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Letterhead Fonts Gets a Serious Makeover

After

Before

Letterhead Fonts is one of my favorite font foundries. I've discovered gems ranging from old-style reproduction sign lettering to energized, modern brush scripts perfect for food packaging design. Their fonts are unique in their generous inclusion of alternates and bonus swashes and embellishments. The quality is always excellent and they're so much fun to work with.

A couple days ago when I was looking for fonts for my latest packaging design project, I checked out Letterhead's website. When the website came up on my screen I was totally taken aback by the astonishingly lavish new look (see before and after above). I had to compliment Chuck Davis (the man behind Letterhead Fonts) on the new look and he was kind enough to share some great behind-the-scenes info.

Firstly, the credit for the design goes to supertalent, Dave Smith. Dave completely hand-illustrated and rendered the header and footer for the web pages.

Continue for behind-the-scenes sketches and hand work, and more of the story behind this extraordinary website design.

Oh My! We Have Come A Long Way.

ReubenMiller's Got a Brand-Spanking New Look!

I'm sure you've noticed by now that we've got a fresh new look for the blog. After a lot of coding, tweaking and generally making a mess of CSS, I've managed to get it to look half-decent (let me know what you think of it!) It still remains a work-in-progress. The goal of this redesign was to make it easier to get around and add some more color. After all, you know we're suckers for color!

Last but not least, our large header incorporates the work of a featured artist. We'll be featuring different artists in that space and rotating them over time to keep things interesting. This isn't a sponsored spot, but rather a testament to our support of great artists. Our first feature is of the brilliant and witty Simon Oxley, one of our all-time favorites.

Enjoy!

Alexa's Top 90 Design Weblogs

Want to know the top design blogs according to Alexa? Well, we've compiled all 90 of them. I have no clue how they come up with these rankings, but hey, these are great sites to check out and bookmark! (ReubenMiller ranks 24 - not bad.)

kluster: putting the 'work' back into networking

A newly launched website called kluster aims to change the way we develop and make things. Instead of big corporate teams sitting in conference rooms to develop products, kluster harnesses the power of crowds and networking on the web.

Here's how I'd put it in a nutshell: Massive groups making something by collaboration, focusing the social chatter of "What If?" and making a real product by the united force of a group.

A very ambitious task, but they are confident - the program will be launched at the upcoming TED conference. In a span of 72 hours they will produce an actual prototype of... something at the end of the event. Pretty cool - I'm looking forward to hearing the outcome of this.

In the meantime, check it out and sign up. It's quick, easy and quite possibly addicting.

xavier enigma

Looking for an online geek toy to waste away the precious time you have? Try xavier enigma

Digg for Graphic Design

A brand-new website, Graphic Design Links, was shared with me by Toon Creffield on the Behance Network. It works just like Digg - the difference is you 'digg' graphic related links. Since the site is strictly graphic design, it's a lot easier to find good design links than using Digg itself.

We love the concept and hope the community grows!

The Old (Web) Way vs. The New (Web 2.0) Way

Irene Pereya puts it perfectly with her table comparing the old web to the new web. Pretty funny, if you've been using the web since then (hey, 2000 was not that long ago, was it?)

Google News Top Searches in 2005 Pillow

When you look at this pillow you have to scratch your head and wonder what the connection is between all of these words. This is a pillow printed with the top Google News searches for 2005. The pillow is a limited edition of 250, signed by the artist. Designed by Elodie Blanchard, ElasticCo.

Available on Etsy.com

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