Your Favourite Favourited Tweets
Published on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 – 12:00 am | 9 brilliant comments »
Twitter (follow me) has a function that allows you to save your favourite tweets (much alike a bookmark) so I thought it would be a great idea to see what other Twitter users favourites were. Enjoy!
Pretty much the only reason I keep my cat is to enjoy the look of utter disgust on her face when she sees me naked. (@Munki)
Via @coffee_bee
“We invent the light to deny the darkness.” [Translated from Portugese] (”Nós inventamos a luz, para negar a escuridão”)
Via @zeva24
I owned that burger like what country music did to jessica simpson. Yum. (@jzy)
Via @davidairey
Find something that will whisper the full value of life. (@david_lynch)
Via @catticho
Note to self: When cab drivers have phone sex with their wife whilst you’re not paying for such extra services… make them hang up.
Via @Taezar
My favorite saved tweet for inspiration: Brazilian artist Will Murai http://tinyurl.com/d4hbur
Via @Jerlyn
Love Actually is awful, like being stabbed in the eye with a marshmallow for two hours. (@Olly_Richards)
Via Holly Stevens (Facebook)
No one really wants colorful websites anymore. They want answers to their products.
Via @color2life
The Evolution of a Website Design - http://ow.ly/6Jch
Via @beet09
If my cat could speak, I think she’d say f*ck a lot. (@ilovetypography)
Via Holly Stevens (Facebook)
101 Design resource sites http://tr.im/hYLm (@cristianvasile)
Via Anterpreet Singh (Facebook)
I think we should all just assume that Twitter is going to have it’s TIME OF THE MONTH, once a month. (@thattalldude)
Via @Dayngr
Laziness - when you make pasta just so you don’t have to go out to buy bread (translated from Serbian) (@Beogradoholik)
Via @marin_ostojic
Hey boys before you come home with that girl tonight remember this picture http://is.gd/mmjP
Via @myhelvetica
Great Simpsons quote tonight: Marge: “Hmm, and all this time I thought ‘googling yourself’ was that other thing.” (@Eklund)
Via @ajinnashville
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine. (@Karl_Lagerfeld)
Via @nalindesign
“I think the little girl my little girl is playing with is from Slytherin House.” (@zeldman)
Via @itstartswithus
This post on Data Visualisation http://is.gd/jGY (@georgethomasuk)
Via @MarcusjRoberts
“One mans suck, is another mans awsome. lol #Terminator”
Via @mayhemstudios
avflox- ME: you wanna do it yourself? I’m like, “here’s the idea, make it happen!” [throws money] HE: are you talking about strippers or developers?
Via Damien Basile (Facebook)
“Just now I almost kept a thought to myself.” (John Dickerson)
Via @marieboyer
My own favourite saved Tweets:
SO lame. Been sleeping the majority of the past 3 days. Only reason I motivated to get up was ’cause I thought my KFC coupon expired today!
Via @faryl
My mother just rang me - she’s worried she may be getting Alzheimers. I told her to forget about it.
Via @FunnyJoker
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
Via @jrbradley
The coolest mustache in the history of mustaches = http://tinyurl.com/8uc69v
Via @travishines
Just overheard someone complaining about “all the foreigners”. I am at Heathrow airport, what an idiot.
Via @Joe_90
Wife: “Twitter is stupid. Y would 2K people follow U? U can’t remember 2 put garbage out.” Me: “See, that’s a tweet!”
Via @Vonster
What is your most favourite saved Tweet?
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Designer’s Favourite Fonts & Why
Published on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 – 12:00 am | 82 brilliant comments »
I sent out a tweet (follow me) asking my followers (and Facebook Friends) what their favourite font was and why - these were some of their replies… what about you?
For the record, at present, my favourite is Gill Sans as I find it so versatile, especially when working with other fonts.
Times. Simple, but not boring, and timeless.
Via @Carmabella
Franklin Gothic Medium and Verdana. Both are just so easy to read even at small sizes.
Via Adrian Lujan (Facebook)
Franklin Gothic Book Regular. Easy to read.
Via Dylan Lee Hodges (Facebook)
I really love the clean lines of Franklin Gothic family mixed up with classic letter forms of Adobe Caslon.
Via @BridieMacdonald
Gill Sans Light because is delicate.
Via Barbara Culinas (Facebook)
Other than Helvetica, it’s Gotham , because it’s clear, it stands out and modern… Applicable on small sizes too.
Via animate_me
Totally into GOTHAM right now. Clean, great bold-face, solid.
Chris Skinner (Facebook)
Gotham, purely because I’m Batman in disguise.
Via David Airey (Facebook)
Not THE - but A favourite: FF DIN - for clarity, the weights, more attitude but not to much character, reads in small sizes
Via @simikken
I would say Philosopher. It’s a stylish, modern font that is similar to common fonts so that it’s functional and elegant.
Via @bixtin
My favourite font is called “mutlu” because my finance has our daughter’s name tattooed across his chest in it…
Via @artbyjaz
Don’t know… for paragraphs I like Futura Lt BT, I guess because it looks clean and helps me fit all the text.
Via @edMaga
Futura, Neutraface, Garamond, Rockwell
Marcos Luis Hernández (via Facebook)
Big fan of Futura, it’s clean but has personality. I like its curves.
Sasha Endoh (via Facebook)
Futura, Verdana, and Myriad Pro I use the most.
Stan Perl (via Facebook)
Actually fond of Metroscript cause I’m on a big vintage graphic period!! Montreal is also a good sans serif one.
Via @MonsieurH
Americana is my favourite sans-serif, and Charcoal is currently my fave serif.
Lisa Du Plessis (via Facebook)
TJ Governanti (via Facebook)
Trajan Pro, classy and elegant and I love the Q in it.
Tareq Alsamman(via Facebook)
SWISS 721 family….looks classy and elegant.
Mohamed Shinaz Saeed (via Facebook)
I’m torn, it’s either Papyrus or Comic Sans. Actually, my two favorites are Sketch Block and Geo Sans Light. I find it reads so well, and looks very clean and minimal.
Via Will Higgins (via Facebook)
Christine LeBlanc Payne (via Facebook)
Comic sans! Haha, no, seriously, I think is Trebuchet and Futura .
Diane Hernandez (via Facebook)
Trebuchet… because who doesn’t like saying “Tray-boo-shay”, and it has a sturdy, even thickness to its stroke which lends itself nicely to big bold headers for websites
Jayson Akers (via Facebook)
Helvetica, Frutiger, timeless.
Sanja Karic (via Facebook)
OK someone has to say it…Bleeding Cowboys !
Brian Nelson (via Facebook)
Myriad Pro (boring I know) & Boberia
Andrea Guevara Higham (via Facebook)
I like Century Gothic, its an easy to work with font.
Maikel Beckers (via Facebook)
Garamond - totally unfazed by time, style, and trend.
Shakun Harris (via Facebook)
Helvetica, and 2nd would have to be Helvetica, just pipping Helvetica. In all seriousness though, my vote goes to Helvetica.
Via @burdzelkrai
Helvetica - swiss design at its best.
Via @loveannon
Helvetica Neue for it’s incredible versatility-Letter spacing, size and the font variations can get you thousands of new fonts.
Via @baffleinc
Helvetica - classic and contemporary, timely and timeless, all rolled into one.
Via Rafael Armstrong
The Helvetica Neue family, it just gives so much choice in one family and looks clean and sharp on screen
Via @keanrichmond
Helvetica Neue. A more refined font compared to Helvetica, versatile & simply elegant
Via @zilch
Helvetica. Since it was the cleanest and most common beautiful font i’ve ever seen.. No font is close..
Via @thematrixuum
Got to be Helvetica family - so much range in a single font in terms of variety in weight and styles and so timeless!
Via @threemenoneshed
I like comic sans for fun & verdana for an elegant look
Via @beiruta
Comic sans, it makes everything patronising
Via Jon Hassall (Facebook)
No font list could be complete with out someone mentioning Comic Sans. On that note check out this short documentary on the typeface, it’s worth a watch. I loved the quote from the Comic Sans designer, Vincent Connare:
“If you love it, you don’t know much about typography, but if you hate it, you really don’t know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.”
Recommended Typography Resources
- The Top 100 Best Fonts Of All Time
- 30 Fonts All Designers Must Know & Should Own
- How To Choose A Font
- 54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark
What is your favourite font and why?
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The Power Of Being An Active Twitter Member
Published on Monday, October 27, 2008 – 11:53 am | 25 brilliant comments »
This morning I woke up and found this error message on my site:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare security_update() (previously declared in /home/justcrea/public_html/index.php:28) in /home/justcrea/public_html/index.php on line 53
It was there for about 5 hours which I apologise for but I found this extremely bizzare as I had went to bed about 7 hours earlier with the site being A-OK so something mysterious happened while I was sleeping. Anyway, the point that I really want to make in this post is the real value of being an active member of Twitter (follow me) which I will do by showing you my experience this morning.
Site Down
As usual, in the morning I check my email, twitter and website while having breakfast, however, this morning I totally forgot about eating my breakfast… I awoke to about 15 messages spread over Twitter, Email, LinkedIn & Facebook letting me know that my website was displaying an error message. The first thing I did without thinking was write a message on Twitter asking for help… PHP is not my strongest forte.
Anyone able to help me out with some PHP? My site is displaying an error. www.justcreativedesign.com
Twitter To The Rescue
Within 1 minute I had over 10 responses, which lead me to upload my index.php (the file with the error) onto the web so people could have a look at what was wrong and within 3 minutes of doing that I had so many people trying to help, I couldn’t even keep up with them!
I decided to talk to owenj2o on Skype, who kindly requested to add him (so did many others) and within 4 minutes he had sent back the new php file with the changes. I uploaded the new file to my server and it was fixed just like that… all within the space of 10 minutes.
The Problem
No one seems to know the reason behind this strange occurrence (a function was defined 4 times for some reason) which mysteriously happened overnight but I am glad there is a community out there that can help when something like this happens.
Update: Just Creative Design Hacked
There still seems to be some problem with a javascript that has somehow installed itself onto this site, which in some cases creates a popup or in some reported cases, crashes FireFox… some of my twitter friends believe it was hacked… I am doing my best to get this sorted.
The script has been removed and we are in the process of going through the logs to find out how this script was installed. My host has let me know of the problem:
The javascript insert happened due to a number of reasons, mostly however due to a permission based issue on the account.
Sorry for any inconvenience it has caused.
Thank You
Thank you to those who have helped this morning, in no particular order:
- owenj2o
- keryp
- gurnk
- snipeyhead
- inf0rmer
- mbavio
- codymckibb
- metadan
- dreamspeaker
- aleksandar_k
- kristarella
- dcloud
- patareco
- cryode
- dtsn
- justasungod
- thetylerhayes
- bluewavemedia
- gavinelliott
Anyway, this was just one example of the true power of Twitter. If you need some more followers check out this huge twitter list of creatives / geeks / designers or Naldz’s list of 150 most active designers on Twitter.
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Designer? Creative? Geek? Leave Your Twitter Username & Bio Below
Published on Monday, October 20, 2008 – 7:00 pm | 498 brilliant comments »
Twitter is everywhere. It’s not to late to sign up. Personally, I love it and I think you should get on the band wagon if you haven’t already.
Benefits
Benefits I get from the Twitter community: Free viral marketing, free advice, industry insights, great tips, great links, friendly conversation.
Benefits I give others: Free marketing, free giveaways, free advice, inspirational quotes, friendly conversation.
Twitter & Just Creative Design
- Follow Me On Twitter
- You will find my twitter feed in the right sidebar of this website.
- You will also find my Twitter feed in my facebook profile which is automatically redirected to my Facebook Status.
More Twitter Follow Lists
- Uber Twitter Follow List for Creatives
- 100 Web Designers To Follow On Twitter
- Graphic Artists On JustTweetIt
Leave your Twitter username and bio below.
The 2008 Twitter StumbleUpon Experiment
Published on Sunday, May 25, 2008 – 10:58 pm | 11 brilliant comments »
What do you get when you cross two powerful social driven media sites? Let us find out in the 2008 Twitter StumbleUpon Experiment.
Purpose
To find out if it is possible to get Twitter followers through the use of StumbleUpon and if so, how many reviews / thumbs up does it take till you get a noticeable increase in followers.
Method
Get people to stumble review and/or thumbs up this twitter page to drive StumbleUpon visitors to the page.
Please stumble review or thumbs up this twitter page and if your feeling kind, blog about the experiment!
Results
26/5/08 - Start of experiment with 306 followers + turned Twitter Auto Follow on by asking customer support.
27/5/08 - 327 (+26) Followers
28/5/08 - 338 (+11) Followers
29/5/08 - 346 (+8) Followers
30/5/08 - 360 (+15) Followers
31/5/08 - 372 (+12) Followers
1/6/08 - 380 (+8) Followers
2/6/08 - 392 (+12) Followers
3/6/08 - 403 (+11) Followers
4/6/08 - 415 (+13) Followers
Conclusion
Well after 9 days of running this experiment, I received 88 new followers so I guess it is possible to get some followers through the use of Stumble Upon however the certain number can not be exact.
I was pleasantly surprised to see 9 new followers on average, per day. Thank you everyone for helping out with this experiment. You may now want to read up on What is the best social media website? Digg, SU, Delicious, Reddit … or?
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Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter
Published on Monday, April 7, 2008 – 10:46 pm | 6 brilliant comments »
Guess what this post is about! Yes you guessed it… Twitter!
I have noticed that about 90% of all twitter posts are pages and pages on end explaining what it is and the benefits of using twitter so I am going to keep this short for ease sake and get straight to the point of this post…
FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
If you do not know what it is just sign up, it is the only way to get your head around it.
- You will find my twitter feed in the right sidebar of Just Creative Design.
- You will also find my Twitter feed in my facebook profile.
- While your on Facebook you can also join the Just Creative Design group.
- You can see all my other social media sites here.
Just incase you forgot… Follow Me On Twitter.
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