August, 2008

Comprehensive list of inspirational imagery for designer types

Check out this great online resource posted for the design history students of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. While the design of the site itself is somewhat lacking, it's an excellent look at the evolution of graphic design. Every thing from the development of handwriting to contemporary design is covered with many photos and links to more info.

Highly recommended font management software, FontExplorer® X has a simple but powerful interface (reminiscent of iTunes). The mac version is available for download but the pc version has been in Beta testing for over 6 months and the new version is yet to be made public.

Lots of colourful skulls, heads and corpses. Read the Herald review or see the exhibition on now at Gow Langsford.

How to show/hide hidden files (e.g. htaccess on a mac): http://www.dearcali.com/show-hidden-files-on-a-mac/

Like the one on this page, only better: www.stripegenerator.com

Originally from NZ, now based in San Fran the people at Ponoko have built a creative community that allows people to make, share, sell or buy laser cut products.

A similar offering with different materials is Shapeways.

I work at Sparks Interactive, a small web design agency in central Auckland. Our web development team have picked Drupal as content management system of choice and our portfolio of sites built on this platform is growing in number and variety.

As a designer I rarely get the opportunity to edit stylesheets and CMS code is well out of my jurisdiction so I thought i'd try Drupal on a personal project to get a better understanding of how it works. Hopefully i'll learn a few tricks that can help my front end design on our Drupal sites at work.

I have an appalling memory for things i've seen online. Browser bookmarks, Delicious, Magnolia, etc have never been much help so I thought a scrapbook of media related clippings would be an ideal purpose for this personal project. I'm not expecting many visitors but if someone stumbles onto something useful then that's excellent.

Matt Algie

Like many other countries (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, Spain, The Netherlands ), New Zealand uses the FHWA Series (often informally referred to as Highway Gothic) developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration. Roadgeek Fonts - Get freeware versions, created by Mike Adams. British signs utilised Transport, free versions are available here. Find out more about road sign typography on Wikipedia.