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Found Friday Vol 81

February 3, 2012

This week’s finds are all about two things: typography and web design. If you don’t like either of those things, what are you doing here?!? This week, we have: a great free font family; a cool CSS3 ribbon menu tutorial/code; a bunch of interesting (albeit perhaps not the most useful) snippets of CSS3 code; a great article from A List Apart on web design & your rates; and a cool new web typography movement called Open Typography. Read on!

Exo Font Family

A Kickstarter-funded project, this free typeface has 9 weights in regular & true italic versions. Nice.

CSS Ribbon Menu

My word! The things you can accomplish with CSS these days.

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Found Friday Vol 80

January 27, 2012

The eightieth version of Found Friday is here, and this week we have: a beautiful wood iPhone case; a collection of great plugins for those of us using WordPress as a CMS; a neat little tool designed to help hang things and such (bad description, but scroll down and have a look); a new t-shirt from the folks at United PixelWorkers and A Book Apart; and a must-watch video for any creative. Read on!

Material 6 Wood iPhone Case

The iPhone is a beautiful device – nobody’s arguing that. But the glass backside sacrifices durability for beauty. Here’s a solution to that problem: a beautiful and durable wood iPhone case! Want.

WordPress CMS Plugins

WordPress is a great publishing platform, but most anything can be improved. That’s what this list of plugins from the folks at DigWP does: aim to improve the use of WordPress as a CMS.
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Found Friday Vol 79

January 20, 2012

It’s Friday! Let us help you celebrate with five great designy finds from the web. This week, we have: a must-use plugin for those using WordPress as a CMS; a limited-time, free bundle of design goods; the world’s simplest mailing list setup; a preview for an upcoming type film for typography nerds; and a beautiful, inventive coffee machine. Because, you know, we all run on coffee. Enjoy!

Dashboard Site Notes

WordPress is famous for its ease of use; however, it can still be daunting to total n00bs, like some of your clients. We normally use a Dashboard Tips Widget with our client WordPress builds; however, it’s a little janky and not that great to set up. Enter Dashboard Site Notes: a WordPress plugin that lets you author notes and site guidelines for your clients through the WordPress interface, so they always have reminders nearby. A must-install in my books.

ZeroBundle

Everyone likes free stuff! Especially designers. This bundle has a bunch of icons, UI elements and the like for designers. It’s free for another 27 days or so. Check it out!

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Found Friday Vol 78

January 13, 2012

This week’s Found Friday is a goldmine for web designers & developers. We have a great demo/download for some beautiful CSS buttons; we have a neat online app for creating Photoshop-esque “layer styles” in CSS; a site showcasing OpenType features on the web, for you fellow typeheads; an interesting looking book on “common sense for designers”; and a minimalist site for playing a band’s top YouTube videos sans clutter. Check ‘em out!

CSS Buttons With Pseudo Elements

A great tutorial with source files, these CSS buttons combine beauty & usefulness.

Layer Styles

For those of us who dabble in both Photoshop and CSS/HTML, this neat little tool might come in handy. It’s a GUI that looks exactly like Photoshop’s layer styles palette, but spits out CSS styling for live web rendering of the same effects.

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Found Friday Vol 77

January 6, 2012

Number 77 of Found Fridays checking in here. You know what else was #77? Ray Bourque. There, maybe you learned something today. Feel free to learn more (perhaps related to your profession, i.e. design) with the following finds: an awesome “day in the life of a designer” parody video from the holidays; a super-simple WordPress plugin for front-end uploads; an interesting year-end update from Process Type Foundry; a site with a great collection of design & dev tools; and finally some beautiful new monitors from Samsung.

Viewpoint Creative – Holiday Card

So I’m a little late on this one, but if you missed it, check out this short (and hilarious) video. If you’re a designer of any ilk, you’ll relate.

Front End Upload WordPress Plugin

This is a simple, open-source solution to adding front-end uploading capabilities to your WordPress site. Looks pretty handy, although I haven’t tried it myself.