Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week. Week of 6-8-09: 80+ Logo Designers Essential Toolbox “In this article you will find a huge collection of Tutorials, Logo Inspirations and Online Tools and services that you [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Best Part Of Being a Graphic Designer
A few weeks back I asked a few graphic and web designers what they thought was the hardest and most challenging part of being a Graphic Designer and the amount of discussion and feedback was fantastic. Thank you all for contributing your thoughts and expressing your feelings the last time around. This time I ask [...]
Improve Your Design Skills By Being A Peeping Tom
While the graphic design community is surrounded with thousands of inspiring web, logo and printed graphic design galleries we can often forget how to become inspired elsewhere. Recently, I have been looking into interior and industrial design for inspiration in some of my latest works and have found it to be quite different and inspiring. [...]
Alluring Typography and Grid Focused Websites
Typography can be a beautiful element to any website (or printed design for that matter). Not only do the curves and bends of letter forms create a stunning visual appeal to a website, but good effective typography and proper grid placement can help visitors read text more clearly, distinguish a hierarchy of information and paint [...]
Sweet Tweets: Design Tweets of the Week #3
Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week. Week of 6-1-09: 30 Examples of Attractive Navigation Menus “To help you generate new ideas and inspiration for user navigation, here are 30 great examples of attractive and [...]
Reasons Freelance Designers Should Join Twitter
Having joined Twitter approximately one year ago I have discovered many benefits of being an active member of Twitter – benefits that have helped my freelance design business and my personal development as a graphic designer. If you have not yet taken the plunge into the Twitterverse here are 6 reasons why you should join Twitter [...]