One of the projects I am currently working on is a logo for a fitness company. I am a bit bored of the traditional fonts and did some research online to see if there is a new font that inspires me. Typodermic has some cool new fonts. There is a free section and a fairly cheap pay section. Not sure I’ll be using any of these fonts for my current project but if I ever get a grunchy music client, I’ll definitely come back here!

Source: typodermic

I am working on a website design that has to look “Web 2.0″. To add a modern design element I used a diagonal pattern as part of the background.

Here is a tutorial on how to create this pattern in Photoshop: tutorialized.com

A friend just sent me a link to this fantastic website called Design for the World.

“Design for the World is an international humanitarian organisation whose objective is to match the skills and commitment of volunteer designers with the needs expressed by disadvantaged populations and the organisations that serve them worldwide. Design for the World unites graphic designers, industrial designers and interior and architectural designers around one common idea: voluntary design for people in need.”

Read more on: www.designfortheworld.org

“Video does not scale up in size very well as it is relatively low resolution to begin with.

Imagine that you are editing together some footage from your last great adventure, shot with your DV camera. You find some perfect footage at iStock to compliment your shots. In this case, you want to download NTSC or PAL (depending on what you shot your material in).

If you find HD content that fits your story better, just crop and scale it down – it will still look great. However, downloading a Big Web version and scaling it up will create a scene in your project that will look well, wrong. It will be fuzzy with muted colours, and possibly distorted as well. Small and Big Web look great…on the Web.”

Source: iStockphoto tip of the week