creativepro.com - Photoshop How-To: Paths to Enlightenment
"Illustration expert Alicia Buelow reveals her techniques. See how she combines vintage line drawings, photos, clip art, type, and more using time-saving tricks. "
11.30.2005
11.29.2005
No office hours this Thursday...
I have to go down to UVA for a conference. I will return Sunday. Let me know if you need to meet or talk with me at another time.
PB
PB
11.27.2005
Must Read
Wired News: Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is
"People who grew up with the internet or iPods, that whole digital revolution, are the first generation that spend more time in the electronic environment than they do in the natural environment. So we are definitely going to try and launch social-marketing campaigns that encourage people to just unplug, just to pull out of the virtual electronic environment and try to live more than half their lives in the real world."
"People who grew up with the internet or iPods, that whole digital revolution, are the first generation that spend more time in the electronic environment than they do in the natural environment. So we are definitely going to try and launch social-marketing campaigns that encourage people to just unplug, just to pull out of the virtual electronic environment and try to live more than half their lives in the real world."
11.18.2005
Design Reference
Design Online
"Design Online is electronic library containing a digitised record of Design journal for the years 1965 to 1974. You can access the library by browsing through the journals, or entering keywords to search."
"Design Online is electronic library containing a digitised record of Design journal for the years 1965 to 1974. You can access the library by browsing through the journals, or entering keywords to search."
11.15.2005
11.14.2005
IDD301 Final Weeks Schedule
11/15 – Animation 2 – critique and intro to AfterEffects
11/29 – Storyboard for final animation – AfterEffects demos
12/6 – After Effects Demos & Lab Time
12/13 – Final Animation presented during final exam period
(Final Exam schedule – 301A 8am & 301B 10:30am)
Homework for all weeks will be AfterEffects Tutorial Book and animation construction
11/29 – Storyboard for final animation – AfterEffects demos
12/6 – After Effects Demos & Lab Time
12/13 – Final Animation presented during final exam period
(Final Exam schedule – 301A 8am & 301B 10:30am)
Homework for all weeks will be AfterEffects Tutorial Book and animation construction
IDD250 Final Weeks Schedule
11/15 – Refined Subject Mind Map - image creation & research – preliminary text
11/29 – Flow Chart, Written Content & Initial Designs (3 different directions)
12/6 – Final Design – constructed in Dreamweaver
12/13 – Finished Site presented during final exam period (6pm – we can discuss this
in class & see how it works for everyone)
11/29 – Flow Chart, Written Content & Initial Designs (3 different directions)
12/6 – Final Design – constructed in Dreamweaver
12/13 – Finished Site presented during final exam period (6pm – we can discuss this
in class & see how it works for everyone)
11.12.2005
IDD250 & IDD301
LAST BLOG!
That's right, this Tuesday you will post your final blog for the semester!
Congrats & good work!
That's right, this Tuesday you will post your final blog for the semester!
Congrats & good work!
11.11.2005
11.09.2005
Excellent Graphic Design Student Blog
Some really great stuff in the comments to these posts - I'd hang on every word if I were you...
graphic design student board
graphic design student board
Free Image Hosting Services
MyWebSpace only allows us 30mb - not much... but there are some good free image hosting services out there...
ImageShack� - Hosting
UploadPixels - Easy Free Image Hosting
Imagetiger is your one-click imagehost
ImageShack� - Hosting
UploadPixels - Easy Free Image Hosting
Imagetiger is your one-click imagehost
11.08.2005
From one of my favorite CSS books...
creativepro.com - Web How-To: Sophisticated Web Design, Simply
"Web designers know the pain of trying to create a site that works in most -- not even all -- Web browsers. Endless hacks are required to work around browsers' wacky implementations of HTML and CSS. Here's how to ditch those workarounds for good, without giving up attractive sites."
"Web designers know the pain of trying to create a site that works in most -- not even all -- Web browsers. Endless hacks are required to work around browsers' wacky implementations of HTML and CSS. Here's how to ditch those workarounds for good, without giving up attractive sites."
11.04.2005
Wonder why some of your images look crappy?
creativepro.com - Digital Photography How-To: The Ins and Outs of Interpolation
"Your image editor interpolates photos every time you rotate, enlarge, reduce, or distort them. The results can be bad: aliasing, blurring, edge halos. Yet you can't always avoid interpolation. This tutorial helps you make the right choices to get the best possible results."
"Your image editor interpolates photos every time you rotate, enlarge, reduce, or distort them. The results can be bad: aliasing, blurring, edge halos. Yet you can't always avoid interpolation. This tutorial helps you make the right choices to get the best possible results."
11.03.2005
Great Typography Resource!
Particletree � Typography Crash Course Roundup
"You can spend your whole life obsessing over type. It’s a craft with an awesome history and practicing it well often takes designers on a sort of quest that never seems to end. The strategies are both infinitely complex and sometimes irreducibly simple. The following resources are comprised of some of my favorite articles on the subject and some sites that should give most a great head start."
"You can spend your whole life obsessing over type. It’s a craft with an awesome history and practicing it well often takes designers on a sort of quest that never seems to end. The strategies are both infinitely complex and sometimes irreducibly simple. The following resources are comprised of some of my favorite articles on the subject and some sites that should give most a great head start."
11.02.2005
IDD250 Writing Tips
Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web - Lifehacker
“Writing online is a much different undertaking than writing on paper. The rules you learned in Freshman Composition don’t all apply. Writing and reading on the Web involves a whole set of issues, freedoms and limitations print does not.”
“Writing online is a much different undertaking than writing on paper. The rules you learned in Freshman Composition don’t all apply. Writing and reading on the Web involves a whole set of issues, freedoms and limitations print does not.”
PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things"
Interview with Erik Spiekerman
"All good type designers I know sit down with a pencil first, no matter how fast they are on the screen."
"All good type designers I know sit down with a pencil first, no matter how fast they are on the screen."
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