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Résumés communicate a lot about us. When we turn in a résumé, employers assume a whole lot about who we are beyond just our job experiences. By the way we design, edit, organize, and include information, employers suddenly assume things, like how old we are, how hard we work, what’s

Learning to write well doesn’t come naturally for most people. In fact, good writing is a skill acquired over many years of practice and experimentation (and, typically, good writing is accompanied with a lot of reading) . But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few tricks you can do

Banned this week: selfie sticks and PowerPoint. That’s right, in the last couple days, news has spread across the globe that Disney Theme Parks are banning those wickedly popular three-foot selfie camera extensions. For safety, of course. And in other banning news? The Copenhagen Business School just banned PowerPoint from

It’s just a little comma, right? No biggie. Not like most people know the rules anyway! If this is your attitude towards those pesky little punctuation marks, you might want to take a second glance. Punctuation does more than you might think to writing: it changes pace of reading, it

  Do we ingest media like we ingest dessert–with binges in non-substantive material, with samplings of sugar-coated delicacies in favor of something with, say, a little more protein? Or vitamins? That’s the comparison James Madison University student Kathryn McDearis made in her “New Media Manisto”; her argument? We’re consuming media far

Due to popular demand and a large number of requests, I have finally adopted my “18 Rules for Using Text” post into 20×30 poster format! No matter what kind of document you produce–a memo, flier, brochure, proposal, PowerPoint–you should know the most fundamental rules for designing with text. This list

When you include a photograph in a design–say for a brochure or flier or billboard–you communicate something to your audience. Obviously photographs need to be relevant and purposeful (don’t just include random images). But beyond that, there are a few critical rules and guidelines for making photographs work well within

With as much trust as the average American puts into the news media, it probably goes without saying that the organizations that distribute the news have an ethical obligation to be as accurate and detail-oriented as possible. Unfortunately, the competition to get viewers often causes media outlets to skew news