion and fan­ta­sy. These images have been inspired by tech­nol­o­gy and aes­thet­ic designs from the 19th-century indus­tri­al steam-powered machin­ery ~ set in an Art Nouveau…
• What’s Next in Computing?
  Tech prod­uct cycles are mutu­al­ly rein­forc­ing inter­ac­tions between plat­forms and appli­ca­tions. New plat­forms enable new appli­ca­tions, which in turn make the new plat­forms more valu­able, cre­at­ing a pos­i­tive feed­back loop. Smaller, off­shoot tech cycles hap­pen all the time, but every once in a while — his­tor­i­cal­ly, about every 10 to 15 years — major new cycles begin that com­plete­ly reshape the com­put­ing landscape.
• How to Write a MetaFiction Picture Book
  How to write a post­mod­ern metafic­tion pic­ture book. Definitions, tips, and techniques.

  Tags: Writing AmWriting self­pub epub

• Graphic Translates Web Design Feedback into Plain English
  We’ve all heard sto­ries of peo­ple who look at a web­site mock­up and say some­thing like “It needs more pop!” or “Make it sleek­er,” with­out being spe­cif­ic about what they’re look­ing for. It can be a pain, but this tongue-firmly-in-cheek graph­ic translate…
• 10 Hidden Microsoft Word Features That Will Make Your Life Easier
  You are fine as long as you fire up a doc­u­ment and just type. But bil­lions of Redmond dol­lars went into mak­ing this the office Swiss knife it is today. Many of those green­backs helped cre­ate the hid­den pro­duc­tive fea­tures that we rarely use. Here are …
• Best-Selling Sci-Fi Authors Launch New Book Discovery Platform

  Discover Sci-Fi’s authors have col­lec­tive­ly sold five mil­lion copies of their books to date, and will sell an esti­mat­ed three mil­lion copies in 2016.

  Tags: Writing AmWriting

• 3 Types of Capitalization Errors in Styling Quotations
  Confusion some­times ensues when writ­ers are decid­ing whether a quo­ta­tion mer­its cap­i­tal­iza­tion. Here are three ways cap­i­tal­iza­tion errors can result.Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
• Self-Made Millionaire: Only 5 Ways to Get Rich
  Being rich is more of a state of mind than a dol­lar amount. Truthfully, the rich can be poor and the poor can be rich. If you’re look­ing to have it all in life, here are the only five ways you can become rich:
• 28 Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Adobe Photoshop CC
  28 great fea­tures, tricks, hacks, and more of Adobe Photoshop CC 2015. Some are sim­ple, some are dif­fi­cult, some are well known, and some are more like Easter eggs.Tags: Photoshop
• Designer Heartbreak: Stories Of Jealousy, Clients Lost, And Unrequited Love
  Designers share sto­ries of pro­fes­sion­al heartache. “I’m still wait­ing for NASA to give us a call.“Tags: Design
• The Quick & Dirty Guide to Personal Wikis
  Whether you want to man­age per­son­al infor­ma­tion, use it as a free­lance web-worker, or to man­age your cor­po­rate work, this arti­cle will intro­duce you to a few of the options out there and kick­start you with some ideas for get­ting pro­duc­tive using your …
• 6 Times Authors Broke the Rules
  Rules are made to be bro­ken; gram­mar rules are no excep­tion. The argu­ment for break­ing gram­mar rules is that you can enhance the inten­si­ty, voice, and style of your writ­ing by ignor­ing them, where­as polic­ing your­self about gram­mar can feel like steppi…
• Working at Work Is a Thing of the Past
  the bored-at-work crowd owes its scale to the smartphone

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