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 4-12-10:
14 Designers discuss logo, brand and identity
“To clarification of the differences between Logo, Brand and Identity, I have asked 14 designers from around the world about their opinions in Logo, Brand and Identity and How he/she definition each of them.”
The experience belongs to the user
“We all like to play God. We like to imagine that the design we create is ushered into the world and all those who use it have an epiphany…they do things exactly in the way we have prescribed. They approach, use, and experience our design in the manner we envisioned, resulting in an amazing user experience.”
[Solid] Adobe Creative Suite 5 Review
“The Adobe team kindly invited us to an exclusive sneak peak demo of Creative Suite 5 and they also provided us with a pre-release copy for this review.”
Free eBook: Interviews with Twenty-five Popular Bloggers (includes an interview with yours truly)
“Purpose of this Questions and Answers Interview e-Bookwas to explore and compare how experienced and well-known bloggers/designers think, how they organize their workspace, solve their problems, get inspiration and much more. Learn from them because as you can see their way of thinking works!”
Designing for iPad: Reality check
“The question, Are we designing desktop programs, web sites or something entirely new?, has been torturing us until that express package from New York finally crossed our door sill. A quick write up of design insights before and after the appearance of the iPad at our office.”
Puma re-invents the shoebox
“Puma has partnered with The Fuse Project to completely redesign the packaging for their shoes. A team spent 21 months studying different boxes and packaging schemes, searching for the most efficient, sustainable way to get shoes to consumers.”
Fast Company on iPad Typography
“Disappointing, but not surprising. Apple has made some puzzling decisions over the last few years that leave one wondering if they really care about typography as much as they did in the 1980s when the Mac launched the desktop publishing revolution.”
Useful design tips for your iPad app
“Apps will define the iPad, it’s true. But in developing your app idea, which comes first, the idea or the device? Good news: neither. It’s people! When brainstorming and researching ideas for your app, step back and consider the context in which the device will be used by real live people.”
What brown eggs can teach us about niche marketing
“It’s how your customers perceive your value that makes you valuable. You may be just like all the other businesses out there, but if that’s how you distinguish yourself, then you’re going to become just another price-based commodity in the market.”
In response to ‘We use way too many fonts’
“For any designer to claim that a half-dozen or a dozen typefaces is enough — well that’s their prerogative. However, it’s one thing to say ‘twelve typefaces is enough for me’, but to claim ‘twelve typefaces is enough’, period; extrapolating a generalisation from a personal imposition is rarely, if ever helpful.”
Copy and Paste Letters and Ligatures
Quickly copy and paste a wide variety of characters and unique ligatures without knowing the shortcuts
Beautifully Banal
“Type Directors Club asked 16 designers to find a classified/personal newspaper ad from our local community to “hijack” typographically. When redesigned, the once banal and disposable classified ads are reinterpreted by the designer into a one-of-a-kind collectible poster.”
What were some of your favorite Tweeted design resources from the past week? Share in the comments below. Enjoy your weekend everyone!
