Collective #63
Inspirational Website of the Week
The clean and smart portfolio by creative/art director and designer Anthony Goodwin is our pick this week.
Get inspiredSlides: Create and share beautiful presentations
With Slides (formerly rvl.io) you can create and share beautiful presentations for free. It is built by Hakim El Hattab and Owen Bossola.
Check it outHoverboard - Beautiful portfolios for designers & coders
If you'd like to try a new and fresh way of showcasing your work and your thoughts than you'll like Hoverboard.
Check it outCSS Modal
Hans Christian Reinl developed these perfectly accessible and responsive CSS-only modals.
Check it outMap Icons Designer
Map Icons Designer is a set of 200 amazing map icons in PSD Vector Shape & PNG format. They can be used as Google Map Icons, Location Markers or Point of Interests (POI) on any map.
Get itFree eBook: The Smashing Editor's Choice
"The Smashing Editor's Choice: A Smashing Library Treat" is a free eBook by Smashing Magazine that contains a wide range of topics, including new coding techniques, user experience strategies, responsive design and mobile solutions by some great authors.
Get itSpread
In this pen by Mathias Paumgarten you can cause a Origami-like plane creation with a click (or more).
Check it outGitHub ArchiveRoom
GitHub ArchiveRoom is a very impressive 3d visualization of whole GitHub archives. It is developed by Vlad Filippov.
Check it outHow To Avoid Duplicate Downloads In Responsive Images
David Newton explores some issues of the fallbacks for the new <picture> element and shows how to solve them.
fartscroll.js
Just for fun by the Onion: let your website emit some fart noises as you scroll!
Check it outTwo.js
Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing API geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same API to draw in multiple contexts: SVG, Canvas, and WebGL.
Check it outFlat iPhone 4/5 Mockups (PSD)
Josh Laincz created this set of beautiful flat iPhone 4 and 5 mockups for Premium Pixels.
Get itFree Font: Valkyrie
Valkyrie is an exquisite serif type family that is especially suitable for fashion-related design. It was designed by Hendrick Rolandez.
Get itSketch Icons (Freebie)
Brett Jones shows what great work can be done with Sketch 2 and offers this lovely icon set for free on Dribbble.
Get itAdobe Explores the Future of Responsive Digital Layout with National Geographic Content
CSS Shaders are really exciting and Adobe shows their power in a digital layout experiment with some great content from National Geographic. Note that you'll need Chrome Canary installed and properly configured in order to see the awesome effects.
Read itAvoiding Unnecessary Paints
Learn how you can improve runtime performance by preventing unnecessary paints in your website in this insightful article by Paul Lewis for HTML5Rocks.
Read itFree Font: Before Breakfast
Simon Stratford offers this charming handwritten font that he designed just before breakfast using the iFontMaker app.
Get itFree Font: Idealist Sans
Elena Kowalski designed this clean and modern display font and you can download the light and the regular styles for free.
Get itMini AJAX File Upload Form
Martin Angelov from Tutorialzine shows how to create a nice AJAX file upload form in this great tutorial.
Check it outNaked WordPress
Naked WordPress is a naked, commented WordPress theme for designers who don't really want to deal with WordPress or for coders who want guidance for the structure.
Get itImproving Your 2013 Productivity With The Chrome DevTools
Addy Osmany will show you some great features of Chrome DevTools like Workspaces that is great for developing applications.
Watch itGhost: Just a Blogging Platform
Ghost looks like a very promising Open Source blogging platform. It could be the next great writing engine, and you can back the project on Kickstarter.
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