I had a good look around flickr all weekend and found some beautiful children’s photography here:
Oct3
Category Archives: Inspiration
Nov15
Hand-Drawn Fonts Collection
I am unfortunately really busy at the moment trying to sort out my life offline. Going to interviews and next week probably trial days. So I felt like I had pretty much zero time off this week. I am kind of still thinking about doing my own site – but I just don’t seem to get round to it.
I was just scooping around for some hand-drawn fonts to see if anything inspires me. I was actually looking for one particular font as well, that has been used on p47 of the December issue of Company. (The handdrawn one) Something similar (sans-serif though) is being used by Carphone Warehouse on their website as well as in print.
So here is a collection of some collections. You know, for collecting.
Fudge Graphics has already compiled some cool hand-drawn fonts. AND the first one in the list is exactly the one I was looking for.
Hongkiat.com has a short introduction providing information on when to use handwritten fonts – actually quite obvious but nevermind a reminder every so often.
Another list at naldsgraphics.net.
These lists seem to cover the most used hand drawn fonts. Please also check out dafont.com and urbanfonts.com. Their pages are easily searchable and categorised. I will look at a few more fonts later on, so maybe I’ll write a second post on this.
Nov8
Goodie Bag #1
I spent loads of time today creating one part of my boyfriends birthday present but in between that I found an ickle bit of time to compile a list of stuff that I found very useful to have/ interesting to read about. I can’t believe the weekend is already almost over…
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These fireworks outside my window start to annoy me and I blame all nonsense I write today on them 
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I will try to categorise the things I have a little bit.
Icon Sets
I suppose all of us are always interested in icon sets and I found quite a few different ones during the day. I really need to check my feeds more often…
Blogwiese.de: icon sets sorted by service
A collection of social media icons sorted by service instead of icon set
A nice collection of feed icons
Blogwiese.de: Social Media Icons
Social Media Icons in style of bottle tops
Webdesignfan.com: Hand drawn icons set
Various different gorgeous sets of hand drawn icons.
Usability
Part I of a series of articles about the message your contact form sends to people
Inspiration
spyrestudios.com: Grunge Style
A good collection of pages that use a grungy style
A literally hot collection of good logo design. Check it out.
webcreme: a great inspiration with great webdesign
get your daily dose of inspiration here
Useful Stuff
list of google wave extensions
well, that’s a list of wave extensions. I know, you would have never guessed that…
Tutorial
nettuts: From PSD to HTML tutorial
A good tutorial on how to turn your psd file into html
And last but not least something to drool and wish you were in a different place than your stinky old bedroom. DROOL NOW.
12 mins to go till Curry cooking. I’m off.
Nov1
Glow Logo
I have recently been asked to design a logo as a birthday present. The company will provide personal training and shall be named Glow. The logo should incorporate the well-trained body as well as mental fitness. The typeface should be clean and curvy.
I am currently gathering ideas on this topic. So here is my collection of thoughts so far:
Typeface
I prefer a sans-serif font for this one and very much liked the clean and rounded look of Calibri.
Colour
As colours I chose a dark blue (very much black with a tiny hint of blue) and a lighter blue similar to Barclays blue. The letters G,l,w will be in the dark colour and the o will stand out in blue.
Mental Fitness
My idea on incorporating the aspect of Mental Fitness is kind of evolving around the name Glow and the o shape that stands out. So I decided to try and turn the o into a glowing light bulb.
Fitness and Body Image
I am trying to have a muscular body stand underneath the word Glow (with the o as a light bulb) holding it up, the light bulb being in the position of the head of the body.
Problems
Trying to draw a human shape without a graphics tablet, on a laptop seems to be virtually impossible…
Images and Inspiration
Well, I will go on working on this. I am so far very happy with the way the typeface looks, and the lightblub integrates well with that. It’s now time to deal with the shape of the body…
Pictures will be up as soon as I don’t have to be embarrassed about this utterly bad drawing anymore
Stay tuned.
Oct4
Google Wave
I just watched the documentation about google wave and I just thought this would be sooo useful to have for organising my work week. I could communicate with other nannies and mums to organise playdates, park trips and trips to the pool. We could share information such as maps, prices and pictures and could even keep each other updated on who’s going to join and who won’t. Dream on.
Sep6
Blending with gradients
Finally I feel able to actually switch on my brain and look at some photoshop stuff. Working with kids really leaves you tired out.
I found this great tute by tiff about blending in pictures with the background simply by using a gradient and a layer mask. Very helpful.
Jul31
Ok, my first post
Actually very boring to name you first post something that involves first post, but.. well I just can’t come up with anything that describes the first post better than.. uhm first post.
Ok, I wanted to tell you again what I’m actually up to. I’m at the moment looking for a position as a Nanny and have got loads of time to spend reading about design when I’m not working.
My goal is it to learn more and more about design (esp. for the web) to get confident using photoshop and simply making things look good. Then my next goal is it to learn more about HTML and esp. CSS to turn my beautiful design into actual webpages. One of the things I would like to improve is this wordpress blog. Just give it my own style.
I found a wonderful blog (Creative Curio) a few days ago that has already helped me understand so many things that I am simply… HAPPY.
Earlier today I was reading about the elements of design and this kind of inspired me to do my own little “memory cards”.
See here (might be a bit small…sry for that) :
Elements of Design, Memory Cards
See here for the post that explains everything.
All of the cards have got some information on the back that kind of explains everything more. Thanks for this great post.
