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Found Friday Vol 57

June 10, 2011

This week’s Found Friday is a combination of silly & useful design finds. We have: bacon ipsum; a new jQuery slider; a collection of great WordPress tips & tricks; the authorized Steve Jobs biography; and a letter-holder bookend. Enjoy!

Bacon Ipsum

Tired of Lorem Ipsum? Try Bacon Ipsum! Prepare yourself for some quizzical responses if you actually mock up & send a client design using this.

Bacon Ipsum

TN3 Gallery

A slick jQuery-powered image gallery plugin. Freemium – the free model is quite useful, and the other licenses are very reasonable.

TN3 jQuery Gallery

40+ Best WordPress Tips & Tutorials

A great collection of WP tips & tricks, especially for those using WP as a CMS.

40+ WordPress Tips

iSteve

The authorized Steve Jobs biography for you fanboys and girls out there. Who am I kidding; I’ll read it.

iSteve - Steve Jobs Biography

Letter Holder Bookend

Kill two birds with one stone! Organize your books AND your letters with this ingenious solution.

LetterHolder Bookeend

See you next week!

Found Friday Vol 56

June 3, 2011

Welcome to Volume 56 of Found Fridays, where we showcase the best design finds o’ the week. This week, we have: part one of an article on Dieter Rams’ 10 principles of good design; how to make the best out of unwanted downtime; 20 iOS style app icons for inspiration; a website that has a ton of free, established brand logos for download; and a combination of useful CSS3 & HTML5 apps.

Dieter Rams & The 10 Principles for Good Design: Part I

Dieter Rams is a huge inspiration for many a designer, and published 10 principles for good design. Over on Drawar, a community member has summarized these principles in a two-part post.

Dieter Rams

Making the Best out of Unwanted Offline Time

It happens – your internet goes down. Instead of lying, shivering, in the fetal position, why take this time to tackle some outstanding, non-internet-related work? Here’s a good article that helps you get cracking. Note: read this before your internet goes down.

Making the Most of Unwanted Offline Time

20 Inspiring iOS Style Icons

Quite simply, 20 beautiful iOS-inspired icons. Have a look if you’re working on an icon design project and get those wheels turning!

20 iOS Style Icons

Brands of the World

While this isn’t a find of this week, it is definitely worth sharing. Brands of the World lets you download vector logos of established brands for your use; we’re talking big brands to small brands; Coca-Cola, IBM etc. Definitely a useful bookmark for designers.

Brands of the World

CSS3 & HTML5 Toolbox Starter

There’s a ton of resources out there designed to make our lives as web designers a little easier. This article rounds up some great tools to add to your web development toolbox.

CSS3 Toolbox

See you next week!

Found Friday Vol 55

May 27, 2011

This week’s instalment of Found Fridays is a mixed bag of greatness. We have: a great article on the disconnect between designers & clients; how to create a “body border” that goes around the inside of a browser window; caffeinated popcorn for you late-night designers; an article on WordPress image management; and a nice, free display typeface from the League of Movable Type.

The Design Disconnect

This a must-read for any and all designers, I think. The author, Ross, talks about his struggles with design, client revisions, and the like. If you’re a designer, you will relate.

Design Disconnect

Creating a Body Border

A (older but updated to reflect new methods) tutorial on how to create a border that goes around the inside of your browser window. Web design trickery!

Creating a Body Border

Biofuel Caffeinated Popcorn

Designers & developers can be known to burn the midnight oil. Instead of brewing up a pot of coffee to keep you awake to hit that deadline, why not try caffeinated popcorn? Weird. I think I’ll stick to the coffee.

Caffeinated Popcorn

Better Image Management with WordPress

WordPress is our CMS of choice; that’s been beaten into the ground by this point. However, it’s not perfect and there are always ways to improve it – and this article touches on exactly that, focusing on handling images within the CMS.

Better Image Management with WordPress

Ostrich Sans

Odd name, pretty cool typeface. 5 different fonts are in this family, and they’re good for display use (exclusively, I’d say).

Ostrich Sans Typeface

See you next week!

Found Friday Vol 54

May 20, 2011

This week’s finds are heavy on the awesome/free! We have: a pay-what-you-want type foundry; a resource for free design elements with a unique business model; a site with free, simple desktops; a huge collection of design-related apps & resources on mega-discount; and a company that offers neat-looking, recycled goods like binders, presentation folders and the like.

Lost Type Co-Op

This “type co-op” (aka foundry) commissions typefaces from a variety of designers. You pay what you want – the Radiohead model, if you will – and that money goes to the type designer. Some cool display faces in here.

Lost Type Foundry

Freebie Pixels

Freebie Pixels offers resources for designers to download and use; however, those designers who submit resources that get accepted earn “Pixel Points”, which can be used to buy other resources from their Pixel Store. Interesting concept.

Freebie Pixels

Simple Desktops

If you’re a fan of minimalism, you’ll like the wallpapers that Simple Desktops have to offer. But be sure to come back here on the first of every month for our monthly desktop calendar wallpapers!

Simple Desktops

BundleHunt 4

While I might be feeling a little overwhelmed with the explosion of “deals” around these ‘ere Innernet parts, BundleHunt 4 offers some great stuff- 13 Mac Apps & resources for designers, to be specific, at a combined 93% discount.

BundleHunt 4

Rebinder

Rebinder is a company that offers truly sustainable office products. I dig the look of what they’ve got going, and you get to feel good about doing your part too! Their goods could have potential for branding collateral for a lower-budget, eco-focused client too.

Rebinder

See you next week!

Found Friday Vol 53

May 13, 2011

This marks the 53rd week, or second year, of Found Fridays. I suppose that means there is no shortage of design goods out there! This week’s find includes: “Apple” cores for your Apple cords; a bunch of useful CSS3 generating tools; an article on some lesser-talked-about parts of being a web designer; a fun DIY shower curtain; and a bunch of awesome product packaging designs. All these items were found by our intern, Suzie!

Apple Cores

Cords are a pain. Apple Cores provide a simple, elegant solution to that pain. The end.

Apple Core

10+ Useful Tools to Simplify CSS3 Development

CSS3 is where it’s at, but it can be tough to remember the various effects you can apply, how to make them work in most browsers, and so forth. Let these tools help you, young design Padawan.

CSS3 Tools

8 Things They Don’t Tell You About Being a Web Designer

Some good tips in this article for young/aspiring web designers; not just complaining either, a trap which some articles of this ilk can fall into. Read & heed!

8 Things About Being a Web Designer

DIY Shower Curtain

This shower curtain comes with a permanent black marker so you can draw up your own designs. Just make sure you hide the marker if you throw a party, lest your shower curtain become R-rated.

DIY Shower Curtain

Inspiring Product Packaging

Product packaging design is a lot different than print or web design; namely, it’s three-dimensional. It can be tough to visualize a design when you’re in the beginning stages too – so maybe these quality designs will help get your creative ball rolling.

Inspiring Product Packaging

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