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Anain’s Designs. My personal graphic designer portfolio online.
My website is finally up and running. I have been working on it for a while, and after many days of work I can say that I am happy with the results. Click on the link below to see my work, which includes digital painting, multimedia and motion graphics, photography, illustration, logo design, posters and print in general, web design and some of my paintings and drawings. Feedback is welcome!
The League of Moveable Type
Some great free fonts. Come back frequently for more resources.
Abercrombie “Banishes” Girl With Prosthetic Arm To Storeroom Because She Doesn’t Fit The “Look Policy”
This may not be directly related to what my blog is about, but I could not let this one go without posting it. It is somehow related however, because an important part of graphic design is being able to create an image for the customer, something that tells the client what the company stands for. Abercrombie & Fitch made clear once more that they aim their products to brainless narcissistic rich douchebags, that are on the edge of white supremacy ideology. Remeber that when you buy designer products you are not buying a product to use, you are being sold a status, a lifestyle and that is why people pay so much for brand names. If after reading this you still decide to spend your money in A&F, you know what you stand for.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
The best free online resource for those interested in learning web development.
Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS
Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots
Instead of downloading in your computer all sorts of browsers, use this. Another one you can try is Adobe Browserlab, but like any Adobe product, will probably cost you an eye if you want to get the full paid version.
Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots.
Selection of Typography books recommended by various designers.
I hope the designers from LinkedIn group Designers Talk don’t mind ripping them of, but after all this list is the result of them trying to help colleagues.
Here is the never-ending list:
This site:
This blogs:
http://community.avid.com/blogs/adman/archive/2007/08/17/title-20.aspx
http://www.iLoveTypography.com/ http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/
Also this tutorial:
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_better_typography
And last but not least this huge amount of book
Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works
Practical theory
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Stealing-Sheep-Find-Works/dp/0201703394
Typography: A Textbook of Design
Conceptual theory
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Typography-Textbook-Design-Emil-Ruder/dp/3721200438
Typography: Formation +Transformation
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Typography-Formation-Transformation-Willi-Kunz/dp/3721204956
The Typographic Grid (Hardcover)
by Hans Rudolf Bosshard (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Typographic-Grid-Hans-Rudolf-Bosshard/dp/3721203402/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244216012&sr=1-1
Getting it Right with Type: The Dos and Don’ts of Typography (Paperback)
by Victoria Squire
Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by Rob Carter (Author), Ben Day (Author), Philip B. Meggs (Author)
The Layout Book (Advanced Level) (Paperback)
by Gavin Ambrose (Author), Paul Harris (Author)
The Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst.
American Wood Type, 1828-1900
by Rob Roy Kelly
Pub: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0-3068-0059-4
19th Century Ornamented Type Faces
by Nicolete Gray
Pub: University of California Press, Berkeley
ISBN: 0-520-03074-5
Blackletter: Type and National Identity
by Paul Shaw & Peter Bain
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1-56898-125-2
Designing Books: Practice and Theory
by Jost Hochuli & Robin Kinross
Pub: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0-907259-08-1
Alphabet Abecedarium, The: Some Notes on Lettering
by Richard A. Firmage
Pub: David R. Godine
ISBN: 0-87923-987-5
Alphabetic Labyrinth, The: The Letters in History and Imagination
by Johanna Drucker
Pub: Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0-500-01608-9
Important Typographers
Multilingual Typograhy
Typography: Reflections on the Origins of My Typographic Work
in Ten Chapters
by Wolfgang Weingart
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 3-907044-86-X
Tschichold, Jan: A Life in Typography
by Ruari McLean
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1-56898-084-1
The Work of Jan van Krimpen
by John Dreyfus
Pub: Hartley & Marks
ISBN: 0-88179-112-1
Typographically Speaking
by Margaret Re, Johanna Drucker, James Mosley
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568984278
Elements of Typographic Style, The
by Robert Bringhurst
Pub: Hartley & Marks
ISBN: 0-88179-132-6
Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
by Geoffrey Dowding
Pub: Hartley & Marks Publishers
ISBN: 0-88179-119-9
Typography: Macro- + Microaesthetics
by Willi Kunz
Pub: Verlag Niggli AG
ISBN: 3-7212-0348-8
The Complete Manual of Typography
by James Felici
Pub: Adobe Press
ISBN: 0321127307
About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography
by David Jury
Pub: Rotovision
ISBN: 2880466776
Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works
byErik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger
Pub: Adobe Press
ISBN: 0-672-48543-5
Design With Type
by Carl Dair
Pub: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0-8020-6519-8
Designing With Type: A Basic Course in Typography
by James Craig, William Bevington & Susan E. Meyer
Pub: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0-8230-1347-2
Typographic Design: Form and Communication
by Rob Carter, Ben Day, Philip B. Meggs
Pub: Van Nostrand Reinhold
ISBN: 0-442-00759-0
Type & Typography
by Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam
Pub: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823055248
A Type Primer
by John Kane
Pub: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013099071X
Language Culture Type:
International Type Design in the Age of Unicode
by John D. Berry
Pub: Graphis Pr
ISBN: 1932026010
Type Specimen Books
American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
by Mac McGrew
Pub: Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 0-938768-39-5
Yukio Miyamoto | Master of Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tool
This illustrator is truly amazing. If you think you know Illustrator, think again.
Yukio Miyamoto | Master of Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tool.
Are cheap overseas’ freelancers taking our jobs?
I realized long ago that te only way to gain new clients is by networking. There are plenty of sites where designers can bid on a project, but who can compete with the bids there? No designer that went to school for four years or more and respect his work would create a logo for less than 50 dollars.
Clients do not care were they get their crapy designs, they mostly care about saving a couple of bucks.
Sadly, everybody complains about the economy, but if business keep sending their money overseas, things are far from improving. Anyone with a cracked version of photoshop calls himself a graphic artist latelly. There are many factors that clients do not take into consideration, and one is not giving enough credit to a designer. If you use free fonts and clipart for your business image, and least that could happen is that people do not respect your business, the worst, a lawsuit for using graphics or content that you cannot proof are yours at the end.
Trusting your business image to some random guy in India, is a problem waiting to happen. Please respect the artist’s work and remember than you get what you pay for.