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20+ Free And Fresh Fonts For Your Design

As a friend of mine once said, “You can never have too many fonts.” That may or may not be the case, since so many of the free fonts out there aren’t all that attractive. These, however are quite nice. Check them out!

Silverfake

Metropolis

Intro

Graduate

Bobber Typeface

Grammatica

Nougatine

GEARED

Henry

Valentina

Frontage

WELLFLEET

TITAN ONE

FORO

TROCCHI

SIMONETTA

OSWALD

ITALIANNO

ZNIKOMITNO24

Sornette

Piximisa

Deathe Maach NCV

(Thanks to Brant Wilson and Designm.ag for compiling this list.)

Will Sherwood
CEO/Chief Creative Officer
The Sherwood Group: Graphic Design & Website Design
Santa Clarita, California, USA

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20+ Interesting Pinterest Boards for Visual Designers

The startup social pinboard site Pinterest, has recently taken the social bookmarking scene by storm earning its fame as the fastest growing social networking site. Since then, Pinterest continues to grow and now it hold a #45 Alexa ranking making popular social bookmark sites like digg.com, delicious.com, stumbleupon.com look like they had better days. This soaring popularity of Pinterest has caught the attention of designers and other creative individuals, and in no time, the virtual pinboard became popular among the design community.

One reason for this is the simple yet powerful Pinterest interface and how great it is for structuring work, ideas, inspiration etc. and at the same time build an online portfolio to show of some creative juice. Pinterest provide a convenient and visual way for users to see, re-pin and comment on other users collections and pins and the pleasure of doing this is what makes Pinterest so viral. For designers, it offers them an opportunity to get a glimpse of each other’s work, post comments and search the collections of other members. This makes it very convenient to look for inspiration for the next design work, get feedback etc.

Here is an abbreviated collection of Pinterest boards worth checking and following from Sonny M. Day and TripwireMagazine.com. If you’d like to see Sonny’s expanded list of 40 or so, visit Tripwire Magazine.

Typography and Graphic Design

Vintage Typography by Hrvoje Grubisic

I Love Me Some Typography by Jamie Farris

Typography & Type Design by Chad Syme

Product and Package Designs

Product Design by Chad Syme

Product Design by Dan Denney

Vintage Packaging by Graham Smith

Business Cards

Business Cards by Dan Otis

Illustration

Art by Paula Cevasco

Illustration by Hrvoje Grubisic

Illustration by Lisa Welding

Photography

Black & White Photography by siriah

Best of Pinterest Photographers

Photography by Lisa Welding

Logo Design

Logolicious by Mike Jones

Design Inspiration: Logos by Colourlovers

Logos by Dan Otis

Web Design and Development

Web design by Paula Cevasco

Web by Julieta Pisani

Web Design

Tutorials

Tutorials by Paula Cevasco

If you’d like to see more, visit Tripwire Magazine.

 

Will Sherwood
CEO/Chief Creative Officer
The Sherwood Group: Graphic Design & Website Design
Santa Clarita, California, USA

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7 Useful Pinterest Tools You Should Know

Pinterest has grabbed the attention of many social media marketers and has gathered millions of fans since its debut two years ago. With amazing tools, you can easily share any photos you found on the Web and socialize with anyone in the world through Pinterest. It makes sharing easier, and you can make friends with many more people who share your interest.

Initially just for image-sharing, you even study your social activity and find out your score on Pinterest, so you’ll know how social you are using the simple web application, and how your social activity can potentially benefit you.

In this article to Hongiat.com and have compiled 7 useful tools you can use with your Pinterest from analyzing your pinterest activity to study your score and influence, pinning quotes, adding additional button as well as activity column on Pinterest page.

1. Pinpuff

Pinpuff is where you can calculate your Pinfluence, a measure of your popularity on Pinterest and it also provides the value of your every pin. To get started with your analytics on Pinpuff, go to the website and fill in your email and your Pinterest username, then click on the button ‘Calculate your Pinfluence’.

You will be redirected to your pinfluence page, where you will find your pinterest analytics.

In the score page, you will be presented with your total score at the right hand sidebar next to your Pinterest profile image. You will also get to know an estimation of your pin valuation as well as cost per click. Apart from that, you will see your reach score based on your follower and activity score.

There’s also a virility score, and you can also find out the total followers, pins, repins and likes of each board you created in Pinterest.

2. Pinreach

Similar to Pinpuff, Pinreach also provides you with analytics to study your influence on Pinterest except without the value estimation you can find in Pinpuff. It does however have othe features to offer.

To use Pinreach, visit the website and click on the ‘Sign Up’ button and fill up the registration form together with your Pinterest username.

When registration is completed, you will be redirected to your analytics page. There are four tabs available on Pinreach to study your Pinterest activity in details.

Analytics

The first tab ‘Analytics’ is where you will be able to see your total pins, repins, likes, followers and more from the right sidebar, and you will also see graph of your score as well as activity changes since you last login to Pinreach.

Boards

Boards will show you the total number of pins, repins, followers and comments based on boards you created on Pinterest.

Pins

The Pins tab will show you a collection of your popular pins on pinterest.

Influential Followers

This tab will let you know who are among your followers has a strong influence on Pinterest. You can also click on their image to find out their Pinreach.

3. Pin A Quote

Pin A Quote allows you to post a quote to Pinterest. Although this is just a small part of what you can get from Pinstamatic, Pin A Quote makes it easy with their bookmarklet – you can simply post a quote by highlighting a text on any website much like how you Pin an image from a site.

To grab the bookmarklet, visit the Pin A Quote homepage, drag the button ‘Pin A Quote’ to your browser’s bookmark bar, and it is ready for use.

To pin a quote to Pinterest, all you need to do is simply highlight any sentence or quote you found on any website, then click on the Pin A Quote bookmarklet. A form will appear, fill it up and post it to your Pinterest.

READ MORE (Including the following 4 additional tools)

4. Pin Search
5. Recent Activity Expander
6. Pinterest Right-Click
7. Pinterest Pro

(Thanks to Hongiat.com and who compiled this information)

Will Sherwood
CEO/Chief Creative Officer
The Sherwood Group: Graphic Design & Website Design
Santa Clarita, California, USA

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Motel 6 Takes a Road Trip Through Time

I’ve been following Stan Richards and The Richards Group for most of my career, and when it came time to create a list of graphic design superstars, Stan was right there at the top. (You can read the interview I did with him here.)

This beautifully crafted :30 second commercial is just another example of the great work done by this blue ribbon agency in Dallas, TX.

Motel 6 and The Richards Group recently joined forces with production company King and Country (K&C) to create a :30 commercial that debuted as the centerpiece of a cross-media campaign celebrating the brand’s 50th anniversary. The spot takes us on a classic family road trip that spans 50 years. Rick Gledhill directed for K&C. This spot was completed start to finish all in house at K&C – production, direction, editorial, animation, and VFX.

Will Sherwood
CEO/Chief Creative Officer
The Sherwood Group: Graphic Design & Website Design
Santa Clarita, California, USA

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