Hello readers, all 3 of you I wanted to let you know that I have a different kind of “micro blog” that I post way more frequently too, which you can visit HERE.

Why do you have two blogs now?

Well basically, because I can literally make a blog post via Email in 30 sec or less with a Posterous blog. There is no logging into WordPress, click make new post, etc… So the plan is that I am going to use my Posterous as a micro blog to host my Twitter photos, post cool links, photos and videos. I plan to still come back to this WordPress blog when I want to post something more personal or actually get in depth with a topic.

If you want update your bookmarks and RSS feeds to my Posterous blog: http://dirkdallas.posterous.com/

*UPDATE: I can now embed the video in the post. Make sure to hit the fullscreen button.

Learn more HERE.

Catchy song: It’s Alright

I have decided that along with all my Facebookin I will try taking my Twitter account more serious for at least a week, hey I can’t bore my “37 followers” with random everyother-month tweets right? So thanks to some encouragement from Randall, Pat and Brad I am going to give the life of 140 characters a real spin. I’m thinking that I might really like it because the audience is way different than say the general crowd on Facebook. I’ll make sure to come back and do a recap here next week on my experience.

I’m curious to know what you all think of Twitter say in contrast to Facebook. Can you realistically handle both or do you only have time for one? Or is this just an egotistical-short-lived-fad that is sure to one day fade out like the once very popular Internet site Geocities? You tell me!

Confused? Here are some helpful links:

– What is Tweeter?

–A Twitter Cartoon To Mock Your Existence (aka twitter is stupid)

As a graphic designer you live and breathe fonts all day long. That’s probably why I thought this Periodic Table of Typefaces was such a clever idea, so I wanted to share. As you can see there are a ton of classic and popular typefaces grouped by families and classes of typefaces:  sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed. You can read more about the process and how it was developed here.

SIDE NOTE: So I’m curious to know what are some of your favorite typefaces at the moment?

Some of my favorite fonts as of late are:

– Modern

– Rockwell

– Interstate

– Gotham

– Swiss

– Warnock Pro

– Luxury

– Papyrus (yeah right, my most least favorite font in the world)

I’m curious to know which ones you agree with as being “stunning” (below are my personal favs w/ a brief description)? And which ones do you think are just blah (*cough *cough both of the Applebees logos)?

BP – One of my all time favorite logos. I would love to have the opportunity to animate a logo bumper for BP someday!

Sprint – I have to admit, at first I was not a fan, but this logo has really grown on me. I totally get the “pin drop” and the motion inspired for this logo from those old commercials.

Discovery – The way this logo just fits together is gorgeous. The type is sexy and kerned to perfection.

QVC – One word, Wow. What a dramatic change. This redesign actually has the power to turn heads. I love the idea this one presents of unwrapping a present. Who knows maybe one day I’ll make my grandma proud and buy something off their site.

WordPress – From a guy that came from Google’s Blogger I have to admit that WordPress is leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. This newly redesigned interface is so elegant and thought out, that I actually don’t mind spending time on the settings and back-end for my blog.

BestBuy – All I have to say is any font custom logotype based on the stunning Klavika typeface, has my vote! (And I like the identical angles of the “y” and the tag)