one more time, with flourish

So I'm sitting home alone. Watching Iron Chef America on my dvr (Battle Almond!). And an overwhelming urge just hit me. The urge to conduct a Google search using the search term "flourishes". This is perfectly normal, right? Right??

Anyway, I found a cool blog post from Andrew at www.myinkblog.com in which he gives detailed, step-by-step instructions for creating your own swirls and flourishes in Illustrator. Way to bring The Awesome to my Tuesday night, Andrew!

typographic blues remedy

Serious type inspiration.

Feeling a little blue? Type got you down?
No need to fret! Brand new blog, Friends of Type are here to save the day.
I came across FoT browsing on GrainEdit this morning, and I'm swooning.
They've only been posting for a short time and already their blog is full of inspiring type and sketches.
I love the 'yes.stay' and I'm really feeling like hand drawing some type this weekend.

poster roundup

add a little color to your home - art prints that you can afford

pretty

Design Sponge is celebrating their 5 year anniversary with pretty wallpaper giveaways. It's the gift that keeps on giving, because they will also be doing a wallpaper giveaway each month featuring different artists and designers. So keep checking back!

I always love getting a nice wallpaper every now and then to spruce up my background and rejuvenate my computers appearance.

5 year anniversary

analog!

There's a cute little stationary site based out of San Francisco called Yellow Owl Workshop that is offering up odes to all things analog in this crazy digital age. Love this postcard set and all the Polaroid kitsch!

reverse graffiti

The idea of cleaning grime to create street art is a new one for me, and I have to say I like it. 

fonts, free fonts

Hello there :)
Everybody likes free fonts right?

So I've been following Fontfabric for awhile. And I'm always waiting, watching and anticipating their next font, and quite often it's a free one. Even the fonts that aren't free are decently priced.
The free ones are always a little funky, not 'exactly' legible, but definitely fun.
It's worth checking out and their designs for promoting the fonts are nice eye candy as well :)

Free fonts!