I’m a big fan of typography, and a regular reader of ilovetypography.com. In my opinion, it’s a one stop shop for your type fill.

Every Sunday theres a monster post that pretty much sums up the best of the weeks typographic news, the guy who writes it is a switched on, serious typofile! Anyway it makes for a great read and I had an hour or so free so I spent it on cubescape making both a tribute to the site and to slab serifs everywhere!

Watch the animation here.

Update: Made it onto the official iLT Sunday Type

I twittered this over to Johno who writes iLT & he liked it so much he put it on his Sunday Type, Ale Paul Type. What an honor, I’m absolutely chuffed about it! As suggested in the comments, gonna work on a wallpaper version. Will post the update as and when.

Love Typography? Here’s a few other posts that might interest you…

• Typeface of the year 2008 – a look at the rather tasty Centro Pro and this years design awards. Includes a great link to the making of the typeface.
• A fantastic typography t-shirt – this years winner of the typophile t-shirt competition.

I’m debating a re-format soon and I was trying to think of a list of software I want to take with me when it’s done, this is a condensed version of that. My top 10 leopard apps i couldn’t live without!

In short it’s an application launcher. From a shortcut menu it tries to auto-guess what you’re looking for allowing you to not only launch apps but use functionality from within them. E.g. Play an album in iTunes or Open an FTP session in Transmit. Another good feature is the ability to bind hot keys to nearly any app/website/function. Its features are well documented (link) so I won’t go into them here.

Visit the Quicksilver website to download

Growl is a notification tool. It brings up a very nice looking notification box (customizable) to tell you what your various apps are up to. It’s compatible with all my everyday apps, Apple Mail, Safari, FF, Transmission, Twitterific plus lots of others and it can even tell you hardware updates like when your I.P. Address has been released or if it’s found an open wireless network. Very handy, especially if you’re a control freak!

Visit the Growl website to download

Changes the log-in background of your mac to whatever your desktop background is at the time. It’s a real one click solutions if your a designer/control freak like me (lol) it gives you a complete brand.

Visit the Desktop2Login website to download

This is another handy app for the control freaks in the room. It allows you to monitor your system (ram/cpu/network usage) from the system bar in osx. Great for keeping an eye on things!

Visit the MenuMeters website to download

A must have for any Photographer/Flickr user, Allows you to upload pictures to your account from your desktop, retain full control over titles, descriptions and privacy status.

Visit the jUploadr website to download

I can’t even begin to explain how much I hate this apps icon! haha but it is amazing at what it does. It can pretty much turn a dvd into ipod mp4 or avi in one click. Put it in your drive, select and bang! Really handy for keeping a backup of scratched disks or copying your films to your ipod.

Visit the Handbrake website to download

@Johan is to thank pointing out to me and @James Ling that this is in fact now available on the PC! My bad for not knowing, sorry bit of an apple fan-boy haha thanks for the input. Always welcome.

Check out the Replacement Handbrake Icon (thanks @James for this)

audio format converter. Converts nearly every major format. Most importantly, WMA to MP3, reclaim your music from Microsoft once and for all!

Visit the Switch website to download

Allows you to copy songs/video off your (or anyone else’s for that matter) ipod – really useful if you delete your tunes by accident (it’s happened) or if you want your mates.

Visit the Senuti website to download

A bit of no brainer this one but it still amazes me at how many people don’t have this app. It can play nearly every form of digital movie including those from mobile phones etc. It has a really handy playlist feature so you can slap in a bunch of films and not have to start the next one manually. The only downside is that it doesn’t work with apple remote (as of writing).

Visit the VLC website to download

As @Roy pointed out in comments Perian is a really cool plug-in for quicktime that enables most file-types etc. If you want to keep it apple, check it out.

This is the ultimate torrent downloader for mac, in my opinion, far more efficient than Azureus. You can set it to watch a folder (e.g. downloads) and then add torrents automatically as they are downloaded. No sooner have you clicked in FF has it started torrenting in Transmission. Also has a very handy bandwidth limiter (perfect for web based designers), you can cap your up/down speed at the click of a button. Great for when its FTP time!

Visit the Transmission website to download

Other free apps that I love and should have given more love are: Twitterific, Firefox, Cyberduck, Img2icns & Adium.

Hillman Curtis, such an inspiration to me, I saw this and had to share. A very special interview with fantastic cinematography, hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

After finding a full-time roll in London the purpose of my site has shifted from being a promotional tool to a creative outlet. I want my reboot to reflect that.

I felt my old design was getting a bit tired and after the problems I was having with my old database I had been planning a re-build/design for a while. My old website was built when i was a recent graduate and was orientated around promoting myself, the blog was a by product at the time, while i enjoyed writing (well more ranting but if you can’t rant here, where can you rant?) it wasn’t the focus. After finding a full-time roll in London the purpose of my site had shifted from being a promotional tool to a creative outlet. I want my reboot to reflect that.

I thought I would make my first post May 1st Reboot Centric.

Key Gripes

• Built in Flash – Poor medium choice (again) for a project such of this. There is little animation and many of the effects could have been produced with CSS and one of the JS frameworks. I had hoped they might change it after last year.
• Sound Effects & Music – A personal peeve. When i’m at my computer i’m usually listening to iTunes, please don’t inflict your (often poor) musical tastes on me!
• Difficult Interface (Nav & User Experience) – Total lack of labeling makes navigating around the site an unnecessarily long and drawn out affair.

I love the concept, the idea of bringing the creative community together on one day to celebrate our re-designs in unison, giving & receiving feedback, networking, making new friends. They are all reasons i’m part of this industry, they are the reasons I get up in the morning. It’s all about community spirit.