An excellent resource for those looking to bone up on their art history, “smARThistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional and static art history textbook”. via faye & co.
Typenuts is another fantastic resource for typographic iphone and desktop wallpapers, brought to you by I Love Typography.
The image below is from the Easy Graffiti Photoshop brush set sold through Media Slap.
I received an email last night announcing the release of Fontcase 1.0, a font management tool for the Mac that allows you to tag and control your fonts in a way similar to iTunes. It looks like a pretty cool…
All about grids… The Grid System “The ultimate resource in grid systems.” Everything you ever wanted to know about grids can be found here. gridr buildrrr A neat little tool that allows you to create your own web-based grids. Grid…
A few random resources for this week: Freckle A new source for online time tracking. I have no personal experience with how well it works, but they do offer a 30-day trial. Has anyone used this service yet? NumberKey An…
For those of you not familiar, Design Bum is the home of talented designer Issara Willenskomer. And in addition to an extremely tight portfolio of (mainly) motion graphics work, he also offers quite a few awesome downloads for visitors. Click…
Part two in my semi-regular link drop of helpful resources: School of Everything I haven’t gotten a chance to register for this site yet, but it’s such a great idea. School of everything connects people who want to learn with…
In my day-to-day web browsing I come across a lot of helpful resources that don’t necessarily warrant a full post. So I’ve decided to start compiling a few together every so often, and hopefully they’ll save you a bit of…
I’m a huge list maker and therefore I’m a pretty avid user of “To Do” programs. I’m always trying to figure out ways to be more organized and efficient with all the things I need to accomplish, and as a…
This site is great for anyone wanting to keep up with all of the election news. Perspctv takes traditional news feeds as well as blog posts and tweets from all over the web and puts it all in one place.…
I like to change my wallpaper every so often, so I’m always on the lookout for new resources. Here are a few fun ones (some have more choices than others) that I’ve come across in the last few months: Desktop…
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 I had discovered it sooner. Rather than choosing by category—Serif, Sans Serif, etc.—as most…
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 I’m headed up to Newport, Rhode Island. So I leave you with a couple of…
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 idea—check out Free Design Goodies here .
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 for type, photogrpahy and illustration; the new features make Veer more of a community. Among…
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 here.
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 couple that I wasn’t familiar with in the current issue of STEP…
