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PopularBits

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    Group Writing Project Results: 37 Sources Of Inspiration

    Your one in a lifetime chance to swim in the ocean of inspiration filled from 37 sources.

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    Behind The Scenes Of Exquisite Web Typography

    Going behind the scenes of my favourite sites and gently tearing them apart and sharing with you all those secret bits I’ve managed to find.

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    16 Best-Loved Font Bits In Web Design

    inspired and partially based on the results of the interviews conducted with 35 web designers by Smashing Magazine.

  • 31
    A Plea From 16 Most Overused Fonts

    fonts that got together with a plea to give them a break and forget about their existence for the next 25 years.

RecommendedBits

  • 41
    Design Critique: Leon Paternoster

    Leon is an ardent crusader for accessible and readable web design. His own sites come with very minimalistic, stripped down to bare necessities, designs.

  • 17
    DOs And DON’Ts – Blog Feng Shui

    = Usability + Design

  • 14
    Meticulous Design: Image Styling

    It takes a bit of effort in styling the images to fit within the site’s design without breaking the flow.

  • 9
    Meticulous Design: Information Architecture

    Are you forgetting about a very important factor—Information Architecture—the art and science of organizing and labeling any system?

FavouriteBits

  • 19
    8 Strenuous Steps To Get The Ideal Name

    It took me three days and three nights to finally decide on the name for this blog.

  • 14
    Outstanding Posts Are Not Bestsellers

    Which posts people consider to be remarkable – the same posts that I personally find noteworthy or the posts that I would label as bestsellers?

  • 5
    Inspired To Write A Song

    If you were a poet who would you dedicate a poem or a song to?

  • 13
    A Candid Interview With Mr. Typography

    An interview with John Boardley during the early stage of Type revolution on Web.

InterestingBits

  • Artician — a new community/portfolio site for creative professionals is launched.
  • Toca Me Stunningly well done video on monogram creations, it’s like watching evolution of life.
  • Type Tweets Expect to spend lots of time going through 100 tweets, all typography-related
  • Great Inspiration On and Offline Definitely worth to bookmark and refer to when you seek that elusive inspiration.

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Hi, I'm Vivien. Thanks for visiting my Inspiration Bit. I often find myself scouring the internet looking for either answers to many questions I have or websites that inspire me, sites that I can learn from. On what topics you might ask — any topics that interest me, anything from web design to typography and art, from blogging to entrepreneurship, from programming to open source.
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When I'm not blogging, I design web sites, teach programming, play with my daughter and try to balance family, work, friends and a somewhat active social life on