Weekly News for Designers (N.237)

This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week.

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New Resources & Tools

Cody →
Cody is a library of free and ready-to-use HTML, CSS and JS snippets that you can quickly use in your own projects.

All Search and Social Media Meta Tags Starter Template →

React Bootstrap →, the most popular front-end framework, rebuilt for React.

App.js →
App.js is a lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps.

Morphext →
Powered by Animate.css, Morphext is a simple jQuery carousel plugin for text phrases.

Skippr →
Skippr is a super simple and lightweight slideshow plugin for jQuery.

50 Free Bootstrap 3 Templates and UI Kits →
We have collected 50 fully-featured, creatively designed, and of course free Bootstrap 3 templates for your next project.

Tutorials & Learning Resources

Arrow Navigation Styles Tutorial →
In this Codrops tutorial you are shown how to create some creative arrow navigation styles and hover effects using SVG icons for the arrows, and CSS transitions and animations for the effects.

Love Generating SVG With JavaScript? Move It To The Server! →
Like any other technology, SVG has its limitations, and in this Smashing Magazine article, they discuss how to bypass some of them.

SVG ‘text’ and Small, Scalable, Accessible Typographic Designs →

The Anatomy of the Perfect Blog Post →
Kevan Lee has researched all of the necessary info to get you strated on the path to blog writing perfection. He covers headlines, length, visuals and so much more.

11 Steps to a Perfect Logo →
Borja Acosta de Vizcaíno has created a simple animation that tackles the principles of clean, effective and functional logo design.

Free GUI Resources

iOS 7 UI Kit Photoshop Actions →

Bootstrap 3 UI Kit (Sketch & AI) →
This UI Kit contains all Twitter Bootstrap 3 UI controls in vector format and are already sliced, styled, HTML-encoded and ready to use.

All of the World Cup 2014 Football Strips in SVG Format →

Summer And Essentials Icon Set (50 Icons in EPS, AI & PNG Formats) →

Bubbles Iconset (48 Icons in AI, EPS, PNG, PSD & SVG Formats) →

Flat UI Kit by Connor Murphy (PSD Format) →

Something Inspiring

If Apple launches widgets in iOS, I hope it looks like this… →

Thought-Provoking Conceptual Illustrations →
Davide Bonazzi has created a portfolio of thought-provoking conceptual illustrations, covering US security, football, politics, and more.

36 Days of Type →
36 Days of Type is a project, from Rafa Goicoechea, that invites designers, illustrators and graphic artists to give ​their opinions on the letters of the alphabet.