It took almost three years and three designers to develope it, but now is here and it has a whole website on its own.

Front page of website immediately announce: “The most influential sans serif of the digital revoulution now has a serif companion: Introducing FF Meta Serif“.

All through the 90′s designer Erik Spiekermann had tried to create a complementary face for his successful FF META. Many times happened that he was asked what could be the best serif match for it and he realized that he just had to create it.

He finally asked collaboration to designers Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby.

Development of the new font started both from the original META for the body (which, in its uniqueness, is heavier in the center stroke, while the two end strokes are lighter) and from Antiqua face to take inspiration for serifs.

In website there is the whole thread of eMails exchanged between three designers during the period of creation to present the story of the font, which shows the great love they have for their profession and the great care for details they had all the time.

We can buy both font in various combination of packages, and if we use FF META SERIF in our designs we can also submit our work to be featured (if selected) in the gallery and enter the competition to get a FONTBOOK.

Filthysmutpeddlers.com is a Website (with a nice graphic design, I have to say) born from from a collaboration between photographers, models, graphic and motion artists.

Filthysmutpeddlers.com provides a selection of pictures of pin-up and you have to create a design to enter the challenge.
It is not well explained how long each challenge lasts, but as they states everything is growing and subjet to change at the time that I am writing.

They address to all creatives with the aim, they say, to create “works of art to hang over the fireplace”, but it is true indeed that this initiative really is something different, with some fifties years flavour that we all love (don’t we?) and leaves the doors open to a lot of other opportunities.

If you want to give a look to the Website to apply for the challenge or just propose a wallpaper of the month, click HERE

Do you know what IStockPhoto.com is? Noo?

Don’t be afraid, I’m here to tell you about it.
First of all it is probably the largest and growing royalty free stock photography website, secondly, it is a HUGE community of creatives where you can:

• exchange your knowledge with your peers;
• enroll in exciting “battle cage” where community judge the most talented illustrator;
• sell your photography/ illustration/ flash creation;
• download your FREE hires photo of the week;
• download your FREE (really HIGH quality) vector image of the month;
• take part in contests;
• find a lot of articles with fabulous tutorials;
• show your designs to community;
• a lot more! You only have to subscribe to check by yourself!

As I said in subject line, there are a lot of news at IStockPhoto’s.
Let’s see some:

• IStockPhoto is about to launch a new backend search engine that will result in faster searches;
• IstockPhoto is offering to subscribers a special code (all subscribers!) that will allow them to save 50% off Photoshop Live Conference or Creative Suite Live taking place August 25-27 in Melbourne, Australia. Too good!
• Rob Sylvan, site Director, is launching his first book Photoshop Lightroom 2 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) (roll over link to see a preview). Being a Photographer himself he wants others photographers to have the same ease with this software, in 318 pages he will teach you everything about the program, from installing to how modules work together.
• Last but not least, IStockPhoto has a referral program that pays $10 for each new subscriber you send to the community as soon he makes his first purchase. The great news here is that from September 1-30, there will be double reward: $20!

Still here reading? Go to IStockPhoto and watch yourself, you’ll thank me!
(Yes, it was a referral link, but it will do you no harm, I promise)