Welcome to this week’s FreeFontFile.  We have a theme for this week.  I’ve been working on a circus-themed print project and there are a lot of really good free fonts that work for a circus design.  So we present a trio of Circus fonts, perfect for display headlines.  Enjoy! Circus What list of circus fonts [...]

I’ve been following this week’s SiteoftheWeek for a while now.  While I was growing up, everyone wanted to be an astronaut at some point.  Everyone I knew wanted to take a summer and go to SpaceCamp.  Yeah, none of us could afford any of that at the time, but that didn’t change the dream.  Twenty [...]

Hey everyone!  Welcome to a new feature for the designers out there.  We call it the FreeFontFile, where we’ll feature a couple of free fonts available for download on the web and yours to use for free.  For our first outing, we have a trio of fonts; two that I’ve used a bit in the [...]

It’s been a long time since we’ve done a SiteoftheWeek.  This week we have something rather simple from a content standpoint, but gotta be complex on the programming side.  It’s a site called April/Zero. The concept of the site is simple.  It’s a clock.  But you say, “what’s so cool about a clock on the [...]

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. News came across the wire that Apple Inc.’s co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has passed on after a long battle with cancer. Exceptional brilliance has left us. No matter what you thought of Steve Jobs, love him or hate him, you have to admit that he was one of the [...]

For the record, I like the instant streaming on Netflix. I had no problem paying for the streaming and the DVD delivery that Netflix was going to force upon subscribers. Until today. By now, most people have heard the Netflix-Qwikster news. The second I read the news, I promptly brought up netflix.com and removed the [...]

The news came out today that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit in the Federal court in Washington, D.C., to attempt to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. “Any way you look at this transaction, it is anticompetitive,” says Sharis Pozen, an acting assistant attorney general. “Our action today seeks [...]

As a designer, I have thousands of fonts floating around on my computers. It’s hard to keep track of them, let alone remember how each one looks. There are times when you see something and you KNOW you have the font, but you can’t place the name of the typeface. I had one of these [...]

442 King St., Charleston, South Carolina. That’s the location of what looks like some exceptionally tasty cuisine. That’s where you will find Fish. From their website: “Fish Restaurant showcases the finest local, sustainable ingredients with an always-changing menu and a French-Asian flair. Executive chef Nico Romo, the youngest chef to ever earn the distinction of [...]

There are a few things that I really love in this world. Music is one of them. And so as I was roaming the halls of the Internet this week, I came across this week’s site, Atlantic Records. To be honest, I haven’t thought about record companies really since I lived in southern California, so [...]