Hitchcock is a great free font inspired by Saul Bass titles (though the lettering artist that did the lettering for the Saul Bass was Art Goodman) and we are extremely grateful to Matt Terich for having recreated all these beautiful glyphs. If you want to see a good application of this typeface to an existing [...]
An awesome set of icons for Iphone has been released by App Bits in free download. Here you are some details about it: Set of 48 toolbar icons for the iPhone toolbar. These buttons contain beautiful shaded portions to give added depth and to highlight icon features. The icons in the preview to the left [...]
Typies is the English version of Letritas (that’s Spanish for little letters), an interesting blog about types and design by gifted graphic and obviously type designer Juan Pablo De Gregorio. I suppose that Juan’s involved in many projects since last post on Typies is dated June 19. So I was quite surprised this morning, when [...]
I’m definitely an icon person. I mean, I really love drawing my own icons: maybe, since I’m not a full-time icon designer, they’re not quite as perfect as those you buy on stock images websites or you can get sometimes for free online but at least they’re mine, I know how I did them and, [...]
Inspired by Josef Müller-Brockmann‘s work, Stéphane Curzi endeavoured to implement a css framework system based on type baseline, where every major page element would align correctly. Creating that shouldn’t have been a cakewalk and sure there are some big limitations (the biggest one is that Baseline’s css works fully only on latest generation browsers): nonetheless, [...]
Helveticons is a set of royalty-free icons based Helvetica Bold typeface. There is also a sample set of folder icons available for free.
Stripe Generator is an ajax tool that allows you to generate striped patterns to decorate your web sites pages background. Numerous options provide considerable flexibility of the product, as you can see by the gallery of backgrounds shared by other users. If it’s not enough for you, you can create patterns with a tartanTartan maker, another [...]
Icon Dock is an online shop for stock icons, some of which are downloadable for free. It’s designed and created by Nick La, author of many famous designers including Webdesignerwall.com.com andBestwebgallery.com.
Psdthemes is basically a directory of web sites themes some of which are free and I think it’s a useful resource for both aspiring and professional web designers. The footer is organized into tabs and consists basically of a tag cloud.
Share a logo is a directory of logos and brands available for free download in vector format.
Loved the clean and fresh layout for this site that collects everything about icons: an icon for different kind of posts, additional infos when you hover on items , a dots style paging.
One of the most comprehensive web sites about grids, with a rich library of templates that can be downloaded freely. Interesting also the button “Show Grid” in the top right corner to show / hide the grid.
For those who love frameworks here you are an excellent set of templates, downloadable for free, to design and build 960px wide grids.
We absolutely love icons (maybe I’d better to call them illustrations) collected by we-heart-icons guys.
