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Let's face it: today's job market is tougher than ever.We work in a competitive global landscape, and it can be difficult to stand out!That's where a powerful and striking resume design comes in.But hiring managers may see hundreds of resumes.How can you help ensure that yours gets noticed?Resume templates for Figma are a great starting point.

As a UX director, I've reviewed countless design portfolios over the years, and one thing that often stands out is the lack of attention given to the "About me" page.Many junior designers tend to overlook this section or simply include a brief bio without much thought.However, I believe that the "About me" page is one of the most important sections of any design portfolio.

Landscape artists paint sweeping vistas, regarding the wonder of the world from a certain distance.Cartoonists, when evoking natural scenes, often zero in on smaller details, like the bugs that tumble and crawl in the grass.In his cover for the June 26, 2023, issue, Ed Steed heralds summer, depicting some colorful Coccinellidae-the scientific term for the family of small beetles colloquially known as the ladybug, a swarm of which is collectively called a loveliness.

The first of June marked the beginning of Pride Month, which was started to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots.This Pride season follows threats of violence in response to corporate displays of support for the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community and the widespread introduction of legislation that has led to the banning of queer children's books from classrooms.

Dear Diary: It was a beautiful, breezy Friday night, beautiful enough that I decided to walk across town after work instead of taking the L. Waiting to cross Second Avenue, I noticed a woman getting out of a car.Then I saw a $20 bill float through the air into the intersection.The woman looked stricken.

Dear Diary: My wife and I were walking back to our West Village apartment on a cold, rainy winter evening after an early dinner of Indian food in the East Village.As we approached Broadway and West 12th Street, it started raining harder.I glanced up at the sign above the entrance to the Strand bookstore.

Dear Diary: I've been married for just over a year, and the ritual from single life that I miss the most is dining out alone.Sitting solo at the bar is one of my favorite pastimes.My husband initially assumed it was a sign of a rift between us.He is learning otherwise.This year, I made a New Year's resolution to have a standing solo dinner date.

Dear Diary: A few years ago, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and, as is my habit, stopped in to say hello to my favorite painting, Velazquez's Juan de Pareja.My custom is to take a seat on the bench across from Juan, and then together we carry on, silently, having long intense conversations on art, philosophy, aesthetics, even politics.

Last month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) held a press conference with the goal of "exposing the book ban hoax."DeSantis claimed that "mainstream media, unions, and leftist activists'" were perpetuating a "hoax of empty library bookshelves and political theater."He explained that his efforts to remove certain books from school libraries were merely to protect students from "indoctrination" and to remove "pornographic and inappropriate materials that have been snuck into our classrooms and libraries to sexualize our students violate our state education standards."

Dear Diary: I was walking on Columbus Avenue on a cold afternoon when I suddenly had a strong desire for an ice cream cone.As if in answer to my thought, a lovely ice cream shop appeared almost immediately.I went in and ordered a double.When it came time to pay, I realized I had only a $20 bill.When I offered it, the young clerk told me he had no change.

The majority of Digital Underground's projects involve Shock G's visual contributions in some form - whether through photo collages or hand-drawn illustrations credited to an alias.And many more of his drawings and low-brow doodles still exist in privately stored boxes and notebooks, in the care of his friends and family.

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Passport designs often attract a lot of opinion, after all they're the document that represents us and our county when we travel abroad.And while they tend to look fairly standard on the outside, some countries have found ways to be highly creative inside, both for practical purposes to make forgery more difficult, but also to create beautiful documents.

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In the run up to the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo's latest instalment in the Zelda franchise, we're taking a look back at the ever-changing logo design.With consistent typography and a plethora of different illustrations, each logo perfectly represents the game style - but which one is the best?

A new set of stamps is being issued marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of MV Empire Windrush to the UK.Eight new stamps featuring illustrations created exclusively to celebrate the occasion, will be revealed at a launch event at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton on Thursday.The MV Empire Windrush arrived at the Port of Tilbury on June 21 1948 and its passengers disembarked a day later.

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.I walked down the middle of Market Street, Lou Sullivan wrote in his journal in June 1981, about participating in San Francisco's gay pride parade.The first time I can say I actually felt I marched in the parade.'

Before you try standup, know the basics
1. Sign up before you go up.To claim a spot at most open mics, all you need to do is get on that event's email listserv.They'll send out a sign-up sheet about a week in advance of any given show.Other mics require you to sign up in person to get a coveted spot.

If the 2022 Stella prize shortlist showcased the rise of Australian poetry, this year's shortlist is a story about the publishers with all six titles chosen by the judges coming from small and independent publishers.Announced on Thursday morning, the shortlist includes Gudanji/Wakaja writer and educator Debra Dank's memoir-of-sorts We Come With This Place, out through Echo Publishing; big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills, a book of essays and illustrations from Affirm Press; Sarah Holland-Batt's poetry collection The Jaguar, from UQP; and Adriane Howell's novel Hydra, from Transit Lounge.

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AI is a revolutionary technology that gives artists like me the time to focus more of our efforts on creativity.Still, to get the most out of AI, we need to harness our imagination and hone the technical skills necessary to operate AI in the first place.It is equally important to be aware of the ethical and legal implications of relying on AI to generate artwork, especially regarding transparency around the way these tools are used in the creative process.

In the prologue to Darrin Bell's expansive debut graphic memoir, The Talk, he illustrates, in comics, his memory of being six years old and coming face to face with a pack of snarling, snaggle-toothed dogs.The children around him kneel and hold out their hands to the terrifying animals, but in the moment young Bell can only freeze.

"What if India ruled Great Britain?" reads the caption of a TikTok video, now viewed over 1.7 million times.The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history which never happened: An industrial revolution set off the militarization of India.London fell to the Indian Armada, and wealthy Indian families settled in Great Britain.

Several of the largest tech firms have remained among Twitter's top advertisers this year - including Apple, Amazon and IBM - despite the rise in hate speech on the service as well as a wide range of incendiary tweets from owner Elon Musk.Why it matters: Musk's project to remake Twitter into what he calls a free-speech zone, and what critics see as an increasingly toxic environment, will prosper or fail depending on the choices both advertisers and users make to stay or go.

Vincent Van Gogh often collected graphics and illustrations pulled from newspapers, going as far as to consider it a " Bible for artists", a new book from Taschen says.He was not the only artist who looked to the press for inspiration.In fact, in History of Press Graphics.1819-1921, author Alexander Roob argues that satirical cartoons and newspaper design and illustrations had an incredible influence on modern art, a "laboratory for developing avant-garde aesthetics".

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A Sydney-based marketing communications company has advertised for a ChatGPT prompt editor.The field of prompt engineering has existed for less than a year.AI is going to impact impact every industry, a data science expert says.For those who are not across it, ChatGPT uses machine learning to generate human-like responses to text prompts.

While Washington has an undeserved reputation for type-A, khaki-­clad humorlessness, our city is home to a thriving standup-­comedy scene.Beyond the big names who got their start here-Martin Lawrence, Patton Oswalt, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle-DC is home to a sizable contingent of amateur and aspiring comics performing at open mics across the area.

Typically ultra-local and mundane discussions around housing policy are spilling into the national conversation, fraying traditional political alliances and creating odd bedfellows across the country.Why it matters: Lawmakers - particularly Democrats - are struggling to find solutions that would both pass and help ease a housing shortage marked by rising rents and increasingly unaffordable mortgages.

A prominent fantasy novel features a cover apparently generated with artificial intelligence, sparking complaints from artists and book enthusiasts.Earlier this month, readers noted that the back of the UK edition of Sarah J. Maas' House of Earth and Blood credits Adobe Stock for the illustration of a wolf on its cover.

PepsiCo and The Coca-Cola Company seem to be locked in a strange graphic design tug of war this year.Nearly every month, one company or the other has launched a total redesign of one of its subsidiaries.The outcome is a dizzying amount of soft drink rebrands, including Fanta, Lilt, 7Up, Minute Maid and, who could forget, Pepsi.

In this Procreate character design workshop, I'm going to share one of the things that inspires me the most about being an illustrator.It's the possibility of embedding every fibre, every pixel of your artwork with a sense of narrative that's happening right below the surface of the canvas - conveying an underlying story, just as if you're capturing a moment in a storyline that's already in motion.

A century ago, before it was called sparkling water or club soda, and before it was sold as LaCroix and Spindrift, it was called seltzer.No plastic bottles or aluminum cans magically appeared on grocery shelves.Instead, factories across New York City pumped fizzy water into heavy siphon bottles that were distributed by deliverymen.

Dear Diary: One evening last spring, my husband and I were strolling in the Village after having dinner out.I was about ve months pregnant at the time.As we walked, we passed two women sitting on folding chairs outside a psychic's storefront with a table of cards and candles between them.August, one of them said, pointing at my belly.

Another day, another soft drinks rebrand.This time it's PepsiCo's Mirinda that has a new look.Its vibrant colour palettes have definitely drawn me in, but overall I'm feeling underwhelmed by this particular rebrand.Perhaps it's because I have no real affinity with Mirinda as a brand, or maybe it's just because we've already seen new identities for 7UP, Fanta and Minute Maid in the last few months.

Tiffany Hammond an her 16-year-old son Aidan communicate in some familiar ways, like hand gestures and body language.But when Aidan wants to express himself with words, he uses a tablet.Aidan is autistic and does not speak, so when his mom asks a question, he can push a button on the screen to vocalize his answer.

State efforts to restrict gender-affirming care are moving beyond trans youth and increasingly focused on patients over the age of 18.The big picture: Legislators in Kansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas have introduced bills barring health providers from offering care such as hormone treatments or surgery to people as old as 26.

I'll be honest from the start - there are no direct use cases for in-house product designers to use Adobe Firefly (currently in Beta).We simply don't use images in our work that often.Our primary tools are typography, components, patterns, icons, flowcharts.Still, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't benefit from an image generating AI.

It was the most personal story that Maggie Tokuda-Hall had ever written: the tale of how her grandparents met and fell in love at an incarceration camp in Idaho that held Japanese Americans during World War II.The book, called Love in the Library, is aimed at six- to nine-year-olds.Published last year by a small children's publisher, Candlewick Press, it drew glowing reviews, but sales were modest.

This is the story of how one little octopus, explaining one beginner's concept, carried such weight and power for Kylo that it drove his interest in visual learning and led him to research something that is really quite silly.And yet, it transformed how he learned to write - and finally understand - JavaScript.

Quantum computing promises a higher level of processing power over current computers, but it comes with its own challenges with implementation.When it comes to fruition, it'll also break current privacy measures like your banking password.Financial Times explains how this works with a fine set of animations and illustrations.

While cooking at home for his partner, Bay Area food and beverage scene expat Morgan Schick would often make a quick mid-week version of a tortilla Española: In place of the thinly sliced potato often found in the large, crustless omelet, he uses tater tots, for an easy, low-stakes, and tasty dinner.

The author Jason Reynolds has a new novel out, Miles Morales Suspended.Dayo Kosoko/Simon & Schuster Award-winning author Jason Reynolds returns with a sequel to his young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man.This one is called Miles Morales Suspended, and it continues the adventures of an "unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man."

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps.Subscribe here.Nappy.co hosts free images that have been downloaded a million times.Read why the founders launched it and see the new BlackxTech collection.Black Illustrations has themed collections, e.g startups and digital marketing.

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY - What do Copernicus and Calvin & Hobbes have in common?You can find both of them side by side this weekend at the 63rd annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory this weekend, where bibliophiles and casual browsers can browse rare collections at all sorts of price points.

Showrunner Rob Hoegee told IndieWire about trusting in the strength of the story and the subtleties of the animation to engage young viewers in Arnold Lobel's beloved characters.If you grew up reading Arnold Lobel's books or have kids you've shared the award-winning adventures with, Apple TV+'s "Frog and Toad" animated series serves as an extension of the characters you know and love.

In February 2023, together with @glennui and @almonk we started building a new website for Next.js.On the surface, the design made by Glenn seemed really simple, but with plenty of opportunity for delight and subtle animations.Personally, I found the design to be a breath of fresh air: no swanky mesh gradients, obnoxious artifical shines, or overuse of gimmicks.

An open letter calling for a 6-month "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence is dividing the tech industry - not just between AI boosters and skeptics, but also between different factions of AI's critics.Driving the news: The letter - initially signed by Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other industry luminaries - urged "a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities."

For all the hand-wringing over whether robots will replace human workers, ChatGPT and its ilk - tools known as generative AI - are shaping up to be a big employment threat too.Why it matters: Robots tend to replace manual laborers, while artificial intelligence threatens knowledge workers - ensuring that people of all education levels can look nervously over their shoulder at the tech gunning for their paycheck.

Image Benjamin Netanyahu said he acted out of a desire to prevent a rift in the nation.Credit...Amit Elkayam for The New York Times After days of intense civil unrest, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would delay contentious plans to overhaul Israel's judiciary.Netanyahu's move, after the assent by a powerful right-wing ally, was an attempt to give him time to try to de-escalate the crisis and manage competing demands.

Before we begin, a note: As always, please send your advice-column questions (tiny issues preferred; all issues accepted) to dearpepperquestions@gmail.com.As an experiment, this week, I'd like to solicit your advice, too.Part of why I made this column was to define my particular way of operating in the world, as a very shy and regimented dog, balancing her need for personal boundaries with her desire to be kind to others.

The first business ChatGPT will upend is likely to be the industry that created it.Why it matters: Making software has never been easy.But programming practitioners and experts are increasingly confident that generative AI will change their world - supercharging the work of the best coders and empowering everyday users to get more done.

"Deep inside of us, we know we want to live a meaningful life," says Maria Lentzou, author of bilingual children's book " MarlaGran," which launches Sunday at the Eric Quezada Center at 518 Valencia St.
Lentzou, originally from Greece, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in child development.