It's a strange paradox: So many designers whose work speaks so fluently in images flee in terror when called upon to communicate with the written word. After all, designers are nothing if not communicators, and communication is most fully realized when image and word unite.
1.17.2007
Design & Writing #1
HOWdesign.com - Design & Creativity
Motion Graphics Resource
Forget the film, watch the titles
You know what they say about first impressions. That’s why both Hollywood and independent studios are spending time and resources to create the most appropriate main title sequences for their films. At its very best, a title sequence is a self-contained hybrid that combines multiple media – motion graphics, film, animation, cgi – to compress the essence of the film it introduces.
Great Article on Design Prototyping
Creating Passionate Users: Don't make the Demo look Done
When we show a work-in-progress (like an alpha release) to the public, press, a client, or boss... we're setting their expectations. And we can do it one of three ways: dazzle them with a polished mock-up, show them something that matches the reality of the project status, or stress them out by showing almost nothing and asking them to take it 'on faith' that you're on track.
The bottom line:
How 'done' something looks should match how 'done' something is.
1.09.2007
Cliche Finder
Before you hand in that next paper or post to the class blog run it through the Cliche Finder.
Stress Reducers
52 Proven Stress Reducers - American Lung Association site
1. Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. The inevitable morning mishaps will be less stressful.
2. Prepare for the morning the evening before. Set the breakfast table. Make lunches. Put out the clothes you plan to wear, etc.
3. Don't rely on your memory. Write down appointment times, when to pick up the laundry, when library books are due, etc. ("The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory."- Old Chinese Proverb)...
Secrets of Successful Creatives
The Art of Business: The Secrets of Sustaining Success
Starting a business is easy. Sustaining it is hard. Here's what successful creative professionals say about what makes them stay successful.
1.05.2007
Evolution of Speechballoons
Fascinating visual history:
Evolution of Speechballoons
Evolution of Speechballoons
During the 18th century, British caricaturists changed the shape of speechballoons from gothic speech-bands or flags into fluffy balloons, our modern speechballoons.
1.03.2007
Photoshop Image Adjustment
creativepro.com - Photoshop Fundamentals
You can do some far-out stuff with Photoshop (hello, Liquify Filter!), but image adjustment is the program's bread and butter. Here's how to fix common photo problems.
Do you ever work with images that are flat, washed out, too dark, or have a bad color cast? You don't have to accept those failings. Instead, try a few basic steps to bring them back to life.
12.30.2006
2006 Best 50 hacks for your Life
2006 LifeHack Review: Best 50 hacks for your Life - lifehack.org
I’ve selected the best 50 life hacks of the year, based on their popularity and contents in different categories. Invest your time - read them. Bookmark this page and mark reading them as one of your new year resolutions.
12.11.2006
Design Tips: Logo Inspiration
creativepro.com - Design Tips: Logo Inspiration
Design legend Malcom Grear reveals how to create memorable logos. The many examples are sure to spark your own creativity.
12.08.2006
Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006
DoCopenhagen: Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006
Here we go again... Our top 50 videos of 2005 was a huge success. This year we decided to do things a little bit differently. All the videos are from You Tube and can therefore be watched in the browser. If you want to download the videos to your computer and watch it on your ipod or TV we recommend that you use this download tool from Lifehacker.com
Digital Photography Tips
creativepro.com - Photo Recipes to Help You Get "The Shot"
Even if you're not an expert photographer, you can whip up incredible images. A few simple ingredients make it happen.
12.05.2006
Another Color Palette Generator
Another handy web color tool:
Color Blender
Color Blender
Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you'd like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.
12.01.2006
Pure Design Inspiration
Speak Up: High Priority Contest
These are the entries received for the November 2006 contest to design New York magazine’s “High Priority” feature for their year-end double issue.
Granularity for students - lifehack.org
Granularity for students - lifehack.org
Granularity is a tremendously useful strategy for students. The typical spiral-bound student-planner doesn’t seem to encourage it; that tool is often little more than a place to store due dates: “research paper due.” But no one can just write a research paper. That paper can only be the result of numerous small-scale tasks. It’s not surprising that students who think of “write research paper” as one monolithic task are likely to put it off far longer than they ought to. Instead of “write research paper,” one could think of these tasks: go to library to look up sources; organize them by call number; read first three sources and take notes; get article from JSTOR; read remaining three sources and take notes; organize notes on computer; check bibliography format; ask professor about endnote form; make rough outline; and so on. Each of these “granular” tasks is far more do-able than “write research paper.” Thinking of work in terms of granularity can be one way to overcome the overwhelming dread of getting started. And keeping track of such tasks on paper and crossing them off one by one gives the satisfaction making progress and getting closer to done.
77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better
Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb
If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven't gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. New knowledge is the backbone of society's progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others' quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today. Your quest for knowledge doesn't have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein's, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge's sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal.
11.30.2006
Design Life Now Exhibition
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum | National Design Triennial: Design Life Now
The third Triennial brings together the experimental designs and emerging ideas—including animation, new media, and fashion, robotics, architecture, product, medical, and graphic design—at the center of American culture from 2003 to 2006.
11.27.2006
Life 2.0: The little book of Flow
Life 2.0: The little book of Flow - revised
The premise of this essay is that those exquisite but all too rare moments when we experience 'flow', when we are truly creative, happy and intuitively know exactly what is needed, are simply those instances when we glimpse our original and true nature. It sets out to show how, instead of trying to fathom the conditions for flow, we can realise this 'true nature' and make 'flow' our normal way of being, wherever we are and in whatever we do.
11.22.2006
Design Tips: The Power of Grids
creativepro.com - Design Tips: The Power of Grids
Grids can bring valuable consistency to your print and Web layouts. Find out when to rely on grids and when to ignore them, then put theory into practice with tips for using grids in Adobe InDesign.
11.21.2006
Coroflot's 2006 Design Salary Survey
coroflot.com - Coroflot's 2006 Design Salary Survey
Global Aesthetic-Practice Estimate
2979 respondents from 64 countries reporting $158,480,126 in wages earned in the fields of Design Management, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interactive Design / Web Design, Interior Design and for the first time, Architecture and Fashion Design
50 Essential Bookmarks
Communication Arts: Resources
We asked six designers, each with a unique voice and perspective, to share a list of sites they consider to be vital to their work. Due to space limitations, we only included the sites not already listed in "50 Essential Bookmarks.”
11.14.2006
Get Smarter
Believing You Can Get Smarter Makes You Smarter
Thinking about intelligence as changeable and malleable, rather than stable and fixed, results in greater academic achievement, especially for people whose groups bear the burden of negative stereotypes about their intelligence.
Photoshop 411
creativepro.com - Dr. Phil for Photoshop
All relationships are complex, but there's nothing more confusing than the complicated relationship between megapixels, file size, image size, and print size. Julieanne Kost and Daniel Brown explain the difference and advise you on the best sizes for scanning, printing (for both a desktop printer and a press), slideshows, and Web sites.
11.10.2006
how to be interesting...
russell davies: how to be interesting
...the core skill of any future creative business person will be 'being interesting'. People will employ and want to work with (and want to be with) interesting people.
11.08.2006
Pictures of designers working with their hands not computers!
Basics in Design - Basel School of Design
The Basel School of Design invites students, professionals, and teachers to apply for study in the famous foundation programme, the “Vorkurs”, for either
one or two semesters, and to concentrate on the main
topics in process-oriented and form-oriented basic
design work.
Fun Font Game
FontBook: Digital Typeface Compendium from FontShop
Choose Pummel and ”Fight the FontBook“
Choose Pummel and ”Fight the FontBook“
FontBook is a type encyclopedia with an abundance of carefully researched notes on type designers, year of publication, similar fonts, and additional language versions.
Inspiration for designers & students
Incomplete Manifesto - Bruce Mau Design
4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
Design How-To: Modular Design
creativepro.com - Design How-To: Use Lego-Like Modules
Want a simple format that's useful when designing everything from postcards to Web pages? Use snap-together modules that provide endless variety.
11.06.2006
Thinking like a Genius
Thinking like a Genius
"Even if you're not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future."
The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems. "These strategies are common to the thinking styles of creative geniuses in science, art, and industry throughout history."
Career Advice for Designers
HOWdesign.com - Job Bank - Career Advice
A designer's personal qualities outweigh technical skills every time. Recent grads, take note: The intangibles have a very real value to employers, colleagues and clients.
Information Architects & Typography
Information Architects Japan � Blog Archive � Web Design is 95% Typography (1)
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
From consumer consciousness to a new vision for industry...
WorldChanging
Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.
10.26.2006
Freelancing
A beginner's guide to freelancing (Phil Gyford: Writing)
It’s been over a year since I first thought of writing down everything I’ve learned about freelancing. I’ve now been freelance for more than three years but the title still has a double meaning — this is both for beginners and by a beginner, because I know I still have a lot to learn.
10.23.2006
Typography Article
creativepro.com - dot-font: Using Expert Characters and Expert Sets
Extra typographic characters, the elements that make fine typography possible in digital typesetting, used to be unavailable in a standard font. If they existed for an individual typeface, they were packed into a second, supplementary font known as an 'expert set.' The expert set was a separate font, and you had to pay for it separately, but it was typically a fraction of the cost of the primary font.
10.20.2006
Adbusters
Adbusters
We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
To this end, Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine, operates this website and offers its creative services through PowerShift, our advocacy advertising agency.
10.17.2006
More on Innovation in Business Week
Want a Master of Design with That?
Denis Weil explains how going back to school helped him with his role in innovation at McDonalds
10.16.2006
Smart Design Students on the Road
TRAN.sit National Studio Tour
In a field that can be based as much on networking and personality as it is on creativity and skill; who you know can be the handshake between finding a good job and finding a great job. We have decided that we want to meet as many designers and creatives as we can; our direction is destined by a road map.
10.11.2006
Free Online Illustration Class
illustrationclass.com
Why Doodle? How do you become a better artist? How do you improve your raw drawing skills? Simple, just start doodling. Like physical exercise you'll get creatively stronger and improve over time.
Stamp Out Bad Design
<< BAD DESIGN KILLS >>
Cool site that aim at stamping out bad design and educating the visually illiterate.
Cool site that aim at stamping out bad design and educating the visually illiterate.
10.10.2006
1000 journals - Pure Inspiration
1000 journals
The 1000 Journals Project is an ongoing, collaborative experiment attempting to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels.
The goal is to provide a method for interation and shared creativity. If you ask a kindergarten class how many of them are artists, they'll all raise their hands. Ask the same question of 6th graders, and maybe one third will respond. Ask high school grads, and few will admit to it. (explained in Orbiting the Giant Hairball)
What happens to us growing up? We begin to fear criticism, and tend to keep our creativity to ourselves. Many people keep journals, of writing or sketching, but not many share them with people. (when was the last time a friend invited you to read their diary?) You will not be judged here. And you will have company. This is for you. For everyone.
10.08.2006
10.06.2006
Another Great Design Blog
Ace Jet 170: Found type, print and stuff
I'm an English graphic designer working in Belfast. Married with two very young, active, funny and very brilliant boys. At work I develop and implement brands and corporate IDs mostly, work very hard and eat well.
Color Palette Generator
Color Palette Generator
Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
Dreamweaver Tips
creativepro.com - Dreamweaver Design Challenge: Tables vs. Layers
This article was inspired by two questions I've received many times since Dreamweaver added the layers feature. The questions are, 'How come I can center my design when I use tables in Dreamweaver, but I can't center layers?' and 'How come when I combine tables and layers, the alignment of elements sometimes looks terrible?'
10.05.2006
Smithsonian Photography Initiative
Smithsonian Photography Initiative
Today we have more than 13 million images in some seven hundred collections throughout our museums and research centers. The collections are organized by museum and discipline — for instance, the National Museum of Natural History holds natural science images in its collections, the National Air and Space Museum houses images of flight in its archives, and the National Museum of African Art holds photographs of Africa in its collections. We believe that the Smithsonian's ability to look at photography broadly and in context makes the institution unique.
Design Reference
Nine skills that separate good and great designers
The crux of the session were comparisons of good and great designers, structured along the lines of previous articles I’ve written: Good designers (blank), Great designers (blank). Following is a recap of the 9 skills presented.
10.02.2006
More on Design Innovation in Business Week
Business Innovation: Innovation & Design
Strategy, creativity & research
Strategy, creativity & research
Innovation All the Time - That's the daily order of business in the creative professions. Here's how to apply their practices to your own company...
More Historical Reference (1992-95)
stickers circa 1992-1995
between the years of roughly 92 through 95 i peeled many a sticker in the lower east side. this was before i shut my eyes to the barrage of information on the streets out of consumer exhaustion; before i became a working graphic designer and was still impressed by, and hungry for, nifty logos and graphics. anyhow, now-a-days the premium on every inch of personal space here in the city has curbed my junk collection, but the old piles managed to stick around. now, over ten years on, i thought these stickers were a pretty cool little time capsule and i’ve decided to post some of them for your browsing pleasure. a few were designed by friends. one i designed myself during that period. click any to see larger image. enjoy!
10.01.2006
Take study-worthy lecture notes
Geek to Live: Take study-worthy lecture notes - Lifehacker
Copying class notes after the fact is a time-consuming way to study for an exam, but it was the only thing that truly worked for me back in college. But next week I'll be in a classroom again for the first time in 8 years, pen poised over notebook, and this time I'm going to perfect a strategy that gets my notes right the first time: the Cornell Note-taking method.
How to Be a Student
How to Be a Student
The typical college campus is a friendly place; but it is also a competitive environment. The education you receive there, and the attitudes you develop, will guide you for the rest of your life.
9.26.2006
Article on Design Icon
The Wordsmith on Paula Scher
Unless you're part of the clubby graphic-design fraternity, you may never have heard of Paula Scher, but it's nearly impossible not to know her work. Every time you pass a Citibank ATM or hand over one of its credit cards with the iconic red-arched 'Citi' logo, you're in her orbit. When you open a box from Tiffany, with its slender, elegant typeface, you're decoding a message she has sent you (namely, 'This had to be pricey!'). If you get subversive pleasure reading Jon Stewart's snarky faux textbook, America (The Book), or are charmed by the signs on the New York subway for the Metropolitan Opera, or look back wistfully on the loopy spaceship cover of the first Boston album, you're under the spell of this astonishingly versatile, formidably talented designer.
9.22.2006
Advice to Design Students
Core77 Boards - If I Knew Then What I Know (Advice to students)
Advice is cheap, and hindsight is 20-20, but whether you had a great school experience or a crappy one, there's no way that you can come out of a design education without a few bits of advice for those just starting out.
Design Ideas
creativepro.com - Five Great Design Ideas to Use Now
So you're just sitting there, staring at a blank piece of paper or computer screen, as if the Idea Fairy will come along and bop you on the head. Consider this article the magic wand you've been waiting for.
9.21.2006
Excellent Documentary on Andy Warhol
American Masters . Andy Warhol | PBS
Reviews:
Stargazer - The Nation
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film - Report - New York Times
Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in a two-room shack-like apartment at 73 Orr Street in the working class neighborhood of Soho in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Andrej Warhola and Julia Zavacky Warhola. The youngest of three sons, Andrew attended Holmes Elementary School and Schenley High School, and entered Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh in 1945, where he studied with Balcomb Greene, Robert Lepper, Samuel Rosenberg, and others. He experimented with his name, signing holiday cards "André," and dropping the final "a" from his family name. He graduated in June 1949 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Pictorial Design.
Reviews:
Stargazer - The Nation
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film - Report - New York Times
9.19.2006
Core77 - 1000 words of advice for design students
Core77 - 1000 words of advice for design students
There are a million things to learn in design school, but what about the things you need to know 'about' design school? In an effort to be clear and concise—something your teachers are always bugging you to do—here are exactly 1000 words of advice for design students (cliches included)...
Making Meaning
creativepro.com - Giving Design Meaning
Design goes far beyond making something "pretty" on the outside. The best design takes into account customer needs and delivers meaningful experiences. This excerpt identifies seven design principles to follow and five process stages to go through to reach the end goal: design that matters.
9.18.2006
Designer Movies
hillmancurtis :: 917 679 2725
Hillman Curtis has a great bunch of short movie/interviews that he has made with some of the top designers of our time.
Hillman Curtis has a great bunch of short movie/interviews that he has made with some of the top designers of our time.
IDD110 Design Resource
The Design Encyclopedia
A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design.
9.17.2006
Illustration Tips
How to make illustrations even if you can’t draw
I really hate clipart. So much that I at some point decided to start making my own illustrations for my documents, presentations and my blog.
Now I get all these nice compliments about my childish drawings. They seem to work well in my presentations because they add a personal touch. Doing presentations is a personal thing. The fact that you, yes you is there to present. People tend to appreciate the fact that you have spent the extra time adding your own special finish to the slides.
9.15.2006
9.12.2006
8.18.2006
How to talk to a professor
I think I've posted this before - but it's still a goody!
How to talk to a professor
How to talk to a professor
Talking to a professor–out of genuine curiosity, a genuine interest in learning, a genuine desire to improve–is one of the smartest things a college student can do. While some professors are genuinely unapproachable, many are happy to talk to students. Here are five points to consider when you’re talking to a professor...
Good advice for a new school year
Advice for students:New year’s resolutions
People in academic life, teachers and students alike, get a curious bonus — while everyone else trudges from January to December, we have a chance to begin anew with each semester, term, or quarter.
5.18.2006
Interesting Report on Internships
creativepro.com - Employers Report Internships Lead to Full-Time Hires
Recent Poll by CareerExposure.com Finds 94 Percent of Employers Offer Full-Time Positions to Interns
5.11.2006
Senior Web Sites
Here they are - in all their glory - IDD Class of 2006 portfolio web sites.
In no particular order:
Heather Cote
Jacqueline Barcamonte
Daniel Moricco
Sarah-Jane Bolling
Daniel Vecchitto
Nicole Theobald
Christopher Katagis
Conor O'Brien
Rebecca Kapchan
Kyle Levesque
Elizabeth Kenty
Sean Riley
Robert Rasmussen
Christine Simons
Tyler Stavola
Jennifer Daigle
Roy Riedl
Mark Driscoll
Jason Forkos
Kristin Alicandri
In no particular order:
Heather Cote
Jacqueline Barcamonte
Daniel Moricco
Sarah-Jane Bolling
Daniel Vecchitto
Nicole Theobald
Christopher Katagis
Conor O'Brien
Rebecca Kapchan
Kyle Levesque
Elizabeth Kenty
Sean Riley
Robert Rasmussen
Christine Simons
Tyler Stavola
Jennifer Daigle
Roy Riedl
Mark Driscoll
Jason Forkos
Kristin Alicandri
5.01.2006
Another Excellent Design How-To
creativepro.com - Design How-To: Turn One Photo Into a Thousand Images
Well, maybe not a thousand. But you can often carve up a large photo into several smaller images. You'll stretch your photo dollar, and your images are almost guaranteed to be unified in color and texture.
4.25.2006
Overcoming Procrastination
It's the end run of the semester - here's a little kick in the pants:
Overcoming Procrastination - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Overcoming Procrastination - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
4.24.2006
4.19.2006
4.17.2006
4.13.2006
mmmm, Inspiration
Alvin Lustig, Modern American Design Pioneer 1915-1955
The Alvin Lustig Archive (www.alvinlustig.com) grew out of our admiration for this important modern design pioneer, one that we believe deserved much more attention than what is currently available. As graphic designers, Lustig's passion for design in all aspects of life resonates with us and influences our own practice.
Zine Resource
Barnard College Library Zine Collection
ZINES ARE
Short for magazine or fanzine, zines are self-publications, motivated by a desire for self-expression, not for profit. The following quote from Not Sorry, a zine out of the zine capital of the United States: Portland, Oregon explains what zines are, and why they're necessary.
"I'm not even trying to be dramatic, but to the world at large, I am a freak. My voice is downplayed, ignored and/or made into a joke in the mass of verbal and physical disapproval that bombards me every day when I leave the safety of my house or make the stupid decision to read a newspaper, magazine or turn the television on. When I am out of my element, I am told that my very existence is wrong or problematic because I am a fat, queer, mentally ill, politically radical woman with very little money and little to no regard for beauty standards and so on and so forth. But you know what? I am so NOT fucking SORRY. As long as myself and others are disrespected, invalidated, unsafe and ignored by the masses, my experiences, ideas and opinions need to be heard and I will keep on talking this shit and it is not going to be pretty. Besides, how else are these stories going to be documented? With the exception of the gay rights movement, these stories will most likely not be found in any future history books, and if they are, they will most likely be totally inaccurate. Now I know that this zine will not go much beyond the zine reading community, but this is where I have chosen to start and it's something which is always better than nothing."
Jenny San Diego. Not Sorry, #3. April, 2005. Portland, Oregon.
Print Designers FYI
creativepro.com - Paper Tips: Fit the Design to the Sheet
Riddle me this: Would you rather trim a half-inch off your design or risk going out of business? While paper costs have remained relatively flat, it pays to be prudent when matching layout specs to paper size.
Inspiration
The Visual Dictionary - a visual exploration of words in the real world.
The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we're trying to catalogue it.
4.12.2006
CNN has been watching over our shoulders!
CNN.com - Design software weakens classic drawing skills - Apr 5, 2006
Students are more comfortable manipulating computer graphics than doodling, drafting and drawing with pen on paper, and this has created a sharp decline in drawing skills in recent years, teachers say.
Another must-read blog...
Eyebeam reBlog
The Eyebeam reBlog is a community site focused on art, technology, and culture. The guest reBlogger is filtering feeds provided by artists, curators, bloggers, and news sites. With the touch of a button the reBlogger selects material to share with the Eyebeam community.
The Best Design Blog?
Don't forget about reading this one on a regular basis:
Design Observer - writings about design & culture
Design Observer - writings about design & culture
4.11.2006
Typography Tutorial
creativepro.com - Creative Suite How-To: Working with Typography
Typography is perhaps one of the most compelling aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite -- especially when you tap into the workflow features of Version Cue.
4.05.2006
Designers must write...
Ideas Blog - Designers must write
Early in my career, I was involved in a strange and completely unnecessary rivalry with one of my coworkers. She and I were like oil and water. After years of chilly interaction we actually managed to engage in something that had the semblance of a civil conversation. During this chat, she somewhat reluctantly noted that she held no drawing skills. To state it candidly, I was aghast. How could a professional not have a handle on what I perceived as the absolute basics?
The “P” Word
Thought this would be a good refresher on entering the last 5 weeks of the semeste.
Study Skills Library - Procrastination
Study Skills Library - Procrastination
Procrastination is a complex psychological behavior that affects everyone to some degree or another. With some it can be a minor problem; with others it is a source of considerable stress and anxiety. Procrastination is only remotely related to time management, (procrastinators often know exactly what they should be doing, even if they cannot do it), which is why very detailed schedules usually are no help.
4.04.2006
New Design Magazine
redaction
Redaction is a new graphic design publication. Its mission is to present works of design educators and periphery practioners striving to create new paradigms in design practice and design writing. Its goal is to highlight designers operating in alternative modes: authors, editors, critics, producers, directors, artists, and researchers.
Architecture Student Blog Site
Archinect : School Blog Project
About Archinect
Mission: The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines.
Background: Archinect was initially developed in 1997 by Paul Petrunia. The site has since become a top online destination for progressive-design oriented students, architects, educators, and fans.
4.03.2006
Photoshop FYI
Here's an issue that you may have had in creating an image:
creativepro.com - Graphics How-To: Simulate a Shadow in Photoshop
creativepro.com - Graphics How-To: Simulate a Shadow in Photoshop
Objects in a spotlight or a setting sun throw long shadows. When you want that three-dimensional look but the available images don't fit the bill, you can make one yourself in Photoshop.
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