Giving a new twist on the old stock resource site, newcomer Graphic Leftovers presents itself as “a haven where professional designers and illustrators sell or donate their unused, unsold or unfairly rejected pieces of art online.”

I think the idea has merit because most designers have elements or comps they’ve created that will otherwise go to waste. This gives them a way to re-purpose some of those “lost” elements and ideas and perhaps make enough cabbage to go buy a low fat, extra whip, no foam, extra hot double carmel Macchiato. A good idea whose time is past due, I hope G.L. is around to stay.

James West of Create/Reject, has assembled a book of current favorite typefaces from 50 designers.

All proceeds go to UNICEF. A great cause, great content and at £3 (about $6), a great buy.

Some sweet visuals over at URTD. Head on over and see Slovakian designer Ondrej Jób’s body of work.

FontShop just released Fontstruct, an online font building tool.

According to the site, ‘FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor.’

Dropclock ‘is an aesthetically intrigiung motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion.’

via QBN

Described as “a social platform and source of inspiration for all you typophiles out there,” TypeNeu reports “on the past, present and the future of typographic culture. Typophile is a common diagnosis, and yes this is the cure.”

So far, the content looks sharp, if the type itself is too small and hard to read for those of us who don’t think squinting is cool.