Design

CSS 3.0 Online Generator, Cut & Paste Heaven!
Online generators can speed up development time and deployment when they are done well. Every so often we get one of these and we have to share it. Check out the CSS 3.0 Maker and revel in it’s simplicity!

Inspiration: Photography of Iwan Baan
Iwan Baan shoots the work of greats like Rem Koolhaas, SANAA, and Zaha Hadid all over the world. His photos aim to shift the focus of architectural photography from static images of perfect buildings in perfect environments, to portraits of people and the chaotic, growing cities they live in; the building is treated more as [...]
Typesetting Goes Web With CSStypeset
Got the burnin’ for some kernin’? Check out csstypeset for a great online tool that helps you get your headlines/body/pullout quotes/etc. just right.
Typekit and Adobe Join Forces for Web Typography
The Google Font API has been a welcome solution to adding new web-friendly fonts to our web-based applications and pages. Adobe and Typekit just entered the game with another set of fonts. There is one catch, however.

55 Web Designers and Developers to Follow on Twitter
The best way I’ve found to learn and grow is to surround myself with people smarter than me. Something I’ve discovered is that this doesn’t alway have to mean people I know, people I work with, or people I am friends with at the moment. Thanks to Twitter, I can surround myself with a veritable [...]
Inspiration: Creative Bike Helmets
This collection of bike helmets, by Russian ad agency Good!, made me smile.

OS X: How To Take Screenshots that Don’t Suck
So many blogs I run across have some of the nastiest screenshots. Pictures of files, programs, browsers, desktops, you name it! Here is a quick tip on how to get a nice clean screenshot without any special tools. Hopefully most of you know how to take a screenshot on a Mac ( *nods head yes* [...]

11 Free Hand-drawn & Grunge Social Icon Sets
Icon sets are a great way to spruce up an existing web site design, or substitute as key art for a new initiative. That’s not all though, they can also be useful for newsletters, handouts, programs, and posters. On the heels of 40 free hand-drawn fonts, we’ve collected a set of 11 free hand-drawn and [...]
40 Free Hand-Drawn Fonts
We try to provide as much coverage of relevant resources and tools through The 8BIT Network as possible. Truth be told, we love finding content that resources the Church. Such is the case with this set of 40 free hand-drawn fonts.
Four Geeky Tattoos
Last week, I came across a set of geeky tattoos that I couldn’t help but want to share with you guys. Seriously, some of these are too geeky. Even for Chris.





