Sign­Sphere is a monthly round up of inter­est­ing arti­cles in the blo­gos­phere about inspi­ra­tion, design, typog­ra­phy, graphic-design and more. If you have any­thing you want to share please use the con­tact form to send in infor­ma­tion. This month fea­tures the many star­tups of inspi­ra­tional web­sites for the cre­ative com­mu­nity. This is Sign­Sphere, enjoy reading.

Launch of Gekko

Gekko gives you per­son­alised hotel rec­om­men­da­tions you can trust based on your unique pro­file and the pref­er­ences of like-minded peo­ple in the com­mu­nity. Gekko is not a design inspi­ra­tion resource, but looks great.

• Launched by a close friend of mine, please sup­port and visit Gekko.

Launch of Flash Tuts

It’s all about qual­ity tuto­ri­als for Adobe Flash. Whether you want to learn how to cre­ate awe­some Flash ani­ma­tions and inter­faces, bone up on your Action­script to cre­ate games and apps, or just get started devel­op­ing with Flash, we’ve got you covered!

• Visit Flash Tuts for your favourite Flash tutorials.

Launch of Logofi

Logofi, a inspi­ra­tion gallery that acts like a leader­board of the best logos. The best get on the web­site and the best of the best get logofi’s or voted up!

• Visit this web­site about logos Logofi.

Launch of Blogfullbliss

Blog­full­b­liss is designed and main­tained by Adrian Balk­will. Blog­full­b­liss serves as his pub­lic blog where I post my ran­dom crazy thoughts, ideas, tuto­ri­als and more.

• Visit Blog­full­b­liss for more information.

Launch of Line25

Line25 is the draw­ing board of cre­ative web design, a place where ideas and inspi­ra­tions are drafted out and pre­sented to web cre­atives through arti­cles, tuto­ri­als and roundups of cut­ting edge web­site design. Line25 is cre­ated and main­tained by Chris Spooner.

• Visit Line25 here.

Launch of Design Newz

Design-Newz is a site that fea­tures arti­cles, resources and tuto­ri­als writ­ten by design­ers and devel­op­ers just like you! The folks at Spyre Stu­dios built and cur­rently man­age this site Design Newz!

• Visit Design Newz today for your fresh daily hand picked design news items.

Layer Ten­nis

Coudal Part­ners presents Layer Ten­nis, a design com­pe­ti­tion played live on internet.

Two com­peti­tors will swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embell­ish­ing the work. Each artist gets fif­teen min­utes to com­plete a “vol­ley” and then we post it to the site live. A third par­tic­i­pant, a writer, pro­vides play-by-play com­men­tary on the action, as it hap­pens. A match lasts for ten vol­leys and when it’s com­plete, Sea­son Ticket Hold­ers tell us what they think and we’ll declare a win­ner, so sign up today.

Sign up for Lay­erten­nis and fol­low the design matches on live.

Type­face Anatomy

FontShop released a great resource guide into type­face anatomy. Find out all the terms used for a type­face, rec­om­mended readings.

• Visit this exten­sive glos­sary about type­face anatomy.

WellMed­icated

WellMed­icated orig­i­nally started out as a place by Andrew Lind­strom to vent, rant and moan ad nau­seum on the topic of web design, a place to share inspi­ra­tional find­ings with other cre­ative individuals.

• Visit the blog WellMed­icated.

Robothon09 Con­fer­ence

Orga­nized by Erik van Blok­land and Paul van der Laan Robot­hon is a type con­fer­ence in The Netherlands,

• See all links and infor­ma­tion about Robothon09 at Font­Feed.

Relaunch of Eighty­one Design

After months of devel­op­ing the crew at Eighty­one Design released the redesign for their own web­site, based on fast load­ing, design, usabil­ity and more. Con­grats guys great job!

• Visit Eighty­one Design or see the detailed infor­ma­tion about the redesign here.

Think­ing for a Living

Duane King (BBDK, Inc.) offers you a col­lec­tion of rec­om­mended read­ings and online links that he has gath­ered over the years from var­i­ous reli­able sources. Think­ing for a Liv­ing™ was cre­ated for those who believe that while design is a pro­fes­sion, it’s above all a passion.

• Visit Think­ing for a Liv­ing.

White Space: How to Get it ‘Right’

A great arti­cle by Mark Boul­ton taken from his PDF book Five Sim­ple Steps: A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Design­ing for the Web. This arti­cle learns you how to add white space in order to get an effec­tive design.

Space is impor­tant in lay­out. Space can be cre­ated by con­tent – such as text, images, lists, logos etc. – or it can be cre­ated by the space in—between con­tent, called neg­a­tive space, or whitespace.

• Visit the arti­cle at ThinkVi­t­a­min.

Cut&Paste Ams­ter­dam

On the 2nd of April Ams­ter­dam will host the Cut&Past event, an inspir­ing gath­er­ing of design pro­fes­sion­als who will com­pete in a con­test about design and cre­ativ­ity. The show is accom­pa­nied by a DJ and all will take place at the won­der­ful Par­adiso. The show will also be on livestream, check the web­site for more information.

Cut&Paste’s mis­sion is to pro­vide chan­nels of vis­i­bil­ity and inspi­ra­tion for design­ers, both aspir­ing and estab­lished, to reach their exist­ing audi­ence as well as poten­tial fans.

Visit Cut&Paste for the Ams­ter­dam details and check Cre­ativeAm­s­ter­dam, via Dutch design blog Fontanel.

@DesignWorkPlan

Finally I turned myself into the Twit­ter Sphere!

• Visit @Design­Work­Plan at Twit­ter.

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