25 Bad Habits of Graphic Designers: I could probably highlight all of these, so instead I’ll just emphasis this one, the run away worst in my book:

Using Poorly Designed Fonts from Free Font Sites

Remember quality comes at a cost! +

London BarCamp: I bet you didn’t know that barcamps are the place to be seen at the moment, and the recent London event sounded more bar than camp, if Andy Budd’s account is anything to go by…

So I went out and bought a load of tequila and treated everybody to a Margarita mixing workshop. Each session was supposed to be half a hour long. However I cunningly positioned my session at the end of the day, allowing us to spend two hours sampling tequila, mixing margaritas and generally hanging out.

Apparently 100 people showed up, that must have been a lot of tequila he bought! +

In Korea, a boot camp cure for web obsession: the antitheses of the barcamp perhaps? Bootcamps are springing up in South Korea to help people, whom I imagine would be barcamp devotees, to overcome their cyberspace addiction. Think I prefer barcamp myself… +

[weAREtheIMAGEmakers] issue 13 has left the building, and features profiles of Australian artists Ghostpatrol, Junior, and Brooke Bobridge, plus photographer Nick Mcarthur, and rock poster artist Ken Taylor. You can also read up about the OVERGROWTH exhibition taking place in Perth on December 7. +

Blue Beanie Day by Veerle. There’d probably be very few web designers who were working with web standards from day one of their design careers, and Belgium based designer Veerle is no exception.

Throwing out old school methods was a huge step for me. It took me a few months to get around the basics and being able to build sites the right way: clean, well structured and therefore accessible.

This is a great read for the transitioning designer. +