Weekly Watercooloer: Logo Redesign Edition

4K news this week:

• Several web chefs traveled to the Economist Ideas 2012 conference this week. Ideas 2012 is a conference that explores big data, as well as the convergence of the physical and digital world. Our very own Todd Nienkerk drew a bit of a crowd during one of the break out sessions.
• Diana Dupuis wants to buy this donkey.

Links around the watercooler:

• The new Twitter logo looks like Batman, but someone also made a sweet CSS, animated version of the logo. I don’t blame the Twitter bird for wanting to be Batman. When given the choice: always be Batman.
• In more seriousness, here’s a really great design breakdown of the new Twitter logo redesign, via Brand New.
• We looked at some great iPhone apps for designers or creatives of any kind.
• For those of you using Scrum, the new GreenHopper was released, and it looks pretty awesome.
• Lastly, we learned how one man making cat drawings got his company funded by Mark Cuban.