Sign­Sphere is a mon­thy inspi­ra­tion resource of cre­ative resources found in the blog-o-sphere. This months edi­tion is full of type related good­ies, tools and fun with type, enjoy. Most inter­est­ing this month are the startup of Let­ter­cult & Daily Cre­at­tica. Bring­ing more design inspi­ra­tion to the world! When you have some­thing you want to share, please send me a email with your design infor­ma­tion. Enjoy reading!

Search Ama­zon for type related books

A nice search tool to search for typo­graphic books at ama­zon, it uses a inter­est­ing way to present the book­cov­ers, the cov­ers form the search word you typed. Great tool.

• Go to Amaz­type for more infor­ma­tion about this book type search tool.

Search Twit­ter for type comments

More type related searches in the world of twit­ter. Type­sites released a search tool that crawls twit­ter posts for type related key­words. A nifty tool cre­ated by Kyle Meyer.

• Visit the twit­ter type search tool for more infor­ma­tion or back­ground info at Asthe­ria.

Type­gra­phun­nies

Type can be fun, at Type­gra­phun­nies there is a huge col­lec­tion of type jokes. Warn­ing only for type junckies!

• Visit Type­gra­phun­nies to see the fun!

Design your Heineken

The guys from Fitzroy send me this url, here you are able to design your own Heineken beer bot­tle. A superb tool that allows you to eas­ily add text or images and have your own designed Heineken beer. Await­ing mine…

• Visit the offi­cial web­site of Heineken or visit the mak­ers Fitzroy.

Cre­at­tica Daily

Cre­at­tica Daily, a site of daily news and links for cre­atives and design­ers. They cover a broad range of cre­ative incli­na­tions from graphic to prod­uct design, inter­ac­tive to motion, adver­tis­ing to articles.

• Visit Cre­at­tica Daily for your fresh update design update.

20 hand writ­ten fonts & resources

Adelle has com­piled a list of free fonts in the cat­e­gory hand­writ­ten, this arti­cle is a great resource if you are look­ing for hand­writ­ing fonts.

• Visit Fuel Your Cre­ativ­ity for more info about free hand­writ­ing fonts.

Vot.eti.me

A new digg pligg vot­ing design inspi­ra­tion web­site, Vot.eti.me has a easy to use inter­face and is a great resource for find­ing design related infor­ma­tion. I believe this web­site has been cre­ated because of the sell of design­bump. Good luck with Vot.eti.me! Small note, make the logo a direct link to the home­page. Thanks.

• Visit Vot.eti.me and start vot­ing today!

Div­i­tode­sign Redesign

Dutch blog­ger Ste­fan Ver­voort just redesigned his web­site Divi­tioDe­sign, with more func­tions like com­mu­nity news, inter­views and word­press themes. Check out the website.

• Visit Div­i­tode­sign for more information.

How to write an effec­tive design brief

Jacob Cass from Just­Cre­ativeDesign wrote a very inter­est­ing post about a design brief, which items are impor­tant when inform­ing a client, ideas behind a design and more.

• Visit JCD on How to write an effec­tive design brief.

Type­is­Art

Type is Art is a won­der­ful tool that allows you to cre­ate art with type. With the type on screen you are able to scale, rotate and cre­ate a design you like. Have Fun with Type is Art!

• Visit Type is Art and cre­ate your own art with type!.

New blog from Erik Arjalu­oto (ideasonideas)

Eric Kar­jalu­oto is a designer, ser­ial entre­pre­neur, and author of numer­ous arti­cles on design. Now he started his per­sonal weblog with short ideas/articles with a more casual read than Ideas on Ideas.

• Visit the home­page of his Awe­some blog, the intro­duc­tion post or find more design inspi­ra­tion at Idea­sOnIdeas.

44 tools to help you in your design work

A huge resource with design tips, inspi­ra­tion and every­thing you need when design­ing. A com­phren­sive list orga­nized in a coher­ent struc­ture. Read more at Designer Daily.

• Visit Designer Daily for 44 tools to help in your design work.

Let­ter­cult kick off

A great new web­site about let­ters The Cus­tom Let­ter Cult.

LETTERCULT IS OUR ATTEMPT TO HIGHLIGHT ARTISTS & design­ers doing remark­able work with Cus­tom Let­ters. This group includes type design­ers, let­ter­ers, sign painters, graf­fiti artists, stone carvers, cal­lig­ra­phers, poster artists, and graphic design­ers. Just peo­ple. Who make letters.

• Visit Let­ter­cult home­page or see the Kick off post.

Every­thing is okay…

Via Grainedit I found this resource, a faboulus yet sim­ple yet very effec­tive inno­va­tion. I really like the idea of adding infor­ma­tion about a sit­u­a­tion. It started out as a design idea but at the moment it is becom­ming a cult of every­thing that is ok or not ok!

• Visit Every­thing is ok and sub­scribe to grainedit, a great design resource that is online for one year, con­grats! Check the home­page for a cel­e­bra­tion giveaway.

5 rea­sons your busi­ness needs a blog

Blog­ging started out as a per­sonal thing for com­puter nerds, nowa­days it is a vital part of busi­ness online and offline. From my per­sonal expe­ri­ence, my blog design­work­plan has gained more vis­i­tors than my cor­po­rate web­site, read this won­der­ful post from Randa Clay.

• Read about 5 rea­sons your busi­ness needs a blog by Randa Clay.

Speck­y­boy: 15 free fonts

Free fonts are always handy when design­ing, Vin­cent Schwid­der (col­or­lab) just send me this link from Speck­y­Boy who gath­ered 15 free fonts to use in design. Worth tak­ing a look at.

• Visit Speck­boy for the com­plete list of 15 free fonts, thanks Vin­cent, visit his web­siteCol­or­lab.

Overview of changes in global cor­po­rate identity

Via Cre­at­ti­caDaily I found this resource, a com­plete overview of cor­po­rate iden­tity changes for mayor com­pa­nies in the last few years. This resource is just a won­der­ful list! I would sug­gest to book­mark that ref­er­ence guide, it will always come in handy.

What’s new in cor­po­rate iden­ti­ties, and worth atten­tion? Who did it and why? Fact and opin­ion. We tell sto­ries of world­wide strate­gic inter­est, cre­ative excel­lence, and lead­er­ship intent (or the regret­table lack of it), when we can find the story and prop­erly credit the CEOs, plan­ners, and designers

• Visit Iden­ti­ty­works for this huge list of cor­po­rate inden­tity changes

More to come

Stay tuned for more inspi­ra­tion to come, com­ming up: How to design Air­port Sig­nage, a new col­lec­tion of type in the wild I’ve col­lected and more. Sub­scribe to the free RSS feed to stay updated on the lat­est infor­ma­tion from DesignWorkPlan.