This year I have one FITC Toronto 2010 ticket to giveaway. For those who don’t know about FITC, it is a 3-day design conference which takes place in Toronto between April 25-27, 2010. There will be over a thousand attendees and 70 presenters from around the world. As usual, enter a comment in this post before Apr 16, 2010 for your chance to win a free ticket. For more details about the event, please visit the FITC website. Good luck! If you would like to purchase the tickets, enter coupon code " wdw " to get a 10% discount.

Guest Post by Fonts2U Being a specific form of art, typography has always been coherent with the general progress of art and cultural growth of humanity. This is why the history of western typography reflects the development of art in Europe to a considerable degree. The epoch of Roman Empire, Renaissance, Baroque, and the art of Industrialization period – we can track the traces of each stage of art development in the design of particular typefaces, born during a respective period of time. In fact, the whole history of western typography has always been about the development of new trends, and the revival of ancient techniques of writing and lettering designs.

Last week I talked about Cross-Browser CSS Gradient . Today I’m going to show you how to put the CSS gradient feature in a good practical use. Check out my demo to see a set of gradient buttons that I have created with just CSS (no image or Javascript). The buttons are scalable based on the font-size. The button size can be easily adjusted by changing the padding and font-size values. The best part about this method is it can be applied to any HTML element such as div, span, p, a, button, input, etc. (more…)

Lately I’ve been playing around with CSS3 and discovered some new CSS tricks. Did you know you can make a round circle with border-radius and create inner shadow effect with box-shadow inset? Check out this beautiful search form demo that I’ve created with CSS gradient , border-radius, and box-shadow. It displays perfect in CSS3 browsers and degrades gracefully in non-CSS3 browsers. View Demo Search Form (more…)

Brand X Creative is giving away 10,000 business cards sponsored by UPrinting . Uprinting has been in the industry for over 25 years. Check them out if you need printing services. Enter a comment in this post before June 18, 2010 for your chance to win 1,000 business card printing (full color both sides on quality card stock). This giveaway is limited to US residents only and you must be 18+ year old to enter. (more…)