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New Free Social Media Bookmarking Icon Set

“Free Social Media Bookmarking Icon Set” by designmodo.com & rockablethemes.com is an icons set consisting of 38 individual icons of the popular social networks/bookmarking sites out there.  The set consists of 38 high quality icons in transparency PNG format (64 x 64, 32 x 32). They are free to use non-commercially. Put them on your blog or on your website to help users bookmark or share your site socially. You may share them only providing link to DesignModo.com. Here you have, a full set of brand newly designed icons to make your blog/site take a far more modern look!

Source: www.designmodo.com

University Of San Francisco New Logo

Founded in 1855, the University of San Francisco is “one of only 28 Jesuit Catholic colleges in the country and the oldest university in San Francisco” with under 10,000 students enrolled. A new logo was introduced in August, designed by Studio Hinrichs.

Via:  www.underconsideration.com

Saks

Saks Fifth Avenue has long been a destination for sophisticated shoppers. The store’s new fall campaign, which launched last week, emphasizes Saks as the place to go for fashion, both at physical locations like its New York flagship, and online. Organized around the tagline “@ Saks”—the store’s Twitter handle—the campaign highlights messages directing shoppers to Saks’ website and social media platforms.

See more at: pentagram.com

How to Create an Advanced Twitter Widget

The current average number of “Tweets” the world sends per day is 140 million. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom Twitter widget from scratch that uses the Twitter API, Web Intents and @Anywhere. Using the Twitter platform to create a fun, interactive tool for your website can be beneficial both in the learning and promotion departments! 

Nice tutorial via: net.tutsplus.com

The faces behind the fonts - Bo Berndal

I can spend every minute doing the thing I like most of all; my hobby is creating typefaces. I’m a little jealous of those designers that seem to go on and on into their old age creating excellent typefaces. ;-)
In other words, I hope I’ll be doing the same, but I have already had a very good life …so far!

Read the whole interview with Bo here: new.myfonts.com

Improve your Typography Skills with These Tips Articles

As a designers we should know that typography is really important in a design and should pay more attention to it. And making the right typographic choices for your brand identity design is absolutely critical to successfully capturing the image you want to project.

Really good sources via: www.brandstudio.com

50+ Useful CSS Tools And Generators for Developers

 

CSS tools are essential for web developers because they act like a sort of magic lamp that can simplify the job at hand. Most development tools are time savers that are there to help developers create stylish, functional and optimized websites with a few shortcuts.

Via: www.noupe.com

70 Useful Free Web Design Elements PSD Files

For any business person, the web design elements save a lot of effort and time and enable him to easily design a website. The designing elements you choose should suit your business and its products.

Via: designmodo.com

Craig & Karl

Check out some crazy works by Craig & Karl.

Craig Redman and Karl Maier live on opposite sides of the world but collaborate daily to create bold work that is filled with simple messages executed in a thoughtful and often humorous way. They specialize in illustration, installation, typography, as well as character, editorial and pattern design.

5 Free Icons Sets

You can use these icons on any desktop, mobile applications or mobiles, blog and web applications. 
You can see and download them here: www.webiconset.com

Two Former Pentagram Designers Form Partnership

Two former Pentagram designers have teamed up to join forces, announcing this week that they’ve combined their two independent shops into one international company. John Dowling and Rob Duncan, both formerly of Pentagram’s London office from the late-90s to the mid-2000s (the latter also worked at their San Francisco office), have founded Dowling | Duncan, with the first representing the UK and the second in the Bay Area. 

Via: logodesignerblog.com

100+ Incredible Sources for Logo & Identity Inspiration

 

Conceptualizing a logo design that not only has an impact but incorporates your vision requires inspiration. There’s logo inspiration everywhere, after all each website you visit usually has one.

More: storecrowd.com

5 Great New Free Fonts

  

Tondu

A versatile display font that combines classic proportions with modern styling. The precise letter fit makes it perfect for use across signage, book jackets, packaging, posters and t-shirts. Details include an extended European character set, manually edited kerning and Euro symbol.

You can find it here: myfonts.com

Fanwood

Based on work of a famous Czech-American type designer of yesteryear. The package includes roman and italic. The current version is 1.1, which includes a few improvements. It also introduces Fanwood Text roman and italic, which are the same as Fanwood but slightly darker and reduces in contrast; I tailored it to increase readability on my Amazon Kindle 3 e-book reader.

Download it here: www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com

 

Fabrica

Fabrica is a deceptively simple sans serif typeface optimized for screen display on handheld devices. With its optimal quality and legibility, Fabrica proves to be highly efficient for small screens. Its details are drawn from the more systematic constructed Neo-Grotesques, giving it a neutral tone of voice. Above all, Fabrica's beauty is found in its functionality.
Check it here: practicefoundry.com 

Weston

The main purpose is to provide designers with font, suitable for modification in logos and headlines. Combined wisely, Weston will spice up your design adding the “not-your-usual-font-choice” effect. Inspired by the evergreen Grover & Rockwell, this font would love to find his place in your library.

More here: fontfabric.com

Matilde

Matilde is friendly thin typeface with extra tall capitals, elegant look combined with decorative elements. This typeface will work well for headings, short paragraphs, magazines, children’s books, posters, logos and any type of graphic design.

You can find it here: www.typedepot.com

Nice and clean NBC Sports Logo refreshing

Changes include:
- The Peacock is slightly larger.

- The letters “NBC” are still bold but have a new font which puts them in balance with the Peacock.

- “Sports” maintains its scripted feel, but features a new hand-lettered font exclusively created for NBC Sports.

- Previously “Sports” was on an angle, but it has been straightened to allow for “Network” to fit easily beneath it and to accommodate the on-air design of commonly used sports tickers.

“The re-brand effort afforded us the opportunity to modernize the NBC Sports logo,” said John Miller, Chief Marketing Officer, NBCUniversal Television Group and head of the NBC Sports Agency. “The changes are subtle, but signal a big change: a new beginning for the NBC Sports Group.”
Found on: www.underconsideration.com

W & Cie's Tribute to Brands

The W&Cie agency, part of Havas design, has been awarded with a Silver Lion in the design category at Cannes Lions Festival 2011 for its new visual identity and signage of its new Paris-based offices.
More news, images and video at: identitydesigned.com

The Big Book of Font Combinations

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography. You can see more here: bonfx.com

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.

We Love Logos Poster

Show your beating heart for more than a hundred of the world’s best logos ever designed. The ‘We Love Logo’ poster exclusively designed by Pananna for GoodLogo consists of 82 black, 38 red and 1 black&red colored logos. The logos are positioned on a grid in such a way a red heart is constructed out of the red logos. Price €15.00

Happy 98th birthday, Walter!

If Walter Landor, were alive today, he would be 98 years old on July 9. 
A pioneer in the field of branding and design. Landor.com

New work by World Famous Chermayeff & Geismar

Responsible for many of Latin America's most successful television shows, El Mall is a multimedia production company headed by media mogul Pedro Torres. Continuing the theme of the name, the company is set up in an unorthodox manner, with the various divisions structured and branded as "shops." To reinforce this high-concept brand strategy, Chermayeff & Geismar developed a wordmark and a visual system that identify El Mall and its omnipresent media endeavors.

See more: www.cgstudionyc.com/newwork

Retro Logo Collection

A study of retro/vintage logos.

See more at: www.flickr.com/jordanlloyd

35 Cool Infographics for Web and Graphic Designers

One of the latest online trends that graphic designers make use of are infographics. Infographics, short for Information graphics, are said to be visual representations of a study or data. Great source of inspiration: www.youthedesigner.com

39 Beautiful Bottle Designs

There used to be a time when most bottles looked the same.

Great source of inspiration: dzineblog.com

Pasaż Grunwaldzki - New logo

New logo for Pasaż Grunwaldzki was created by Diagram agency from Poznań.

A Look at Popular Fashion Website Designs

These websites, after all, don’t follow rules that govern corporate websites. It just so happens that this industry is capable to create their own standards that the world is happy to follow. 

Check out more here: youthedesigner.com 

Meeting Natalia Vasilyeva

This month we venture into a region few of our readers will ever visit — Siberia. Our interviewee is one of the most prolific designers of pragmatic text fonts and accomplished calligraphic typefaces for Para Type, Russia’s principal typefoundry. 

Interview with Natalia Vasilyeva at: myfonts.com

Showcase of Creative & Artistic infographics

Infographics or Information graphics, are visual representations of data, information, studies and Graph’s. The graph’s and graphic’s are used where complex information needs to be explained in simple and easy manners, such as on signs, graph’s, images or maps.

Check out more here: lava360.com

Apolonia - new polish type

"Apolonia" by dr. Tomasz Welna is type designed especially for polish language, but it also improves the appearance and legibility of the texts in other languages. It's a result of author's doctoral dissertation in the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.

"Apolonia" is free for all private users. Check out more here: www.polskalitera.pl

Symbol: from Pan Am to the Pompidou

 

Symbol, a new book by Angus Hyland and Steven Bateman, celebrates the beauty of the purely visual mark. We have two extracts from the book that focus on the classic symbols designed for the airline Pan Am and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris...

Read more here: creativereview.co.uk

New Rising Stars on MyFonts.com

Ever since webfonts began influencing the look and feel of hundreds, and then thousands of websites, Exljbris Museo Sans has been all over the place. This new variety is likely to become as successful as its older siblings. Museo Sans Rounded is a softened version of the Museo family’s best-selling variant, Museo Sans. While the lighter versions are just that — a sans with rounded corners — there are some interesting modifications in the heavier weights.

Check out more at: myfonts.com

Great new GAMER logo

Gamer.ru is a Russian gaming portal focused on Role-Playing Games (RPG). Think Dungeons & Dragons evolved for the twenty-first century generation. A new identity for the site and company has been designed by Erohnovich Roma with 3D rendering by Stanislav Linus.

See more pictures here: underconsideration.com

Useful Photoshop Tools and Techniques For Your Workflow

 

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using handy tools, actions, plugins and templates to save time for solving mundane regular tasks. The better our professional tool set is, the more time we can spend to focus on the actual design process rather than the tool we are using to implement it on screen.

Found on: smashingmagazine.com

The new and better Helvetica - Sonoran! ;)

Nearly thirty years in the making, the highly anticipated Sonoran is finally here.

Typeface designers Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders first began work on Sonoran in the early 1980s, drawing inspiration from the classic Swiss typeface Helvetica. 
“Helvetica is a great font, people really love it. But it does have its flaws,” says Nicholas. 
“With Sonoran, our main goal was to fix Helvetica’s mistakes.”
Read more here: idsgn.org ;)

Why Pro Athletes Sleep 12 Hours A Day

If you thought your lazy, sullen teenager slept a lot, they've got nothing on your typical pro athlete, who routinely gets between 10-12 hours a night. Compare that to the average of 6.44 hours, and you've got to wonder why guys like Steve Nash or Roger Federer aren't endorsing a high-performance line of blankies instead of shoes.

Great infographic by ffunction posted by Cliff from Co.Design