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New Feature: Found Friday Vol 1
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...
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Free Tooltip-Style Social Media Icon Set
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. There are a lot of icon packs & sets out there, but a lot just give you flattened PNGs, making it more work than it should be to customize the icon colors...
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Free Client Presentation InDesign Template
As a design studio that does a lot of branding & identity work for small businesses, we often find ourselves creating PDFs to showcase design concepts to our clients. A good presentation of design...
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YourBand: a Free HTML Template
Most indie musicians are either poor, barely scraping by, or living with their parents. It’s a tough racket, and there are a lot of things to pay for when you’re a musician: touring, gas, recording,...
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10 Free Silhouette Vector Packs
Ah, the faceless/detail-free silhouette: a simple and clean design element that can be used across a variety of mediums. It can be time-consuming to create a new silhouette vector graphic every time...
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Free Friday Wallpaper: BOKEH
After the explosion in popularity of the Color Theory Reference Poster (and wallpaper), this Free Friday wallpaper has a tough act to follow. I’ve been dealing a lot with muted colors, so I think...
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Free Friday Wallpaper: Ampersand
Ampersands are cool. Each typeface’s ampersand says a lot about its personality; it says a lot about how the typeface should be used. Some are smooth & classy; others are bold and blocky. Whenever...
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February 2010 Desktop Wallpaper
Welcome to February, all! Hopefully the coldest of the bitter cold in your town is gone. It might be gone here in Edmonton, but who knows? It was minus 40C before it was even officially winter this...
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10 Best @font-face Fonts
As soon as I learned about the @font-face CSS declaration, my life as a designer changed permanently. A whole world of possibilities are opened up by this feature – no more relying on Arial, Verdana,...
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Free Friday Wallpaper: Carbon Fibre Gears
Welcome to the final installment of the (official) Free Friday Wallpapers. From here on, we’ll keep doing monthly calendar wallpapers, and perhaps occasional other ones here and there – but not one...
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New Feature: Found Friday Vol 1
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...
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Free Tooltip-Style Social Media Icon Set
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. There are a lot of icon packs & sets out there, but a lot just give you flattened PNGs, making it more work than it should be to customize the icon colors...
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Free Client Presentation InDesign Template
As a design studio that does a lot of branding & identity work for small businesses, we often find ourselves creating PDFs to showcase design concepts to our clients. A good presentation of design...
View ArticleClik here to view.
YourBand: a Free HTML Template
Most indie musicians are either poor, barely scraping by, or living with their parents. It’s a tough racket, and there are a lot of things to pay for when you’re a musician: touring, gas, recording,...
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Introducing Alton: an Innovative jQuery Scrolling Plugin
In December of 2014, we launched a client site that had some custom scrolling code. We had an idea, in the design process of the site for North Elm, that involved full-page presentations of their...
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Introducing Alton: an Innovative jQuery Scrolling Plugin
In December of 2014, we launched a client site that had some custom scrolling code. We had an idea, in the design process of the site for North Elm, that involved full-page presentations of their...
View ArticleWaldo: Responsive CSS Background Images for WordPress
It’s no secret: the handling of responsive images with regards to web development has been in flux for a while now. We know that responsive images need to be optimized for the device resolution on...
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More Expression Through Emojis : The Pre-Coffee Jeff Emoticon
At Paper Leaf, we’re always looking for new mediums to express ourselves, and often this happens through emojis. But we found that there isn’t always the right emoji to express our early morning...
View ArticleScrape & Import Posts to WordPress from Another CMS
TL;DR We created a series of scripts designed to scrape and import content from unfriendly CMS’ into WordPress. It saved us 55 hours of really super ultra boring manual work, so we’re releasing it for...
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10 Best @font-face Fonts
As soon as I learned about the @font-face CSS declaration, my life as a designer changed permanently. A whole world of possibilities are opened up by this feature – no more relying on Arial, Verdana,...
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