Should have done type this week!

I was just checking out my reader while watching a local exterminator, on A&E, kill ants at an gator park. I found three posts on Smashing Magazine dealing with type. They’ve got high quality free fonts, examples of type on the web and fonts of the month. Since I’m on my iPod (I’m not cool enough for tv iPhone). I can’t link to the posts but check them out at www.smashingmagazine.com.

March Calendar

The first of the month brings the need for the calendar to be changed over to the upcoming month. Thanks to the generosity of local paper vendors, I have a ‘lovely’ green three-month calendar on my wall. But I rarely look at it. Instead I rely on my trusty desktop wallpaper calendar.

Smashing Magazine, a great tool for all those serious web designers, complies a large group of well-designed calendars for your computer’s desktop. The collection for each month contains a variety of styles for all types of tastes. As you can see with the samples, there is everything from photo-based, illustration, typography, and heavy photoshopping.

For those of you who need an extra, no boundaries project, you to can submit a design for the next month. Check out mine for this month, as well.

Smashing Magazine, as I mentioned before, is a great resource for web designers, especially those who code. I will admit that since I don’t code and well don’t know much about web design at all, most of their articles are passed over by my eyes. However, they do feature great freebies for all types of design. You will see their link posted on most of my TGIFree posts. In fact, I found most of my freebie sites through one of their many collected links for various freebie topics.

Well the plate maker is done, for now at least and so is this post. I now send you to go explore all Smashing Magazine has to offer.