The Design Cubicle

We are often fascinated with the end result of a project that we often forgot how a design originated and morphed into the work that is shown. Personally all of my designs, whether its a logo or the layout of a website, always start off in my sketchbook. Sketching helps to get the brain working creatively, get ideas out quickly, free your mind, and overall improve your design work.

I’ve always enjoyed viewing others sketchbooks as well, so I asked my Twitter friends if they wanted to contribute a page from theirs. Below is a showcase of designers sketches, notes, and other doodles within their sketchbooks.
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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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From time to time we all need a little texture and pattern goodness in our designs and keeping a toolbox of resources is a great way to stay proficient as designers. Over the past year I’ve been keeping a collection of my favorite texture and pattern resources and collections — and who else better to share them with than all of you.

The next time you need that Bokeh or watercolor textures, among others, you will know where to reach for your tools with little effort in finding them.
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It’s giveaway time on TDC and this time the fine folks at UPrinting have offered to give 500 free die cut business cards each to three readers of The Design Cubicle. Now’s your chance to “dress to impress” for free!
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