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.

Week of 12-14-09:

Tips for finding and securing graphic design jobs [video]
“I receive a lot of email asking for advice about graphic design jobs, so to help, I’ve created this short Q&A video. I consider the advice to be pretty basic, but I’m asked often enough to warrant a post.”

The survey for people who make websites
2009 survey for web designers by A List Apart. Do your part in filling out this valuable web survey and help enhance the web and our careers.

Designing for the switch (web type enhancements)
“For a long time on the web, we’ve been typographically spoilt. Yes, you heard me correctly. Think about it: our computers come with web fonts already installed; fonts that have been designed specifically to work well online and at small size; and fonts that we can be sure other people have too.”

Strong, better, faster design with CSS3
“In this second article we’re going to focus on using those CSS techniques (and a little JavaScript) to create some practical elements and layouts. As before, caveat coder — a lot of the CSS properties we’re going to use have limited support, if any, in IE6/7 and probably 8. Firefox 3.5+ and Safari 4 are your best bet right now to see all the cool stuff going on in CSS right now.”

Factors that affect usability
“If trending topics surrounding design blogs are any reflection of trends in design, then usability is what coffee is to freelancers. Usability is a study of human-computer interaction that helps designers analyze our users’ patterns as they use our creations.”

Style versus design (*must read)
“Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It’s cool or it’s crap.” They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all.

Learn about design, not making things pretty
“I’ve ranted blogged about design vs. making things pretty in the past, the number of pointless top x posts that clutter content online, and so on.”

Beautiful Minimalist Websites – Part 7
“Showcases of excellent minimalist web design have always been a favorite of readers of this blog, and today we’re happy to publish the seventh edition in the series. Here you’ll find 40 websites that avoid clutter and use minimalism effectively.”

A pet project is for life, not just for Christmas
“I’m winding down from client work and indulging in a big pet project I’ve been dreaming up for quite some time, with the aim of releasing it early next year.”

The Font Game [iTunes link]
The Font Game for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available. Great for learning and analyzing type.

Best of the best: 2009
“I contacted several (web)design bloggers and asked them the following question: Could you provide me with the URL of what you think is the best article that you wrote in the past year (2009)?

The 15 best articles for designers in 2009
“In this round-up we have collected fifteen of the most popular design related articles from 2009. There are great resources for fonts, Photoshop, web design templates, as well as amazing web design and graphic design tutorials.”

Spruce it up (with typographic magic)
“The landscape of web typography is changing quickly these days. We’ve gone from the wild west days of sIFR to Cufón to finally seeing font embedding seeing wide spread adoption by browser developers (and soon web designers) with @font-face.