Type Navigator
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I may be late in the game, but I just discovered Fontshop’s Type Navigator tool. I’m not sure how long it’s been around, but I wish ...
Category: Recommended Resources
Courtney • Happy Weekend and Miscellany
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Photo from FotografeRx’s photostream So sorry about the lack of posts the last couple of days. I took an unexpected sick day yesterday and today...
Design Freebies
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Summer, of Design is Mine, just started a new blog that will compile all of the great design freebies available online in one place. Such an awesome i...
New and Improved Veer
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I recently received an email from Veer announcing all sorts of improvements they’ve made to their Ideas section. On top of being a prime source ...
AIGA/Aquent Salary Survey
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AIGA has released the results of their 2008 Salary Survey. Download your copy here. Or you can also find more details and a salary calculator right he...
New-to-me Design Conferences
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I had such a good experience at the HOW Conference this year, that I’d like to try to attend conferences more often. And I recently read about a...
The Textures of Alcatraz
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While in San Francisco, we took the requisite tour of Alcatraz. I actually wasn’t really that into it initially, but it turned out to be pretty ...
CreativeTechs
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If you’re a Mac user and you haven’t yet heard of CreativeTechs, you should check out their site immediately. The tagline says it all real...
An Amazing Resource
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I’m so excited about this. Smashing Magazine recently put together a gigantic, reader-created gallery of background textures. Photos include woo...
iPhone eye candy
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Poolga is a site where you can download artist and designer-created wallpapers for your iPhone for free. There’s a wide range of styles so it sh...
Gmund updates?
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Not sure how recently this happened, but I’m definitely psyched about it—Gmund paper finally has a brand new website. I had unsuccessfully att...
Post Expose
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I’ve been pretty excited about Post Expose since it opened, even though I’ve unfortunately not had a chance to get there yet. They’r...
Making the Impossible Possible
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Fortunately I got a chance to see Bill Strickland speak as the closing keynote for the HOW Conference. As a speaker and a person, he is truly inspirat...
Marketing Mentor
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Another HOW Conference session I attended was “What it Takes to be Your Own Boss”, given by Ilise Benun of Marketing Mentor. I had previou...
Behance
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Another one of Monday’s sessions I really enjoyed was given by Scott Belsky of Behance. For those of you that don’t know about the company...
Helpful Business Resources
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In Monday’s second session I attended “Financial Planning for Solo Designers” given by Shel Perkins, the author of Talent is Not Eno...
Opening Night
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This past Sunday I headed into the Hynes for the opening Keynote address, given by Jeremy Gutsche of Trend Hunter Magazine, entitled “Creating a...