Online Drawing Tool

flame | peter blaskovic | escape motions

Flame is a painting program, it belongs to my 'I am Artist' experimental project. I think with tools which inspires you, everyone can be an artist. You can try it here, change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings. When you change background from black to white, palette changes from additive to subtractive and the feeling of the painting is very different. It's not easy to explain all brush parameters, so I leave this for your experimentation.

RateMyProfessors

Funny and enlightening article about the site.

The Medium - RateMyProfessors.com. - NYTimes.com

AT ANY RATE
RateMy Professors.com, which started in 1999, is a lovable relic of Web 1.0. With more than 10 million quirky, untrustworthy reviews, it’s going strong. Read it like a novel, watch it like MTV, study it like sociology. Just don’t base any real decisions on it.

Graphic Design Internship Info Links

These are packed with useful info to help you in the process of finding a great internship. Read thoroughly & make notes. :)

A guide to internships — AIGA | the professional association for design

How to Land a Great Internship for Graphic Design

Welcome to Graphic Design Internship

Graphic design intern jobs | Simply Hired

Film and TV Title Competition at SXSW!

South by Southwest to Honor Film and TV Title Sequences - NYTimes.com

Next week in Austin, Tex., the South by Southwest festival will honor the winners of a film and television titles competition, a rare move to recognize those miniature stories and graphics displays that surround the opening credits before the real story unfolds.

More AIGA advice for design students

<em>Transitions</em> e-newsletter — AIGA | the professional association for design

Welcome to Transitions, an e-newsletter created for AIGA student members to help in their education and eventual transition to the workplace as a professional designer. Although not currently published, It includes straightforward articles on subjects of interest to students; provides personal reading lists about the transition from the perspective of famous designers; and offers references to other materials on our website you may find useful.

Hasn’t been published in quite a while, but still some very good information.

Transitioning From Design Student to Designer

After School Special: Advice for Emerging Designers — AIGA | the professional association for design

Great advice for graduating students from the AIGA. Be sure to read the comments!

Great design from designers.

Supermarket - Great design. Straight from designers.

Similar to Etsy only a little more designy.

Design Research Resource

AIGA Design Archives

The archives of AIGA serve to identify, preserve and make available records of enduring value. AIGA’s aim is to make conditions suitable for access and to support research that will add to the literature of design and to safeguard its legacy.

2010 Interactive Annual

Communication Arts - 2010 Interactive Annual

Interactive Annual 16 Winners

This year’s winners were selected, by our distinguished jury, from a group of entries including Web sites, Kiosks, CD-ROM projects and mobile devices. The 39 winning projects are showcased below, and in further detail in the March/April 2010 issue of Communication Arts magazine.

Evolution of Type Taste

My Evolution of Type Taste from Grade School to Present

A catalog of my evolving typography likes through time. I didn’t include all of the crappy display fonts I liked in college because it’s just way too embarrassing.

Internship Links

Internship To-Do’s

Research (job sites, portfolios, design sites)
Resumé
Cover Letter
Portfolio (PDF and/or web)
Apply/Inquire

Portfolio Research (see some of the competition)

http://www.creativehotlist.com/index.asp?linkTarget=homePort.asp
http://www.designerid.com/

Design Industry Sites

http://www.creativepro.com/
http://www.commarts.com/
http://www.howdesign.com/

Job (Internship) Sites

http://www.creativehotlist.com/
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/jobs_display.php
http://www.coroflot.com/
http://www.creativebusiness.com/index.lasso
http://www.core77.com/
http://designobserver.coroflot.com/public/jobs_browse.asp
http://www.simplyhired.com
http://www.indeed.com
http://www.highendcareers.com/
http://www.krop.com/
http://www.filtertalent.com/
http://www.mediabistro.com/joblistings/
http://jobmarket.nytimes.com/jobs/category/creative-design-jobs

myPANTONE

myPANTONE for iPhone and iPod Touch

Who says you can’t take it with you? Not Pantone. Now with the myPANTONE for iPhone and iPod Touch app you have access to a variety of PANTONE® color libraries and the ability to build color palettes and share them with colleagues and clients. myPANTONE offers graphic, web, fashion and apparel designers a way to take PANTONE colors with you wherever you go. Can’t remember what a color looks like, now you can have Portable Color Memory™.

Develop Your Language Skills

Develop Your Greatest Skill – Language - Stepcase Lifehack

Powerful Writing

8 Qualities of Powerful Writing - Stepcase Lifehack

Creative Inspiration

YouTube - Ira Glass on Storytelling

This American Life's Ira Glass on taste, ability and creative development: "Most everybody I know who does interesting creative work went through a phase of years where they had really good taste but they could tell what they were making wasn't as good as they wanted it to be." This is just wonderful: watch it.

via Design Observer

Graphic Design History

Lester Beall | American Graphic Design Pioneer

Multi-touch Interaction Design

LukeW | New Multi-touch Interactions on the Apple iPad

During Apple's 90 minute unveiling of the iPad this week, a lot of new multi-touch interactions were shown off. But they went by fast. So as a service to digital product designers everywhere, we took the time to extract 8 minutes of new user interface demos from the iPad keynote. Now you can quickly just catch the UI in action on Apple's new native iPad and iWork applications.

INSPIRE

INSPIRE - A publication from the Adobe Experience Design team

Great resource on design innovation & best practices.

Feltron 2009 Annual Report

Nicholas Felton | Feltron.com

"Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience."

Opposing Viewpoints on Designers & Code

ignore the code: Designers are not Programmers

"There seems to be a growing sentiment that interaction designers, visual designers and UI designers need to know how to write code...
I disagree with this notion. In fact, I believe that being able to program can be a negative attribute for people who are responsible for designing the user experience. Designers who know how things are implemented or, even worse, who have to implement their own designs are in danger of impeding the quality of their designs. They are tempted to take code into account when they should be concentrating on the best possible user experience."

Designers Who Are Technical: The More You Know, The Better Your Work — Flyosity: Mac & iPhone Interface Design

"A user experience designer designs the user experience, obviously... but is it really that obvious? What's the user experiencing when we say 'the user experience'? On the web, there are many things that contribute to the user's overall experience using the website or application:

* Look & feel of the application
* Ability of the user to accomplish the tasks they set out to accomplish
* The overall perceived speed of the website or web application
* Expectations being met. If a user thinks X will happen and it doesn't, there's a gulf of execution"