This is a great little video by Scott McCloud on using type in Illustrator. The techniques used here can be applied to lots of different applications.
Ukraine
The “Russian Roulette” series from Vice News is a good way to get a handle on what has been going on in Ukraine over recent months. Simon Ostrovsky should get an award for sticking at it and getting the stories. If you only get your news via the BBC, then this is as good an opportunity as any to open your eyes a little more. At the time of writing the series is up to edition #68 so would require some serious time to catch up.
Smoke and Sun
The Quark won’t go back in the bottle
Long gone are the halcyon days of Quark, Freehand and Photoshop. Many young graphic designers won’t even have heard of Quark.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/quarkxpress-the-demise-of-a-design-desk-darling/
The air undressed them
The air undressed them
A most poignant way to describe the loss and tragedy that is MH17. Already this atrocity is becoming a little lost in the deluge of news.
It is a little irksome that Google conceals highly useful organic analytics information about site visitors under the guise of privacy.
When viewing organic search results, Google will not reveal any further information if the search was made when the user was logged into their Google account. This makes the vast majority of organic search analytics useless. However, Google seem happy to waive any concerns about privacy if the user happened to come to your site via adwords…