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Don't have the latest shiny CS suite from Adobe? Not to worry. Here are 4 great open source / free graphic designer tools with plenty of juice to get a project finished. In a nutshell, GIMP is the free, open source version of Photoshop. It will let you do everything from the simplest touch-ups to the most advanced image manipulation techniques. This software has a great support community and there are plenty of plug-ins and extensions available to expand its functionality.
4 great open source/free tools for graphic designers. : Storyboard | Kallima Paper
Keep On Learning - 52 Weeks of UX
One of the greatest qualities in most creative problem solvers is a thirst for learning. Most designers and user experience professionals I know have some level of post-graduate education. But if you were to dig a little deeper, you would likely find that many have degrees in either partially or completely unrelated fields. The truth is the greatest thing you learn while getting a college education is that you alone are responsible for what and how you learn. Andy Rutledge recently leveled a very stern, yet honest, criticism of the state of UX Design Education in the college system: “ Today the appropriate path for UX design education goes around, not through, nearly all universities and colleges.”
Design View / Andy Rutledge - The UX Design Education Scam
If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope it didn’t cost you or your parents too much. The game changed. Higher education didn’t…and it won’t.
The truth about English is that it can get pretty boring. Dangling modifiers, gerunds, punctuation marks––it’s enough to make you want to drop out of high school. Swearing and sex on the other hand, well, these time-honored pastimes warm the cockles of our hearts. Now, The Elements of F*cking Style drags English grammar out of the ivory tower and into the gutter, injecting a dull subject with a much-needed dose of color. This book addresses everything from common questions (“What the hell is a pronoun?”) to philosophical conundrums (“Does not using paragraphs or periods make my thesis read like it was written by a mental patient?”).
The Elements of Fucking Style
Boston’s Fenway Park turns 100 on April 20 and the Red Sox marketing machine is cranking out a season’s worth of promos, events, a coffee table book--and even a symphony recording. Are the Red Sox in danger of over-romanticizing (and over-commercializing) America's most classic ballpark?
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Debbie Millman is a writer, educator, artist, brand consultant and host of the radio show Design Matters.
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Adobe has officially announced its new iPad-focused Digital Publishing Platform , which was used to create the recently released Wired app for the iPad.
Adobe rolls out iPad-focused magazine publishing tools
House Industries Does It Well: Eames Century Modern | Against Th
Leave it to House Industries , when it comes to paying homage to the Masters (in Design, not Augusta), they never disappoint. The men and women from Yorklyn Delaware (a rural village not far from Wilmington, DE, a small city not far from Philadelphia, PA, a major sports city not far from New York, where nothing important seems to happen any more (just kidding Gotham!)) got its valentine to all things Eames right on the mark with its latest hit, Eames Century Modern .
Above: Happy type lovers soaking up the sun and the serifs at Type Camp on Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada. From left to right: Stephen Coles (instructor), Dean Gendall, Jessica Speigel, Jessica Yurasek, Erica-May Chan, Marian Bantjes (instructor), Sarah Clayton, Matt Soar, Aaron Bell, Tiffany Wardle (instructor).
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A big thanks to our registrants, speakers, filmmakers, exhibitors, artists and sponsors for making SXSW 2012 such a great year!
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Most of the recaps that I have read of this year’s conference are similar to last year’s, in that they focus not on the content of the conference, but whether the conference should exist at all. (SXSWi is always followed by a flurry of recaps, because nobody is sure of what SXSWi is, so they are not sure if SXSWi is failing or succeeding.) SXSW Interactive after dark is fantastic. Parties are everywhere, the food selection is beautiful, bands are playing, drinks flow freely. I hung out with great people, toasted to success, lost horribly at flip-cup, and ate pork on a donut. Everyone is happy, everyone is relaxed, everything is happening.
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Before having heard a note of the Arcade Fire’s latest album, I knew that I wanted to write about it. The cover art was immediately arresting and I knew it would be a great excuse to discuss hand-drawn fonts. Not that I hadn’t thought about discussing them already: Dinosaur Jr’s Bug , Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted and The Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim are some old favorites of mine, both in terms of cover and content.slowdog
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This attractive park has a beautifully shaded picnic area with several tables. There's a selection of the usual children's playground equipment. For more information about this park, call the City of Austin Parks Department at (512) 974-6700.