50 Meticulous Style Guides Every Startup Should See Before Launching
All good brands have a great style guide. Creating a simple booklet that catalogues the specific colors, type, logos, imagery, patterns, taglines, etc. of a brand makes sure the brand machine runs smoothly. To prove why you shouldn’t let your style guide go by the wayside, we’re going to take a look at 50 stunning and detailed examples of style guides that are sure to encourage you to begin compiling your own. And when you’re ready to put that style guide to work, trial it the fun way, by designing a branded social media graphic in Canva (click here). 01. Foursquare Check out this brand manual for Foursquare that gives detailed rundowns for the rules and guides to each of the design elements a brand needs to be consistent. What better way for a designer to prove how detail-oriented they are than by compiling a detail-dense style guide for their own personal branding. 03. A brand manual is a really great chance for a brand’s design team to explain the specific choices made for a brand. 04.
$300 Underground Greenhouse Grows Produce Year-Round, Even in Severe Climates
With staggering food prices and shortages looming, there’s no better time to grow your own produce. Sadly, most greenhouses are expensive to build and impractical to heat during cold, wintery conditions. Thankfully, a solution is found with the Walipini. Developed for South American mountainous regions over twenty years ago, it allows edibles to be grown year-round – even in the most inhospitable weather. Unlimited growing season Known as a pit or underground greenhouse, the Walipini utilizes the advantages of passive solar heating along with earth sheltering properties. “The Walipini, in simplest terms, is a rectangular hole in the ground 6′ to 8′ deep covered by plastic sheeting. The Institute continues with an explanation of how the earth acts like a battery, storing heat during the day while releasing it during cooler nighttime temperatures: The estimated building cost (using volunteer labor) for a 20 x 74 foot Walipini in La Paz, Peru is between $250 – $300. About the Author
The new Adobe CS6 branding
CS6 has just shipped & just like we did in 2010 we'll take a closer look at the design goals of this Creative Suite release. An inside look at how it is to do design work for a big company like Adobe. Each Creative Suite release starts with a list of technical requirements and design goals. Our host is Shawn Cheris, he will guide us through the process just as he did with the CS5 branding. Goals & Requirements Below you'll find what Adobe wanted to accomplish from an experience standpoint: Expressive. Shawn Cheris explains further: Our work is functional and must be optimized for the contexts in which it will be consumed. Legible. Start With Color Below I'll let Shawn Cheris take us through the process of the creation of the new Creative Suite release. Whenever we start thinking about a new Creative Suite release, we like to start with the colors—and by extension—the icons. In terms of value and saturation, prior vintages varied quite a bit. We finally landed on the forms you see below.
List of Emoticons for Facebook - Facebook Symbols and Chat Emoticons
Here is the complete list of all emoji emoticons and new stickers for Facebook. As you can see, we have loads of unique emoticons to choose from. You’ll find an incredible selection of familiar smiley faces along with a huge number of new and popular emoticons. Now you can easily express yourself to your friends when you are happy, sad, in love, or experiencing just about any other emotion while decorating your Facebook statuses, comments and chat messages using our emoticons list. Below is the best emoji list and it's super easy to use. You will find all latest emojis with all skin color variations too. With 'Search' option you can find emojis very quickly, type into search field and have them instantly! Emojis that you can type in on Facebook Here are all Facebook emoticon codes which you can type in with standard symbols o.O :v (y) :poop: See old emoji table Facebook Emoji Our emoticon list contains standard emoticons + all new Facebook Emoji! Emoji meanings Are there more emoticons? New Smileys
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The Day I Realized I Was Bullying My Kids
This post is brought to you by Playful Learning. I was being a bully… I watched the kids’ video from Playful Learning Put Ups and Put Downs Course with my kids, thinking it would be helpful for them, hopefully help us decrease sibling squabbles. I didn’t realize I would get an emotional 2×4 to the head as I listened to the description of Put Downs. In a Parenting Rut For most of the summer I had been doing great on not yelling, on enjoying my kids and having a good handle on my anger triggers, but after some emotional upsets and long days alone with the kids I was operating on a short fuse. In the video, kids describe both verbal and non-verbal Put Downs. I suddenly saw my own yelling at my kids as a bunch of Put Downs. Yelling wasn’t effective teaching. I had heard my son describe yelling like “being hit“ before. The tough part is that sometimes kids are….well, really annoying. and button pushing. and limit testing. Instead of Yelling – Put Ups for My Kids Using Put Ups to Reset
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