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Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition

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

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.

Flickr Friday: November 13, 2009

Superstition is a powerful thing. So on this, a day that makes the most prosaic person tread carefully, let's look at other objects surrounded by superstition.

Flickr Friday: November 6, 2009

Compare two versions of a Vienna night scene. One is a photograph, and the other is that photo transformed by painting software.

Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools

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!

Flickr Friday: October 30, 2009

This seasonal photo is no trick, and learning how it was shot is a real treat.

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1

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.

Flickr Friday: October 23, 2009

By the light of the iPhone.

Create Better Marketing Postcards

Postcards are like freeway billboards: You have a very short time to communicate your message. Here's how to create effective postcards that get the response you want.

Free For All: An Awesome Assortment

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!

Flickr Friday: October 9, 2009

Derek Powazek is a Web guru and a lover of print and fine photography. And recently, he became an instant publisher, going from Flickr to a print magazine in 31.5 hours.

Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game

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.

Flickr Friday: October 2, 2009

A good eye can be more important than good gear.

Free For All: Textures

This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.

Flickr Friday: September 25, 2009

Want to see what an Australian strongman of 1936 looked like?

Free For All: Harvest These Freebies

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.

Flickr Friday: September 18, 2009

Some fancy software footwork makes this shot of Paris look like a small planet.

Flickr Friday Archives

This page is a compilation of links to all past Flickr Friday photos, illustrations, and videos.

Flickr Friday: September 11, 2009

You might think that this striking image of red smoke on a black background is from a commercial stock photo site. But the photographer is giving it away in exchange for proper attribution.

Flickr Friday: September 4, 2009

Flickr isn't just a place to post and find visually inspiring images. It can also be another way to keep up with current events, as this photo of the still-burning Station Fire shows.