Design Guide
Awards
Showcasing ADC, Adfest, Andy, Cannes, Clio, CA, C&AD, Eurobest, FWA, Flashforward, London International, New York, One Show, Tokyo International and Webby Awards.
2007 Winners of the American Society of Magazine Editors
Business Week 2007
National Design Awards: architecture, interior, landscape, product, communication, fashion.
European Design Awards
Best of the Best logo, trademark and corporate identity.
One Show
Awards advertising’s best print, radio, TV, design and interactive work.
International Competition of Cyberarts winners.
Winning sites selected for design.
Award winning sites chosen for their
Award winning web 2.0 (blog)sites chosen across 48 platform criteria.
Designers
Inventor of the modern stick figure , visual language, the pictograms for the Munich Olympics and AIGA passenger/pedestrian picture symbols.
Dieter Rams - Less is Better. He Lives in a house he designed. Some of his designs have never been bettered.
Resources
Gallery of Graphic Design is a database of ads from 1930-1969
Duke University database of over 7000 print ads from 1911-1955. They also have Emergence of Advertising in America (1850-1920).
Archive of Art & Architecture magaine 1945-1967.
Art Deco Architecture at Decopix.
Artlex has over 3600 terms for art/visual culture and thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, quotations and cross-references.
University of Virginia library archive online; sampling: The World Made Flesh; Life In A Book; Black Dog White Bark.
@ Issue is the online Journal of Business & Design.
Ascii Art Dictionary
Behance Network
Creative portfolios, projects and collaborations.
Publishers Bindings Online is a treasure trove of book bindings.
Weidler.ch has an extensive listing of book designs.
Showcases Canadian material design (from bear-shaped license plates to the whimsical ball-B-Q).
Why are things colored? Made Light? Lost Light? Moved Light?
Helps designers make selections from color palettes, submit and read comments, news and articles. Here’s their take from the Masters, and the eleven great color legends.
Research into how people (and different cultures) interpret different colors.
Site helps you name that certain color.
Color Palettes
Color Palette Generator, Big Huge Labs, Colr.org, DeGraeve, ColorHunter, Pic2Color.
Kuler is Adobe’s color scheme picker.
It’s like what’s hot, or not.
David Carlson’s blog is insightful and well written.
A wiki for designers, in development.
Visual Arts Data Service has made available copies of Design Magazine from 1965-1974.
MoMA exhibit of objects, gadgets, websites and ideas.
Flickr inspiration for your graphs and charts.
Smithsonian collection of industrial drawings.
Gallery of architecture; Browsable, theoretical, personal, design-ed, impressive.
Resource for design inspiration in logos, business cards, websites…
Lots of fonts, and a handy font identification tool.
The FontFeed, from the folks at FontShop, is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world.
Build, share and download fonts.
Archive of magazine focused on topics relating to art, architecture and industrial design.
Princeton University Graphic Arts exhibitions, acquisitions et al.
The Art of Golf Course Architecture
Want more? 10 most beautiful courses; worlds most beautiful; 24 foreign courses worth the trip; the world’s hardest; world’s most extreme; Golf Club Atlas; American Society of Golf Course Architects; Talk with Geoff Shackelford.
Core 77’s essential guide for just entering design students, or ones who are a bit past that point already.
Color is relative video; mouse over matrix; on Facebook.
The history of graphic design from Design History Org.; such as Symbols - How & What They Communicate, and The Bauhaus.
pdf of people’s Design process’s collected by Hugh Dubberly.
Horizontally drag and drop color chips into the order in which they belong.
All about infographics in news
Modern Mark Maker is a post covering the history of brand logos that’s wonderfully concise about the origins ala Wilhelm Deffke.
A collection of 16 image databases at the Pratt Institute; Farber Gravestone Collection is interesting.
Raw Sweden’s free online material database informs about new and traditional materials and their manufacture.
UK based font lover’s blog; the category archive is well worth a visit.
Large collection of movie posters at National Theatre.
150 Years of Advertising in the Netherlands.
Visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements.
Package Design
Dieline is the leading package design website; Lovely Package is a fan.
The world’s leading publisher of books on the visual arts.
Create huge rasterized posters from small pics.
Cabinet of Curiosities from the Bienecke Library ( Yale); includes such curiosities as Death Masks, Philosophy of Oragami and Famous People And Their Pets.
Aesthetic Apparatus explains screen printing in this YT video.
Fairy Tale illustrations; 49 annotated fairy tales; 1500 Illustrations; 40 Full e-text books; fairy tale timeline; evolution of the illustrated children’s book.
Pop-up card designer (Windows application).
The online companion to the venerable book, and is a resource of helpful hints and lessons for everyone from designers to writers and publishers.
Compare fonts for the screen
Typographics In Motion: The Child (cult video for font lovers); Cuarteto de Nos (music video from Uruguayan band); Pulp Fiction (What does Marsellus Wallace look like?); Typography (Canadian film short); Are You Gonna Be My Girl; Duck And Cover (50’s Civil Defense audio with type treatment);Who’s On First?; Oceans 11; The matrix; We Intertwined; Look What You’ve Done; Let The Drummer Kick; and finally Typolution (not really typography, but do watch anyway).
Free design vectors
Stanford University’s online tool for converting photos to vectors.
This site converts any picture to a Warhol-like image.
The elements of typography for use on the web; the web is all about typography, period; reactions; Designing The News; 15 Great Examples; Web Style Guide; BIG Typography; colour contrast check; light text on dark backgrounds; the uber study.
Magazines
PDF Zines
Quarterly visual communication journal filled with design inspiration and practical information.
Showcases striking visual work
Showcases international creativity and culture.
See what a flash magazine edited by Turkish designers are up to.
Writing, colorful layouts and thoughtful content.
Candy Collective’s visual arts magazine showcases photographers, designers, illustrator, painters and other forms of visual arts.
Flash magazine edited by German designers.
Magazine covers art, design, literature, architecture, and fashion.
Font
Font Magazine principally promotes fonts, but also provides inspiration and commentary on design and visual communication.
Art and design are on display and discussed conceptually as it is displayed.
Visual arts presented with plenty of white space.
PDF version of this magazine gives a preview into this community of Photographers.
Magazine gives a look into the design world of Wales.
Promotional magazine shows both good and not-so-good work from artists, designers, musicians, photographers, and models.
The Keystone Design Union creates this publication that covers design, illustration, and photography.
Vector graphics on display.
Vector and vexel art on display.
Interview-driven inspiration about and with artists.
Makes design fun (and they offer some free downloads).
Latest in visuals and trends for publications.
Italian design that shows latest in Italian design.
Student work in advertising, design, and illustration.
Very creative; focuses on the rest of the world.
The perennial bible for art directors.
Computer Arts - UK
Chock full of tutorials for those passionate about learning design.
The magazine for digital content professionals.
Focused on design in central and eastern Europe.
Writings on design and culture.
Platform for designers to showcase their product.
Digit - UK
The world of digital creativity.
Digital content producer’s first choice.
Web designers first choice.
Bi-monthly magazine focused on giving “design ideas for the real world.”
International review of graphic design (quarterly) is essential reading for graphic designers.
Grafik - UK
Journal of the best design the world has to offer.
Monthly news, features and trends in the design field.
“Shared resource for creative design” (gallery is worth a visit).
Design community’s trusted source for inspiration. Check out their gallery of past winners.
International Design: graphic design, product design, architecture.
“Form follows data - data visualization and visual communication.”
Designers playground updated weekly by a designer or design group.
Smallest magazine in the world; no ads, just images.
Links to free pdf magazines from around the world focusing on art, design, illustration and life.
Digest of the creative, strange and interesting found on the net.
America’s graphic design magazine.
The showroom is the original online glossy for creative professionals
A Journal of Typography