Eureka Tweet

Created as part of my dissertation project for University, Eureka Tweet takes the idea that there are many designers on twitter who post interesting and inspirational links every day to web sites and images that I would usually never encounter. Some of these designers I follow, and therefore can find the links and the inspiration, but there are many designers out there that I have not had the chance to discover yet, and the inspirational links that they post are lost to me. Eureka Tweet searches the the public timeline for tweets that are relevent to some of the areas of design that I have chosen for section headers, these tweets are then filtered to only display those that contain links and are then displayed.

When creating this project I realised that I had the opportunity to really experiment with the design. This project was not for a client, so I could effectively ignore limitations such as bandwidth and really experiment into using multiple textures together to create an atmosphere on the site. Inspired by bar-room textures, I used a basic collection of only four textures to create the entire site. Apart from the runner bar at the top of the screen, all of the design elements on the site were created by hand using a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop. This project really let me try new things and develop my skills in these programs.