Archive for October, 2009

Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #23

31-10-2009 Brian 4 Comments

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 – because having resources and staying up-to-date is important in growth and development.
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Trick or Tweet! Win Free Business Cards from PrintRunner

29-10-2009 Brian 1 Comment

It’s giveaway time once again on The Design Cubicle, and this time PrintRunner has offered 250 free business cards each to 5 readers of TDC!
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FOWD in NYC… Who’s going?

29-10-2009 Brian 8 Comments

With the Future of Web Design (FOWD) conference only a few weeks away — November 16th and 17th to be exact — I thought it would be interesting to discover what TDC readers are going to be attending. It would be great to meet and interact with you all in person, so please leave a comment below with your Twitter account and shoot me some Tweets while you’re there!
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Same ol’ g? Think again: A visual study of the lowercase g

27-10-2009 Brian 32 Comments

I could stare at typefaces for hours on end. Everything from their curves, swoops, sexy calligraphic lines, to the personalities — doesn’t the OneLeigh ‘g’ look sad and crumbled below? — that draw me in for a closer look. I enjoy everything about them!

While spending time in awe looking at type specimen sheets, there is usually one character sticks out for me —the lowercase letter g, especially those with closed or partially closed loops (also known as a double story).
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