1. Found Friday Vol 23

    August 27, 2010 by Jeff

    Volume 23 this week. Michael Jordan. It’s gorgeous outside and I want to go for a bike ride, so that’s as good an intro as you’re going to get. This week: Twitter background designs & best practices, a great typography mug, 10 places that can turn your designs into actual things, a cool office that’s been made to look like an old cottage, and a fun website with ridiculous “I can’t come to work” excuses. Read on, readers!

    Twitter Background Design – Great Tips & Gorgeous Examples

    Twitter seems to be here to stay – so, if you’re a Twitterer (Tweeter? Twitterionian?), best make your background look as dope as possible lest the Internet mock you for lameness. Here’s a great article on how to do that. PS follow us!

    Font Me Typography Mug

    Thanks to swiss-miss for the find; I’m always up for a good nerd-style coffee mug.

    10 Services That Turn Your Designs into Real Stuff

    There’s a ton of sites out there that offer one-off printing or construction of your graphics and ideas. It’s like a new revolution! Check these sites out if you’re the creative type.

    Bartle Bogle Hegarty Offices

    I love cool offices; these guys went off in their own direction and turned the inside of their offices into an English-style cottage.

    I Can’t Come to Work

    Some light Friday reading for you – ridiculous excuses from people as to why they can’t make it into work. Example: “Due to heavy rain and high fever I am suffering from, I’ll be in once rain stops.” Yup.

    See you next week!

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  2. Found Friday Vol 22

    August 20, 2010 by Jeff

    This week’s Found Friday is a healthy mix of good value stuff and well-designed stuff. Stuff, stuff, stuff. All related in some way to design, we have the following which caught my eye this week: a great bamboo water bottle (gorgeous AND great for the environment), a site that converts YouTube videos to MP3s (think of the possibilities!), a limited-time great bundle of discounted design files from Envato, 10 free design ebooks, and a great point-and-shoot that has a built in projector. Read on!

    Bamboo Bottle

    Plastic bottles are terrible for the environment and you, if you reuse them. So kick the habit by picking up this Bamboo Bottle.

    Dirpy

    A website with a very simple premise: it takes in Youtube videos and spits out MP3s. So, for all of you who want the mp3 version of my engagement stickman country music video for Andy (moderately NSFW because of a swear… man I’m so romantic), now you have your chance. (via swiss-miss)

    Envato Birthday Bundle

    $400 worth of high-quality design files for $20? Count me in. WordPress themes, vectors, PSD templates, CSS-only designs, and so forth. Only available for a few more days, so get on it if you want it.

    10 Essential Free eBooks for Web Designers

    I don’t know when I’m going to find the time to read 10 ebooks on design, but I’ll find the time to at least skim a couple. Check this list out if web design is your thing.

    Nikon S1100 PJ

    Point and shoots don’t really excite me, but this guy – which comes in different colors, thankfully – lets you connect to your computer and project images up to 47″. Pretty solid for $350.

    That’s it that’s all! See you next week.

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  3. Found Friday Vol 21

    August 13, 2010 by Jeff

    I barely had time for Found Friday this week; it’s been bananas around the Paper Leaf offices these days! However, I still managed to find the following killer items & articles out there on the ol’ interweb this week: an erasable Sharpie that turns permanent after a few days, an amazing music video that uses hilariously bad stock video footage (intentionally), 25 cool Google logos, an article on integrating social media into your website as well as an article with 20+ great new web apps for designers/developers. Read on!

    Sharpie

    This “liquid pencil”, as it’s being billed, is awesome. You can write & erase it, but after 3 days it turns permanent like a regular Sharpie. Key ingredient: magic.

    Sharpie

    Ratatat Music Video

    Not only is this song great, the video is too. The gents from Ratatat decided to create a whole music video using only (hilariously bad) stock video footage. It’s uncomfortable yet hilarious to watch. Like the Office.

    Ratatat Music Video

    25 Most Creative Google National Logos

    Google has very few rules for their logo use; in this post, you can see how their designers went to town when making nationally themed Google logos. Interesting stuff; not always good, but interesting nonetheless.

    Google Logos

    How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website

    Social media is the new black! You don’t have social media integrated into your website yet, you say? Well, put down the price sheet for your Yellow Pages ad, Grandpa, read this article, and get with the now.

    Integrate Social Media into Your Website

    20+ New Apps & Websites for Designers

    This is a must-read article over on WebDesignerDepot. I’m sure you’ve seen some of the items in it, but I bet you haven’t seen ‘em all – and you don’t want to miss something game-changing, right? Personally, I’m digging CloudApp.

    20 Apps and Websites for Designers

    See you next week!

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  4. Found Friday Vol 20

    August 6, 2010 by Jeff

    I gotta say: this week’s finds are some of the best yet. I try to find a combination of interesting, aesthetic and useful finds for you guys, and there were a lot of releases this week that met that bill. We have a new, beautiful small book on typography, an image placeholder service for you web designers out there, a Google cheat sheet to improve your search results, a beautiful new font from the makers of Gotham (Hoefler & Frere-Jones), and 6 useful online CSS3 tools. Enjoy!

    Meet Your Type

    Found via swissmiss (as are the following two), this self-proclaimed “field guide to typography” is free to download, and $15 to print off of Lulu. Great layout, great information, and definitely worth picking up.

    meet your type

    Placehold.it

    I covered a similar  image generating service back in Volume 4 of Found Fridays (which, might I add, features an awesome watch I still want), but if that didn’t tickle your fancy, maybe Placehold.it will. A super simple way to throw in a placeholder image when developing a website.

    placehold.it

    Google Cheat Sheet

    Google’s search engine is still the most widely used – by far – but not everyone knows all the various techniques you can use to improve your search results. Including me. Behold: a Google cheat sheet!

    Google Cheat Sheet

    Forza

    H&FJ make some of my absolute favorite typefaces. Forza might join that list (although I have yet to purchase it). Check it out; it’s gorgeous.

    forza typeface

    6 Useful CSS3 Tools

    You could write all this newfangled CSS3 code yourself… or you could use these free, handy generators to do it for you. It’s your call.

    6 Useful CSS3 ToolsThat’s it! See ya next week.

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  5. Found Friday Vol 19

    July 30, 2010 by Jeff

    Once again, there were many great finds in the design community this week. Here on Found Friday Vol 19, we have an article dealing with design by committee *shudder*, cool wall decals to spice up your office or home, a gorgeous notebook, the new Lumix camera and its great industrial design, and a fun poster on typography moustaches. Enjoy!

    How to Navigate Design by Committee

    Design by committee rarely, if ever, results in design of any value. Read this great article on SixRevisions on how to get the most out of the process.

    Blik Wall Decals

    We used Blik decals at our wedding, and they’re a great alternative to more traditional wall decorations. Check ‘em out!

    MUCU Notebooks

    I can never get enough of great notebooks and sketchpads. Here are a couple more for those of you like me!

    Panasonic Lumix LX5

    I think our old Lumix might have an unfortunate accident soon, so I can justify picking up this beautiful camera. A high-end point & shoot with Leica glass, full manual control and more.

    Know Your Typestache

    Show off your typographic nerdery and your love of moustaches all in one fun poster.

    See you next week!

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