Design Crash

20 Groovy and Funky Free Fonts for Designers - May Font Collection

By Karina Myers, May 27th, 2009 in Design, Fonts, Freebies

The end of the month is approaching and you know what that means… more free font collections!

As we announced in our first font collection article about a month ago, we plan on bringing you the best free fonts that there are out in the cyberspace every month, yes, every month.

For this month, we have prepared a beautiful collection of completely free hand-picked fonts in the Groovy category. Without further ado, let the downloading being!

We hope you enjoyed this collection. We’ll be posting another one by next month. Meanwhile stay alert for the upcoming articles and if you have a favorite topic you would like to see in the blog just leave us a comment and drop us a line.

Remember, if you would like to stay informed about the latest on the blog, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed to receive the updates on your RSS reader or via e-mail.

Share & Save

Tags: Design, Fonts, free, Freebies, typeface, typefaces
Posted in Design, Fonts, Freebies | No Comments »

Creative Workspace Setups To Get Inspired From

By Karina Myers, May 7th, 2009 in Inspiration, Showcases

What do you have in your desk? As designers, developers, programmers, etc we tend to project our creativity and energy in our surroundings, after all, we spend most of our time in our desks working for hours, so having an environment that is pleasant to our eyes and comfortable for us to spend many hours is key.

There are so many set ups we could come up with for our workplace but this time we wanted to focus just on our desk set-ups. No matter how messy our desk might be after a hard day of work, it will still be equipped with the energy and tools for a brand new day of work tomorrow.

In this article we bring to you a collection of some sweet setups that might get you inspired to improve your own desk with bits and pieces of these examples so the set up that you come up with is a reflection your personality and makes your life at work easier and pleasant.

Web Developer Justin Griswold shares with us his awesome desk setup, just take a look at his desk!

Wall PC

Notice the Wall PC he displays on the left of the picture. Justin explains he made it from an old Sony Vaio laptop he had laying around. He decided to dismantle the laptop and put the inside of it into a new enclosure. The result, a flat panel that cleanly hangs on the wall.

In the picture we also see a lot of other components. We have Two 20″ Benq Widescreen (bottom left and right) 1680×1050, One 22″ Benq Widescreen (bottom) 1680×1050, One 22″ Acer Widescreen (top) 1680×1050 w/
Sanus - Full-Motion Wall Mount for up to 27″, One 13″ custom built self-enclosed Wall-PC (far left) 1400×900 Controlled by a virtual WiFi touchpad on iPhone (Air Mouse app). Gaming uses wireless Xbox 360 controllers. Pretty powerful if you ask me.

Moving on to another beautiful setup, we find the desk of Unix Programmer Mitch Haile: Read the rest of this entry »

Share & Save

Tags: Showcases
Posted in Inspiration, Showcases | No Comments »

27 Captivating Original Typography Art Designs

By Karina Myers, May 4th, 2009 in Inspiration, Showcases

As designers we understand the importance of choosing the right type of fonts when working on a new design. However, some designers take the value of fonts and types to a higher level when developing a typography design.

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. This means, using words to create something visually interesting which requires for the designer to have knowledge of different types of fonts, and the creativity to be able to arrange, strategically, words and letters in order to create something visually pleasing.

Today we have prepared for you a set of 27 beautiful typography art designs. In this showcase you will find the use of different types of fonts, such us handwriting types, arabic types, among others.