AWESOME.

bigcartel:

One of our very favorite shop owners, Jessica Hische, is creating a new generation of capable web-nerds with her series entitled “Don’t Fear the Internet”. Along with her accomplice (read: fiancé) Russ Maschmeyer, these two have created a series of videos distilling even the most complicated, stress-inducing aspects of web mastery down into super-tasty bites of concise and useable info.

Whether you’re a print designer, photographer, or fine-artist, these highly educational nuggets of information wrapped in a ton of charm will make you “feel empowered rather than crippled by the internet”. This is such a great series for beginners, but also full of little refresher tips for those who’ve already been in the game for a while.

Check out the full series here: dontfeartheinternet.com

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One of my favorite Oatmeal comics in awhile. He had me at “Screaming infant storage kennel.”

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Ever have one of those clients who think they know more than you do… in spite of requesting a proposal and subsequently hiring you because you know more than they do?

No? Just me? OK. Then ignore WeeNudge, a website full of educational tidbits to help your clients understand Web projects.

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theatlantic:

Every three months or so, we gather together. In our hands, launch meeting packets still hot off the copy machine. Our editor-in-chief sits at the head of the double-long conference table, and introduces us, the weary and largely bespectacled, to the newest crop of books. Over the years I’ve found that most editors describe their hopes and dreams for their future covers in the same ways. Please make them look “hip,” “sexy,” and—oh yes!—”fresh, too”! Our job as jacket designers is to keep reinterpreting these well-worn requests.

Book jacket designers are such rare birds that people outside the publishing industry are generally shocked to learn of our existence. My father was a publisher, and my earliest memories include frustrations that the covers of my favorite books in my parents’ library didn’t match their interiors. I’ve been privileged to sit through 33 or so launch meetings during my 11 years at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, located on the 7th and 8th floors of 18 West 18th Street in New York City. Our cadre of authors includes, to name only a few, Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ian Frazier, and Marilyn Robinson. I’m in very good company.

Read the rest at The Atlantic

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