Friday Links, vol. 17

Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Michael Bierut has a new book, How To, coming soon.
  • Freedom, an app to block the Internet and help you focus

Techniques

  • Use This Script to delete your Apple Music Cache to reclaim some hard drive space
  • Tabular Lining using OpenType fonts in InDesign. This will change your life, people.
  • How to Create a OS X El Capitan Boot Installer USB Flash Drive
  • Brian Hoff gets 61% of his referrals via Dribbble, according to a recent blog post
  • Repurpose information design with other information, eg. a London Tube Map showing Rents for 1-bedroom flats.
    London Underground Rent Map

    London Underground Rent Map

Habits

  • How My Day Job Prepared Me For Freelance Life

Everything Else

  • How IBM Built a Design-Driven Culture (and You Can Too)
  • A typographic history of the eye chart
  • Photoshop Disasters, the blog showcasing fine examples of retouching and compositing mishaps, is saying goodbye.

About Prescott Perez-Fox

Prescott Perez-Fox is a New York-based graphic designer and brand developer with 14+ years experience in branding, packaging, graphic design, and web design. He runs The Busy Creator.