Insights & Ideas

Free Vector Twitter Birds

With Twitter's growth and the popular trend of users personlising their own space there is another trend emerging. Designers are beginning to customise there twitter bird icons to show the status of tweets in their blogs or simply to direct users to follow them.

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Free Summer Twitter Theme

Twitter as most of you will already know is a free micro-blogging service not to mention a great networking tool that allows you to send, receive and read others updates or tweets as they are known. With just 140 characters to play with in each tweet it's great for buzzing things while your on the fly, reeling off random comments and sharing things you've just seen.

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Two Free Sets of Social Icons

We keep adding to this set whenever we get a spare minute and thought it was about time we created the icons with a different spin on them updated strokes, highlights and shading all feature in these sets all lovingly created by the design team at FHOKE. Check back Friday for more freebies in the form of some exclusive Twitter backgrounds.

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Expanding Your Online Presence

Last week we watched a short video from Think Vitamin where Ryan Carson talked with Paul Boag about 'The Demise Of The Website' (amongst other things). But what was he really getting at? Well having talked about it within the team we think he was trying to get across that your website (however great it is) is not enough when it comes to attracting new business via the web.

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Beautiful Code

Bar codes. We see them in our every day life from your morning milk to the swipe card for your evening gym membership. But who's actually given them a second thought? As designers we come to accept that space needs to be made for these black lines and every time think just how boring these are.

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A Set of 14 Free Social Icons

We loved giving away the first set of 10 Free Social Icons and with so many requests for people to get their hands on the raw Illustrator files we thought we would add four more icons to the set. You've now got the new Design Float, Vimeo, Friends Feed and Stumble icons to enjoy as well now. Comment your requests to see more and we'll try add these in for next weeks Friday Freebies.

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Sites Get FHOKE'd

Yay! We've just FHOKE'd three new sites this week. These customers have taken advantage of our years of interface design experience and attention to detail when it comes to the build of websites and are already experiencing online success. Our work here isn't over yet though. We'll continue to review the sites in the coming weeks and make tweaks once we know how the sites are working. That's right we continue to make sure the site looks great and works for the customer and user. Go us!

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Great Ways to Find Fonts Online

Free or bought, fonts of a high quality are always great to have in your font book, but nine times out of 10 they are extremely hard to find and its a very time consuming process. It takes a lot of patience to find somewhere for that ideal font you are after. We are constantly on the lookout for typography-related sites, always looking for the latest fonts to fill our need for the best and when we do we are sure to bookmark that site. So today we'd like to share some of those sites with you to help with that ball-ache of finding the best fonts. As usual leave us a comment if you have any great sites that you think should be added to the list.

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Future of Web Design London 2009

So with the Future of Web Design over we have a look back at yesterday's event and what we took away from it. There was a lot going on at this year’s event, from talks about typography on the web, tearing up the rule book when designing for clients through to a great talk about designing effective mobile interfaces.

Held at Kensington Town Hall, London, the event was a huge success pulling in some big names in the industry, and all credit to the guys at Carsonified for putting together a great day of speakers.

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