The Design Cubicle

Designing for iPad

Brian — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:05:34 +0000

A great read by Derek Powazek on the differences between designing websites and iPad interfaces, its experiences and interactions.

Gusto for iPad: A text editor and FTP client

Brian — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:45:51 +0000

Finally a good looking and functional FTP / Text editor for your iPad. Just purchased it and played around for a few minutes. Initial thoughts: I like.

Free Fonts: Technical and artistic quality

Brian — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:08:57 +0000

A great, more technical, write up by @Fontshop which makes for great company along side my recent post, With beautiful type comes great responsibility. Includes a nice list of things to check when picking a free font.

Try Web FontFonts on any website

Brian — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:38:54 +0000

Now this is super cool! Try out quality fonts on any website. Replace all those web-safe fonts with the beautiful faces of FontFont’s offerings.

drwr.it: Design & Illustration inspiration by the people

Brian — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:29:19 +0000

A plethora of inspiration that will ease your typography, color, illustration and design addiction.

(via @drawar)

How to get page loads to under one second

Brian — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:10:02 +0000

Dave Rupert discusses the tools, tricks, and magic to optimize for page load speed. I can fully attest as Dave was the father of page load for this site’s redesign. He exasperated so much effort into load times, he ended up getting sick day of launch – no joke. He says it was because of bad food, but I’d argue it was because of his dedication the night before of page loading and development perfection.

List of over 500 Type Foundries

Brian — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:47:40 +0000

Looking for a solid list of type foundries? Look no further to TypeBase.com offering quite a nice, yet not fully complete, list of various type foundries.

Design Is History

Brian — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:08:51 +0000

Great insight into the history of graphic design dating back from early methods of communication to the 20th century. Having a look back to the past is sure to inspire the present.

(discovered via @jbrewer)

Brooklyn Beta: A day of web design and dialogue

Brian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:15:51 +0000

In addition to this years Future of Web Design Conference in NYC, it looks like I’ll be attending Brooklyn Beta, bringing together a small group of web designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and the like for a day of inspirational talks and lots of great conversation. There’s also a pre-conference day of fun-filled workshops. October and November will be busy months for me with a few attended conferences of which I will be the visitor and a speaker. More info on my upcoming speaking venues soon. If you live in the New York area and can attend Brooklyn Beta, I’d love to meet up and chat. Come say Hi.

Interview on Abduzeedo: Talk about redesign

Brian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:09:38 +0000

In case you missed it, I was asked a few weeks ago from the team over at Abduzeedo if I was interested in chatting a bit about this sites redesign.The article, which went live yesterday, shows some earlier iterations as well, if interested. Hope you enjoy.