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Found Friday Vol 23

August 27, 2010

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!

Found Friday Vol 22

August 20, 2010

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.

Found Friday Vol 20

August 6, 2010

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

That’s it! See ya next week.

Found Friday Vol 19

July 30, 2010

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!