Author: Rebecca Mushtare

Making your own prints is awesome. Here at Etchpop we use laser power to engrave your ideas and share them with the world! Each Etchpop woodblock comes with its own frame of reference decked out with registration marks to ensure a centered and even print.

http://www.etchpop.com/

You heard right. And here’s the quite awesome lineup of speakers: Dr. Theodore Feder and Janet Hicks of the Artists Rights Society, Maxwell Graham, Hans Haacke, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, R. H. Quaytman, and Justice Barbara Jaffe

http://clancco.com/wp/2015/07/droit-de-suite-art-law-2/

I recently had the opportunity to attend Future of Web Design in London with my esteemed colleges from Copter Labs. The conference as a whole was a blast.

https://css-tricks.com/national-coding-week-2015-is-coming-this-september/

When I was a kid, every weekend, my parents would drive me to Loon Mountain in New Hampshire to master the sport of skiing — and downhill racing, in particular. On the chairlift, my instructors would critique the technique of those skiing below us.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teach-and-model-effective-writing-david-cutler

It really wasn’t designed for small sizes on screens. Words like milliliter can be very difficult to decipher. If you ever had to read or write a password with 1, i, l or I, you know the problem. That little comparison below is also available from the download page.

http://spiekermann.com/en/helvetica-sucks/

Caption: Hello World by Alice Rawsthorn. Design is still stereotyped and often identified with cute chairs, over-stylized products, and decoration. I cherish the way in which Alice embraces design across disciplines and across time.

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/top-designers-give-us-summer-reading-picks/

What happens if you edit a major feature film so it includes only dialogue by people of color? The result will likely be a clip lasting less than one minute, a new blog suggests.

http://hyperallergic.com/220956/whats-left-of-mainstream-movies-if-only-people-of-color-speak/

Hey look, everyone’s favorite professional association for design has its own blog. For the past 100 years, AIGA has celebrated, lauded, applauded, championed, cheered, awarded, supported, and (most of all) loved great design.

http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/design-quote-paul-rand-everything-is-design/

We all know that accessibility is important. The problem is, it is not always clear what exactly we can do to make our sites more accessible.

http://bitsofco.de/2015/the-accessibility-cheatsheet/

[…] notes placed at the bottom of a page. They cite references or comment on a designated part of the text above it. You often see them in papers when the author wants to add a piece of information or cite a reference without doing it in the middle of the content or using parentheses.

http://www.sitepoint.com/accessible-footnotes-css/

MEXICO CITY — On September 26, 2014, more than 100 students, often referred to as normalistas, of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa in the rural hills of Guerrero, attempted to travel to the city of Iguala. To this day, the facts of the case are still debated.

http://hyperallergic.com/219025/mexican-poets-give-voice-to-the-countrys-disappeared-students/

It’s a dream playground for lovers of graphic design: rare periodicals like Massimo Vignelli’s brand manual for the New York City subway, drawers of catalogues and brochures that Lou Dorfsman art directed for CBS, and close to everything—from logo sketches to magazines like U&lc—that Herb L

http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/you-can-touch-me-visiting-the-herb-lubalin-study-center-of-design-and-typography

You must be a member of SIGCHI, a subscriber to ACM’s Digital Library, or an interactions subscriber to read the full text of this article.

http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/january-february-2009/on-modelingwhat-is-interaction1

Sketches for Ciao Italia, The Audubon Society and Chanticleer by the Vignellis are on display in Booth Hall at the Rochester Institute of Technology. These artifacts emphasize how important sketching is to the design process. This exhibit is currently on display through August 23, 2013.

http://vignellicenter.rit.edu/exhibition/exhibit-vignelli-sketches/

Hey look, everyone’s favorite professional association for design has its own blog. For the past 100 years, AIGA has celebrated, lauded, applauded, championed, cheered, awarded, supported, and (most of all) loved great design.

http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/design-quote-joseph-addison-colors-speak-all-languages/

The way users read on the web is different from the way they read printed pages. For most people, reading onscreen is tiring for the eyes, and 25 per cent slower, so users scan the page until they find information relevant to their search and then they read. The web is a user-driven medium.

http://www.dal.ca/webteam/web_style_guide/writing_for_the_web.html

It’s becoming increasingly necessary to be consistent and cohesive across an ever-growing number of media channels. As it turns out, that’s no easy task. That’s why organizations, companies, and brands are turning to style guides to establish sound footing in an otherwise turbulent landscape.

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/style-guides/

In chemistry, atoms are the basic building blocks of matter. They have distinct properties and can’t be broken down further without losing their meaning. Translated to interfaces, atoms are basic tags, such as form labels, inputs or buttons.

http://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/chapter-2/

This book is a work in progress. You can read more about the project here, sign up to the newsletter to receive project updates and resources, submit issues on Github, and track the progress of the project here.

http://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/table-of-contents/

We’re tasked with creating experiences that look and function beautifully across a dizzying array of devices and environments.

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/style-guide-best-practices-presentation/

No matter your field, you undoubtedly have a home-base somewhere on the Internet where you describe your products or services, be they under the umbrella of your personal brand, your company, or an organization you work for.

http://99u.com/workbook/50084/its-not-about-you-the-right-way-to-sell-yourself-or-your-product

Andrew Smyk (@andrewsmyk) discusses how he iterates on his web designs. There’s a strong focus on getting ideas out of his head and onto paper as quickly as possible, which is excellent. I enjoy how he cuts up his sketches to play with the component pieces:

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/sketch-iterate-repeat-prototyping-your-website-design/

Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Lina Moses sensed the ghost of Ebola as soon as her Land Cruiser entered the gate at Kenema Government Hospital. More than a hundred people had died in the treatment center here, an epicenter of the epidemic in Sierra Leone.

http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661370/s/47b2bbc7/sc/32/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A150C0A60Cebola0Etreatment0C/story01.htm

This story was originally published by AIGA Houston. People ask me which social media network I prefer: Facebook or Twitter. I usually surprise them and tell them that I prefer LinkedIn. Without question.

http://www.aiga.org/designers-guide-to-linkedin/

This article originally appeared on Canva. Brainstorming is de rigueur in almost every professional environment.

http://www.aiga.org/why-you-cant-brainstorm-creative-ideas/

Q: When is the exhibition that I am applying for? A: All applicants will be considered for solo, two person, and group exhibitions and residencies in 2016 and 2017. We will take your schedule into consideration.

http://reduxstudios.org/exhibitions-faq/

Hey look, everyone’s favorite professional association for design has its own blog. For the past 100 years, AIGA has celebrated, lauded, applauded, championed, cheered, awarded, supported, and (most of all) loved great design.

http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/design-quote-wassily-kandinsky-everything-starts-from-a-dot/

A balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the composition draws your eye so much that you can’t see the other areas.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/29/design-principles-compositional-balance-symmetry-asymmetry/

Personality is the mysterious force that attracts us to certain people and repels us from others. Aarron Walter, Every product has a personality—whether it was deliberately designed to or not. Reddit is quirky, hyperactive, and sometimes sarcastic.

http://alistapart.com/article/crafting-a-design-persona

The day before my friend Tayler Smith and I found out our photo series was appropriated into the New Yorker, I woke up to a text message from another friend. We’re psychic sisters; she has a nightmare one night, I have one the morning after.

http://themuse.jezebel.com/heres-what-happens-when-some-yale-bro-steals-your-art-1713684895

Your customer buys. We handle payment and deliver the file. Just sit back and watch the money roll in Got a product you know people will love? Get creating today. You have a market out there waiting. You can sell your products wherever in the world you are.

http://www.sendowl.com/

We all know that feeling: some time after we launch a site, new designers and developers come in and make adjustments. They add styles that don’t fit with the content, use typefaces that make us cringe, or chuck in bloated code.

http://24ways.org/2011/front-end-style-guides/

This document is a guide to the mark-up styles used throughout the site. Parts of this markup guide are attributable to Dave Shea, and licensed under a Creative Commons License. The main page header of this guide is an h1 element. Any header elements may include links, as depicted in the example.

http://paulrobertlloyd.com/about/styleguide/

I’m on a workshopping roll. Fresh from running my Responsive Enhancement workshop in Belfast, I’m now heading to Düsseldorf for Beyond Tellerand where I’ll be running the workshop on Sunday (and if you can’t make it, don’t forget that you can book the workshop for your own workplace too).

http://adactio.com/journal/5028/

The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments, the web, mobile devices, wearables, or Internet-connected smart devices. This is a huge revision. I expect I have made mistakes.

http://asktog.com/atc/principles-of-interaction-design/

A while ago, I was working on a website that required a number of icons. “No problem,” I thought. “I know how to handle this. I’ll use an @font-face icon set for high-resolution screens.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/05/06/unicode-for-a-multi-device-world/

Type design is equal parts suffering and euphoria. It is a walk along a winding road that goes on for many weeks and months before it’s done. A type design brief is like a charter path: It asks you questions, and the answers will guide you to where you want to be.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/02/18/a-type-design-brief-arabic-typography-calligraphy/

We all need to use them but hardly any of us know how to type them. Here is a brief guide of how to type smart quotes and accented characters (and dashes) on a Mac.

http://quotesandaccents.com/

You can create amazing designs in less than 1 minute with our online card maker and have your customized cards delivered to your door in less than a week, whether you are in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Europe or anywhere in the world, we can deliver straight to your door.

http://www.makeplayingcards.com/

Since I get asked this question A LOT, I figured I’d go ahead and post my answer here, for all to benefit from!The CardsAs far as printers go, the one I used with the Mental Notes card deck (www.getmentalnotes.

http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-get-a-card-deck-like-Mental-Notes-printed

PoetPainter – The Professional Site of Stephen P. Anderson This is me hard at work I help businesses use design to create valuable customer experiences and envision unseen opportunities. Let Me Explain → And these are the things I’m passionate about…

http://www.poetpainter.com/

In the midst of a busy project it’s all too easy to forget the nuances that distinguish great products. Mental Notes brings together 50 insights from psychology into an easy reference and brainstorming tool.

http://getmentalnotes.com

Contents is a new magazine at the intersection of content strategy, online publishing, and new-school editorial work. Our issues roll out over six to eight weeks. Here’s what we have for you today.

http://contentsmagazine.com

If you develop web sites you’re probably pretty familiar with the wireframe, and if you’re a user experience designer you’re probably rolling your eyes at yet another post about what a wireframe is and what it’s good for.

http://viget.com/inspire/ux-101-the-wireframe1

At Barrel, we employ a variety of UX techniques at the beginning of a project to make sure the structure and functionality groundwork of the site is solid before we begin visual design. One of the techniques we often rely on is the creation of wireframes.

http://www.barrelny.com/blog/wireframes-the-barrel-way/