Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch – Nettuts+

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch – Nettuts+.

In the Woods – 15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned

In the Woods – 15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned.

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!

Anain’s Designs.

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.

Jezebel – Abercrombie.

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:

http://www.webtypography.net/

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

http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Right-Type-Donts-Typography/dp/1856694747/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244215916&sr=1-12

Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by Rob Carter (Author), Ben Day (Author), Philip B. Meggs (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/New-Typography-Weimar-Now-Criticism/dp/0520250125/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244215935&sr=1-16

The Layout Book (Advanced Level) (Paperback)
by Gavin Ambrose (Author), Paul Harris (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Layout-Book-Advanced-Level/dp/2940373531/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244216230&sr=1-1

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.

Graphic design web design forms contracts pricing guides legal forms videos interviews

Graphic design web design forms contracts pricing guides legal forms videos interviews.

This resources are very useful to new graphic designers that do not know where to start. Please comment if this helps you and let me know if you find something better.

Google Wave

There is a big fuzz about google wave. I am not a big google fan, and just today a lot of people in twitter started complaining about the spam filter in gmail not working. I checked mine and it indeed is a mess. I think they are biting more than they can chew, but maybe I am wrong and this truly will be a revolutionary thing. Click the link below to know what Google Wave is about if you don’t know already

Google Wave.

Vector Button Set 2 | Freepsd

Vector Button Set 2 | Freepsd.

Beginner Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Vector RSS Icon

Beginner Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Vector RSS Icon.