Feels like just yesterday I was finishing college and struggling to find a job in design. Not many respectable studios were hiring and the ones were, well, less than desirable. I ended up working at Apple retail as a software and hardware trainer withering away as I grew increasingly discouraged about not landing a job [...]

I’ve been longing for a way to save and organize Typekit‘s typefaces, so I took it upon myself and have been using Gimme Bar to tag and collect my (growing) collection of favorite fonts.

Here’s a free slab serif with a quirky and friendly personality. Enjoy.

Looking for beautiful software (iPad, iPhone, Mac apps) inspiration? Well-Placed Pixels has you covered with several pages to get those creative juices circulating.

The Vancouver Interlink Conference turned out to be a great one. I was supposed to talk at the conference, but unfortunately family came first and was unable to. Nonetheless, here’s a video of Frank Chimero discussing Design Fundamentals. Have yourself a lunchtime watch.

I was recently on the hunt for icons and decided to search Dribbble. Not only did I find great icons, but also tons of other great icons, resources and more being given away on Dribbble. Just search the word ‘free’ on Dribbble’s site and you’ll know what I’m talking about. For the lazy, here are [...]

I tend to discuss a lot of the business side of design here. After reading the new A List Apart article, A Modest Proposal, I thought it would be helpful for many that ask me what goes into a proposal.

Wow! Please don’t miss these explorations of web typography. You’ll thank me after.

Great three part (the fourth part is also coming soon) video series documenting past inventions and highlighting how everything we create is solely a derivative of the past and helps us to understand, learn and foster creativity.

“Paste code snippets. Add notes. Send to nerds” ‘– ‘nough said.

I almost feel like the words of this article were taking straight from my mouth and discussions had were part of my own. I couldn’t agree more with Gavin that now is such an amazing time to be a web designer with a global client base awaiting passionate, talented people (and willing to pay top [...]

Google+ has been catching all the commotion this week, so here’s a handy extension for Google Chrome that displays your streams notifications from  your address bar.

For those that participated (or not), the findings from the A List Apart 2010 “Web Design People” Survey are live. “A List Apart and you have teamed up to shed light on precisely who creates websites. Where do we live? What kind of work do we do? What are our job titles? How well or [...]

Luke Wroblewski has put together a great (as usual) collection of notes from Jason Santa Maria’s talk on Web Typography.

Luke Wroblewski has put together a great (as usual) collection of notes from Jason Santa Maria’s talk on Web Typography.