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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 36

December 3, 2010

Welcome to December, and volume 36 of Found Fridays – 36 weeks we’ve been running this series, which showcases the best design finds of the week (in my humble opinion). This week, we have: 24 ways – an advent calendar for web geeks, 50 great examples of snowboard design, a great tutorial on icon design, an article on design briefs and some awesome “lens bracelets” for photographers. Enjoy!

24 Ways: 2010

Let’s just let the website authors explain: “24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.” Sounds like fun to me!

24 Ways

50 Beautiful Examples of Snowboard Designs

‘Tis the season! To get out on the slopes and shred, that is. If you’re lucky enough to be working on a snowboard design, or if you just want to see some great work, check out this post for inspiration.

Snowboard design

Tips to Create Awesome 48×48 Icons

WeGraphics has a great tutorial on creating a 48×48 pixel Wacom tablet icon. Not only do they go step-by-step, but they explain a bit of the thought process behind the decisions. Good read.

How to Create Icons

Gains Clients & Avoid Stress with a Solid Design Brief

We’ve talked about design briefs before; this article takes it a bit further. Have a read, freelancers!

Solid Design Brief

Lens Bracelets

If you are a photographer nerd, or if you have a photographer nerd friend, this would be a great stocking stuffer. A bracelet – a la the Livestrong style – but designed to look like part of a camera lens. Brilliant!

Lens Bracelet

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.

New Feature: Found Friday Vol 1

February 19, 2010

So last week we killed the weekly wallpaper feature. We killed it dead. Why? To be honest, a lot of the time we found ourselves racing on Thursday night or Friday morning to design a wallpaper to put up. It took up too much time, and to be honest it wasn’t all that popular. So we’ll still be doing calendar wallpapers, and the occasional wallpaper if the mood strikes, but our new weekly feature is going to be a lot better. Allow me to introduce to you: Found Friday.

Every Friday, we’ll post a new Found Friday article, linking to a variety of design-related articles, items & more that we’ve discovered during the week that we think are awesome. We’re active in the online design community, and there is a ton of new content released every week; our hope is to help spread some of that content to people who might also think it’s great. I hope you, our readers, will find this post both more fun & useful than the weekly wallpapers post.

So let’s get rolling. The inaugural Found Friday post features the following: an ultra minimal start page, a redesigning of Valentine’s Day, a huge & awesome icon pack, a really little content management system, the BBC site redesign process, and 35 new free fonts for designers.

FAV4.ORG

How to use Fav4.org: choose your 4 favorite websites from their list. Set the page as your browser’s home page. Enjoy the ease of minimalist design. (via swiss-miss)

Link to Fav4.org

REDESIGNING VALENTINE’S DAY

The gents over at Brand New (a great blog on identity design) were tasked to redesign Valentine’s Day. Read about their process, and see the awesome result, here.

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