32+ amazing free fonts for designers
Fonts & typefaces are great fun, and they can transition from being simply copy to becoming art themselves. Here is a collection of over 32 fonts to bring some fun to your design. [...]
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23 amazing modern clean fonts
Fonts have come a long way, today’s designers are looking more and more for fonts that are full of life, with subtleties of space and shape. Fonts are as much about what’s not there as what is.
This collection celebrates the clean modern fonts, that give a striking elegance to any page, with bold lines, white space and clean curves. What’s better – all these fonts are free (NOTE: Ambrosia is a trial font sorry) [...]
17 incredible nature photos
Nature, it’s all around us all the time and yet we are often moving through life at such a pace we completely and utterly miss what’s around us. From the city the mountains, garden to meadow here is a collection of truly incredible nature photos.
Simply click the image to go through to the full image
Sleeping Beauty Sunrise
Cape Town Ocean Side
Nature Morte
Cuillin
Boraginaceae
Hold your breath while I bring out the light
Sit and Relax
Snow, misty and sunlight
Nature’s Secret
Portrait of hornet
Nature
Duck
WaterFall + Maple Leaf
Sweet Nature
False Widow
When Nature Makes you dream
montagna
12 Stunning Flowing Fonts
I love fonts, I love typography & if there was one area of design I wish I could improve on it’d be typography. What I love about fonts is their ability to at one time be both informative in language and yet artistic in layout. Fonts give words the ability to become art.
Here are a collection of stunning flowing fonts.
Fantastic Pete
- Designed by: Mighty Pete
- Download: Fantastic Pete
Jellyka, Saint-Andrew’s Queen
- Designed by: Jellyka Nerevan
- Download: Jellyka, Saint Andrew’s Queen
Mutlu Ornamental
- Designed by: Gazoz
- Download: Mutlu Ornamental
Sleepy Hollow
- Designed by: Filmhimme
- Download: Sleepy Hollow
Champagne
- Designed by: unknown
- Download: Champagne
Brock Script
- Designed by: Dieter Steffmann
- Download: Brock Script
Chopin Script
- Designed by: Dieter Steffmann
- Download: Chopin Script
Spring Light
- Designed by:
- Download: Spring Light
Roadsterism
- Designed by: DigitalDreamDesign
- Download: Roadsterism
Freebooter Script
- Designed by: Apostrophic Lab
- Download: Freebooter Script
Adine Kirnberg
- Designed by: unkown
- Download: Adine Kirnberg
Lainie Day
- Designed by: unkown
- Download: Lainie Day
Top 5 Avatar Generators
Avatars are everywhere now, from your Twitter profile pic, to Skype, Gravatar to Facebook. If you don’t have one you want one, if you have one no doubt you like to update it every now and then.
I recently had to recreate my avatar for my Twitter profile (oo00_Mr_K_00oo), and I whipped open Google to try and find a generator I had used before – well do you think I could find it?
So I spent a bit of time this morning hunting around for what I thought were the best Avatar Generators I could find.
With out further ado, allow me to present the top 5 Avatar Generators (in no particular order):
1) The Simpsionizer
Starting out with everyones favourite, the Simpsons. The Simpsionizer asks you to upload a picture of yourself from which the site will then create a new version of you so you look like a member of the Simpsons Cast. It’s fun but I didn’t have any pics handy so didn’t really try it.
It does look heavily sponsored by Burger King, so you have to look past all the BK stuff branded al over it.
» Visit Simpsonizeme to create your avatar
2) Face your Manga
If you don’t know what Manga is, then this probably isn’t the avatar generator for you. This is the generator I often use as the range of options to add to your character is extensive enough to allow you to craft a face that kinda looks like you.
Easy to use, this system has the ability to create boy or girl avatars, and it has a fun range of backgrounds for your avatar to rest against.
Once complete the site will email the PNG file avatar to you so you can use it on your many profiles. This generator supports multiple languages
» Visit Face your Manga to create your avatar
3) Noble Avatar
I’ve included this in here for no other reason other than it’s not flash based. Most of the online character creators use Flash – it’s a good tool for this sort of thing.
Noble Avatar uses a Java Applet, meaning you have to download it, but hey, if you don’t have Flash then this could be the way to go.
The characters look good, and it seems to be pretty powerful and being a Java Applet it should run in any browser.
» Visit NobleAvatar to create your avatar
4) South Park
Okay, we couldn’t include the Simpsons without including that other irreverent cartoon, South Park.
This Avatar creator is really well created with a lot of care and attention going into it. Very simple to use, you can craft an avatar based one and existing South Park character. You start off with one of their characters, complete with face, and then begin to customise.
You’ll have heaps of fun with this one, and end up with a full character for use in your profiles.
» Visit South Park to create your avatar
5) Mess Dude
Mess Dude is a load of fun, it had me smiling the whole time I was playing with it, I think it’s just that goofy as look on your characters face as you work with him.
This generator is one of my favourites, with heaps of options to craft the perfect character for you. Change so many aspects from eyes to tattoos even give your character things to hold onto and places to visit – like London.
» Visit Mess Dude to create your avatar
So there you have it, 5 really great avatar generators, but you know what. There is just one more I’d like to share with you.
BONUS: Unique
Unique is one of those sites that makes you go “Oh Wow”. Created by the guys at Raster Boy Unique is so well created, with such incredible attention to detail, all aspects of this generator have had some TLC, and it shows.
Create a boy, or girl, massive range of options from eyes to hats, and more you’ll never run out of options to add to your character. You can even add these cute little pets to your character – hmm I think I’m going to have to make a new one soon!
I HIGHLY recommend you check out Unique for your next avatar – hell, Unique is a reason to go and CHANGE your avatar.
Free Photoshop eBook
Those crazy folks over at SitePoint.com have released a new Photoshop book, a book I’ve heard positive things about.
Okay you say, that’s nothing new, Sitepoint relese books often. Ah yes they do, but this one is FREE … as in nadda, zip, nothing.
So why don’t you head over to sitepoint.com & download your copy of the Photoshop Anthology today – oh yeah, it’s a LIMITED offer.
Studiowhiz Wallpaper
I thought it was high time that I got back into some photoshop work.
Now I’m not a photoshop guru like some of my mates, but I can tinker around in it. I’m leaning on www.psdtuts.com right now to bring my skills back up.
Here is an image I created for Studiowhiz.com and I’ve thrown it up on flickr.
Check out the Studiowhiz Wallpaper here and if you want it in a larger size (I’ve made it at 1600×1200) sing out in the comments.
Rusty coding
I used to develop full time, that is designing, programming and full development of websites. Of course that was a number of years ago, and my job now, while requiring a growing understanding of the internet, doesn’t see me coding or developing.
I’m starting to set up a small website in the evenings, just a small site I hope people will enjoy. It should be the sort of site I can set up and only touch once in a while. [...]
how to …
how to make an icon, how to draw a car, how to create a flash website? These are all questions sitting in my traffic logs. Obviously Google thinks studiowhiz.com is a site that can help – and in the past that would have been true, back when Studiowhiz was well known in the Flash Community. I even wrote the book Build your first website with Flash MX a few years back.
Now however Studiowhiz is my personal blog – still why can’t it provide a resource for these things? So this post will answer these 3 questions:
- How to make an icon
- How to draw a car
- How to create a flash website
Beautiful CSS Websites
Vandelay Design have a great post today showcasing 25 beautiful website designs.
I enjoy Vandelay’s blog as they have some great tips and tricks for WordPress and general website design. Today’s post is a great one for stirring up the inspiration.
» 25 Beautiful, Minimalistic Website Designs – Part 2 on Vandelay Design
DIY CSS Framework
CSS (cascading style sheets) is the defining layer of any website. For those not sure, CSS is the bit of a web page, that tells your browser where to put things when rendering (drawing) the page.
CSS is fantastic, however with little to no Web Standards between the many browsers out there you can’t be gauranteed that your layout will always work. For example a default paragraph may have more margins in one browser over another.
Darren Wood is someone I would class as a CSS Guru (although I’m not sure he’ll agree with that). He spoke at the recent BarCamp mini-conference in Auckland specifically about this. He has some tricks to help level the playing feild & he’s kind enough to share his files for you to learn and work from.
I’m adding this to my ‘Must Recommend’ list for any web designer, hobbiest or professional. Starting your web project with Darrens framework, means you will have less headaches.
» Darren Wood » DIY CSS Frameworks
Tags: CSS, frameworks, develpment, web, barcamp
Design Inspiration Gallery – FAVEUP
So you want some inspiration? You really can’t go past Design Inspiration Gallery – FAVEUP probably the best resource for fantastic & inspirational design, web, CSS, Flash and logos.
Brilliant resource!
