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ScreenFonts - A monthly review of movie poster typography from FontFeed by FontShop. Check out the recent edition covering District 9 which uses "All kinds of Helvetica from Condensed to Extended."

Four recent write-ups on how to use CSS @font-face.

@font-face in Depth by Zoltan Du Lac

Starting with @font-face from Dave Shea

Bulletproof @font-face syntax by Paul Irish

Screencast: Converting OTF or TTF to EOT by Jonathan Snook

Mood boards are a great way to address visual direction (look and feel) at an early stage in the design process. View Mood Boards for Designers - a presentation by Amy Lamp from Inside Forty.

Web Design conferences such as SXSW and An Event Apart, to name two of the many, have always been a source of current trends and best practices from experts. These multiple day events average around $1,000 (plus hotel and travel). With the slow economy budgets are tight and attendance to conferences has most likely dropped. This opens the door for workshops offered at half the price with one or two experts covering a single topic. The following are examples (past and present) of workshops that have filled a void.

Designing for the Web workshops (£325 - full day)
Prac­tical, applic­able design the­ory
Presented by Mark Boulton

Handcrafted CSS ($450 - full day)
A Day of Markup & Style
Presented by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte

For a Beautiful Web - Master classes (£373.75 - full day)
Advanced CSS styling
Presented by Andy Clarke

Adaptive Path Virtual Seminars ($129 - 60 minutes)
The Basics of Information Architecture
Presented by Chiara Fox Ogan.

Forty Training Sessions (Free?)
Mood board development, creation, and interpretation
Presented by Amy Lamp