Author: Curtis Newbold

By Autumn Thatcher Guest Blog Post Autumn’s Blog A few weeks ago, I sat down for tea with a local musician I was interviewing for the Salt Lake Tribune. Ironically, we began our conversation by discussing writing rather than music. “Did you read that article about that 29-year-old author who

Ethos is a Greek term that roughly translates into English as “credibility.” In my book, it stands paramount to everything you ever create. The ethos of any document (the level to which anyone looking at it will deem it credible and worthwhile) is impacted by many things, some of which

My Rating: 3/5 About the Book Just My Type: A Book about Fonts is a book written for a general audiences with little previous knowledge of the field of typography. Garfield informs audiences about the histories, anecdotes, and processes for creating and using different fonts. Just My Type is a lighthearted

How much McDonald’s would you have to eat to consume the same amount in calories from The Cheesecake Factory? The answer is a whole heck of a lot. In a side-by-side comparison, this infographic may just make you sick (especially if you’re a fan of the Cheesecake Factory.) In a

My Rating: 3/5 About the Book Understanding English Grammar, 9th Edition, is a textbook that teaches native English speakers how English works. The book’s goal is help English speakers know how to better control the language they already know by understanding the fundamentals of grammatical rules. The authors state in

If you’ve read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, then you probably remember him talking about “stickiness,” the process by which ideas stick in a global consciousness. (And if you haven’t read Gladwell’s book, go read it!) Authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath took the idea a bit further and wrote an

Dutch artist Ramon Bruin (see his personal website here) uses fascinating techniques to make pencil drawings appear 3D: by overlapping a single drawing on multiple pages or by using 3D objects to “play” in harmony with the drawings. Check out these 11 amazing drawings from Bruin’s gallery:

When the internet was first booming, a popular file format, the GIF (.gif, pronounced either “Jiff” or with a hard ‘g’) exploded. As a low-resolution file, it only uses 256 colors, so the images load incredibly fast on the internet. And, the best part? They can be animated and the

Colons are one of the most misused punctuation marks. Maybe that’s because they can be used in so many different ways. But, if used correctly, they can really add some life to your writing. And you’ll look smarter if you use them correctly! The good news is, the rules for

Cinemagraphs are still photos that have been merged with video recordings to create a somewhat uncanny effect. When you look at these strangely eerie photos, your mind vacillates between two seemingly incompatible dimensions: frozen time frames in photography and live video. Cinemagraphs are typically created by taking a still photo,