Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #13

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 8-10-09:

Awesome Brochure and Print Design Inspiration
“As I am looking for print design references for a brochure I am working on, I decided to select some nice brochures and print design examples to share with you. Also there was a suggestion from a reader for us to feature more print design references”

Outstanding Sources of Advertising Inspiration
“Advertisements can also be an excellent source of design inspiration in part because of the creativity that many ads exhibit. If you would like to find more inspiration from advertisements, the sites featured in this post will provide you with a great start.”

50 Inspiring Examples o Minimalism in Web Design
“The sophisticated image of minimalism has always been a popular style of design. In webdesign a minimalist site is stripped naked of eye candy and fancy colours or effects, leaving the underlying structure exposed. The key to a beautiful minimalist site is a solid and structured layout, as well as focus on stylish and well designed typography.”

20 Portfolios From Great Logo Designers
Beautiful logo designs.

How To Effectively Communicate With Developers
“[...] A developer that you feel is on your same wavelength in terms of what needs to be accomplished with the user interface, and what it needs to happen. Most often, however, we find developers that we generally don’t see eye to eye with.”

Eye-Catching Professional Free Fonts
“I’ve found 10 more fonts that I think are absolutely terrific and since I’ve always been taught to share I decided I would let you all know about them.  So without further commotion may I present to you 10 amazing fonts for your design work.

40 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs
The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts.”

6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography
“Typography on the web is anything but simple, and for many, it is a troubling mystery. Today, we’re going to review six ways that web designers and developers can improve the typography of the sites they create.”

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  1. Thanks for this post. I really appreciate your mentioning my collection of fonts on here. Thanks a bunch!

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