Free Font: Whiteboard Modern
Another free font from BitBox: Whiteboard Modern.
Whiteboard Modern was hand drawn, but created entirely with a Wacom tablet and Illustrator.
The Typographic Scale
Alexander Charchar writes a great article over at Retinart about the Typographic Scale.
A list of numbers that make it easier to set type. But why these numbers? What relationships do they hold with one another? Is there some mythical secret held by the casters of the fonts of old? Why is it that when you combine 8, 10, 14 and 36 points of height something beautiful happens?
Uncoverr - Design & Development Book Reviews
Creattica reader Lachy Groom sent us a great link to Uncoverr, a site for reviewing and talking about web design and development books.
Rewriting Twitter for Web Best Practices
Web technologist Niall Kennedy undertook the big job of rewriting twitter.com to incorporate modern front-end programming best practices. You can check out the whole project here.
The new web front-end on TwitterFE.com features localized templates, expressive markup, distinct URL structures, integrated site search, geo-distributed dynamic and static servers, and more available features than Twitter.com.
The First 90 Days with a Nikon D90 - Short Film
Photographer Adam Paul took over 3,200 photos with his Nikon D90 in the first 90 Days and decided to put it all together in time-lapse / stop motion short film.
What inspired me most was when I watched his film, it appeared as though he had the entire stop-motion and plot in mind while he was shooting. I asked him and he said he just put them together and put music over it. I was floored. And then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I had to try it with my 90D90 idea and sure enough, instant masterpiece.
The World From Above: The Beauty Of Aerial Photography
It seems the only aerial photographs I can take are of the typical ‘clouds and airplane wing’ variety, so I was pretty excited to see Smashing Magazines showcase of The World From Above:The Beauty Of Aerial Photography.
Aerial photography offers a drastically different perspective than the one you get from shooting on the ground. It includes photographs taken from aircraft, helicopters, balloons, rockets, kites, skydives, etc.
Squid Fingers
Looking for some sweet (and free) background patterns for your designs? Designer Travis Beckham of squidfingers has hand crafted over 150 paterns in photoshop for our download enjoyment!
Freelance Tips
Liz from CMD+Shift Design has some funny and valuable tips for freelancers out there. Visit her blog and check them out.
Instant Portfolio From Your Flickr
Designer Anthony Kolber gave us the heads up on a neat little tool in production for turning your flickr account into an instant portfolio page.
FFolio is a free, hosted portfolio service which automatically feeds from your photos and photosets on Flickr.
We’re still tweaking it on our end, but it should be up and running in the next few months, so drop your email in the signup box and we’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready.
