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