December: Loving the holidays... &else . . . now is the time many people are feverishly putting together holiday promotions... this month we'll enjoy some idea-starters and cool resources for doing beautiful graphic arts for December.
- Creative Tidbits #218: Icons, infographics, Black Friday, Podcasts, paper grades and more
- Creative Tidbits #219: street art, white space, art nouveau, lessons in design and more
- Make cool stuff with these Creative maker projects -- educational inspiration
- Graphic Design: How Famous Brands Have Evolved Over Time
- Free coloring pages from classic, modern, vintage, holiday and Christmas Coloring Books
- Conversational infographics: Use any of over 3,000 icons in iOS messaging
- Free Adult coloring pages for the holidays and Christmas plus bonus for the kids!
- 60-Seconds #337 : Sirius Radio set a Spam Trap and caught me!
- Calligraphy Penmanship comes to the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
- Web Design Update: Advertising, optimization, myths, rankings, training, ROI and more
- Vector based logo design app for Mac can help you streamline your design process
- Are you ready for a multi-platform Icon Creator?
- Professional Filmmakers can now automate color-correction with EPICOLOR Automatic Colorist
- Web Design Update: SEO, Linkbuilding, Responsive design, Google, UX Design and more
- Optical character recognition for MacOS Sierra
- Out with 2016, in with 2017
Creative Tidbits #218: Icons, infographics, Black Friday, Podcasts, paper grades and more
Well into the holiday season, here are some select holiday goodies, and some other interesting items including those Black Friday infographics! Creative inspiration is where you find it... finding cool stuff over the holidays? Give us a tip!
* Follow These Three Tips for Designing the Perfect Podcast Icon
* Do You Know Your (Paper) ABCs? Grade, Basis Weight, and Finish
* 100 Free Flat Christmas Icons
* Black Friday Infographic(s)
Creative Tidbits #218: Icons, infographics, Black Friday, Podcasts, paper grades and more
Creative Tidbits #219: street art, white space, art nouveau, lessons in design and more
It's always rewarding to read a young upstart revealing the lessons I've taught in my seminars and workshops for well over two and a half decades. In 2006 Alex White, that famous type and design expert wrote DT&G to explain "white space", now those lessons show up in our Creative Tidbits 219! But there's more and we hope you have a great time . . .
* Using White Space: How Emptiness Can Give So Much to Design
* A collection of Art Nouveau doors from around the world
* The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it)
* Understanding the Power of Visual Advertising
* Digging the Street Art of RubÈn S·nchez Creative Tidbits #219: street art, white space, art nouveau, lessons in design and more
Make cool stuff with these Creative maker projects -- educational inspiration
free coloring pagesAll ages benefit from making things ... these books will inspire, instruct and nurture the maker in all of us! Young folks particularly will benefit from these hands-on crafts projects from folding paper to carving wood. These are popularly priced, and offer hours and hours of creativity and crafts skills!
* Action Whirligigs: 25 Easy-to-Do Projects
* Airigami: Realistic Origami Aircraft
* Make Your Own Paper Snowflakes
* Paper Planes Origami Kit Make cool stuff with these Creative maker projects -- educational inspiration
Graphic Design: How Famous Brands Have Evolved Over Time
We are all familiar with Apple, Pepsi, Shell and most of the other world famous brands. Their logos didn't always look as polished as they do today however. As their companies grew their logos evolved. Some of the changes were subtle and others were drastic, some were a hit and some didn't stand the test of time . . . Here's a trip down branding memory lane.
Free coloring pages from classic, modern, vintage, holiday and Christmas Coloring Books
Any or all of these special coloring books would not only make great gifts, but will amuse everyone for hours while teaching some valuable skills! Most of these are printed on single side, heavy paper, and perforated for easy removal from the book. Have a great time coloring these free pages, and have a wonderful holiday season! Serious adult coloring books!
* Vintage Christmas Greetings Coloring Book
* Snowflake Designs Coloring Book
* ChristmasScapes Coloring Book
* Winter Scenes Coloring Book
* Vintage Christmas Greetings
* WinterScapes Coloring Book Free coloring pages from classic, modern, vintage, holiday and Christmas Coloring Books
Conversational infographics: Use any of over 3,000 icons in iOS messaging
This is not necessarily a graphic design tool, but surely with over 3,000 icons to communicate with you can do some creative brainstorming. This app for your iPhone gives you the power of infographics on the fly, using icons. Conversational infographics: Use any of over 3,000 icons in iOS messaging
Free Adult coloring pages for the holidays and Christmas plus bonus for the kids!
Following up on our post earlier today, here is another collection of our favorite adult coloring books for the season, along with a whole pile of free coloring pages! This time we also include a cheerful and creative activities book the kids will love ... try some of these tomorrow and you won't need a baby sitter! If you really make some killer pages, snap a quick photo and send it in! Here are our titles :
* Giant Christmas Coloring and Activity Book
* An Old-Fashioned Christmas Coloring Book
* Merry Christmas Designs Coloring Book
* Deluxe Four Seasons Coloring Book
* Christmas Trees Coloring Book Free Adult coloring pages for the holidays and Christmas plus bonus for the kids!
60-Seconds #337 : Sirius Radio set a Spam Trap and caught me!
Like anyone, I hate to be had. This is one for the record books, and probably becoming fairly widespread -- but I don't call in very often, so this was new to me. Sirius wouldn't let me follow online instructions and made me call for help. . . . . What happened next really fried me!
Calligraphy Penmanship comes to the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
With the advent of the superb Apple Pencil, you now have the opportunity to master beautiful calligraphy and penmanship in the digital world. The new iPad and Pencil are extraordinary new tools for the graphic designer, illustrator and letterhead -- it's time to put them to work! Calligraphy Penmanship comes to the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
Web Design Update: Advertising, optimization, myths, rankings, training, ROI and more
How many times have I said it? Advertising sucks on the web? Some people are starting to agree. This edition of WebUpdate seems to reinforce that concept. This week we'll also see some warnings about your rankings and publishing good, content is good SEO. Let's dig in :
* Web Advertising Sucks... Affiliate Fees Are Going To Take Over!
* 5 Traffic-Growing On-Page Optimization Tips for Publishers
* 5 SEO Myths that Can Seriously Hurt Your Search Rankings
* The Importance of SEO Training for Editorial Teams
* MultiBrief: How to measure social media ROI
* 5 Rules for Publishing Accessible Content
* Why Content Marketing is the New SEO Web Design Update: Advertising, optimization, myths, rankings, training, ROI and more
Web Design Update: SEO, Linkbuilding, Responsive design, Google, UX Design and more
Actually it's been quite a time since our last update, and we've got a bunch of pent-up articles to get out here before the end of the year! So there will be three updates pretty fast in a row. If you're a web designer, not just a template jockey, let us know!
* 5 Web Design Techniques to Make Your Website Search Engine Friendly
* Three simple resolutions on how to do better SEO in 2016
* 9 responsive design mistakes you don't want to make
* 6 Advanced Google Analytics Tricks You Should Know
* 8 responsive web design trends that defined 2015
* How to Do Unintentional Link Building
* How to be a Problem Solving SEO Web Design Update: SEO, Linkbuilding, Responsive design, Google, UX Design and more
Optical character recognition for MacOS Sierra
The client hands you a stack of printed material to digest in the next project. What do you do? The more work you can get done for you, the better you'll be, right? Typing is one chore that really hasn't been innovated. Now, OCRWizard 4.0, optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF document conversion application for macOS could relieve you of at least some of those chores. OCRWizard converts any PDF, scanned documents, or image files (including the picture of business card) into searchable PDF, Word, Pages, HTML, Excel, Keynote, and ePub, etc. on Mac. Optical character recognition for MacOS Sierra
Out with 2016, in with 2017
Pretty soon, we'll end 2016. Did you do something good this year? The world would be a better place if we all adopted the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin:
Each morning he would ask himself
"What good can I do today?"
... then each evening, before bed, he would ask himself:
"What good did I do today?"
Try to live by that thought.
This month, take some time and catch up on good deeds you may have missed throughout the year. Help out at the children's organization, or your local Salvation Army. Take a food basket to your local church's food drive. Turn in all your old, unused coats and sweat shirts to the local Goodwill. Pull out that checkbook and write some checks to your local free clinic, or the Boys and Girls clubs.
And, to you all, we send our warmest wishes for a joyous holiday season -- and best wishes for a healthy and productive new year. We're proud that you've chosen the Design Center community to be part of your life -- and hope to bring you many benefits in the months to come.
And, as for this month, well, you've already wasted a perfectly good hour reading the DTG newsletter. Hopefully all is not wasted and you've gained at least one helpful tidbit of info.
Thanks for reading... go forth and be creative!
+FredShowker, Editor / Publisher @Showker
Parting words for December as we enter the fall...
The excellence of a gift
lies in its appropriateness
rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warne
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