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I Saw the Future and it’s Bright

Levi Brooks on April 15th, 2011

On an early evening last Wednesday, I popped in to the UCLA Design Media Arts department (my alma mater) for their now annual career day. The career day featured about 20 representatives from a range of creative companies (Google, Facebook, JPL, etc.), looking to review portfolios, hand out advice and potentially hire these design students. [...]
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Use All Five’s Favorite Reads of the Year

Levi Brooks on December 27th, 2010

Google Reader, Twitter, and Facebook provide us countless resources for new reads on an array of topics that resonate with the designers, strategists, and developers inside all of us at Use All Five. We’ve probably missed a few gems, but below we’ve collected our favorite reads of year — enjoy! 11 Ways to Visualize Changes [...]
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The Atlantic’s Recipe for Web Success

Levi Brooks on December 14th, 2010

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Late Sunday night a NY Times article on The Atlantic’s revitalization as a profitable publication sent astonishment across several Twitter circles. What struck me is the excitement and shock in these communities, but it was clear as a reader of The Atlantic and a fan of startups what they were trying to achieve — they [...]
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FastCompany shows Use All Five projects some love

Levi Brooks on April 4th, 2010

Last Wednesday, we had the nice surprise of reading not one, but TWO Use All Five projects in several FastCompany articles. The first project was Nebul.us, the social network startup with a data visualization core. The article goes through the details of the first major update, which we’ve been cooking up the past few months [...]
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SlyFox: Full Font, Two Faces

Levi Brooks on December 2nd, 2009

We’ve been blown away by the response of our free font SlyFox, which we released a few weeks ago. So we decided — let’s build the full family! We’re pleased to announce the full SlyFox font family, with two faces – light and medium. We’re charging $25 for the complete set; we hope you find [...]
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Five Blocks: A Free Font

Levi Brooks on November 24th, 2009

Today we are pleased to announce another free font: Five Blocks [ Download Now ] — caps only, and tons of fun. The font is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this blog post if you would like to spread the [...]
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SlyFox: A Free Font

Levi Brooks on November 13th, 2009

We produce a lot of scraps, all design studios do it. Pieces that never get used in projects. We decided to start handing some of these freebies out. Add us on Twitter to keep track of our freebies and blog posts. Today we are happy to announce the release of SlyFox [ Download ] — [...]
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Weekly Roundup (October 26th, 2009)

Levi Brooks on October 31st, 2009

Fridays are too busy for flashbacks, so we’re turning these in to Weekly Roundups. They’ll be put together usually on the weekends when we have a little more free time ; ) Enjoy this week’s links, and please e-mail or twitter at us if you find anything else interesting on the webs.
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Friday Flashback (Week of October 19th, 2009)

Levi Brooks on October 24th, 2009

We missed a few weeks of Flashbacks, but as we tell our clients — blogging is downright hard. Anyways, we have some exciting announcements this week, so stay tuned, it’s going to get a little crazy around here. The hand-drawn animals of Nacho Gil “No programming or 3D or whatsoever,” was used to create these [...]
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Support the Auction with a Heart!

Levi Brooks on February 2nd, 2009

Our friends Dan Gottlieb and Penny Herscovitch are teaming up to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). The Auction with a Heart is in honor of an amazing Art Center College of Design student, Stu Fingerhut, who was recently diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma, and all individuals who are battling blood cancers. Please [...]
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