About this trail:
Articles and web sites about good design
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A brief but pithy article about whitespace. Good use of white space can make ALL the difference.
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More articles on white space in practice and how to use it in your web-projects
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All about visual communication design for the web. This column will explore topics ranging from the fundamentals of design, to typography and motion, to some of the more advanced theoretical concepts surrounding the practice.
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Eliminating bad design one listener at a time: I'm not here to lecture you or be pompous and elitest. I want to help you improve your output by just giving a few pointers.
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Notes on Visual and Interactive Design: the consideration of form, content, arrangement and light.
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digital culture and new media design magazine
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Designingwithtype.com/5, the online companion to the fifth edition of the book Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography. This site was created to provide information beyond the scope of the book. This site works with or without the book.
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DFCKR™ is a publication created with the intention of keeping track of design related news and resources, and as a place to give recognition to up and coming designers and illustrators.
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Debbie is a Managing Partner and President of the Design division at Sterling Brands, one of the leading brand identity firms in the country. Read her journal, listen to her podcast interviews with fascinating people.
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Mode is dedicated to exploring museums, design and everything in between.
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Born on-line – currently growing off-line – in September of 2002, Speak Up is an author-based, reader-supported community devoted to graphic design open to conversation and dialogue. It stresses and questions the importance of the profession in our culture.
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Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business.
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A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design.
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how to choose a correct text typography design
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helps keep current in all things design
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keep up-to-date with Pentagram
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Using the Divine Proportion as a guide to your compositions can improve the communication of your design.
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The first ‘Simple Steps’ series covering five simple ways to improve your typography.
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You can easily translate these tenants into your graphic design craft
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source for web professionals, featuring news and content on a variety of design related topics
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by web designer-extraordinaire Jason Santa Maria
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Wonderful insight into all kinds of aspects of web design, with a focus on "2.0" style. Comprehensive. Sites are categorized by color, use of design elements & techniques, and type.
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Inspiration, information, advice and entertainment; what more do you want? The following blogs offer all these elements in different measures and combinations, but they do have one thing in common: whether design is your bread and butter or for your eyes only, they are must-reads.
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a podcast that discusses, explores and demystifies the world of design
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An awesome site with tons of terrific articles!
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Good style guide for web developers.
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Design View: Articles, Essays and Opinions
by Andy Rutledge. Website design, standards
compliant code and css development.
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Pirated-Sites.com showcases side-by-side comparisons of web sites that are suspected of borrowing, copying or stealing copyright-protected content, design or code without permission. 0% of the sites are submitted by someone affiliated with the site being copied, but anyone can submit. It's ok to draw your inspiration from others' designs but NOT to copy them!
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Comprehensive article full of CSS tips, design ideas, font ideas, and recommended books. These are the questions:
- aspect of design you give the highest priority to
- most useful CSS-technique you use very often
- font you use in your projects very often
- design-related book you highly recommend to read
- design magazine you read on a daily/weekly basis (online or offline)
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Over 200 links related to typography
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Say the authors: We've compiled a list, online and off to serve up everything from logos to icons to art to fashion to just inventive ideas to get your mind ticking. Kick back and let your senses run wild as we bring you 15 websites packed full of inspiration, 10 must-have books and 9 things to do to get inspired.
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Video: The Divine Proportion: a mathematical equation that’s consistent with the aesthetics of good composition. This video tutorial shows you how to create one in Illustrator.
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History has created a set of “classic” styles that basically remain the same, save some minor updating. The author shows examples of how these styles occur in art as well as online, encouraging us as web designers to look beyond the web for inspiration.
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Web design trends journal.
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Online magazine about design and culture. Rich in content.
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Design Float is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry. We organize the vast amount of design-related content available into specific categories where articles are displayed in order of popularity.
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An intelligent and well-done magazine relating to the stylistic aspects of life. They do a particularly good job on travel, providing tips for a person of taste on where to stay, go, eat, drink, etc., in a different city every month. They continue to be good on architecture, furniture, objects & fashion
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Download audio lectures of this Modern Art History course which is being offered through iTunes U from the Otis College of Art and Design. In these lectures Jeanne Willette covers many schools of modern art including (in the order they developed) Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Fauvism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealism, and a few other schools and movements.
Jeanne Willette is an excellent lecturer who's able to describe the styles and themes of the movements without visual accompaniments. She also provides the political and social context which these art movements arose from. Enjoy this free introduction to Modern Art from the Otis College of Art and Design.
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Answers the questions: What fonts can be used effectively in almost every Corporate Design? And what are the options for unique, but still incredibly beautiful typefaces?
Includes lots of examples of fonts including: Helvetica, Univers, Frutiger, Avenir, Myriad Pro, Neuzeit, Syntax, Proxima Nova.
Includes lots of examples of fonts including: Helvetica, Univers, Frutiger, Avenir, Myriad Pro, Neuzeit, Syntax, Proxima Nova.
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This blog is about pattern and is constantly inspiring
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Know what’s going on in the field of design.
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A good list of principles to follow ......
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Good article about getting yourself inspired.
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Examples of outstanding newspaper designs which have been rewarded with prestigious awards ... for inspiration
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Showcases over 50 breathtaking typographic posters designed by artists across the globe
1. This is a fantastic trail. My mom who is an artist wants to build her own site but has been wondering about the design aspect of it. Some of your sites that you have marked will be of great use. Thank you...
Posted at 10:26 on 2007-05-14 by
dewlev
