Though this post should probably rightfully be Kathryn's scoop, I'm gonna be first off the block.... to, um, scoop... (Mixed metaphors are my specialty.)
If you are looking for cleared UC Berkeley images for non-commercial use, check this new site. UC Berkeley Images: UC Berkeley Photos. What's interesting to me is the photographer's credits! I was surprised at how many of our fine colleagues working in other fields on campus have contributed to this nice catalog of pictures.
Very handy.
Showing posts with label free stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free stuff. Show all posts
Friday, March 7, 2008
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Of Fawnt and dafont
via Daring Fireball (from a couple of weeks ago)
There was I time when I was crazy for fonts. I would collect and pore over the typeface catalogs from Adobe, Monotype, ITC, and Emigre and dream of the day when I would own every font in the world.
Nowadays, with everyone and their uncle (or aunt) creating fonts I’ve given up on my plans of world font domination. There’s also the fact that owning every commercially-available font would be prohibitively expensive and having zillions of fonts loaded on my computer would cause Adobe apps to take eight hours to open (Microsoft Word could take up to three weeks to launch).
But, for those of you still clinging to your font fetishes, here are a couple of sites to enable your addiction:
Fawnt.com
dafont.com
There was I time when I was crazy for fonts. I would collect and pore over the typeface catalogs from Adobe, Monotype, ITC, and Emigre and dream of the day when I would own every font in the world.
Nowadays, with everyone and their uncle (or aunt) creating fonts I’ve given up on my plans of world font domination. There’s also the fact that owning every commercially-available font would be prohibitively expensive and having zillions of fonts loaded on my computer would cause Adobe apps to take eight hours to open (Microsoft Word could take up to three weeks to launch).
But, for those of you still clinging to your font fetishes, here are a couple of sites to enable your addiction:
Fawnt.com
Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web's highest quality fonts
dafont.com
Welcome. Here you can download fonts to use in your documents, create titles or logos.
I’ve perused both sites and have resisted the urge to download all the free fonts. I can just look at them and appreciate them. Yeah.
Well, maybe I’ll just try one.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Attractive… Charts?
via Smashing Magazine via popurls
Do you use Flash? (Me: A little.) Do you design charts? (Me: Sometimes.) Do you design dynamic charts in Flash? (Me: Wow, I never thought of doing that.)
And, with my mediocre Flash skills, I would never attempt making a dynamic chart in Flash.
Enter amCharts, the work of a seemingly lone, Lithuanian Flash developer. I won’t go into the details—Smashing Magazine already did: Attractive Online Diagrams, Charts And Maps. When you’re done reading about it, you can go to amCharts and download away.
Do you use Flash? (Me: A little.) Do you design charts? (Me: Sometimes.) Do you design dynamic charts in Flash? (Me: Wow, I never thought of doing that.)
And, with my mediocre Flash skills, I would never attempt making a dynamic chart in Flash.
Enter amCharts, the work of a seemingly lone, Lithuanian Flash developer. I won’t go into the details—Smashing Magazine already did: Attractive Online Diagrams, Charts And Maps. When you’re done reading about it, you can go to amCharts and download away.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Free! Fonts!
via Smashing Magazine via popurls
Smashing Magazine is linking to six free (!) fonts and we’re linking to Smashing Magazine. I don’t know if you’d want to change the body copy of your entire newsletter-brochure-what-have-you to any of these free (!) typefaces, but any of them would work as a display face. Remember, “If it’s free, take one. If it’s free and not so good, take two.”
Smashing Magazine is linking to six free (!) fonts and we’re linking to Smashing Magazine. I don’t know if you’d want to change the body copy of your entire newsletter-brochure-what-have-you to any of these free (!) typefaces, but any of them would work as a display face. Remember, “If it’s free, take one. If it’s free and not so good, take two.”
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Google Office
via Macworld
No, I don't mean Google (verb) Office (direct object). I mean Google Office—like Google’s answer to Microsoft Office. Actually it’s called Google Docs & Spreadsheets BETA (catchy, right?) and you can read more about it at Macworld. I’ve played with this Google Documents & Spreadsheets BETA a little bit and it has some interesting features. If anyone wants to try editing a shared document remotely in real-time, give me a jingle at calixton@youknowwhere.edu.
Yes, it’s not really design-related but everyone’s just coming back from vacation so it might be a while before the “design” posts come back in full force.
(First July post!)
No, I don't mean Google (verb) Office (direct object). I mean Google Office—like Google’s answer to Microsoft Office. Actually it’s called Google Docs & Spreadsheets BETA (catchy, right?) and you can read more about it at Macworld. I’ve played with this Google Documents & Spreadsheets BETA a little bit and it has some interesting features. If anyone wants to try editing a shared document remotely in real-time, give me a jingle at calixton@youknowwhere.edu.
Yes, it’s not really design-related but everyone’s just coming back from vacation so it might be a while before the “design” posts come back in full force.
(First July post!)
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Grade Your Website
via del.icio.us via popurls
Do you build Web sites and pages? Do you toss and turn restlessly in bed at night, wondering if your code is XHTML-valid, accessibility-compliant, and current-browser-friendly? Do you gnash your teeth and rend your garments when you get an e-mail complaining that there’s something wrong with your Web site?
If so, you need to ease up a little.
In the meantime, you can use some of the 31 Free Online Tests compiled in one handy-dandy post at Aviva Directory. The 31 tests are broken into 5 categories: Code Validation; Accessibility; Speed; Browser Simulators; and, Search Engine Optimization.
Now you have no excuse for non-valid, non-compliant, non-friendly, gnash- and rend-inducing code.
Do you build Web sites and pages? Do you toss and turn restlessly in bed at night, wondering if your code is XHTML-valid, accessibility-compliant, and current-browser-friendly? Do you gnash your teeth and rend your garments when you get an e-mail complaining that there’s something wrong with your Web site?
If so, you need to ease up a little.
In the meantime, you can use some of the 31 Free Online Tests compiled in one handy-dandy post at Aviva Directory. The 31 tests are broken into 5 categories: Code Validation; Accessibility; Speed; Browser Simulators; and, Search Engine Optimization.
Now you have no excuse for non-valid, non-compliant, non-friendly, gnash- and rend-inducing code.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Free symbol signs for download
via the AIGA web site:
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.
About the symbol signs
This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between the AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, they are an example of how public-minded designers can address a universal communication need.
Prior to this effort, numerous international, national and local organizations had devised symbols to guide passengers and pedestrians through transportation facilities and other sites of international exchange. While effective individual symbols had been designed, there was no system of signs that communicated the required range of complex messages, addressed people of different ages and cultures and were clearly legible at a distance.
To develop such a system, AIGA and D.O.T. compiled an inventory of symbol systems that had been used in various locations worldwide, from airports and train stations to the Olympic Games. AIGA appointed a committee of five leading designers of environmental graphics, who evaluated the symbols and made recommendations for adapting or redesigning them. Based on their conclusions, a team of AIGA member designers produced the symbols.
A first set of 34 symbols was published in 1974, and received one of the first Presidential Design Awards; 16 more symbols were added in 1979. These copyright-free symbols have become the standard for off-the-shelf symbols in the catalogues of U.S. sign companies. They are now available on the web for the first time.
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.
About the symbol signs
This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between the AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, they are an example of how public-minded designers can address a universal communication need.
Prior to this effort, numerous international, national and local organizations had devised symbols to guide passengers and pedestrians through transportation facilities and other sites of international exchange. While effective individual symbols had been designed, there was no system of signs that communicated the required range of complex messages, addressed people of different ages and cultures and were clearly legible at a distance.
To develop such a system, AIGA and D.O.T. compiled an inventory of symbol systems that had been used in various locations worldwide, from airports and train stations to the Olympic Games. AIGA appointed a committee of five leading designers of environmental graphics, who evaluated the symbols and made recommendations for adapting or redesigning them. Based on their conclusions, a team of AIGA member designers produced the symbols.
A first set of 34 symbols was published in 1974, and received one of the first Presidential Design Awards; 16 more symbols were added in 1979. These copyright-free symbols have become the standard for off-the-shelf symbols in the catalogues of U.S. sign companies. They are now available on the web for the first time.
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