What a kick ass week! I won the Flash Otaku contest at Six Revisions, April Fool’s Day happened and I got to honor one of my heroes.

Special Announcement: This weekend, I’m going to release wallpapers based on the Garamond Showcase. Update: Coming soon…

New Hotness — Overall Winner

Jason Santa Maria — Reflections on Layer Tennis by Jason Santa Maria

Layer tennis is a game where you “volley” a Photoshop file between two designers for the fun of it. I admit that my rooting interest is for JSS as I’ve always admired his work and ideas (long-time A List Apart reader for awhile). Arguably, after I saw him and the crew at AEASF08 — they inspired me to “do more” and hence this website. Anyway, this is a fun account of their game that’s fun to read… fitting for this week.

New Hotness — Typography

14 Most Impressive Photoshop Typography Effects by Henry Jones

This week’s pick is more functional rather than thought provoking but we all like these type Photoshop tutorials because we’ll all have a project come along where we need a simple type effect but have no idea how to do it (well).

New Hotness — Web Dev

Net Tuts — Fun With CSS Shapes by Jeffrey Way

Why do I get the feeling in the coming years, we’re going to see a lot of screen-casts? Jeffrey does a good job and has a great tutorial.

New Hotness — Design

Logo Design Love — Centenary logo with a difference?

One of the differentiating factors of typesett.com is the “tone”. LogoDesignLove, is one of the blogs that I’ve admired for tone (among many things) and that I try to mimic (not tone obviously but for independent and individual spirit).

New Hotness — Tutorial

UX Booth — Good Call-To-Action Buttons by David Hamill

Simply written, lots of good points. Some people disagree with the CTA Button and prefer organic and or natural usability conclusion actions but it is a common user pattern and we need to use it better.

New Hotness — Top Lists

Noupe — 30+ Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials & Neat Tips

Easy winner here. I learned a bunch and I’m pretty damn good in Illustrator.

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