You might not now but recently the world's biggest logo marketplace Brandstack.com was acquired by DesignCrowd. It's since been relaunched as BrandCrowd, a marketplace for designers looking to sell any unused logos and for anyone hunting for a logo design.

The marketplace is offering a quality experience for both parties;

• only high-quality designs are accepted so buyers browse through a well-designed set of logos
• designers focus on creativity without being directed by a client brief

The process to sell logo designs is pretty straightforward, upload the designs with a short brief and they are ready to be purchased after the BrandCrowd team places them under the right categories so buyers can find them easily.

The user profile also function as a portfolio of items for sale where your designs are listed and the price you've set is displayed to the user. Sellers can receive offers from buyers who want to make an alternative offer to buy the design and/or request modifications to the existing design.

Listing items is completely free and BrandCrowd only gets a commission when there is a sale. After each sale, the company contacts buyers to verify the purchase, which means logos are protected.

If you want to buy logos, things are all good as well. Browse the logos, filter with keywords (for ex :check the design and creative services logos) and, if found a logo meeting your requirements, just pick the item and it is all yours (won't be resold to anyone). As the buyer gets the vector files, it is possible to easily apply updates on it.

Re-selling/Privacy

Interestingly, there is a feature available to buyers (such as web design agencies) to allow them to make a purchased logo hidden or private.

This is useful if you're looking to:

• re-sell that logo (potentially with a margin)
• just wanting to hide the logo for your own business so that people don't know where you got it from.

Conclusion

BrandCrowd (which used to be known as Brandstack) appears to now moving forward with a new name + energy.  Our take: it's a risk-free opportunity for unlocking the value of any used logo designs and a great place to buy a creative logo for yourself (or your clients).

Colors is a standalone JavaScript library that comes with features to manipulate colors in multiple ways.

The library can handle multiple types of unit conversions including RGB to a Hexadecimal and Hexadecimal to RGB or HSV.

It can get the complimentary color of any Hexadecimal or RGB value and can generate random color values.

P.S. The library is still under heavy development and in beta phase.

Fbootstrapp is a base HTML-CSS template for quickly developing Facebook iframe apps.

It is built on Twitter Bootstrap, has styles for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation and much more which are all styled to fit Facebook's classic design.

The template supports both 520px + 760px sizes and includes JavaScript plugins (provided by the original Bootstrap) that would help providing Facebook-like interactions.

Grid Builder is a web application handy for anyone looking to create a base HTML-CSS grid quickly.

On a canvas with a 3*4 grid, you simply drag 'n' drop the given grid units to create the desired template (like a 3 column design with a header and footer).

After that, just click the "Show me the code" button and get the HTML-CSS output of the designed grid.

P.S. You can also check out "The 892 unique ways to partition a 3 x 4 grid" article andget the PDF provided to find more about the 3*4 grids.

Designing grid-based layouts in Photoshop is usually a headache as it takes time to calculate and position many vertical + horizontal guides.

GuideGuide is a free Photoshop plugin which simplifies creating grids in Photoshop with only a few clicks.

After defining a few variables (number of rows/columns, gutter width, etc.), it instantly generates the grid using Photoshop guides. And, for any active selections in the document, the plugin sets the grid within the limits of the selection.

Also, any frequently-used grid settings can be saved for later use.

P.S. Smashing Magazine has a very nice article on the usage details of the plugin.

Bijou is a set of beautiful icons that are tiny-in-size yet pixel-perfect in details.

There are 120+ items in the set which consists of popular icons like charts, actions, arrows, smileys, etc.

The download package includes transparent PNGs, a PSD file with all the icons as layers and a Photoshop custom shapes version (.CSH).

Also, usage is free for personal and commercial projects (no attribution required).

You'll remember Twitter Bootstrap, a toolkit by Twitter for kickstarting CSS development and creating beautiful interfaces easily.

jQuery UI Bootstrap is a jQuery UI theme that is inspired from Twitter's project and brings the slickness of it to jQuery UI widgets.

Using the theme, it is not only possible to use the Bootstrap-themed widgets but also work with Twitter Bootstrap side-by-side without issues.

You can also read more about the motivation behind the project on the developer's web page announcing the jQuery UI Bootstrap.

Fount is a free-to-use bookmarklet that instantly identifies fonts used in a web page.

Once activated, just click on any text and it displays the font name, size and weight in a growl-like notification.

It doesn't requires re-activation and any number of text can be clicked repeatedly. For disabling it, clicking the bookmarklet is enough.

Fount is a useful and tiny companion for typography inspiration and works in all major browsers.

Smashing Magazine has recently shared a very nice set of free vector icons named August Interactive Icon Pack.

The set is focused on web UI design and includes items like arrows, actions, media player, download icons and more to ease creating such interfaces.

They are designed with Adobe Fireworks and exported as an editable + layered Photoshop file.

Download package consists of the PSD file, Fireworks PNG file and transparent PNGs for each icon.

PremiumPixels, a website by Orman Clark that regularly releases design freebies, has recently published a very nice set of icons.

The set is named Pixicus and it consists of 106 pixel-perfect icons that are mono colored.

There are 106 icons with items like actions, social networks, users or devices and they are in transparent PNG format with 12*12px sizes.