Purposeful Designs + Clever Quirks: Meet the Designer of the Week

Purposeful Designs + Clever Quirks: Meet the Designer of the Week Natalie Boyd eMedia Production Coordinator, HOW + Print printmag.com Designer of the Week Lauren Dickens is a talented freelancer as well as a designer at Helms Workshop, an independent, strategic brand design studio with clients like Jack Daniel's, Hasbro and Modest Mouse. On her website, Dickens declares a "penchant for design things, brand stuff, and good times," and we think you'll see this reflected in her purposeful design work. See Lauren Dickens' work...  To Doodle, or Not to Doodle Darren Paul is founder of Inkboard for iOS and Android. It is being billed as "an easy and fun way to draw on pictures or blank canvas with life-like creative tools." Since users can draw text messages and doodle on photos with the scribble of a finger and share them via text andsocial media, Steve Heller asked Paul to answer some questions that way, and the traditional too. See more... Get over the stigma that surround doodling, and discover its potential as a simple and accessible tool for stimulating innovation and solving even the toughest problems. In The Doodle Revolution , Sunni Brown reveals that doodling has led to countless breakthroughs in science, medicine, technology, architecture, art, and literature, and is actually a productive activity that inspires learning through visual thinking.  Meet HOME/OFFICE, The Next Binge-Watch for Freelancers Freelancer worker bees, welcome to your newest procrastination. The new TV web series HOME/OFFICE explores the manifold follies and triumphs - and frequent mashups of the two - of working three feet from your bed. Co-created by designer Josh Shayne and filmmaker James Darling (who also stars in the series as a self-employed graphic designer), HOME/OFFICE reveals how the self-employed sausage actually gets made. See more... If you've ever wanted to be your own boss - to have the freedom to do what you want, when you want and especially, for whom you want, freelancing is the way. In the course, How to Start Your Own Freelance Business, instructor Ilise Benun will cover the four main areas you need to know to be successful in your venture. Albert Einstein's Favorite Artist? In Print's archives, you'll find an array of articles by the usual-and brilliant-suspects: Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Charles Eames, and so on. But Print once featured an unexpected contributor from another field entirely: Albert Einstein. In 1955-the year he died-Einstein wrote a piece for Print reflecting on his friend, artist Josef Scharl. Born 1896 in Germany, Scharl attended the Munich School of Painters before being drafted into World War I. Read more... ENROLL NOW   Featured Design Tutorial This course was designed to teach you to create a web page that can adapt it's layout to fit on any screen sizes across devices, as well as on paper when printed. Web design requires the coordination of HTML, CSS, and graphics in order to construct a layout and design that can respond to the varying needs of your websites visitors. In this step-by-step course, we'll cover every aspect of converting a design into a fully functioning web page. We'll create navigation menus, style typography, format and position graphics, create CSS animations, import free web fonts from Google, as well adjust our layout to fit a wide range of screens and devices. And for those new to HTML, CSS or web graphics, we have a few lessons explaining the core fundamentals of each, so you'll be able to work through the course without missing a beat. To get a full sense of the scope of this course, watch the first chapter - it's FREE. Responsive Web Design$99.99 ENROLL >> The Prolific and Versatile Scratchboard Artist: Steven Noble Steven Noble is a prolific and versatile scratchboard artist, with an illustration career spanning over 22 years. He is equally adept at woodcut style, pen and ink, traditional engraving, and stylized scratchboard, with subject matter that includes food, portraits, animals, maps, architecture, and corporate conceptual images.  View his illustrations...  Freelance illustration can be a difficult industry to break into, but with 50 Markets of Illustrationby John Roman, you can start to narrow down your options and find a market that will allow you and your talents to flourish.