Well it’s a new day… And a new year! Perhaps the last year according to the Mayans(?!!)…

I love the year end lists of the “best of” this and that collections that pop up at the end of the year. Here are a few favorites that I’ve come across over the last few weeks that I thought I’d share with you.

Best visualizations

From visual.ly blog here’s an article on some of the best visualizations of 2011. I really have fallen in love with infographics, but I really like this list because it also includes some interactive information (http://cnn-ecosphere.com/ was my favorite for sure – zoom in and check out the tweets around the world!) as well as some great videos that are packed with interesting and useful information. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did! Another wonderful couple resources for infographics are Good magazine’s infographic page here: http://www.good.is/infographics and http://visualjournalism.com/

http://blog.visual.ly/20-great-visualizations-of-2011/

Best typefaces

Coming from venturebeat.com – here is a decent short list of  the best web and mobile typefaces of 2011:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/best-2011-fonts/

Best cheat sheets

The best wordpress cheat sheets that I’ve found this year are from wptuts+ (love all the tuts+ sites!)

http://wp.tutsplus.com/category/articles/cheat-sheets/

Best movies???

The best movie list of the year – errrrrrr… I have yet to find one that I totally agree with.

Rolling stone has a decent list here: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/10-best-movies-of-2011-20111207 but there are for sure a few in their list that I would swap out. They don’t really have foreign films or any documentaries listed. I could probably make a list of 10 top documentaries because I watch so many… One of my favorites from this year was Waiting for Superman. If you are a student, or work in any part of education – or if you have children or are the least bit interested in education as a whole it’s a must-see.  The hangover 2 and Sherlock Holmes were quite good, and Drive – although it was nicely done was a bit too slow for me – artistic and beautiful yes but also slow. The Tree of life was again beautiful but I like it more as a visual background than a story.

Best music!? Ahhhh that’s always a list too long and complex…

Use @font-face to add symbols or icons to your web fonts. This font uses all frequently used icons and symbols.
Enjoy!

@font-face{
font-family: ‘WebSymbolsRegular’;
src: url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.eot’);
src: url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix’) format(‘embedded-opentype’),
url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.woff’) format(‘woff’),
url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’),
url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.svg#WebSymbolsRegular’) format(‘svg’);
}

Grab the typeface and more info on the site here:

David Carson is a huge influence in the world’s design community and the “grunge typographer” whose magazine Ray Gun helped explode the possibilities of text on a page. An inspiring (and funny) TED talk about design, typography, communicating ideas, legibility – and a bit of surf in the mix too… I think the bathroom icons are my favorite – but setting an entire article in Dingbat is priceless…!

FontFonter is an interesting little site – dedicated to showing you whatever website you choose with a typeface of your choice.

Choose your site, then choose what fonts you’d like to see. A great way to see how fonts choices can affect the layouts and look & feel of a website.

What makes this so hard for people to say? Being a teacher can be difficult at times. Some students expect that you will know every answer to every question. There are SO many things that I don’t know! This is always a good response when you don’t have all the answers… Also check out the fonts on the website where I found this little quote: designtaxi.com