It’s November! For some of you, it’s the last month before snow covers the landscape. For us Edmontonians… well, we’ve been shovelling for a few days already now. Awesome. But there’s nothing to brighten the spirits like a fresh coat of paint for your desktop, mobile device or tablet – and we’re here to help with a free desktop calendar wallpaper for November. Download below & share away!

November-Calendar-Wallpaper-2012

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In the past couple of years, we’ve designed & released two free, popular design education resources: the Color Theory Quick Reference Poster, and the Elements of Design Quick Reference Poster. These items are now being used in classrooms all over the world, but we kept getting one specific question: when will you make a Principles of Design poster?

The answer is… today!

We’re happy to announce the new, free Principles of Design Quick Reference Poster (in two colors).

Principles of Design Infographic

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Welcome to October! This month’s desktop wallpaper is a textured deal with some minimal type treatment; a nice update for your various devices! Download your size below and share away. Happy October!

October Calendar Wallpaper 2012

Click to download the free October 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper in 2560X1600px, 1920X1200px, 1920X1080px, 1680X1050px, 1440X900px, 1280X800px, iPad and iPhone versions.

Seems like an easy question to answer, doesn’t it? If you’re a designer, you want to sell your design services: perhaps logo design, print design, web design, interface design and so forth.

The reality? Yeah, you should be selling that. But there’s much more that you should be selling. You should be selling comfort, reliability, and likeability along with, or even above, your design competence.

Designers: what are you actually selling?

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Found Friday Vol 96

September 14, 2012

It’s Found Friday Vol 96! This week we have an awesome, responsive jQuery modal window plugin; a CSS arrow generator; a handy color-picker tool; a cheeky blog on skeuomorphism in design; and the expanded version of League Gothic, a beautiful free typeface. Read on!

*note: Feedburner is shutting down; thus, we’re thinking of finally moving Found Fridays to an exclusive weekly email newsletter format. Join the list to ensure you don’t miss out!

Fresco

jQuery modal windows (think Lightbox) are still super prevalent and useful in web design. Fresco is a lightweight responsive version of that. Nice!

Fresco JS

CSS Arrow Please

CSS Arrows are handy, but kind of a pain to write by hand. Use this handy generator to save some time!

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