Coroflot is a site that helps you get creative projects online and in front of the right people. The site has a lot of good resources for designers. One article that I found especially beneficial was an article on what an artist should charge for freelance work.

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Download via iTunes

For a fun way to get the polaroid effect, Poladriod is a fun program to use poladroid. www.poladroid.net

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Leslie Stein, aka larrybear, spends most of her time drawing comics, listening to old time radio shows and playing records. Leslie started her first comic series, called simply Leslie, back in high school.