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Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 18, 2009
Whatever winter event you're designing for, you'll want these free fonts, clip art, stock photos, and WordPress and Blogger templates.
A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2
Features: Written by James Felici on November 16, 2009
Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.
Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 30, 2009
One free online tool lets you easily extract colors from images and share them. Another resizes, renames, and convert folders full of images. I also have lots of free Photoshop brushes and fonts -- everyone's favorites!
A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1
Features: Written by James Felici on October 26, 2009
As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.
Free For All: An Awesome Assortment
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 19, 2009
Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!
Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game
Features: Written by James Felici on October 5, 2009
The vocabulary of type is mysterious at best, and nowhere is this more true than in how typefaces are labeled. Yet knowing how typefaces are named and categorized has very practical benefits.
Free For All: Harvest These Freebies
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 23, 2009
Summer has officially given way to fall, and in the northern hemisphere, that means it's harvest time. Fill your basket with this delectable sampling of free tools, fonts, and services.
Free For All: Halloween Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 31, 2009
Halloween in August? It's not too early to start thinking spooky, especially if you'll be sending out Halloween-themed projects to a printer.
To Double-Space or Not to Double-Space...
Features: Written by James Felici on August 24, 2009
A thought-provoking disquisition on the thorny issue of how much space should follow a sentence-ending period.
In White Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
Features: Written by James Felici on August 10, 2009
Think you're in total control of your type? Truth is, you're on a short lead, in the tight grip of your typeface's designer.
Free For All: Twice As Nice
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 22, 2009
Two servings of our freebies column in one month? Don't worry, there's no such thing as overindulgence when you're talking about free photos, textures, icons, cheatsheets, or Photoshop brushes. Dig in!
Free For All: 103 Free Fonts!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on June 15, 2009
Script fonts, modern fonts, grunge fonts, funky fonts -- what's your pleasure? We have them all, and they're all free!
A Love Letter to Letters
Features: Written by Patrick Devine on June 1, 2009
In which a type nerd visiting a museum with his two kids is struck dumb by exceptional signage. What do you think the alluring mystery typeface will turn out to be?
Free For All: Put Away Your Wallet
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on May 14, 2009
Convert files, change your wallpaper, get things done, restore missing Photoshop features, and try fonts. As always, they're all free.
Free For All: This Stuff's Worth Paying For, But You Don't Have To!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on April 13, 2009
There's something for everyone this month: designers of iPhone Web sites or iApps; type lovers; business owners; and people who just want to compress the heck out of online images.
Creativeprose: Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive
Features: Written on March 23, 2009
November 16, 2009 Recently discovered diaries of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre reveal a man obsessed not with the void, but with food. Read excerpts here. http://www.pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html November 10, 2009 Whoops! Someone's birthday is today and you forgot to send a card? Go to this site (created by Mat Honan), type your message after ".eu/" in the Web browser address field, and hit Return/Enter. Then send the resulting URL to the birthday boy/girl.
Free For All: Great Gratis Goodies
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on February 16, 2009
In this month's roundup of online bargains, we highlight Photoshop brushes, back-up software, an hourly rate estimator, a Photoshop plug-in to create favicons, and a seven-font type family. And of course, they're all free!
iPhone Apps for Designers
Features: Written by Jeff Carlson on January 28, 2009
Yes, iPhones are good for phone calls, text messages, email, and of course, games. But many iApps are truly useful additions to a designer's toolbox. Here are a few of the better apps, which range in price from free to $9.99.
Free For All: And So It Begins
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on January 19, 2009
Take your pick of Photoshop brushes and fonts you'll love, t-shirt design templates, and a portable password manager. They're all free!
Ten (More!) Free Online Tools for Designers
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on December 17, 2008
Ten more free resources help you find and land clients; set your hourly rate; manage project proofing and signoff; find company logos; and more.