Entries by Prescott Perez-Fox

Friday Links, vol. 61

2016.10.07 /0 Comments/in /by

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • There’s a glitch in CMYK process swatches in Adobe CC Libraries. A potential wrench in an otherwise cool feature.
  • Adobe Typekit has debuted a new UI for browsing fonts! Details here.

Techniques

  • Oscar Winner Brie Larson shows us her hand-lettering skills
  • How to design Date Fields for a Global Audience

Habits

  • Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, has a new book out and discusses productivity and creativity on The Art of Charm

Everything Else

  • UnderConsideration has published a showcase of their Brand New Conference identity.

[…] Full post →

Exploring Business Issues Faced by Creative Pros with Author & Professor Douglas Davis — The Busy Creator Podcast 93

2016.10.03 /0 Comments/in /by

Douglas Davis (@DouglasQDavis) is a graphic designer, professor, consultant, and author of the new book Creative Strategy and the Business of Design. The book, which follows his recent talks and workshops, explores business issues that face creative professionals, especially those which may not even seem apparent.

In this conversation, we explore the business culture exposed creatives, the shortcomings of our design education system, and how Brooklyn is becoming the home for creative thought.

Creative Strategy and the Business of Design book

Creative Strategy and the Business of Design

Check out Douglas’s book, Creative Strategy and the Business of Design, now available where fine books are sold. […] Full post →

Friday Links, vol. 60

2016.09.30 /0 Comments/in /by

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • A Rundown of Online Accounting Software Tools. There are indeed a few.

Techniques

  • How to Get 1,000 Email Subscribers in 7 Days (if you’re into that sort of thing.)
  • Avoiding Isolation as a Freelancer

Everything Else

  • The Basecamp Way To Work is a one-day workshop taking place in Chicago. If you’re into Basecamp, and remote, modern work more generally, check it out.

[…] Full post →

Friday Links, vol. 59

2016.09.23 /0 Comments/in /by

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Now that Divi 3.0 has dropped, you should visit Divi Theme Examples, which chronicles the freebies and downloads for that same theme.
  • Install Disk Creator is a single-purpose app for Mac that lets you create bootable USB thumb drives for OS installations.

Techniques

  • macOS Sierra is here. Follow TonyMacx86’s guidelines if you’re running a Hackintosh and plan to upgrade. Here’s how to make a bootable USB thumb drive installer.

[…] Full post →

Balancing a Design Practice and Co-Working Space in New York City, with Jessi Arrington & Creighton Mershon — The Busy Creator Podcast 92

2016.09.19 /0 Comments/in /by

Jessi Arrington (@JessiArrington) and Creighton Mershon (@Cr8tonMershon) are the founders of Workshop, a Brooklyn-based creative agency, as well as the proprietors of Small City, a new co-working space and home to dozens of independent creative pros.

Alongside their design practice, Jessi & Creighton have grown their co-working experience by taking on more responsibility across three different spaces in Brooklyn. In this conversation, we discuss the oddities and challenges of New York real estate, the financial and logistical efforts needed to run a co-working space anywhere, and a bit about balancing family life with all manner of creative and business tasks. […] Full post →

Friday Links, vol. 58

2016.09.09 /0 Comments/in /by

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • 12 Ambient Noise Generators For Creative Work, if you’re into that sort of thing
  • Apple makes 25 different types of adapters, aka dongles. Did you forget yours?
  • AddEvent is a free tool to add “Subscribe-to-calendar” functionality to your site or blog.

Techniques

  • Should you become a UX Designer? Do you even know what that means?

Habits

  • You Should Write About Your Work, if you aren’t already
  • Google researches What makes a team successful (or not)?

[…] Full post →

This Time of Year Reveals “Deep Habits”

2016.09.06 /0 Comments/in /by

This is a strange time of year. The onset of September comes with a host of seasonal and societal cues, punctuated by Labor Day — the unofficial “end of summer.”

And with Summer’s end, also comes the end of vacation season, beach season, sleeping in, barbecues and poolside drinks, long days, short pants, and otherwise taking it easy. Autumn is back — it’s time to wake up!

Back-to-School time reveals our “deep habits”, those behaviors that we can’t seem to shake no matter how old we get. […] Full post →

Joining an Established Agency to Build Workflow & Culture, with Nick Spriggs — The Busy Creator Podcast 91

2016.09.05 /0 Comments/in /by

Nick Spriggs (@ncsfoo) is a partner at Vector Media Group in New York City. Though he wasn’t one of the original founders, Nick’s role at Vector has been to grow the design and branding offerings to complement the development and marketing capabilities previously in place.

In this conversation, we discuss cultural differences among designers and developers, office rituals used at Vector, how to keep your remote colleagues in the daily mix, and best practices to keep an entire team communicating clearly and working productively.

Catch up with Nick on the website for Vector Media Group. […] Full post →

Friday Links, vol. 57

2016.09.02 /0 Comments/in /by

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • This is the month that Google Hangouts on Air will become YouTube Live
  • 19 Incredibly Useful Websites You Wish You Knew Earlier

Techniques

  • The Case Against Paying Designers By The Hour by Ken Carbone

Everything Else

  • Beware of The Creative World’s Bullshit-Industrial-Complex
  • The Force of Google, via BBC’s The Documentary Podcast

[…] Full post →

Friday Links, vol. 56

2016.08.26 /0 Comments/in /by

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Pricing Pages is a collection of pricing pages from across the web
  • Really Good Emails is a collection of email newsletters from across the web
  • Laura Elizabeth, web designer and recent guest on the Freelance Transformation podcast, has created a client section template we can all use
  • Good Authority, the book by past guest Jonathan Raymond is now available for pre-order (releases Oct. 4)

Techniques

  • How to Overcome Procrastination
  • Visualising GitHub by Lisa Charlotte Rose (no seriously, this useful)

Habits

[…] Full post →

Building Community and Finding Personality Stengths as a Creative Introvert, with Designer Cat Rose — The Busy Creator Podcast 90

2016.08.22 /0 Comments/in /by

Cat Rose (@CreativeIntro) is an independent graphic designer and founder of The Creative Introvert, a website and community for creative professions who share introverted personality types.

In this conversation, we discuss the oddities of life as a freelance designer, the observed behaviour of creative pros and where they fall on the introverted/extroverted continuum, and the challenges of building online communities and creating compelling content.

Listen Now

[…] Full post →

Friday Links, vol. 55

2016.08.12 /0 Comments/in /by

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Fontself allows you to create a font from your own handwriting

Techniques

  • 9 Effective Ways to be Highly Productive at Your Home Office

Habits

  • How Running Benefits Aspiring Writers, According To Haruki Murakami

Everything Else

  • The Creative Introvert is a website/community offering insight and resources for those of us who identity as introverts; but
  • Declaring yourself an introvert can limit your life

[…] Full post →

Wearing Many Hats As a Designer for a Software Startup with Andrew Berkowitz — The Busy Creator Podcast 89

2016.08.08 /1 Comment/in /by

Andrew Berkowitz (@TheWitzCarlton) is the Head of Product for Tradeversity, a buying-and-selling platform for university students. After gaining experience in a large corporate setting, Andrew has jumped in to startup life, enjoying the struggles along the way.

In this conversation, Andrew shares some of the workflows required in a young, small, and nimble company, as well as his experiences testing personal productivity methods and morning routines.

Catch up with Andrew on his own show, The Global Startup Movement

Listen Now

[…] Full post →

Friday Links, vol. 54

2016.07.29 /0 Comments/in /by

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • The Landing Page Conversion Course — more landing-page insight than you can shake a stick at

Techniques

  • 7 Ways to Fix Your Podcast (Goes for writing too)
  • Designing websites when you don’t have copy

Habits

  • The Daily Routines of 15 Successful Entrepreneurs

[…] Full post →

Everyday Productivity and Striving for Excellence After Losing All Sense of Sight, with Author & Entrepreneur Tanner Gers — The Busy Creator Podcast 88

2016.07.25 /0 Comments/in /by

Tanner Gers (@TannerGers) is an author, entrepreneur, and paralympic athlete. Blinded in a car crash at age 21, Tanner has learned entirely new methods of communication and working.

In this conversation, Tanner discusses some of the technology — both lo- and hi-tech — he uses to experience the world in the absesnce of sight. We also share all-purpose productivity tips and examine his morning routines.

Listen Now

[…] Full post →