File this one under “R”, for Ridiculously COOL!  The kind folks at Design Commission have created an aluminum stencil in the shape of an iPhone. It features all the uniquely iPhone shapes and icons that any designer would need when sketching out their latest and greatest iPhone App. I haven’t done any iPhone App designing but I just may get one of these for the “cool” factor of it. It cost $16.95, which for a piece of flatten soda can is a bit pricey, but for this awesome template it’s not too bad. Unfortunately, they only made 100 of them, so you’d better hurry or you may be left with the flattened soda can option…

-God bless

Update: I just bought one, so at the most 99 left.

Maybe I’m a sucker.

This is our second installment of text effect Tuesday! This effect is a really cool Stylized 3D effect from PSDtuts. It feature a sweet looking font called Bifurk! (whoa… did I just vomit in my mouth? No! I said the name of this nutty font!) With a name like Bifurk, you can’t go wrong. This type effect is getting pretty popular lately, soooo clickity click click your way through it and enjoy. While you are at PSDtuts you may want to consider joining their PLUS membership. They offer some great stuff!

Click the flippin’ sweet image above to go to the tutorial.

-God bless

]]> http://www.stopdropanddesign.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=253 0 http://www.stopdropanddesign.com/wordpress/?p=247 http://www.stopdropanddesign.com/wordpress/?p=247#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:46:58 +0000 David http://www.stopdropanddesign.com/wordpress/?p=247 Ok, I know it’s been a minute since I’ve posted anything on here, I’m sorry. I have been uber busy lately. When I get busy, my posting gets lousy. Bad. I’m working on some ways to help keep this blog breathing in the midst of my swamped schedule. One such attempt is what I have aptly titled: Text Effect Tuesday! (exclamation NOT optional). The idea is surely nothing new or ground breaking, but hopefully it will help me stay on task with regular posting. here is the low down. Every Tuesday I’ll try to post a tutorial involving some sort of typography. Maybe Illustrator, maybe Photoshop, maybe original, maybe linked from another design site.

Today’s Text Effect comes from PSDFAN. It’s tutorial on creating a smokey effect for your text. Not only does this tutorial walk you through the process in 12 easy steps, it provides you with source links for the files you’ll need, courtesy of Stock.XCHNG. (They’re all free!) Here is a preview of the final outcome below. Follow the link for the complete guide. Check it out!

-God bless.

This is such a cool idea! I don’t think Bittbox was the first, GoMedia did something similar, but it’s cool none-the-less. Here’s the deal: Bittbox, a rad designer/blogger/leprechaun tosser, decided to yet again make his knowledge base available to the design community, this time via Twitter. Any designers that needed to know a quick tip or trick regarding their designs could tweet the need to Bittbox. Shortly after, he composed those tweets into a very informative tutorial-esque post. This is definitely a great use if the all might tweet. We need to keep things like this going. Thanks Bittbox. Check it out!

Speaking of design+tweet, if you haven’t added your name to our list of designers that are on twitter, please do so. The list is getting big so take a look at it and make some new Twitter friends. Check it out!

-God bless

Hey all. Sorry I haven’t updated in bit. I promise it will be coming soon. Work, school, and schtuff have been pretty busy lately. Soon as I have some time I’ll post some super, RAD-tastical, bodaciously cool stuff. Until then, here are some cool happenings on some other great sites. Also, if you haven’t yet added your information to “Designers on Twitter” and would like to, go here and do it! Oh!Make sure to subscribe to my RSS (every time someone subscribes to my feed an angel gets his wings)

Fudge Graphics did a cool, very different, type of interview post. Check it out!

GoMedia (…every heard of them? haha.) has a tutorial on a pretty cool looking skull. Check it out!

Colorburned has some great freebies, as usually. This time its Illustrator Paint Brushes. Check it out!

This is a new design site called No Stranger to Design, they have some amazing work. Check it out!

Just a few things to tide you over.

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Did any one check out that last link?

Ok, so here’s the idea. I’m sure it’s not original, but I think its a cool idea, so I’d like to give it a try. Each designer will post their information as a comment and this list will serve as a contact list, or small community for great design resources.

In the comments below enter the following:

Name (first, last, nickname…)

Specialties (logos, shirts, etc…)

Website, blog, portfolio (http://www…..)

Twitter (http://twitter.com/screenname…)

So, in theory, we can pass this page around to all our fellow designers and have a pretty cool community contact list. Please feel free to link back, tweet, stumble, or do anything else that will invite designers to be a part of this list. I will also be trying to make a RSS feed just for the comments, so you can collect various designer’s info in your reader. [UPDATE: I added the option to subscribe to the comments, please check the box if you want to receive updates.] If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know, thanks!

- God bless

While you’re here please subscribe to my RSS, follow me on Twitter, and Stumble this page. Thanks.

Now enter WTF! plus the iPhone. MyFont has created an FREE iPhone app version of WTF!. It does the same great thing as the site, but with the ease of mobility. This is great for spotting designs/fonts in the wild.

Take a picture of the font in question, crop it for better accuracy…

Walk through the letter verification process…

Take a look at the font suggestions…

Choose which font you like and email the font info to yourself or open it up in Safari…

This is a very cool app that will be a great addition to the arsenal of any designer on the move. Go get it here!

- God bless

Now go a create something amazing of your own. You have been given such a talent to do so, evident in the very fact that you were wonderfully created.

- God bless

I was scrolling through CreativeMYK and found these free vector birds from Matt Gruber. Its a small pack of nice clean vector birds. Follow the link to get them and also have a look around CreativeMYK., It’s a cool site. Go get ‘em.

After my original post, I continued searching CreativeMYK and found another great artist, Boaz Crawford, and the bird swag he is giving away. Have a gander! Click on the image to go to the download site.

By: Boaz Crawford

- God bless

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