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Making your design portfolio stand out in 2015

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by on July 4, 2015 at 9:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, design, Design & Dev, How-To's, portfolio

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You know what sets a design portfolio apart these days? It’s not a designer’s experience, beautiful visuals or the number of clients. It’s the way you communicate those things. Your portfolio should first demonstrate how you get things done rather than showcase a bunch of visuals out of context. It should tell a story that articulates your personality, work ethics, process and goals you achieve with your work. As people become increasingly resistant to all those titles, names and beautiful visuals, it’s time to make portfolios more personal and interactive, and have at least a few great customer stories to…

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Company celebrates Independence Day weekend by claiming it owns ‘America The Beautiful’

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by on July 4, 2015 at 8:38 am
Posted In: Adafruit, America the Beautiful, Around the Web, Copyright, Insider, public domain, Rumblefish, youtube

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It’s Independence Day weekend in the United States and one firm is celebrating its freedom by sending legal notices. Music licensing firm Rumblefish hit AdaFruit, the online maker store, for using public domain composition ‘America The Beautiful’ in its video celebrating the holiday. In its blog post about the incident, AdaFruit claims it receives the following message via YouTube immediately after it posted its video of an Arduino in front of an American flag: The specific version of the song used in the clip is by the United States Navy Band. While ‘America The Beautiful’ is public domain, it’s possible that the US Navy…

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Greeks can’t use iTunes, the App Store, PayPal and more thanks to the financial crisis

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by on July 4, 2015 at 7:32 am
Posted In: app store, Around the Web, iTunes, paypal

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Greece has a lot of problems right now as a result of the debt crisis, but one that you might not have immediately anticipated is that online services that require credit or debit payments to a foreign company are broken. And now apples App Store is declining Greek credit cards. How is Alexis going to download the latest candy crush ? — Philip Dragoumis (@pdragoumis) June 30, 2015 As BuzzFeed reports, the Greek government’s imposition of capital controls – which restrict citizens’ ability to take money out of the country – following its failure to make debt repayment, also mean they can’t…

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