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This week, we discuss your tweets on how to git gud (and stay gud) at visual design. And as always, we share a couple Cool Things, including a hilarious pop culture reviewer.

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Industry Talk:
  • Video: "That's kind of a big question" from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
  • Check out 271: Principles of Design for some specific examples of good foundational design rules
  • Guillermo Rauche, David Klein, and Mike Rundle all suggest copying to learn
  • May-Li Khoe suggests shadowing a stronger designer
  • PSDTuts is now Envato Tuts+
  • Material Design and the Apple HIG are wonderful learning resources and good languages to be fluent in
  • The Illusion of Life is the bible for Disney animation
  • Joel Kalifa shared some great advice from Ira Glass
  • One Cool Thing:
    • Marshall shared Jenny Nicholson, a YouTuber who reviews pop culture things. She's very, very funny.
    • Brian shared drugs. Don't do drugs.
    • Design Details on the Web:
      • We are @designdetailsfm
        • Brian is @brian_lovin
        • Marshall is @marshallbock
        • @Sarahberus and @Luperdev make us sound smarter than we are
        • Join the conversation on Spectrum or leave us a review on iTunes
        • TTFN!

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