Design Resources: Design Float

One of the skills I think is extremely important to any designer, is being resourceful. Fortunately for me, ever since I got my Macbook Pro I can just pop in an address when it's mentioned in class and bookmark it to check out later. This has allowed me to find a ton of valuable stuff, from free stock art to tutorials, brushes, typefaces, and a ton of excellent inspiration.

Nowadays it seems that the only hobby I really invest any time in is meandering through the blogosphere. My favorite place to go on any good website is the links page. I can trace a path through 5 or 6 pages and forget where it was that I started. Today for instance I started on Design Float, followed a few links, and ended up with 3900 vector logo's that I have no idea who I downloaded them from.

I have been slowly circulating this link to a few people but here it is for the rest of ya'







Its a 'DIGG' style social media site that people contribute posts to from all over the net. theres tons of resources and inspiration posted on an hourly basis.

The Blogosphere is a daunting place

I recently found some interesting work on the blog of a Cranbrook university student named JK Keller. He created an Illustrator Script he calls the Slitscan Type Generator that takes one character from every typeface on your computer and slices them all together.
This piece really interests me because I've always been a big fan of collage work. It's funny to be comparing this to traditional collage but in a sense its the same only he has replaced the scissors with a computer code that can do the job in a fraction of the time.

I find it really interesting now that I'm posting on my own blog to see what else is out there, its nice to see that tons of design students post their work on their blogs and get a considerable amount of traffic from people that want to see it.