As designers we understand the importance of choosing the right type of fonts when working on a new design. However, some designers take the value of fonts and types to a higher level when developing a typography design.

I’ve always been fascinated by typography designs, just the way the designer combines different typefaces and sizes to form something extraordinary.

Recently, I published a very interesting article over at Design Crash Magazine, that shares with you 27 beautiful hand-picked showcase of typography art designs, make sure you check it out!

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Como diseñadores, nosotros entendemos lo importante que es escoger el tip de fuente correcto al crear nuestros diseños. Sin embargo, algunos diseñadores llevan el valor de las fuentes a un nivel mas alto al momento de diseñar un diseño de tipografia.

Siempre he considerado fascinantes los diseños de tipografia, simplemente la manera en que el diseñador combina diferentes tipos de fuentes y tamaños para crear algo simplemente extraordinario.

Recientemente, he publicado un articulo muy interesante en Design Crash Magazine, que comparte con ustedes una coleccion de 27 hermosos diseños que hacen uso de tipografia, asegurate de checkearlo!

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I would like to present to you Design Crash Magazine.

So, what is Design Crash Magazine?

Design Crash Magazine is a blog formed by me and graphic designer Mitch Myers with the contribution of a group of talented professionals. Design Crash Magazine’s main objective is to bring to you as many resources as possible; resourcers such as feeds that will help the web designer, graphic designer and artist in general to get inspired with the  compilation of latest trends.

So, make sure to check out the blog and drop us a line anytime!

Y con ustedes Design Crash Magazine.

Qué es Design Crash Magazine?

Design Crash Magazine es un blog formado por mi en compañia del diseñador grafico Mitch Myers con la contribucion de un grupo de profesionales muy talentosos. La meta principal de Design Crash Magazine es traer a ustedes la mayor cantidad de recursos posibles; recursos que ayudaran a desarrolladores web, diseñadores gráficos y profesionales en general a inspirarse con la compulacion de las ultimas tendencias diseño.

Asi que sin mas preambulos, asegurense de dar un vistazo al blog y dejanos un comentario!

We have talked in a previous article about how easy it is to have an online presence now days. The key is not in creating an online presence but also learning to develop and maintain this online identity clean, friendly and professional.

This is the second part of my previous post called How to Create, Develop and Maintain a Successful Online Identity.

Build and Maintain a Good Online Reputation

Regardless of what the purpose of your profile/website/ blog is, it’s important to keep a clean online reputation  – even if you are not planning on doing business online.

Have you tried “googling” yourself? Try it and see what comes up. What you will see is what’s your online identity today.

Brand Yourself with Gravatar

There are some really good tools you can use if you are trying to create a successful online identity. One of them is Gravatar.  To quote from the website “A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things…”

Benefits of using Gravatar

Avatars allow people to recognize you  easier whenever you comment or post something on websites, blogs and web forums. (more…)

Ahhhh… Spring.

I don’t know about you, but I’m really happy Spring is here.  I know we’ve had spring for about a month already, but it just didn’t feel like Spring to me until this past week. We’ve had a tough winter but it’s all gone – at least it seems.

So I figured, brand new Spring calls for a brand new design for the blog. This time I wanted to make something quite different from all the designs I’ve had in the past for this blog. I think you will notice that the main change was the background which is black when in the past I’ve tried to keep the background of a light color, preferably white.

Old Times ..Good Times

First, let’s reminisce a little in the various designs Karina Myers’ Blog has had. At the beginning, I decided to have a very playful approach using different colors and the result was…

I though it was cute and I like that I had my sponsors link in the top of the page. But, a designer’s mind never stops working so guess what…I came up with a second design.

For my second layout I wanted to include my twitter account, so I added a status post in the header which ended up looking like this:

I love swirly brushes, and I was pretty happy I was able to implement it in this design.

For the design that came after that I wanted to make a pretty innovative design with some fire or neon glow somewhere in it. Here is an image of what the header layout ended up being:

Red is one of my favorite colors and I still love that KM logo I made…good times!

The new and improved layout for Karina Myers’ Blog… that’s me

For this new design I decided to give it a rest to my digital web character. I hold the design very close to my heart and I’ll probably implement it in my future design… who knows? what do you think?

Let’s start with the logo. I must say, I’m really happy with the results. This new logo has a fresh look to it and I like that I was able to implement the various colors that I like in it without making it look bad, and guess what.. I’m using neon colors which look beautiful with the black background!

I’m also using different dark tones and thin light borders that you will probably need to take a close look to the design in order to notice it.

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