HandMade Font

How amazing are these? I guess you could say I'm obsessed with this website, full with clever ideas on how to use type. You can buy the whole font collection or buy 10 fonts. All of them are a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

A fav already

Lovely website. Friends of Type. Cool.

Hey, it's me!

Hello! I know I haven't updated my blog since last week. The reason is that I'm currently changing careers. How exciting, right? After working in the jewelry business for many years, I've decided that web designer is a better career path for me. No, scratch that. It's a passion of mine. I've been teaching myself HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and more, and I recently accepted my first web design project. This means that I will spending my free time working on that, while I keep my regular job. My ultimate goal is to become a freelancer and work from home, and I've taken the first step towards that.

I'm not abandoning my blog, I'll just updated every week or so. Thank you and wish me luck!

xoxo.

Monica.

p.s. Some amazing links that made me happy this week: (all web design related, of course!)

A gallery of Korean websites. Awesome graphics!

This has to be the best CSS gallery I've ever visited.

I'm dying to go to the Future of Web Design Conference in NY. I entered a few contests where I can get free tickets. I hope I win! I'd love to meet Jason Santa Maria, one of my web design heroes.

Typography is so important while designing a website. This site is a fantastic source to find inspiration.

And my favorite web designer (the person who first inspired me to learn web design): Tara Sinn. Her portfolio is perfection. And she has a blog!

Picture by Devin Taliaferro.

Learn Something Everyday

Did you know that? Learn Something Everyday is an adorable website full of interesting facts, and you can submit your own.

And the illustration is really cute!

Read more here.

Mucca Design

Not so long ago, I blogged about Balthazar, one of my favorite restaurants. I really, really like their menus, and the website is beautiful, too.

Well, after reading this post in MintDesign, I discovered who design it!

Mucca Design is a firm based in New York City (with an office in San Francisco), and their work is simply amazing.

Their web design is fresh, original and perfectly-executed.

Here, a few of my favorites:

*click on the image to go to the actual website!

Little planets

I love these polar panoramas or "little planets". They're surreal.

Found via Web Designer Depot.

See more here, and learn how to make one here.

Shake it!

Very nice flash animation for Mario land Shake it! Isn't it amazing?

See it here.

Mutts

The Mutts cartoon by Patrick McDonnell is my daily read.

It's adorable, cute and inspirational. The website is pretty cool, too! (love the background)

Antique piano shop

Nice. The illustration is just too beautiful.

Check it out here.

Designed by Designsensory.

The New York Moon

Love the layout, the typography and the color palette.

Awesome.

See it here.

We love typography

It's finally here! WeLoveTypography is a nice edited selection of typography (brought to you by the same people who do ILoveTypography).

You can even search by color. It's addictive.

Jessica Hische

Very nice illustration and typography by Brooklyn-based artist Jessica Hische.

See more here. And read her blog here.

Her website is super cool!

The Octonauts

Amazing illustration for the children book series "The Octonauts". By Meomi.

Zoe Arnold Jewelry

Charming and unique ring. From Zoe Arnold.

(Nice website, too.)

neat design

I love this website! Designed by funnel:Eric Kass.

I like the minimal color palette and the elegant layout. The typography is so beautiful, too.

See more of his work here. (His website is pretty cool!).

p.s.: Eric: I'm your biggest fan!

floral typography

Cute floral alphabet. More amazing floral typography here.

Via Smashing. Designer: Pomme Chan.

Arla milk

Cool package design. Also, a enviromental campaign to encourage people to turn off the lights for one hour.

Design by swedish agency Milk.


Via Lovely Package.

food styling..done right

I recently discovered Dripbook, a website where you can upload your artistic portfolio.
I found a lot of talent there, but my favorite was Addriene Anderson, a food stylist.

The pictures are absolutely stunning.

Check out her book here.

awesome

this has to be the best website I've seen in a long time...
Click here: We Bleed Design

Once upon a midnight dreary...

I luuurve Edgar Allan Poe, (who doesn't?) so I was very pleased when I found this excellente website that features his stories, poems, biography, quotes and whatnot...
Read on... http://www.poestories.com/
And check my favourite story "The Gold Bug".