Every designer, at some time in their career, has the need for these hand-drawn sketchy fonts for a design. Sketch Gothic is really nice, and comes in a bold and light version. Sketch Gothic is free for personal use, and a commercial-use license is available.
If you’re looking for some 2015 calendar art (a little late, aren’t you?), you can grab a whole bunch over at FreePik. It beats creating your own from scratch.
It didn’t take long for some TUAW alumni to start a new site after AOL shut down the long-running Mac-related news site. TUAW was one of those sites I had a love-hate relationship with as far as content, but I always respected the writers and their work.
Apple World Today has launched, with Steve Sande, Dave Caolo, and Kelly Hodgkins at the helm. I’m looking forward to seeing what these guys come up with on a daily basis; as I’ve grown tired of the sensationalistic headlines (and quite craptacular articles) found at some of the other Mac sites out there.
I also recently added SixColors (by Jason Snell, former editor at Macworld) and MacSparky to my “check regularly” bookmark folder in Safari.
ATLÉTICO is a beautiful bold serif display font, free for personal use. You can also purchase a commercial-use license via a link on the webpage.
I’ve not come across the Wi-Fi problems people are experiencing with Yosemite, but if you are and you don’t mind losing AirDrop and AirPlay features, this quick Terminal trick shared by Mac|Life might be a great fix for you.
In 2006, Don and Ryan Clark formed Invisible Creature, a highly successful creative firm. The firm’s client list includes Target, Nike, Hasbro, Google, Nordstrom, The New York Times, and dozens of others.
Adobe asked Don to create an illustration, giving him the words fearless, modern, and reborn as the only direction. In Turning Inspiration Into Art with Adobe Illustrator CC, Don explains first-hand his process and the Adobe Illustrator CC features he used to create “Reality Reborn”, including patterns, the Touch Type tool, multiple-file place, and file packaging.
I particularly enjoyed him touching on his use of textures and shading. This is a great read!
Every once in a while you have the need for a really gaudy paint font. For those times, I offer you Paint Hand, by Letters & Numbers. Paint Hand is free for personal use, with a commercial license available for $18 from MyFonts.
And there are not forty $100 hours in my work week. Ever.
No matter what you charge, client’s will always think you charge too much. Way too much. Tom Meyer offers a fantastic response when questioned about his “job-killer” photography rate.
As a graphic designer, you should prepare yourself to have the “why I charge so much” conversation with a potential client. You will have the conversation one day, so it’s best to be prepared.
On one hand, the world still thinks rockstar CEOs can pull off a “Steve Jobs” turnaround. The reality is that they can’t because that was a once in a lifetime thing. The board and investors at Yahoo! need to ground themselves in reality and stop expecting huge growth or profits at every quarterly announcement.
On the other hand, a CEO needs to at least show investors and consumers a direction/clear path that they’re going to take to bring a company around to profitability.
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer is fairly easy on the eyes, but her report card as a CEO doesn’t look nearly as good. Since taking over Yahoo!, I’ve seen Marissa look beautiful in that red dress in Glamour magazine, and I’ve seen her spend lots of money on seemingly pointless acquisitions like Tumblr. I’ve seen little to nothing else.
I don’t know what the answer is, but I hope Mayer can pull off a “Steve Jobs” at Yahoo! fairly soon. I think she’s a brilliant tech mind, and Yahoo! has the ability to make big waves. But I suspect her time is running out.
As interesting as iOS keyboards can be, their initial implementation at the OS level is severely flawed. They’re cumbersome to setup, switching between them is needlessly tedious, and limitations make it difficult to teach users about keyboard features. As far as I can tell, all these problems require solutions and improvements from Apple at the OS level.
I agree completely with everything David Chartier said in his post yesterday on How to fix iOS 8 keyboards—which is why I installed a bunch of them when iOS 8 was released, and quickly deleted them. They’re buggy, missing too many features, and quite frankly they’re just not worth the effort of using them.