Death by Desk Job: How to Fight It [INFOGRAPHIC] Your desk job can kill you. At the very least, it will likely make you fatter, sicker and more stressed out than a job that doesn't require sitting down and hunching over a keyboard for a third of the day. Studies have shown that the amount of time American's spend sitting increased by 8% between 1980 and 2000, while obesity rates doubled.
Other factors played roles in fostering flab, but consider these numbers — nearly 300 million Americans don't get the minimum level of exercise required for good health. Americans burn about 50,000 fewer calories per year than they did 50 years ago, and the portion of jobs that require physical activity has declined by about 30% since 1960. So how can you fight your desk job's slow but steady stranglehold on your health and maybe live a few years longer?
SEE ALSO: Your Desk Job Makes You Fat, Sick and Dead [INFOGRAPHIC] The American Heart Association recommends taking at least 10,000 steps per day, so take the stairs instead of that tempting elevator.
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It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth. So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain. To do that we wil use a few stock photos, layer adjustments and the Displace filter in Photoshop CS5. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Let's import another image, now of a girl opening the curtains. Step 3 With the Lasso Tool (L) or the Pen Tool (P) select the empty white. Step 5 Now select the hands/arms of the girl and the curtains. Step 6 Move the brick wall layer so it will be in front of the girl layer.
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In the real world, often you can’t choose the size of the page your document is going to use, so I’ll show you the entire math that you must do to build a Complex Grid on a page that is given to you. 1. One of the first maths you should do is finding the number of lines that allow you to make the divisions you want.
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In either case, booklets serve advertising purposes and since they are usually short (max. 25-30 pages) they need to look good and be informative in order to focus users’ attention and effectively convey the message. This post showcases beautiful examples of brochure and booklet design. You may want to take a look at our related posts Brochures and Booklets Urban Picnic6 Ant and blanket pattern graphics are used to interperet the common picnic in this event brochure for Architecture Week. 2008 Calendar8A pretty colorful calendar concept.
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Maybe this can be the helpful start to a new project? Let’s dive in! 26 Beautiful Free Retro Fonts. COCKTAILS – poster on the Behance Network. 100 Free Fonts You Should Have in Your Library. Fonts have already been among the essential materials used by designers. Whether it is a web design project or a logo design – font is the element, capable of attracting people’s attention, rendering the key idea, and communicating the necessary message. That is why, thousands of free fonts reside today in multiple online font repositories. Below we are introducing a collection of 100 free fonts, which represent vividly only some of the most significant trends in typography, however all of these fonts feature really unique and fresh designs. Clean fonts contain the samples of free fonts of the sans serif family with classic proportions, distinct lines, and clean backgrounds.
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