The slides from my presentation given today (16-02-2012) to year three graphic design students at University of Wales Newport as an introduction to designing e-magazines for the iPad. E magazine publishing View more presentations from Dave Taylor.
One for all the students out there. An excellent short article on passive vs active writing http://www.lavc.edu/wcweb/activepassive.html I have copied the complete text here for those who cant be bothered to click through to the original site: Active and passive voices refer to the relationship between the subject and the verb. In an active sentence, the subject is doing something.…
Good selection of professional WordPress Themes – most need payment but there are a few good free samples to wet your appetite… Woo Themes
Teaching WordPress as part of my digital scholarship approach to personal perspectives. Trying to explain categorisation vs tagging of blog posts… Got to use some deliciously old school technology. A whiteboard and a pen…
Great intelligence on the benefits of inbound marketing vs outbound marketing. Its a bit myopic in its unrelenting focus on the US, but a good read anyway. 100 Awesome Marketing Stats, Charts and Graphs
Twelve Points of Typography This is a great article that I fond here. Discussing the “art” of typography. It dates from the late 1960’s so some of the language is a bit dated, as are some of the ideas, but it still makes a good read. i would add to the bit about line length that we should endevour to…
A Great little book for Designers old and young. Loads of useful stuff that we all (should) know but probably don’t. Print Handbook. It only costs £4.00 so go and get your copy now. Do. it, you know it makes sense.