Another Color Palette Tool

0to255

0to255 is a simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color. Perfect for hovers, borders, gradients, and more.

IDD Professor & Alumn Design Blog

Courtney Phillips has some great posts, go take a read:

All finals have been handed in and students have high-tailed it home for summer. Some are fortunate enough to have landed a summer job or internship to work on their skills and maybe even earn a little money, but others are left to wonder…what in the world do I do with the next 3.5 months? It’s a frustrating economy and time to be a design student, so here are some of my tips for using your summer wisely (looking for work and a backup)...

http://thecreativblog.wordpress.com/

Logotype/Wordmark

Logotype/Wordmark Logos: 30 Creative Examples

Logotypes (or wordmarks) are logos that use typography to represent companies, organizations and products. Logo designers show their talent and creative skills by crafting a logotype that’s memorable, clever, and symbolic of the company they’re representing. To follow up on our logo design tutorial that presented a process developing a logotype from start to finish, here’s a showcase of logotypes (wordmarks) for visual inspiration.

Portfolio Inspiration

Beautiful Personal Web Portfolios: A Showcase

Placing your portfolio on the Web gives you an additional venue to feature your work and gain more clients. In addition, in this day and age, clients expect you to have some form of web presence. For your inspiration, here is a visual showcase of some eye-catching web portfolios of creatives in various industries. This showcase follows up on Matthew Heidenreich’s tutorial on creating a portfolio web layout in Photoshop.

Package Design Resource

TheDieline.com: Package Design

Established in 2007 by Andrew Gibbs, The Dieline is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best examples of packaging, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends and design projects being created in the field.

Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials

50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials

Retro and vintage designs are valued for nostalgia and sentimental memories. You can notice that retro and vintage design is created by using rich colors, grunge elements and various textures. In this collection, you’ll find 50 retro and vintage related Photoshop tutorials. These tutorials are useful and unique, so you will learn some new techniques that you can use in your next projects.

design mind by frog design

Work – Life - Issue 12 | design mind

About design mind

Published by global innovation firm frog design, design mind is a media platform that includes a print magazine, a website, videos, and events.

Written by frog designers, technologists, and strategists, design mind articles provide the design and innovation community with perspectives on industry trends, emerging technologies, and global consumer culture. design mind also features interviews with high-profile thought leaders, along with contributions from external writers, designers, and photographers.

The design mind Web site is regularly updated with fresh video, blog, and event content.

The print issue of design mind is published three times per year.

Drop Cap Inspiration

Daily Drop Cap

The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the usage limitations. Daily Drop Caps should be used in blog posts only and not for personal logos or branding. Daily Drop Caps cannot be used in any printed materials or stationery. Enjoy!

idsgn (a design blog)

idsgn

idsgn is a new blog about the things we see and enjoy (or sometimes hate) as designers.

We like to talk about graphic design, branding, typography, and sometimes we might post a video or two. Grab our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter where we post the extra bits that don't make it here.

Type Blog

Type for you.

Typeforyou is a blog on typography.

let's all find awesome jobs

kevin fanning: store: let's all find awesome jobs

Unlike my other books, Let’s All Find Awesome Jobs is not fiction. It’s also not magic, or lifehacks. It’s a concise, practical, and hopefully entertaining guide to the incredibly frustrating world of job searches.

It’s for people just entering the working world for the first time, people who have jobs but want to find better jobs, and for all of us who still don’t know what we want to be when we grow up.

We deserve awesome jobs.

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.