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Your workers’ underlying health can greatly affect the amount of time they are off the job recovering from a workplace injury. A new study has found that workers with pre-existing health issues like hypertension, obesity and mental health spend 60% more time recovering from workplace injuries than healthy workers. And because those injured workers are
By Creative Bloq Staff Responsive web design has changed the way we think about page structure. It also needs to change the way we think about type. It stands to reason that responsive web design requires responsive typography to suit. But what does that actually mean, and how do you implement it? Font size, spacing
by Cheryl Chong KEEP UP WITH THE RULES Recently, California’s DFEH (Department of Fair Employment and Housing) issued a new brochure titled “Transgender Rights in the Workplace.” A few key points for employers to be aware of, include the following: There are two kinds of gender transitions: physical and social. The former involves medical treatments. The other involves name
Here, for your reading and visual pleasure, we present PRINT’s annual list of design books released over the past year, as collected by PRINT Editor-in-Chief Zachary Petit. Despite its disastrous reputation, 2016 was an interesting year for design books, with a surprising quantity of reissues among those below. Whether you’re looking for reading material, inspiration
This is the second of two parts on the top 10 laws that will be affecting your business. First aid rules reporting New amendments to the California Workers’ Compensation Uniform Statistical Reporting Plan require that even small, medical-only first aid claims be reported. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has always required that these small
by Clive Thompson TYLER SCHNOEBELEN HAS discovered something curious about why people use the skull emoji. Schnoebelen is a linguist and the chief analyst for Idibon, a firm that interprets linguistic data. So recently he got interested in emoji. He analyzed a million social media posts containing those familiar little pictograms and found that
By Rakin Azfar Twitter is offering the ability to record live video in an immersive 360-degree format to “select partners” of its streaming application, Periscope. The feature, which debuted this week, allows all users to view the 360-degree videos, and works similarly to analog products at YouTube and Facebook. It is also the company’s highest
By: Steven Heller Editor’s Note: This piece is a complement to PRINT’s Regional Design Awards issue, which hits newsstands Jan. 10, 2017. This year’s election absurdity notwithstanding, 2016 has been an incredible year for visual culture, as were 2015, 2014 and all the years before. When we discuss design in a graphic design annual like
Every New Year there’s a swarm of new legislation and regulations affecting businesses and it’s difficult to stay on top of it all. In this blog and the next, we cover the top 10 laws, regulations and developments that you are likely to contend with in 2017. Owners/officers exemption changes A new law has changed who
By Tracy Tonnu This year, Pantone is going a completely different route with their color of choice. Last year, we wrote about the two shades the company picked, Rose Quartz (Pantone 13-1520) and Serenity (Pantone 15-3919), both lighter and softer than the Color of the Year for 2017. Pantone has decided on Greenery (Pantone 15-0343), a
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