Inspiring creativity
- Fun! RT @alisaaronson: Wonderful video of Cyrus Highsmith, Font Bureau type design superstar, showing his sketchbks http://t.co/IoJpOPXU
- Great read. RT @smashingmag: (via DesignInformer) Design is About Solving Problems – http://bit.ly/qyNF2O
- Blogging ideas — http://www.inkrebels.com/insp/100-sources-of-blogging-inspiration/
- Adobe Students on Twitter. College students: Get up to 80% off on Adobe products. You must be eligible. Plus learn about events & resources here. http://twitter.com/adobestudents
- Kit Hinrichs: Creative Inspirations on Lynda.com http://bit.ly/9Rfve1
- A Guide to Creating Professional Quality Logo Designs, by Chris Spooner — http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/a-guide-to-creating-professional-quality-logo-designs
- Presentation Skills — Typography animation about speaking clearly & definitively http://vimeo.com/3829682
- Creative Commons — a nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration. Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally. Free tools to inform people how they can reuse and share your creative works. http://creativecommons.org/
- Motivation Notebook (From YODspica Ltd Blog Group)
As creative people, we’re always coming up with great ideas. The problem is finding our record of those ideas when we need them.
Because we create one design after another, we’re not always on the ball. Burning out is easy and a huge inspiration killer.
We have to find a way to call up that motivation and inspiration on demand. Keeping a notebook of ideas and encouraging thoughts is a great way to do this.
Such a notebook could include sketches, written ideas, sources of inspiration, magazine clippings, book references and anything else.
It might also help to write down what has motivated you in the past; simply reading past experiences can be encouragement enough.
Basic Design Principles
- Dawn Pederson Teaches GD via “CRAP” (The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams) — http://nhsdesigns.com/principles/proximity/index.php
- I think unless you’re modifying it & making it your own, you’re on very tenuous ground—Milton Glaser on Shepard Fairey http://ht.ly/fNcHR
Fibonacci and the Golden Section
- The Universal Arts of Graphic Design — http://youtu.be/sTi5SNgxE3U
- Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See — http://vimeo.com/45232468
- 80 Design Quotes — http://designwashere.com/80-inspiring-quotes-about-design/
- Several posts of value to beginning graphic design students — http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/
Exhibits
American Museum of Natural History
National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)
Images
- Here are 2 of the best web sites for images:
http://www.gettyimages.com/?country=usa
http://pro.corbis.com/
You might need to register, which is free, so do it!
By registering, you will have access to the images WITHOUT the watermark. You will be able to download low-res JPGs for comping. Sometimes the JPGs are really small. In those cases, you can do a screen-grab of the image you’re viewing on the vendor’s website.
Free Stock Photo Web Sites
- Stock.xchng — http://www.sxc.hu/
Detailed info. — http://www.sxc.hu/info.phtml?f=help&s=7_2
Movie Poster Design Basics
- @webdesignbooth: 7 Essentials of a Great Movie Poster Design http://ow.ly/bFu45 (via @smashinghub)
- http://conceptdezain.com/blog/2011/12/12/movie-poster-design-basics/
Music Inspiration
- Keep sending love and healing thoughts to the people of Japan. They are facing the destruction with such grace. In the Light of Love by Miten & Deva Premal – Tribute to Japan
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow – http://www.timsah.com/Israel-Kamakawiwoole-Somewhere-Over-The-Rainbow-Lyrics/ZTMddVKwOAa
- Awesome video! Bob Marley’s Birthday Celebrated By Musicians Around the World in Viral Video http://bit.ly/fcmYpn
Olympic Games
- Winter Olympic Games Posters from 1924 to 2010 http://webexpedition18.com/articles/winter-olypmic-games-posters-from-1924-to-2010/
- Vancouver 2010 Graphic Identity http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/about-vanoc/the-vancouver-2010-brand/vancouver-2010-graphic-identity/
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-videos/transmoflection_89280ut.html
Typography
- Movie Titles: http://annyas.com/screenshots/
- Playing with Typography —http://indeziner.com/design/inspiration/playing-with-typography/
- 40 Examples of Incredible Hand-Drawn Typography — http://is.gd/1OF3K
- A Look into the World of Calligraphy, by Gottfried Pott — http://short.to/l0q2
- 40 examples of typography in advertising design — http://is.gd/1Q9cF
Blogs
- Beautiful examples. RT @designmodo: Traditional#typography meets modern techniques http://ht.ly/4MwDo
- How Magazine’s Typography blog http://bit.ly/v9hr8
Font Identification
- I Shot the Serif — http://www.tothepoint.co.uk/more/fun/shoot_the_serif/
- Shape Type — http://shape.method.ac/
- Kern Type — http://type.method.ac/
- 7 Free Tools to Identify a Font http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/7-free-tools-to-identify-a-font/
- Helvetica (the film) — http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/helvetica/film.html
- Identify the fonts playing this Font Game http://ilovetypography.com/fontgame/
- What font are you? http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/helvetica/quiz.html
- Award-winning, heartfelt poster work from Brooke Alexander of U. of Kansas – http://tinyurl.com/mnane9
- 25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career http://www.designfeed.me/8484
- 10 free fonts with a family http://bit.ly/17vZHc
Fun Type
- RT @mashable: Tennis Players Are Made of Typography in BBC Video http://t.co/DmgfDAOG via @PSFK
- Totally fun & imaginative #type animation “Sleepyhead” by Melissa Gorman http://vimeo.com/18139491
- Cyndi Lauper sings “True Colors” on The View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbZDjnWtK1A
- RT @typedirectors “Make it Better” a fun typographic short animation:http://vimeo.com/18678091
Type History
Type Tutorials
- RT @lyndadotcom: This week’s #InDesign FX installment shines a light on the tools used to create spotlight effects ow.ly/biPnu (also has bevel & embossed type treatments)
- RT @designshack: #Typography With Perspective: Learn to Wield Illustrator’s Perspective Grid Tool http://bit.ly/z9LWmB
Typography Logos & Identity Solutions
- http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/designers-choose-top-logo-designs-2013-12133803
- http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670886/the-histories-of-11-super-famous-logos-from-apple-to-levis#1
- Beautiful Typographic Logos for Inspiration (via @DesignNewz) http://ht.ly/eNdp
- http://inspiredology.com/the-evolution-of-big-name-logos/
- 40 Sexy & Creative Typography Logo Designs: http://spyrestudios.com/40-sexy-and-creative-typographic-logo-designs/
- Stunning, strong, inspirationall! Typographic, puzzle-like Japanese town logos: http://bit.ly/13YN5a (RT @printmag)
- World’s Top 10 Identify Firms http://www.identityworks.com/forum/identity-business/worlds-top-ten-identity-firms/
Typography tips, principles, nuts ‘n bolts
- Choosing the Correct Font Format (from my blog) http://www.askdesign.biz/blog/2013/05/choosing-the-correct-font-format/
- Top 11 Typography Books (from my blog) http://www.askdesign.biz/blog/2012/05/top-11-typography-books/
- Typography Do’s and Don’ts http://designshack.co.uk/articles/typography/5-more-typography-do%E2%80%99s-and-don%E2%80%99ts-everyone-should-know/
- Font Management in OSX, by Kurt Lang http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html (very thorough)
- Well-written, thoughtful blogpost by Antonio Carusone: 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs (RT @Linotype_com) http://bit.ly/vQzjz
Typography discussions
- Video: Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film A short film about letterpress and one of the few… tmblr.co/ZKNPByFZ_Ecp
- Video: “Linotype: The Film” Official Trailer “Linotype: The Film” is a feature-length documentary centered… tmblr.co/ZKNPByFsl1jr
- Typography in 7 Minutes: A PBS Micro-Documentary http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/05/off-book-typography-pbs-arts/
- RT @theorosendorf (via Type Desk) Michael Bierut on Typography. I used to set type for Atlantic Monthly! http://bit.ly/dTvxE
- Typeface designer Matthew Carter has left his mark on everything from Microsoft to magazines http://b.globe.com/czcRqm
Typography on the Web
- Best Font Resources for Web Design and Tips for Implementation http://t.co/gkRMQ9tZ (RT @mlane)
- Web Type Revolution — http://www.howdesign.com/design-creativity/fonts-typography/web-typography-revolution/
- Tim Brown — More Perfect Typography http://vimeo.com/17079380
- Designing Typography for the Modern Web http://webdesignledger.com/tips/designing-typography-for-the-modern-web
- 28 great typography blogs & websites http://tinyurl.com/yaverkl (Will Sherwood, LinkedIn)
- 100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs http://bit.ly/1IjXe6 #webdesign (RT @RussAdams)
- 40 Beautiful uses of Typography in Web Design: http://bit.ly/sIh5M