Within these pages, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages and other interactive experiences. Each exercise includes compelling visual solutions from other designers and background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate.

Creative Workshop also includes useful brainstorming techniques and wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you'll find new and more effective ways to solve tough design problems and bring your solutions to vibrant life.

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At times we all need reminders that allow us to be more creative. This little video provides some helpful advice to keep your creative groove consistent and vibrant. Check it out!

If your looking for a great animation piece look no farther. This piece by Equiloud and Leisure-B will keep you wanting more in order to fill your inspiration cup. Make sure you check out the rest the videos here http://vimeo.com/equiloud. Give us a shout and tell what you think.

Silent Transitions [6000fps] from Salomon on Vimeo.

Salomon Ligthelm Interview from Michael Jones on Vimeo.

Here's an inspiring video piece by Salomon. I found him on vimeo. This work not only shows great in skill but also powerful in message. The second video is an interview of Salomon conducted by Michael Jones.

Silent Transitions [6000fps] from Salomon on Vimeo.

Salomon Ligthelm Interview from Michael Jones on Vimeo.

Bored of using the same, dull fonts that come as standard with your operating system?

The chances are, your users are bored of them too! Typography is one of the most important ways in which you can pique a viewer’s interest in your website or other marketing materials – and yet many businesses ignore it, often because they presume that good fonts are too expensive.

But, while it is perfectly possible to spend hundreds of pounds on fonts, there is a wealth of high quality free alternatives available on the web. If you are looking for great free fonts, try some of the following resources.

1. The League of Moveable Type

A beautifully designed, straightforward site, The League of Moveable Type is dedicated to free, open source fonts. There are relatively few fonts on offer so far, but the site is growing all the time. Best of all, the fonts are ready for @font-face – meaning that you can use them on your website easily.

2. Font Squirrel

Font Squirrel boasts almost 700 font families, all of which are free for commercial use. You can search by popularity or by style, and you can also generate your own @font-face kits within the website.

3. DaFont

It might not look as pretty as its competitors, but DaFont still has a gret collection of fonts – many of which you won’t find anywhere else. Be careful, though, as not all of the fonts here are cleared for commercial use.

4. FontStock

FontStock specialises in free TrueType fonts. The site also gives you the opportunity to test the fonts inline, rather than having to download them to your computer first. Again, make sure you read the licence, as they do not all permit commercial use.

5. MyFonts

MyFonts claims to be the world’s largest collection of fonts and, while we can’t vouch for the accuracy of that claim, there is certainly a lot there! Not all of the fonts here are free, but the site allows you to search by licence in order to find what you need.

Make sure you check the licence before using any font in a commercial project.

BROKEN IS BEAUTIFUL from PEOPLE OF THE SECOND CHANCE on Vimeo.

Ljósið (previously known as Let Yourself Feel) from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo.