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Entries in graphic design (7)

Thursday
Aug262010

What's In My iPhone - Part Six: Shopping For Design

App additions from previous post are:

"Blogs & Magazines" now has the addition of:

App: TED
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: TED is a video bank of speakers from various leaders and in their respective fields.
Cost: Free
Comments: This is wonderful resource is filled with equally wonderful minds, talking on topics from social media, technology to sculpture.

The contents of my "Design Folder" is as follows:

App: What The Font
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This tool allows you to select a unknown fonts from graphics and it will reference it and suggest possible matches.
Cost: Free
Comments: This is a great tool, especially for trying to figure out specialty fonts.

App: Color Expert
Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This versatile tool allows you to make endless color combinations, shoot a photo and isolated a color to the pixel as well as other functions.
Cost: $9.99
Comments: This is totally worth the $10 bucks. I love this app.

App: Alltop - Design
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This is a feeds aggregator for the AllTop.com website specializing in posts about design
Cost: Free
Comments: Solid feed app with very topical information from a diverse array of content providers.

App: Font Combinations
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?:  A great little tool that shows various font combinations in basic layouts.
Cost: $1.99
Comments: Starting in design or just need a shot of creative inspiration, this is a good app to have.

App: Vectips
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A decent resource for all things vector graphics related.
Cost: Free
Comments: While I draw from it often I do like to check out Vectips content to stay current and updated.

App: World Grafic Design
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This is a portfolio site that allows you to review a myriad of world-class designers.
Cost: Free
Comments: Good tool for quick reference, inspiration and freelance talent.

App: Typo Junkies
Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A great font resource for education, trends and entertainment.
Cost: Free
Comments: Be sure to check out the media resource, great video content for all you font lovers.

App: Workbook
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: Another portfolio site but it also expands to photographers and illustrators as well as other talent.
Cost: Free
Comments: Good tool for quick reference, inspiration and freelance talent.

Who doesn't need a "Shopping & Lifestyle" folder in their iPhone?

App: SnapTell
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This amazing little app allows you to shoot a photo of a product, it then searches the internet for cost comparisons based on the products image.
Cost: Free
Comments: I find this a great tool for videos, books and games. Be sure to shoot the box cover, just shooting a photo of the product will probably render no results.

App: Starbucks Mobile Card
Rating: ✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This app provide a barcode to your online credit account and allows for product purchase.
Cost: Free
Comments: Most Starbucks that are not located in Target stores however do not have the proper scanning devices to make it work. I'm sure this will be resolved over time.

App: Walgreens
Rating: ✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A great app for those of us on more meds' than Christmas.
Cost: Free
Comments: Punch in your script' number, select your Walgreens and wah-lah! Done.

App: Target
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: It's Target's products in an app.
Cost: Free
Comments: Not rocket science.

App: Craigslist
Rating: ✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This is the free [actual] Craigslist app.
Cost: Free
Comments: This app is about as no-frills as the actual Craigslist.

App: CraigsPro+
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A more robust Craigslist app that allows for alerts and additional functionality.
Cost: $.99
Comments: A must have for Craig-junkies.

App: eBay
Rating: ✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: Ebay's website in a non-handy app-like version.
Cost: Free
Comments: It is what it is.

App: Amazon.com
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A great application representing the endless hole that is one of the web's oldest.
Cost: Free
Comments: A must have if your going to shop with your phone.

Friday
Jul302010

Melts In Your Mind, Not On The Web

Enjoy this minimalist morsel. Thirty-five films in two minutes. Enjoy!

35mm from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.

Thursday
Jul152010

And We're Back...

Sorry, been sick and getting my soul and priorities in order. Here's something to chew on until I can come up with something equally as witty:

Wednesday
Apr282010

My Name Is Justice & I'm Addicted To Fonts

Courtesy of FranSchroeder.comMy love for fonts goes back to my childhood when my mother would hand letter everything. She still does when she's not on the computer Skyping friends in the UK or designing spots for the local paper. She even has a degree in 'Sign Making', which admittedly is almost entirely a thing of the past now having been rolled over by vinyl cutting machines and printers that are capable of printing to outdoor canvas. But there is a beautiful truth in the hand-painted letter that I still tip my hat too.

Here's to you "BONELESS CHICKEN ON SALE!" on the grocery store window.

Here's to you "SPRINGSATIONAL BLOW OUT!" car sale.

Here's to you "Orange County Fire Fighters, Station 18" - in golf leaf no less ;)

Here's to you Rock-A-Billy pinstriping dude!

All that being said I began and continue my obsession with fonts, signage & lettering. I hope the following lists comes as a blessed resource to you and your future designs. I've tried to weed this like of online font sites that just loop you from one to another only then to sell you porn and real estate along the way. If you find on here, tell me, I'll kill it.

Smashing Magazine Articles:

Font Portals:

Font Blogs:

Designers & Foundries (Courtesy of FontShop.com):

Font Styles:

Grunge Fonts:

Graffiti Fonts:

Font Creators/Software:

Font Lab:

Web Ready:

Logos:

Font Tools:

Fun Tools:

Thursday
Jan282010

Six-Fingered Madness

Rarely do I ever peruse my spam folder but it just so happens today I had the "I know I emailed it to you!" so I decided to check. Well coincidently the email was not there and it was resent no harm, no foul. That being said, I skimmed over most of the nonsense, but one image took me by storm and still really makes no genuine sense to me. I started looking at this and I thought to myself 'here's where all the art institute kids come to die', that there's some big giant warehouse somewhere with a thousand lower cars in the parking lot, just beating these kids thoughtless to sell penis pills. Welcome to Graphic Design Hell.

Please note the über-creepie six fingers on the right.