Links

I have decided to add this page because I have found a lot of good things on the internet and I would like to share with you some of them.

For all the different categories you can use the left side menu.

Friends

ReeL Creative Studio - Photo and design for print and web
University of Arts and Design - where I teach at Design Department

Other places about me and my work:

My WordPress Blog - Romanian blog
My YouTube Video Gallery - Digital Calligraphy
My Flickr - gallery
My LetterPlayGround gallery - custom letters
Portfolios.ro - my page
Behance.net - my page
FigDig.com - my portfolio page
Portfolios.com (now creativeshake.com) - my portfolio
Coroflot.com - my portfolio
Coroflot.com - the other profile
CGArts.ro - my interview
CGArts.ro - my portfolio
Puzzle - with my photo "Papaya"
Puzzle - with my photo "Old Machine"
Puzzle - another "Old Machine"
My DeviantArt - gallery
My Portfolios.ro - gallery
My Linkdin profile

Logos

Florin Florea | ReeL - logos, brands and corporate identities
Best Brands of the World - real logos not clipart
Identityworks - Tony Spaeth about identity
Logopond - inspiration logos / show your work
Raja Sandhu - logo designer
Mis i Pile - ex Gablu Studio - logo designer
Logolounge - logotrends
Logoorange - branding-corporate-identity links
Logoorange - logo design history

Illustrations

Florin Florea | ReeL - illustrations
Dreamstime - my stock images gallery
Fotolia - my stock images gallery
Stock.xchng - my free stock images gallery
Stock.Xpert - my stock images gallery
thinkstockphotos - my stock images gallery
VectorMagic - best online vector tracing site
Illustrationfriday - weekly illustrations on topics
Vladstudio - illustration wallpapers
My RGBStock - free stock photos gallery

DTP / Page Layout / Typography

Florin Florea | ReeL - graphic design works for print
Typophile - my posts on Typophile forum
Typophile - my post about the Friends font on the forum
Typophile - my post about the Archaic Cali (Kogaion) font on the forum
Typophile - my post about the Archaic Geo font on the forum
Typophile - my post about the Digital Calligraphy on the forum
Typophile - my post about the Archaic Ornamental font on the forum
Veer - great PDF catalogs for inspiration
Stocklayouts - Layouts for inspiration
Designers Toolbox.com - useful things
About.com Graphic Design Basics - good infos to start
Ambigramania - beautiful ambigrams
Warren Kramer - basic things about design
Typogabor - galleries of works (the left menu)
Allgraphicdesign - graphic design portal (articles)
LetterCult - Custom Type makers
Luc Devroye's list - Romanian Type makers

Webdesign

Florin Florea | ReeL - webdesign
CSS Zen Garden - CSS web design samples
Layout Gala - free CSS layout
"Web 2.0" design style - design guide
Styleshout - free web tools (links)
Grid Calculator - for screen size
Web Designers Toolkit - for web layout

Photography

Florin Florea | ReeL - photo retouch samples
Dreamstime - my stock images gallery
Fotolia - my stock images gallery
Stock.xchng - my free stock images gallery
Stock.Xpert - my stock images gallery
Picture Licence - 1000 licensing terms, definitions and uses
Worth 1000 - photo retouch and colage

Best links

Bluevertigo - all sort of good links
Veerle blog - great list of links
Vitaly Friedman - webdesigner's handbook - links
My blog - more Graphic Design links

Freelance / Design as a business

Freelancerswitch - calculate your rates
Andy Rutledge blog - calculating hours (Client A or B)
No-spec! - don't undervalue your work
Creative Latitude - A worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice.
Creative Latitude - resource downloads
Designerstoolbox - useful things
CreativePublic - freelancer's useful things

Other useful things

Visual Thesaurus - helpful connections
michaelbach - optical illusions
Smashingmagazine - useful inspirations (popular posts)
TED - great site. Check this movie for the amazing user interface

Software

SWR Iron browser best browser based on Chromium (free)
Portable Applications - for your USB stick
7Zip - best archiver (free)
GIMP for Windows - raster image processing (free)
Inkscape - vector drawing (free), portable (7zip archive)
Firefox - safest browser (free)
Audacity - sound editor (free)
Notepad++ - text editor (free)
VirtualDub - movie editor (free)
VLC - media player (free)

That's it!
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Florin Florea

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