Christmas is nearly upon us, and here at offset media, we are feeling festive already. Who benefits from our overly festive mood? You of course! We have created a set of 20 festive vector icons as our gift to you.

l Download The Free Festive Icon Pack.

Here at offset media, we do enjoy a grid or two. We regularly use a couple grids that work very well for web, The Golden Grid, and this one from thegridsystem.org.

I have, however, not yet used a grid system that I really like for print. Then I remembered about the unigrid! The unigrid was created by legendary designer Massimo Vignelli for the  National Park Service.

Much to my amazement, when I went to download the unigrid, I could not find a digital version anywhere. So, based on the information I found on inksie, I decided to create one myself. If you want to mess about with the unigrid yourself we have uploaded a zip file containing an Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator version.

l You can Download the zip file from here: The Unigrid.

With so many cheat sheets out there these days it can sometimes be hard to choose which one to download and use. Here at offset media we have been working hard to make that choice a little bit easier. Introducing the new offset media CSS3 Cheat sheet! It does exactly what all the others do…but nicer!

l You can download the zip file from here om CSS3 Cheat sheet.

Ever since the @font-face tag came along the web has become that bit more user-friendly, no longer needing to use an unselectable images for headings. Most developers have happily jumped on board the font-face train, which is great to see.

Something that hasn’t really been explored much yet is the use of icon font packs. When we started building the new offset media website, it was one of the main things we wanted to exploit. So we set about building our own icon font pack, keen to include all the essential website icons (tag, printer, trolly etc.) and the most popular social network icons (facebook, twitter, vimeo etc.). We were very happy with the results—a host of easily manipulable icons without the hassle of going back and forth between programmes.

We like the font so much that we had to share it! You can download our font of 48 icons completely free! Free for you to use however and wherever you like! We generated our font-face kit using Font Squirrel’s generator.

l You can download the zip file from here – om icon font pack.

Enjoy!

We recently had the pleasure of working on a project with ‘Creating Heroes‘; an organisation that mentors young creatives towards building a career in Media and the Performing Arts. In a limited time-frame we produce a brand identity, a brochure, and the website. We even found time to produce a custom font titled ‘Hero’, which you can download for free!

Our brand new font – Hero (Hero Regular + Hero Italic) are available for free to download:

Click here to download

This will probably be our last post before Christmas, so we thought we would go for something festive. Over at scribble scribble there is a festive origami oracle for you all to download and enjoy! So go download it and add just that little extra bit of fun to your Christmas.

Have lots of festive fun, and a great new year from all of us at offset media!

We have added a new font in our ‘goodies’ section.  It’s called ‘KYRI KAPS’. You can download it from here!

Here it is in action: