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[Cool Toys] Professional-Grade Power Drill Kits

Posted on Thursday April 27, 2017Thursday April 27, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From TrendHunter.com – Cool Gadgets and Gifts –Professional-Grade Power Drill Kits – The DeWalt Hammer Drill & Impact Driver Kit Handles Many Tasks (TrendHunter.com):

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(TrendHunter.com) DIY culture has given way to a number of makers starting projects around the home which is being supported by products like the DeWalt Hammer Drill & Impact Driver Kit. Ideal for household projects and chores, the power drill kit is compact in design yet expansive when it comes to ensuring that you can always get things done. The kit consists of a 20V MAX 1/2 inch hammer drill and a 20V MAX 1/4 inch impact driver along with a series of drill bits that will work to create holes or tighten screws. The kit can be used by professionals but is also straightforward enough to be utilized by amateurs alike…

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[Design] Free Lynda.com Video: Creating Infographics with Illustrator

Posted on Wednesday April 26, 2017Saturday April 15, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From CreativePro.com –Free Lynda.com Video: Creating Infographics with Illustrator:

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I try to tell my kids what it was like back in the day before the answers to every question were just a click or tap away. To get information on an obscure topic you’d actually have to get in the car, go to the library, and look in the right books. Gathering information took effort. Today, we have the opposite problem: with our many screens, we’re caught in a blizzard of data, bombarded with facts and figures from every angle. How to make sense of it all and communicate meaning is the job of the designer. And a daunting job that can be! That’s why Tony Harmer’s course, Creating Infographics with Illustrator, is a welcome addition to the Lynda.com offerings. Here’s the official course description: Infographics visualize your data and help to tell the story behind it. In this course, Tony Harmer shows how to design charts, graphs, and other infographic components in Adobe Illustrator. He shares some sources of data that you can use in production, and reveals five key components of a great information design. He then takes you through the various types of tools, charts, and functions that you can use in infographic production, before wrapping up on…

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[Tutorial] Draw a Realistic Motorbike Helmet With Photoshop and Illustrator

Posted on Wednesday April 26, 2017Saturday April 15, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From PSD Vault – Latest Tutorial Listings For 2D Graphics –Draw a Realistic Motorbike Helmet With Photoshop and Illustrator:

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We’ll combine the pixel manipulating precision of Photoshop with Illustrator’s brilliant vector handling to create a masterpiece in this tutorial.

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[Cool Websites] Edible Chocolate Websites – Hershey’s Brazil Created a Viral Campaign

Posted on Tuesday April 25, 2017Saturday April 15, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Edible Chocolate Websites – Hershey's Brazil Created a Viral Campaign to Promote Its Chocolate (TrendHunter.com):

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(TrendHunter.com) In an effort to appeal to Generation Z and Millennial consumers, Hershey's Brazil created a campaign that allowed the users of its website to interact with chocolate objects for the chance to receive them in a raffle. To create the #Eaternet campaign, Hershey’s Brazil joined up with ad agency Aktuellmix to make what users saw on the company’s website much more real. To have the chance to win one of the unique chocolate sculptures on the website, which ranged from smiley face emojis, to oversized mustaches, and sunglasses, users simply had to purchase one of the brand’s chocolate bars, and enter the code on the wrapper to the website.

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[#Design] Collaborative Influencer Clubs

Posted on Tuesday April 25, 2017Saturday April 15, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From TrendHunter.com – Design Trends –Collaborative Influencer Clubs – This Club in the City is a Place for Entrepreneurs to Connect (TrendHunter.com):

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(TrendHunter.com) In 2018, Vancouver will be home to a new collaborative club in the city for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. While the official name of the project has yet to be revealed, this destination is set to be a hub where like-minded individuals may gather to socialize over dinner, drinks, play or work, or use it as a meeting space for entertaining clients or catching up with friends and colleagues. The exclusive club will boast a design by Toronto’s award-winning DesignAgency, complete with a rooftop patio, food hall, a cocktail and wine bar, an auditorium, library and much more. While the club for influencers and thought leaders in Vancouver is not set to open until next year, memberships to the exclusive, upscale club in the city are now being sold to those who are interested in joining.

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[#Design] CreativePro Tip of the Week: Reduce File Size in Photoshop

Posted on Monday April 24, 2017Saturday April 15, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From CreativePro.com –CreativePro Tip of the Week: Reduce File Size in Photoshop by Cropping or Flattening:

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Need to reduce the file size of a Photoshop document? You may be able to significantly reduce the file size by either cropping or flattening. If you have a layered file, notice the document sizes in the Status Bar below the image. The two values correspond roughly (sometimes very roughly) to the size of your image as a flattened file (on the left), and as a layered file (on the right). If you don’t need to preserve the separate layers, flatten the image by choosing either Layer > Flatten Image or Layer > Merge Visible. If you do need to preserve layers in the file, try cropping the image. Select the Crop tool and press Return or Enter. You will see a crop overlay fitting the canvas…

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[Cool Websites] Meme-Tracking Websites

Posted on Monday April 24, 2017Saturday April 15, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Meme-Tracking Websites – Me.me Trends is a Search Engine for Popular Internet Memes (TrendHunter.com):

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(TrendHunter.com) Even the most embedded internet cruiser is bound to have trouble keeping up with the torrential deluge of memes both generating and evolving constantly, but Me.me Trends is a new tool that can make it easier to track the latter. The website is similar to Google tools like Google Trends or Google Ngrams, but it’s specifically designed to graph the usage of phrases within memes. According to Me.me Trends’ page, the tool “tracks the use of words and phrases…used on at least one day within any meme in the data set.” In other words, the site contains an automatically updating log of memes being created online, and it analyzes the language within these to track the frequency or infrequency of various phrases.

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[Cracked] 19 Charts That Perfectly Explain Hollywood Logic

Posted on Sunday April 23, 2017Saturday April 15, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From Cracked: All Posts –19 Charts That Perfectly Explain Hollywood Logic:

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By CRACKED Readers Published: April 09th, 2017 – Who doesn’t love a good chart? The answer is no one. Well, except maybe the fat cats in Hollywood won’t like these ones, since these charts pretty much do an accurate job spelling out just how dumb some things are that made it to the big (and small) screen.

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[#Marketing Strategy] Top 30 Beverage #Trends in April

Posted on Sunday April 23, 2017Saturday April 15, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From TrendHunter.com – Marketing Strategy –Top 30 Beverage Trends in April – From Custom Juice Subscriptions to Detoxifying Charcoal Lattes (TrendHunter.com):

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(TrendHunter.com) The April 2017 beverage trends reveal more customized options for consumers, as well as the infusion of “on-trend” ingredients into unlikely beverages. The business Project Juice is one such example, and functions as a fresh juice delivery service. It allows consumers to customize the juices and cleanses they purchase for their health and fitness needs, and delivers them straight to the home to ensure as much convenience for the consumer as possible.

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[Trends] Risky Toddler Photography – Raise Awareness for Childhood Diseases

Posted on Saturday April 22, 2017Saturday April 8, 2017 by Eric Brooks

From TrendHunter.com – Viral Humor and Comedy –Risky Toddler Photography – Stephen Crowley Uses Photoshop to Raise Awareness for Childhood Diseases (TrendHunter.com):

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(TrendHunter.com) Stephen Crowley has found Internet fame after photoshopping his daughter Hannah into what he calls “marginally dangerous situations.” These include the 18-month-old holding a large kitchen knife, hanging over a staircase and climbing a ladder. The images were meant to be humorous, although Stephen Crowley told BuzzFeed News that some people have failed to get the joke. Crowley began snapping pictures of his young daughter after she recovered from a rare disease requiring both chemotherapy and a blood marrow transplant. He decided to have a bit of fun with his family and began using Photoshop to put Hannah in dangerous yet believable circumstances. Now that Stephen Crowley’s photos have gone viral he is using his Internet fame to ask people to donate stem cells and join the bone marrow registry.

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