In My (web)Sites | eatPES

Here is an amazing video from PES. It's called Western Spaghetti and it's simply magical.

In My (web)Sites | Handwritten Typographers

Handwritten Typographers shows the actual handwriting of some of the industry's top type designers compared to the fonts they design.

In My (web)Sites | Grain Edit

Grain Edit is one of my favorite design sites. I feel like no other design site has matched my design aesthetic so perfectly.

From website:
Grain edit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period. Site content includes interviews, articles, designers’ libraries as well as examples of rare design annuals, type specimens, Ephemera, posters and vintage kids books from our bookshelves.

In My (web)Sites | Tony Stark: Your Go To Guy!

In honor of the release of Iron Man:


Tony Stark: Your Go To Guy! is an excellent blog where artists and illustrators post their own interpretations of Iron Man. They are all pretty amazing.

In My (web)Sites | The Rather Difficult Font Game

This is a very simple, yet difficult multiple choice font game.

Even if you don't know exactly what it is, you can usually employ the process of elimination

in My (web)Sites | Linotype FontExplorer X

FontExplorer X is a free font management program that will help you keep your sanity when trying to find the perfect font for a project. There are other font management programs out there that will cost you quite a bit, but if you are just starting out, this will do just fine. I have thousands of fonts on my Mac and sorting through them is now a breeze. You can organize them anyway you choose: tag them, name them, make cute little font folders, whatever you heart pleases. You can activate/deactivate fonts so every font is not being uploaded when you open Quark or what not. I can spend hours monkey-ing around with this nifty little program.

Check it out, y'all.

in My (web)Sites | Thinking With Type

thinkingwithtype.com is a great resource for type basics and also a great place to indulge in a little typographic humor.

The site is a companion to a book of the same name. The beauty of the site is that you get mostly the visual side of what would be in the book. Hooray for pictures. It lays everything out very clearly with the three catagories of letter, text and grid. They don't go into too much detail explaining everything but it serves as a great refresher or a quick introduction to typography.

Once you are done actually learning something, they have a few nerdy type games. One of my favorites is “The Personals” where you read the personal ads for different fonts and then deciede if you would like to pursue a relationship with it.

They also have a Special Characters pop-up window so you can make a double ff ligature in a jiffy!

In My (web)Sites | Design Police

This is one of those great ideas that is wish I would have come up with. Design Police is a site thats sole purpose is to help enforce good design in the real world. The site itself is very simple and straight forward, just download the "Visual Enforcement Kit" and you are on your way to helping the world become a more typographically correct place. There are 5 pages of great hints for not-so-greatly designed pieces. I really want to print all of these out and run around the city pasting them up on everything. I am gonna paint this town red, damn it.

Some of my favorites:

In My (web)Sites | 40 Free Fonts

This is a great website from Smashing Magazine that features over 40 free fonts. Now, sometimes free fonts from the internet can be sketchy at best, but these are lovely, well designed, and mostly all Open Type fonts. So take a little vacation from the default and give these a try.