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. • Photoshop “painter”
    

14. • Smart History - Art Online
    

15. • Symposium C6 Artists
    

16. • Way Things Work,
      (David Macaulay)
    

Art Movements

1. • Art Movements
   

2. • Art Periods
   

3. • Good Modernist Timeline
   

Installation Arts

1. • Cai Guo-Qiang’s works
   

2. • Installation EMU arts
   

3. • Matthew Ritchie rooms
   

4. • Urban light buildings
   

5. • Sculpture / Installations
   

6. • Venice Biennale rooms
   

7. • Visual Installation art list
   

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. • Paper Folding documentary
   

8. • Paper Folding Tedx lecture
   

9. • 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 - Inspire collections
   

4. • Behance - creative network
   

5. • Canada’s GD Association
   

6. • Command X - Reality Show
   

7. • Cube Design Studio
   

8. • Design Variety, Anna
   

9. • Flash Web site, Christian S.
   

10. • Fung Wee, graphics guy
    

11. • History of icons/symbols
    

12. • How to be a Designer, Book
    

13. • Info / Data Graphics I
    

14. • Info/ Data Graphics II
    

15. • Info/ Data Graphics III
    

16. • Infographics by Namesake
    

17. • Graffiti (using lights)
    

18. • Logos / Brand Identity
    

19. • Logos A-Z downloadable
    

20. • Pattern/Installation Art
    

21. • Patterns & Vector Art
    

22. • Posters (Digital)
    

23. • Posters (Movie Gigs)
    

24. • Posters (Printmaking)
    

25. • Ryan Molloy Resources
    

26. • Takashi Murakami
      (graphic anime paintings)
    

27. • Vector Art (Skateboards)
    

28. • Vector Library
    

29. • Vector Logos site
    

30. • Veer (Photo,Illust,Type)
    

31. • Vintage Graphics
    

Graphic Designers

1. • America’s 50 most
      influential designers
   

2. • Alan Fletcher
   

3. • Alexey Brodovitch
   

4. • Abram Games
   

5. • Barbara Kruger
   

6. • Charles S. Anderson
   

7. • Charles Wilkin - collages
   

8. • Chip Kidd
   

9. • David Carson (Ray Gun)
   

10. • Derek Birdsall
    

11. • Elliot Earls - Cranbrook
    

12. • Herbert Bayer
    

13. • Herbert Matter - photo
    

14. • Jonathan Barnbrook
    

15. • Milton Glaser
    

16. • Paul Rand
    

17. • Paula Scher
    

18. • Phyllis Pearsall, map design
    

19. • Saul Bass
    

Stock Photos free/cheap

1. • Clip Art by DK
   

2. • Dept. of Defense photos
   

3. • Flickr
   

4. • Fotolia (low-cost)
   

5. • Image After
   

6. • Mayang (textures)
   

7. • Morgue File
   

8. • NASA, Dryden Gallery
   

9. • Photoshop texture brushes
   

10. • Pixel Perfect Digital
    

11. • Stock Vault
    

12. • Stock.xchng
    

13. • Texture backgrounds
    

14. • Texture backgrounds
      (20 free max per day)
    

15. • VectorStock, free & paid

TEXT / FONT / PRINT

Font Resources

1. • 10 San Serif Fonts
   

2. • Art, Animation, Type
   

3. • Brainstorm Online
   

4. • Dimensional Type
   

5. • Gritty Type
   

6. • Helvetica - The Movie
   

7. • HISTORY of Type
   

8. • Inversions with text
   

9. • Logo Design Resources
   

10. • Play Play Play
    

11. • Sagmeister Type Sabbatical
    

12. • Type Site
    

13. • Typographic Art
    

Free Font Downloads

1. • 1,001 Fonts
   

2. • DaFont
   

3. • Font Finder Database
   

4. • FontHead
   

5. • Graffiti Fonts
   

6. • MAKE a font - Fontstruct
   

Font Designers

1. • Armin Hofmann
   

2. • David Carson
     (Emigre Fonts)
   

3. • Eduard Hoffmann
   

  (Haas Type Foundary)

1. • Erik Spiekermann
   

2. • Giambattista Bodoni
   

3. • Jan Tschichold
   

4. • Josef Muller-Brockmann
   

5. • Karl Gerstner
   

6. • Massimo Vignelli
   

7. • Matthew Carter
   

8. • Marian Bantjes
   

9. • Max Huber
   

10. • Max Miedinger
    

11. • Neville Brody
    

12. • Stefan Sagmeister
    

13. • Wim Crouwel
    

14. • Wolfgang Weingart
    

How To

1. • Silkscreen (via notes)
   

2. • Silkscreen (on video)
   

Publishing/Printing

1. • Adobe Printing and how to
     publish guide -- PDF
   

2. • Make your own products
   

3. • Mohawk paper PDF library
   

4. • Print Books, Lulu
   

5. • Print Books, Blurb
   

6. • Print Materials, Vistaprint
   

7. • Print process and paper
      size/weight basics -- PDF
   

8. • Skateboards etc., Zazzle
   

User Interface Design

1. • Design Basics Slideshow
   

2. • Dribbble - graphics and UI
   

3. • Fun Interactive site
   

4. • Icon Photoshop Tutorials
   

5. • Icon sets
   

6. • Pattern Tap site
   

7. • UI downloadable files/blog
   

8. • UI Fundamentals

SEE / HEAR / READ

Blogs

1. • 50 Creative Blogs
   

2. • 99% - failure article
   

3. • Art/Artists Blog
   

4. • Book Blog
   

5. • Design Blog
   

6. • Design Observer
   

7. • Fast Company - Design!
   

8. • Graphics Blog
   

9. • MFA is the new MBA
   

10. • Pixel Gawker (Detroit)
    

11. • Deviant Art Community
    

12. • RISD Design Blog
    

13. • Typography Blog
    

14. • Under Consideration
    

15. • 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. • Good Magazine
   

10. • ID Magazine
    

11. • Metropolis Magazine
    

12. • Modern Painters
    

13. • Print Magazine
    

Movies (art & artists)

1. • Art School Confidential
   

2. • Designers’ Videos - 99%
   

3. • Helvetica (2008)
   

4. • The Shape of Things (2003)
   

5. • The Universe of
   

  Keith Haring (2007)

1. • The Visual Language of
      Herbert Matter
   

2. • Pollock (2000)
   

3. • Typeface Movie
   

4. • Artists and Models (1955)
   

5. • Powers of Ten (1968)
   

  Charles & Ray Eames

1. • Future By Design (2006)
   

   Jacque Fresco

1. • Georgia O’Keeffe (2009)
   

Art TV Series / Videos

1. • 30 second MBA - innovate
   

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

3. • Artists of the 20th Century
   

4. • Craft In America
   

5. • Independent Lens - design
   

6. • Lectures from School of
      Visual Arts, NY
   

Audio & Video Podcasts

1. • 15 GD Podcasts to hear
   

2. • 20 A&V sites to see & hear
   

3. • Design Museum Podcasts
   

4. • Design Observer Podcasts
   

5. • Letterpress type podcasts
   

6. • Photoshop & Illustrator
     (Kelby training tips)
   

7. • Web & Developing podcasts

LIFE AFTER SCHOOL

Work & Preparation

1. • AIGA form agreement for
      design services
   

2. • Art Fair Circuits
   

3. • Art Submission Process
   

4. • Art Workshops
   

5. • Breaking Student/Teacher
      perceptions
   

6. • College Art Association
   

7. • Continued learning
      about everything!
   

8. • Copyright & licensing rules
   

9. • Post grad life/job blog -
      “New Grad Life”
   

10. • Juried Art Services
    

11. • Sell Crafts Online
    

12. • Writing an abstract
    

13. • Writing a CV
    

14. • Writing a resume
    

Available Design Jobs

1. • ADC - Design Jobs
   

2. • AIGA Opportunities
   

3. • Creative Hot List Jobs
   

4. • Simply Hired - Design Jobs
   

5. • U of M Opportunities
   

Competitions

1. • ADC Young Guns
   

2. • Graphic Competitions
   

3. • Design Boom
   

4. • Graphic Short Story
   

5. • Logo Design Spec Freelance
   

6. • Logo contests - Logo Arena
   

7. • Type Directors Club
   

Grants / Scholarships

1. • Fulbright Scholarships
   

2. • Historical Grants
   

3. • MSU Art Grants
   

4. • State (of MI) Grants
   

Job & Portfolio Sites

1. • Coroflot - design job site
   

2. • Behance - creative network
   

3. • Dribbble - portfolio sharing
   

4. • Forrst - Design community
   

5. • You the Designer
   

Local Art (Detroit MI)

1. • 555 Gallery
   

2. • DIA - Institute of Arts
   

Must-See Shows

1. • Documenta 12 - Germany
   

2. • LA County Museum of Art
   

3. • Saachi Gallery - London
   

4. • Venice Biennale
   

5. • Whitney Biennale
   

Tutorial Brush Ups

1. • Adobe Video Workshop
   

2. • Cartoonish Styles
   

3. • CS Tutorials (various)
   

4. • Illustrator Tutorials
   

5. • Illustrator & Vector Help
   

6. • Photoshop Tutorials I
   

7. • Photoshop Tutorials II
   

8. • Photoshop Tutorials III
   

9. • Paid Tutorials Lynda.com
   

10. • Record web Tutorials!
    

11. • Various Free Tutorials

Graphic design is the communication framework through which (these) messages about what the world is now and what we should aspire to... 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. • 58 amazing stop-motions
   

3. • Animated Text
   

4. • Dog-Gone Funny Screen
   

5. • For All Seasons
   

  (Programming Text)

1. • Guillaume Blanchet
   

  (Amazing Stop-Motion)

1. • Lego Stop-Motion
   

2. • Think outside of the box
   

Web Color Palettes
&Themes

1. • Multiple Color Palette Picker
   

2. • Pantone Color Site
   

3. • Web Color Picker
   

4. • Themed Color Pallets
   

Web Developing Help

1. • Web Tutorials
   

2. • W3C: Web Coding Help
   

3. • Compression Software
   

Web Hosting Sites

1. • Media Temple
   

2. • Go Daddy
   

Web Site Authoring

1. • Cushy Web Design Sites
   

2. • Custom Word Press Sites
   

3. • Drupal CMS
   

4. • Joomla! CMS mac (or PC)
   

5. • PageLime Simple Edits
   

Marketing Online/Mobile

1. • MailChimp E-Newsletters
   

2. • Video/mobile converters
   

Web Typography

1. • Coda - MAC CSS editor
   

2. • Typekit - unique CSS fonts
   

3. • Web font specimens

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.

2012