Use All Five, Inc.

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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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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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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Use All Five has launched some big websites this month: Nebul.us and AIA Los Angeles, and we’re excited to say these projects have been garnering some major press. Nebul.us is a social network that serves as a way to visualize and share how you’re spending your time online. It allows people to track their browser [...]
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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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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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We’ve been working rigorously on a startup that needed a Firefox plugin to accomplish all of the goals for the site. After learning that Firefox extensions are built primarily of Javascript, CSS and a markup language similar to that of Flex, called XUL, we decided we had the skill-set to build it in-house. There were [...]
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The current issue of Architect Magazine highlights the approach and strategy we developed for the websites we built for Thom Mayne’s architecture firm, Morphosis. We built two websites for different audiences. The first one, Morpohosis, is directed towards people who are unfamiliar with Morphosis and desire a thin but powerful experience behind their philosophy and [...]
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Papervision (the awesome 3D engine for ActionScript 3) is limited when it comes to standard flash interactivity. Specifically something called buttonMode. When you put buttonMode = true on a 2D sprite in flash, it puts a nice cursor over your sprite, hence making it look like a button or a link. We use Pv3d’s MovieMaterial [...]
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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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