ART VARIETY

Artists & Types of Art

  1. • Art + Culture

  2. • Artcyclopedia - Database

  3. • Bio Art

  4. • Critical Perspectives on art

  5. • Contemporary Art - UICA

  6. • Creative Time Artists

  7. • Defining Beauty - Survey

  8. • Furniture (Recycled)

  9. • Green Design

  10. • Historical Art Pic Library

  11. • Jewish Artists

  12. • Public Arts, Burning Man

  13. • Sculpture / Installations

  14. • Smart History - Art Online

  15. • Symposium C6 Artists

  16. • Way Things Work,
      (David Macaulay
        Illustrations)


Art Movements

  1. • Art Movements

  2. • Art Periods

  3. • Good Modernist Timeline


Local Art (Detroit MI)

  1. • 555 Gallery

  2. • DIA - Institute of Arts


Manga / Comics

  1. • Cartoon Tutorials (Illust.)

  2. • Comics - by Chris Ware

  3. • Johnny Bunko - Daniel Pink

  4. • Maus by Art Spiegelman


Papers & Book Arts

  1. • Animations with Paper

  2. • Book Arts

  3. • Hollanders Papers

  4. • Fabric origami

  5. • Julien Vallee Paper Design

  6. • Paper Folding/Origami

  7. • Pop-Up Book Videos


Political Art

  1. • Activists Blog

  2. • Cartoons

  3. • Democracy Posters

  4. • Guerrilla Postering (How to)

  5. • Hijink Pranks, The Yes Men

  6. • Homosexuality, Gran Fury

  7. • Posters (various)

  8. • Projects to Contribute

  9. • Social Activist, Mel Chin

  10. • Social Design

  11. • Video Activism

 

GRAPHIC DESIGN

What is Graphic Design?


General Resources

  1. • 50 Design Blogs

  2. • AIGA - Professional Assoc.

  3. • AIGA - Design Educators

  4. • Canada’s GD Association

  5. • Charles Wilkins
    (Personal Collages)

  6. • Cube Design Studio

  7. • Defining the Designer

  8. • Design Variety, Anna

  9. • Flash Web site, Christian S.

  10. • Fung Wee, graphics guy

  11. • How to be a Designer, Book

  12. • Info / Data Graphics I

  13. • Info / Data Graphics II

  14. • Info/ Data Graphics III

  15. • Graffiti (using lights)

  16. • Graffiti (and sidewalk art)

  17. • Logos / Brand Identity

  18. • Photoshop Brushes

  19. • Posters (Digital)

  20. • Posters (Movie Gigs)

  21. • Posters (Printmaking)

  22. • Ryan Molloy Resources

  23. • Takashi Murakami
      (graphic anime paintings)

  24. • Vector Art (Skateboards)

  25. • Veer (Photo,Illust,Type)

  26. • Vintage Graphics


Free Stock Photos

  1. • Clip Art by DK

  2. • Flickr

  3. • Fotolia (low-cost)

  4. • Image After

  5. • Morgue File

  6. • Pixel Perfect Digital

  7. • Stock Vault


How To

  1. • Silkscreen (via notes)

  2. • Silkscreen (on video)


Publishing/Printing

  1. • Make your own products

  2. • Print Books, Lulu

  3. • Print Materials, Etsy

  4. • Skateboards etc., Zazzle

 

TEXT & FONTS

Font Resources

  1. • 10 San Serif Fonts

  2. • Art, Animation, Type

  3. • Brainstorm Online

  4. • Designing your font

  5. • Dimensional Type

  6. • Gritty Type

  7. • Helvetica - The Movie

  8. • Inversions with text

  9. • Play Play Play

  10. • Sagmeister Type Sabbatical

  11. • Type Site

  12. • Typographic Art


Free Font Downloads

  1. • 1,001 Fonts

  2. • DaFont

  3. • Font Finder Database

  4. • FontHead

  5. • Graffiti Fonts

  6. • MAKE your own font

  7. • TypeNow


Historic Font Design

  1. • HISTORY of Type

  2. • Armin Hofmann

  3. • David Carson
      (Emigre Fonts)

  4. • Eduard Hoffmann

  (Haas Type Foundary)

  1. • Erik Spiekermann

  2. • Josef Muller-Brockmann

  3. • Karl Gerstner

  4. • Massimo Vignelli

  5. • Matthew Carter

  6. • Max Huber

  7. • Max Miedinger

  8. • Stefan Sagmeister

  9. • Wim Crouwel

  10. • Wolfgang Weingart

 

WATCH AND READ


Blogs

  1. • 50 Creative Blogs

  2. • Art/Artists Blog

  3. • Book Blog

  4. • Design Blog

  5. • Design Observer

  6. • EMU (Ryan’s) Design Blog

  7. • Graphics Blog

  8. • MFA is the new MBA

  9. • Pixel Gawker (Detroit)

  10. • RISD Design Blog

  11. • Typography Blog

  12. • Under Consideration

  13. • Visual Culture Blog


Books (Online & off)

  1. • Air Guitar by Dave Hickey

  2. • Chromophobia by
       David Batchelor

  3. • The Biology of Seeing
       by Margaret Livingstone

  4. • Google Books on Design

  5. • Top Design Resources


Magazines

  1. • Adbusters

  2. • Applied Arts

  3. • Art Calendar (Business)

  4. • Art Forum

  5. • Art In America

  6. • Communication Arts

  7. • Computer Arts

  8. • Design Mind

  9. • ID Magazine

  10. • Metropolis Magazine

  11. • Modern Painters

  12. • Print Magazine


Movies (art & artists)

  1. • Art School Confidential

  2. • Helvetica (2008)

  3. • The Shape of Things (2003)

  4. • The Universe of

  Keith Haring (2007)

  1. • Pollock (2000)

  2. • Artists and Models (1955)

  3. • Powers of Ten (1968)

  Charles & Ray Eames

  1. • Future By Design (2006)

   Jacque Fresco

  1. • Georgia O’Keeffe (2009)


Art TV SERIES

  1. • Art 21: Art in the
      Twenty-First Century

  2. • Artists of the 20th Century

  3. • Craft In America

 

LIFE AFTER SCHOOL

Artwork Preparation

  1. • Art Fair Circuits

  2. • Art Submission Process

  3. • Art Workshops

  4. • College Art Association

  5. • Juried Art Services

  6. • Sell Crafts Online

  7. • Writing an abstract

  8. • Writing a CV

  9. • Writing a resume


Available Design Jobs

  1. • ADC - Design Jobs

  2. • AIGA Opportunities

  3. • Applied Arts

  4. • Art/Graphics Hiring

  5. • Creative Hot List Jobs

  6. • Simply Hired - Design Jobs

  7. • U of M Opportunities


Competitions

  1. • ADC Young Guns

  2. • Design Boom

  3. • Graphic Short Story

  4. • Type Directors Club


Grants / Scholarships

  1. • Fulbright Scholarships

  2. • Historical Grants

  3. • MSU Art Grants

  4. • State (of MI) Grants


Must-See Shows

  1. • Documenta 12 - Germany

  2. • LA County Museum of Art

  3. • Saachi Gallery - London

  4. • Venice Biennale

  5. • Whitney Biennale


Online Portfolio Posting

  1. • You the Designer

  2. • Coroflot

  3. • Quarterlife


Tutorial Brush Ups

  1. • Adobe Video Workshop

  2. • Cartoonish Styles

  3. • Illustrator Tutorials

  4. • Illustrator & Vector Help

  5. • Photoshop Tutorials

  6. • VARIOUS Free Tutorials

  7. • VARIOUS Lynda.com

 

Graphic design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now and what we should aspire to; is the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people putting their why’s into our heads.

- Rick Poy


MOTION/SOUND/WEB

Motion Resources

  1. • 50 Top Flash Web Sites

  2. • Animal Motions, Muybridge

  3. • Corporate Web Designs

  4. • MK12 (Animation Studio)

  5. • YouTube (Movie Sharing)

  6. • Vimeo (Video Sharing)

  7. • Webpage design Help


Sound Effect Wav/Mp3

  1. • Flash Kit

  2. • Low Quality Sounds

  3. • PacDV

  4. • Sound Jay

  5. • Sound Snap


Title Sequences

  1. • Catch Me If You Can

  2. • Juno - Making of Titles

  3. • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

  4. • Lemony Snicket

  5. • Mad Men

  6. • Stranger Than Fiction


Various Animations

  1. • 3d Animations, Studio AKA

  2. • Animated Text

  3. • Dog-Gone Funny Screen

  4. • For All Seasons

  (Programming Text)

  1. • Guillaume Blanchet

  (Amazing Stop-Motion)

  1. • Lego Stop-Motion

  2. • Think outside of the box


Web Color Pickers

Color Helpers

  1. • Multiple Color Palette Picker

  2. • Pantone Color Site

  3. • Web Color Picker

  4. • Themed Color Pallets


Web Developing Help

  1. • Web Tutorials

  2. • Web Coding Help

  3. • Compression Software


Web Hosting Sites

  1. • Media Temple

  2. • Go Daddy

 

kris’ resources

This page features a series of graphic design and art references that I have gathered.

Feel free to use these as a source of inspiration or to assist with projects or research.

http://www.kcandy.com