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    Inspiring creativity

    • Fun! RT @alisaaronson: Wonderful video of Cyrus Highsmith, Font Bureau type design superstar, showing his sketchbooks http://t.co/IoJpOPXU
    • 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
    • http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/
    National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)
    • http://www.nmai.si.edu/

    Images

    • Here are 2 of the best web sites for images:
      http://www.gettyimages.com/?country=usa
      https://www.123rf.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/

    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
    • Awesome video! Bob Marley’s Birthday Celebrated By Musicians Around the World in Viral Video http://bit.ly/fcmYpn

    Olympic Games

    • Vancouver 2010 Graphic Identity http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/about-vanoc/the-vancouver-2010-brand/vancouver-2010-graphic-identity/

    Typography

    • Movie Titles: http://annyas.com/screenshots/
    • 40 Examples of Incredible Hand-Drawn Typography — http://is.gd/1OF3K
    Blogs
    • Beautiful examples. RT @designmodo: Traditional#typography meets modern techniques http://ht.ly/4MwDo
    • How Magazine
    Font Identification
    • 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/
    • Identify the fonts playing this Font Game http://ilovetypography.com/fontgame/
    • What font are you? http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/helvetica/quiz.html
    • 10 free fonts with a family http://bit.ly/17vZHc
    Fun Type
    • RT @typedirectors “Make it Better” a fun typographic short animation:http://vimeo.com/18678091
    Type History
    • http://designtaxi.com/news/359164/Charming-Animation-Shows-The-Evolution-Of-Typography-From-Paper-To-Screen/
    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
    • 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)
    Typography tips, principles, nuts ‘n bolts
    • Choosing the Correct Font Format (from my blog) https://www.askdesign.biz/blog/2013/05/choosing-the-correct-font-format/
    • Top 11 Typography Books (from my blog) https://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/
    • Typeface designer Matthew Carter has left his mark on everything from Microsoft to magazines http://b.globe.com/czcRqm
    Typography on the Web
    • 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)

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    New Book Published!

    Kornegger book: Inside the Rainbow

    Art and design for book cover and interior

    Inside the Rainbow: Soul Connection in Nature, by Peggy Kornegger

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    Peggy and I have completed our 3rd book together! This one is about soul connection in nature. Peggy is the writer, I'm the designer and artist. I think it's pretty darn special and hope you agree 🙂. Printed book and eBook are both available on Amazon.

     
    kornegger loseyourmind front cover
    Several of my paintings are in this book (including the cover)
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    — Shari Spokes

    Your new pastel "Lettuce Lake” is really beautiful. Very, very nice.

    — Tony from Belmont, MA

    My dear sweet sister. I can’t tell you how much I love your pictures. I so much wanted something and was so sorry that I couldn’t pick something out at your sale. On the other hand, I so much wanted something that you had chosen for me. Its been on my mind and suddenly, your beautiful pictures arrived. They are beyond beautiful and I cried when I saw them. Sending you love and my bestness.

    — Marti from Reno, NV

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