No machine or pre-made image will develop the ideas and do the designing for you! Make your own stuff!
Our class You Tube playlist can be found here
__Aotearoa NZ Designers____________________
This link takes you to a Google Doc full of resources for Design. Please use resource this resource widely.
__Photoshop Tutorials_______________________
Turning photos into drawings - use this simple tutorial
How-To make a spray-paint effect on your type face
Here's a tutorial on making a texture in your letterforms in Photoshop
Turning photos into drawings - use this simple tutorial
How-To make a spray-paint effect on your type face
Here's a tutorial on making a texture in your letterforms in Photoshop
Below are a number of links for thumbnail examples
ROH Design Blog
5th Colour Blog
Julie Meridian Logo for Alan
Garret Media Thumbnail samples
STOP Design Page Layout thumbnails
ABOUT Desktop Publishing thumbnail samples
Design Shack sketches
__Fonts & Logos__________________________
Introduction to Typography on Vimeo
Moving Image Typographic work from Fem Campbell
Where to find Fonts:
Anatomy of a type face
Behance's Graphic Design gallery – this Boutique Business Identity shows you their process to develop the logo
Three Typographic Trends to in 2016
20 Elegant Trends for design in 2016
LogoLounge – a great source of ideas – here is their Trends from 2016
Just Creative is designer Jacob Cass' website and here is his Logo Trends Forecast from 2016
Typedia is like a wikipedia for type faces
Type de constructed is full of useful information
Fontshop is also full of very interesting details on fonts
This is a great article on Pentagram's interactive typeface
Follow this link to see the development of the typeface for the Christchurch Art Gallery
Follow this to Type Designer Jeremy Tankard's own site
Great typography dedicated web feed here
Check out this FONT DESIGN made with the aide of magnetic forces applied to iron-filled paint!
This is a short video from The Atlantic Monthly called "A Font is Born" it features two font designers who ran a whole company dedicated to developing fonts. They're a bit nerdy but look at who they developed fonts for?! You'll particularly like the visuals and tips of which letters they begin with and why.
And can you believe there's a channel dedicated to TYPE!?
Would thinking a bit more deeply about your FONTS help? Check out Basic Rules & Terms of Type!
65 Pro Tips for Logo Design
FONTS!! Yeah for FONTS!! In fact here are 100 of The Best Free Fonts
__Mockups & Free Images___________________
Free Design Resources to Download Unblast is a fantastic site for mock-ups and other free design resources - try their search bar
__Folio Examples__________________________
NZQA's level 3 Design folio exemplars – This link contains examples of folios at Achieved, Merit and Excellence levels including digital submissions.
__Design Inspiration_______________________
Swiss-Miss is a design blog with a ton of inspirational design links
The Student Art Guide is a good general source of information for art students.
This link takes you to their section on Design Student's Sketch Books You'll find it useful for your first tasks and throughout the year.
Dezeen – Award winning architecture and design magazine – The link takes you to the graphic design section
Creative Review web-zine
The Effects of Advertising images on mental health...
B&T magazine This section is on Design Campaigns – Calvin Klein
This link claims to hook you up with the best photoshop tutorials for beginners
- Google Fonts
- FontSpace
- Open Font Library
- Open Foundary
- Behance
- Or... In Adobe CC – see your teacher to learn how to turn on more fonts
Type Worship – Inspirational Typography
Behance's Graphic Design gallery – this Boutique Business Identity shows you their process to develop the logo
Three Typographic Trends to in 2016
20 Elegant Trends for design in 2016
LogoLounge – a great source of ideas – here is their Trends from 2016
Just Creative is designer Jacob Cass' website and here is his Logo Trends Forecast from 2016
Typedia is like a wikipedia for type faces
Type de constructed is full of useful information
Fontshop is also full of very interesting details on fonts
This is a great article on Pentagram's interactive typeface
Follow this link to see the development of the typeface for the Christchurch Art Gallery
Follow this to Type Designer Jeremy Tankard's own site
Great typography dedicated web feed here
Check out this FONT DESIGN made with the aide of magnetic forces applied to iron-filled paint!
This is a short video from The Atlantic Monthly called "A Font is Born" it features two font designers who ran a whole company dedicated to developing fonts. They're a bit nerdy but look at who they developed fonts for?! You'll particularly like the visuals and tips of which letters they begin with and why.
And can you believe there's a channel dedicated to TYPE!?
Would thinking a bit more deeply about your FONTS help? Check out Basic Rules & Terms of Type!
FONTS!! Yeah for FONTS!! In fact here are 100 of The Best Free Fonts
Download free Fonts here: 1001 Free Fonts, Urban Fonts, Dafont
__Mockups & Free Images___________________
Free Design Resources to Download Unblast is a fantastic site for mock-ups and other free design resources - try their search bar
Here is a link to Graphic Burger where you can find Mockups to place your logos.
And Mockup World appears to have a lot to offer!!
It's important to remember that images often belong to someone – you can't assume that you can just take it without permission. However, there are a number of places that offer free-to-use public domain or images where the owner simply wants to be credited.
Unsplash is a great place to start - make an account - even share your own images.
Raw Pixel offers a great range of images as well.
Wikimedia Commons
Flickr
Creative Commons
And Mockup World appears to have a lot to offer!!
It's important to remember that images often belong to someone – you can't assume that you can just take it without permission. However, there are a number of places that offer free-to-use public domain or images where the owner simply wants to be credited.
Unsplash is a great place to start - make an account - even share your own images.
Raw Pixel offers a great range of images as well.
Wikimedia Commons
Flickr
Creative Commons
__Folio Examples__________________________
NZQA's level 3 Design folio exemplars – This link contains examples of folios at Achieved, Merit and Excellence levels including digital submissions.
Top L3 Art Design folios – NB this link eventually goes to FaceBook and you will need to be outside of the school wifi system to follow all the way through the link.
You'll get a chance to see these in Christchurch in term 2.
___Designer's Websites______________________________
AFOM – A Friend of Mine – is a Melbourne based design company. Their website is well worth a look at how design can be used to communicate a brand – as opposed to bland!
http://www.eyemagazine.com/– International review of graphic design, is a quarterly printed magazine about graphic design and visual culture
NZ’s Best Awards
The Designers Institute– The Best Design Awards is the annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product and interactive design.
The Designers Institute– The Best Design Awards is the annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product and interactive design.
AGI - Alliance Graphique Internationale
The AGI unites the world’s leading graphics designers. Its members have been collectively responsible for the identity design of most of the world’s top corporations and institutions as well as for countless examples of globally known packaging, publications, illustration and posters.
Research Studios - Designer Neville Brody
Neville Brody is an internationally renowned designer, typographer, art director, brand strategist and founder of the Research Studios network.
David Carson Design
“David Carson continues to be one of the world’s most distinctive typographic voices - much imitated, but never matched” - Ellen Lupton, ID Magazine, NY
Sagmeister & Walsh
Stefan Sagmeister is truly a unique designer - it’s hard to even begin to describe what he’s done - His new company, Sagmeister & Walsh, is a NYC based design firm that creates identities, commercials, websites, apps, films, books and objects for clients, audiences and themselves
Voice Design Studios – Award winning work especially in the field of Package Design
Voice Design Studios – Award winning work especially in the field of Package Design
Barnbrook & Walsh
Barnbrook is one of the most well-known creative studios in Britain
The Designers Institute; The Voice of NZ Designers
__Design Inspiration_______________________
Swiss-Miss is a design blog with a ton of inspirational design links
Highly recommend – NEED another DESIGN TECHNIQUE to advance your work? Check out this list = 5 Names Every Designer Should Know - maybe you'll find something?
Highly recommend – 40 Expert Tips on Moodboards - these are actually used in the Design Industry - find out how
E-Zine: It's Nice That...art design, art + music, art
Highly recommend – 40 Expert Tips on Moodboards - these are actually used in the Design Industry - find out how
E-Zine: It's Nice That...art design, art + music, art
The Student Art Guide is a good general source of information for art students.
This link takes you to their section on Design Student's Sketch Books You'll find it useful for your first tasks and throughout the year.
Design Trends
Design trend articles can be very useful to learn how designers approach branding
Dezeen – Award winning architecture and design magazine – The link takes you to the graphic design section
Creative Review web-zine
The Effects of Advertising images on mental health...
This link claims to hook you up with the best photoshop tutorials for beginners
Check out this idea for Garage magazine - pushing the boundaries by combining an App and tour of a virtual art piece!
