RESOURCES
- MakeTools.com | Generative tools for collective creativity
Liz Sanders - the Movie title stills collection
- Digication e-Portfolios
- Counter-Print.co.uk
"Counter-print.co.uk is dedicated to the promotion and sale of Art and Design related material. Often out of print or hard to find, we aim to celebrate both forgotten gems as well as those heralded designers that we all admire." - iMindMap™
Official Mind Map Software for mind and concept mapping - This Is Not PR
PR know-how for designers - Typonine
Test type in layouts. - Design PHD-DESIGN
- Lord of the Rings Fanatics Forum
Example of Web Wiz forum. - Web Wiz Forums
Free Bulletin Board System (BBS), Forum Software, recommended by Deb Littlejohn - Ponoko – Buy Make and Sell Almost Anything
Laser-cutting out of all sorts of materials! - Graph Visualization for the Web | Asterisq.com
- Excerpt from Writing for Visual Thinkers
Andrea Mark's new e-book. - Spoonflower: Print custom fabric on-demand
- Web Wiz Forums software
Used by LoTR: http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/default.asp - Fifty Ways to Take Notes
- Design Methods
Outline from the British Design Council on the various step of human-centered-design process
EDUCATION
- MIT Visualizing Cultures
Image-driven scholarship - DESIGNING DESIGN EDUCATION
By Tim Marshall - Sir Ken Robinson on American education
Watch+Listen - Hammer Museum. 7/1/08 -- Sir Ken Robinson, author of "Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative," outline the current crisis in American education, compares our schools and universities with others around the globe, and with wit and humor, shows us the path towards a more enlightened America.
INFO DESIGN
- Gerd Arntz Web Archive
The most prolific icon and symbol designer of all times. Designer of the Otto Neurath's Isotype. - Felix Sockwell
The prolific icon designer of the moment! - Jonathan Barnbrook's Olympukes
Parody of Olympics icons - Johanna Drucker on digitally-based scholarship
UCLA Digital Humanities & Media Studies. Many of the early approaches to digital humanities have come of age as substantial repositories and archives have become established. Early pioneering projects in editing, collections development, and visualization are now accepted parts of digital humanities' research. But huge challenges -- cultural and intellectual as much as technical -- remain if the humanities are to help shape the next generation of scholarly tools for research and pedagogy. This talk describes a work in progress, I.nterpret, that aims to engage humanistic concerns in a digital environment. - The Web Time Forgot
The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com - modernarchitecture.net
Personal web site of Ewan Branda – architect, software designer, and currently a Ph.D. candidate in architectural history and theory at UCLA – as well as an old friend. His work deals the changes in architecture for "the organization and dissemination of cultural information." - Lewis and Clark Maps from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
From the site: "The David Rumsey GIS Viewer allows on-line visitors a unique opportunity to easily interact with, integrate, and visualize these historic maps along with the modern geospatial data from NASA, USGS, ESRI and GCS Research. The modern geospatial data that can be overlaid and compared to the historical maps includes urban areas, transportation infrastructure (roads, rail), public land survey, lakes, parks, state boundaries, digital elevation models and satellite imagery.
DESIGN COMMUNITIES
- motion design: a research weblog
Thoughtful discussion on "Motion Graphic Designer" - design philosophy papers
Online publication out of Australia looking at design as a subject separate from Art and Science, but rather as a form of agency.
BOOKS TO READ
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DESIGN IS CHANGING
- Non-Profit Design -- Social Design Notes
- Designs on Policy
Allison Arieff Blog - NYTimes.com About U.S. Design Policy - Design it is a-changin’ : Design & Society
From Emily Campell's Design & Society blog, part of the RSA, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (very Ruskin!!) - Redesigning America's Future
10 design policy proposals for the united states of america’s economic competitiveness & democratIc governance. The American Design Communities, JanUary 5, 2009 - Talk to the Hand: Dan Saffer and gestural interfaces
by Andy Polaine - Core77 "Most product design is done wrong...too many devices come onto the market where the interface and the physical product were clearly done by two separate groups that never talk to each other." - crowdSPRING
"Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design." Addressed to clients: "1. Post a creative project; 2. Watch the world contribute ideas; 3. Choose the one you like." - "The Creativity of Crowds" - Forbes.com
Christopher Steiner, 01.22.09, 06:00 PM EST Forbes Magazine dated February 16, 2009 "CrowdSpring aims to slash the cost of graphic design work--and democratize a snooty business." - Dunne & Raby
They make critical design – it's function is to raise questions. - Summit to explore U.S. national design policy
Press releases: News: AIGA - It's the end of graphic design as we know it
eye opinion by Rick Poynor. A brilliant argument for graphic design/ visual communication via a review of the 'New Views 2' conference. - The Graphic Design of Barack Obama
- UGLY: How Unorthodox Thinking Will Save Design, by Tad Toulis - Core77
- Info graphic result from collaboration between social science and design
"Op-Chart: How Much Is Your Vote Worth?" Collaboration between sociologist and graphic designers. - AmbiScript Overview
Notation system for genetic data to support manipulation and analysis. - Greenaway's hi-tech gadgetry highlights Da Vinci for the laptop generation | News | guardian.co.uk Film
- Designer of 2015 trends
One of several articles by the AIGA describing the Designer of 2015 (sponsored by Adobe) - Graphic Convergence: Drawing Together Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA
Holly Willis' excellent review of Michael Worthington's Two Lines Align exhibition. Most interesting to me is her positing of design history. - Shel Perkin's article on Design Ethics in Step
An excellent overview of various forms of ethics and what these mean as well as links to other readings. - I.D. Magazine article from 6.07 on changing NY Times
- IDSA Guide and Syllabus for sustainable practice
More targeted for Industrial Designers but perhaps some useful readings for Graphic Designers - Kyoto Design Declaration
Outlines a global design agreement supported by ICSID, BEDA, AIGA and EIDD. "By signing the Kyoto Design Declaration, the members of Cumulus committed to sharing global responsibility for building sustainable, human-centred and creative societies."
CULTURE IS CHANGING
- Talking About My Generation
From Entrepreneur magazine: "Gen Xers, Gen Yers, Millennials and Boomers are all working alongside each other. But how do you get them to work well together?" - NY Times Magazine - The Screen Issue
- Ideas and Trends: Must It Always Be About Sex?
Article about the many meanings of "fuck" and "shit." - Map of Future Forces affecting Design Education
Organized into Trends, Dilemmas, Hot Spots placed on a matrix organized by Drivers and Impact Areas. - TED | Talks | Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world (video)
- The Girl Effect - Home
- The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books
- Why Bother? By Michael Pollan
From the "The Way we Live Now" column in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, Published: April 20, 2008 An astoundingly elegant description of impacts of global warming, culturally, socially, economically – the multitude of issues at stake and why its worth changing our lifestyles.
CALIFORNIA DESIGN
- Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné
- Spaced Out - Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties
- Rat Fink: Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Collectibles & Ephemera - a set on Flickr
- Cartoon Modern
- Charles Eames interview in 1956 Video
- Saul Bass matchbooks and other design stuff
- Arts & Architecture: A&A Prints
- Record Cover Design
DESIGN IS FABULOUS!
- CUSTOM LETTERS
FIRST HALF 2009 — LetterCult - Lizzie Allen - Hand Screen Printed Wallpaper
- DOSA
- CHRISTOPHER SILAS NEAL
Artist and Illustrator. Maybe the next Charlie Harper although the subjects he work with might be wider. I'd seen much of his work in the NY Times and also found out that my Dad shares a passion for his work as well. - Herb Lubalin VOTE Poster *1968 reprint from Urban Inks
MEDIA
- Video Game Review: LittleBigPlanet
"A Game for the PlayStation 3 With a Tawdry Look but Virtually Endless Possibilities - NYTimes.com" Yummy!
PRODUCTS
FASHION
- A Dress A Day: Secret Lives of Dresses Vol. 8
Autobiographies of dresses.
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