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 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.

In the top right of the page you will also find a beautiful box that holds every link  you will need in order to connect with me online through any of the various social networking sites out there; links like my twitter profile, digg, technorati and of course links that will allow you to subscribe to receive the latest updates in my blog via RSS or via email updates, your choice. So in case you haven’t added me yet, make sure you do it soon.

A new addition to the blog are the networking tools that I have added for my beloved readers like yourself.

You can find this box in the sidebar located at the right side of the blog. TwitterRemote is a fun way to connect with your friends from Twitter and also get to know new people with similar interest as yours.

Another very new option added to the site is Google Friend Connect. This widget allows anyone to join the site with one click by using their existing Google, Yahoo and other accounts, that way you will be able to connect and network with your friends from this blog.

There are a couple things that I’m still keeping from the old design and that is the subscribe via email form:

And last but not least, the translate this page option for anyone who likes to have more options that just english.

I hope you enjoyed this short tour and find it entertaining. Is there any tool or widget that you would like me to add to the blog? Let me know your comments below.

While surfing on the web I run across a beautiful collection of Oriental Resources. Here you will find everything you need to get inspired for a new design, but not only that, you will also get to download resources so you can get started in a brand new design.

This blog written in spanish has put together a serie of resources which includes (in order):  Brushes, Patterns, Vectors for Illustrator, Wallpapers, WordPress Themes, Fonts, Icons, and Free Stock Images.. it’s an amazing collection.

Even though they are listed as free make sure you read the author’s license before you download them. I’ll make sure to download some of them for my personal collection of resources. Let me know how you liked it!

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Here is a nice collections of designs to get you inspired.

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PSDVault recently published a very useful tutorial where it shows the steps to make a Grungy-Style Abstract Typography using rusted metal texture in Photoshop. The inspiration of this tutorial came from a grungy metal image.

In the tutorial, you will explore some layer blending techniques, various filter effects, and an interesting method of making the text look 3D. Here you go!

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1. CSS font shortcut rules

2. Two classes together

3. CSS border default value

4. !important ignored by IE

5. Image replacement technique

6. CSS box model hack alternative

7. Centre aligning a block element

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Stay alert for more free high quality goodies! You might want to subscribe to my feeds to keep up with the updates.

CONTROL PANEL

FunctionSet:
128 Completely Free Icons.A Set of 128 Free Icons for you to use in any projects!

Concept Icons
12 different icons in PNG format 256x256px.

DEVICES

IPhone
4 free icons of iPhone, designed in scribbled style.

Comic iPhone
16 freeware replacement icons in comic style, inspired in Apple’s iPhone icons.

Hand Draw iPhone Icons
17 freeware replacement icons in hand draw style, inspired in Apple’s iPhone icons.

iPoding Icons
2 freeware icons inspired in Apple’s iPod.

iPod Shuffle
2 icons inspired in the iPod Shuffle.

Mighty Mouse
6 icons inspired in the Apple’s Wireless Might Mouse.

SOFTWARE

Soft AdobeCS2
5 freeware replacement icons inspired by some Adobe’s applications.

Comic Adobe CS3
20 freeware replacement icons in comic style for Adobe CS3 applications.

Adobe Creative Suit 3
9 PNG icons based on the design of Adobe CS3′s applications’ boxes

RSS FEEDS

FastIcon Smashing Icons
8 freeware feed icons for blogs and websites.

Circle Feeds Icons
4 variations of Feeds Icon in circle shape.

3D Rss Feeds Icon
1 Free Rss Feed icon designed with 3D look.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKS

Web 2 – Social Bookmark Icons
12 freeware “iPhone-like” icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares. The Linux version includes .PNG files sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels. Great for Bloggers.

Web2.0 Icons
23 freeware “iPhone-like” icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks and Networks for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares.
The Linux version includes .PNG files sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels. Great for Bloggers.

Comic Del.icio.us
1 freeware comic icon inspired in the Del.icio.us icon Bookmark, for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares.

Christmas Social Bookmarking Icons
Christmas comes alive on your desktop and blog with these beautiful Christmas Icons for Feeds and Social bookmarks, designed by Dirceu Veiga from Fast Icon Studio.
17 freeware icons in iPhone-like style, includes icons for Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Feeds, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Mister-Wong, Netvibes, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Ta-Da List, Technorati and You Tube.

All icons are sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels. A great and useful stuff for blogs in this holiday season.

Surf Icons
13 icons inspired in some surf things, for use in desktops, websites and blogs.

WEB CHARACTERS

Black Power Emoticons
12 freeware “black power” emoticon icons in cute style for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares .

Dinosauro Toys
5 freeware comic icon inspired in Dinosaurs.

Creature Icons
12 freeware icons of funny creatures.

White Emoticons
15 freeware white emoticon icons in cute style for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares .

Retro Designs

1952 Chrysler New Yorker

Jantzen swimsuits, 1949

Ads

‘Space, time and rockets – by Rheta Randolph

1960s Advertising – Magazine Ad – Lustre Creme (USA)

1964 Sample Calendar

Art Deco Color Combination

Retro Patterns

Retro Wallpaper

Clipart

Retro Looking Websites

Vintage Fonts

Further Reading:
Plan 59
Celebration of Vintage and Retro Design
Havana Street: Custom Retro Illustrations