Learning Resources and Tutorials

Design History

Lynda.com (Photoshop)

Digital Art Museum

Adobe TV (videos, podcasts etc)

Media College (Photoshop tools)

In Design CS2

Tutorials and links for Weekly Assignments

Week One

Week Four (vector Graphics)

• Definition on Wikipedia
• Definition on Adobe.com
• Tutorial: Make an Vector graphic Adobe Icon
• simple example of morphing here
• Advanced example of morphing here and here
• Fantastic tutorial on using pen tool and type
• Bezier Curves 1
• Removing the background with Pen Tool(Silhouette)
• Practice Bezier Curves-In-class

Week Nine (In-Design)

Printing Process diagrams here and here

Free lynda.com CS2 Video Tutorials on InDesign Basics

 

Suggested Books

Getting it Right in Print: Digital Prepress for Graphic Designers (Paperback)
by Mark Gatter (Author)

Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual (Paperback by Timothy Samara (Author)

The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type by Alexander W. White

The Non-Designer's Design and Type Books, Deluxe Edition (Paperback) by Robin Williams

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Typography

Vocabulary

Top Ten Type Crimes

Especially "widows" and "orphans"

i love typography

Typography First

Designing with Type (Cooper Union)

Layouts

Example of Magazine Layout

Grid Systems

Organizations and Other Links

AIGA: The Professional Associan for Graphic Arts

Graphic Artists Guild

Design INsite - A designer's guide to manufacturing

Packaging Network.com

DMI's (Design Management Institute) - Resource Links

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Ad*Access

Graphic design terminology

Before and After (How to Design Cool Stuff)

Non-Designers Design Workshop (great Design resources)

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