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5 Tips for Writing a Design Brief for Graphic Designers
Have you ever tried going to visit a new place leaving your GPS at home? No, right? Why would you when you know that you would be lost without directions and guidelines? A comprehensive and precise design brief functions similarly to a map. When you do not have a map to a particular place, you would not be able to reach there and would have to face a lot of difficulties. Similarly, before diving in headfirst, you should have a strong grasp of what you need to do on your end to create a very successful graphic design brief.
By KevinStark5 years ago in FYI
Romulus and Remus
Nobody knows how Rome was founded, but that does not mean that later Romans were unable to come up with a good story. The myth of Romulus and Remus was the result.
By John Welford5 years ago in FYI
"2B Or Not 2B"
When I was working in a stationery shop, readjusting the pen and pencil section, a colleague suddenly said to me: “To be or not to be, that is the question.” Now as I was sorting through the pencils, I thought she said: “2B or not 2B” and honestly did not put the two together. “What?” I said (in my complete ignorance). “I’m quoting Shakespeare” she said, and went on to quote the whole stanza, and this became a long-standing joke, even with the customers.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff5 years ago in FYI
People Used to Straight Up Drink Gold
This is something that may be a little bit difficult for many of us in the modern-day to understand. Back in the day, people were trying to do everything they could to ensure that they lived as long as possible and that they were healthy while they were alive. You can see it today in things like anti-aging creams of dubious efficacy. And today’s story is about something even more dubious. People thought that they could improve their physical health by doing something incredibly strange.
By Blessing Akpan5 years ago in FYI
The Raid on Deerfield
Ifyou visit the Old Burying Ground in Deerfield, Massachusetts, tucked away in the back corner there is a grassy mound with a weathered gravestone atop it. The only inscription it bears is the date “1704.” This centuries-old memorial honors fifty inhabitants of the tiny village killed in the overnight hours of February 28/29 by French and Native American raiders.
By Kathy Copeland Padden5 years ago in FYI
The Journals
The Journals, comprising most of Paul Blackburn’s final poems, is a milestone in the history of literary innovation, beyond the open field poetry of the BLACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL and, earlier, vers libre of IMAGISM. Blackburn wanted to create open-ended occasions out of ordinary, everyday experiences, and thereby to shape a form appearing to be, paradoxically, formless. He rejected traditional poetry’s point of view that saw certain historical events as grand or monumental and others as inconsequential and that, accordingly, insisted on poetry that followed rhetorical principles of argument first established in classical times and later reaffirmed in the Renaissance. He replaced syllogism with juxtaposition or contingency, logical deduction and inference with the "logic" of experience, such as what a person sees or hears; and
By Baby5 years ago in FYI
History of Independence Day
Independence Day or the Fourth of July celebrates the adoption by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, of the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the severance of the allegiance of the American colonies to Great Britain. It is the most significant secular holiday in the United States, observed in all the states, territories, and dependencies.
By Bill Petro5 years ago in FYI
History of Independence Day
Independence Day or the Fourth of July celebrates the adoption by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, of the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the severance of the allegiance of the American colonies to Great Britain. It is the most significant secular holiday in the United States, observed in all the states, territories, and dependencies.
By Bill Petro5 years ago in FYI
The Cold War
In the summer of 1945, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, set a course for Hiroshima, on the southern tip of Japan’s Honshu Island. The Enola Gay, it would soon be revealed, was no ordinary bomber plane. Her mission was to deliver a payload so powerful, so violent, and so devastating, that it would forever change the course of human events. In the wake of World War II, the world would see the rise of two nuclear superpowers. The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, known informally as the Soviet Union, would soon become locked in a ‘Cold War’ that would push the world to the brink of disaster, and the human race to the edge of extinction.
By Mack Devlin5 years ago in FYI
The Night of the Long Knives
“If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people.”
By Kathy Copeland Padden5 years ago in FYI
There's a n--ger in the woodpile
"There's a n--ger in the woodpile" is a term my grandmother used on occasion to indicate that a situation had something hidden that needed to be revealed. We lived in the county and actually had a pile of wood from which we gathered the sticks to make a fire. I could not imagine anyone hiding inside of a woodpile and never pondered that what my grandma said was more than just a phrase and at one time was a reality.
By Cheryl E Preston5 years ago in FYI
The Chinese Pirate Queen. Top Story - July 2021.
In the early 19th century, the seas around China were terrorised by a fleet of pirates under the control of one terrifying leader.
By Dawn Nelson5 years ago in FYI