Friday Links, vol. 19

Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Frontify, a [freemium] online brand guidelines building tool. Here’s an example. See also: Brandisty.com
  • Simpleicons.org offers free SVG (vector) logos of popular online brands, along with their principal brand color. Most of these are part of Font Awesome, but that’s another story.
  • Google Design has done us a solid and listed screen size/dimensions for many common digital devices

Techniques

  • Take Back Your Mac – Four free & simple ways to reclaim the OS X interface, four ways to customize your Mac installation.
  • How to keep your Photoshop, Illustrator, and Sketch files continually in sync with InVision. This is cool, y’all.

Habits

  • Three Habits That Drive Recruiters Totally Crazy, apparently

Everything Else

  • A 23-year-old Google employee lives in a truck in the company’s parking lot (and saves 90% of his income)

About Prescott Perez-Fox

Prescott Perez-Fox is a New York-based graphic designer and brand developer with 14+ years experience in branding, packaging, graphic design, and web design. He runs The Busy Creator.