Beautiful Losers
celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation .
Behance Network
Creative Portfolios, Projects, and Collaborations. A new platform for the creative professional community.
Cool Hunting
a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them.
Core 77
Since 1995 Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals.
D*Hub
D’Hub brings the world’s best design collections out of the basement, connecting them with news, interviews, opinions and ideas across the breadth of design.
DESIGN 21: Social Design Network
DESIGN 21: Social Design Network’s mission is to inspire social activism through design. We connect people who want to explore ways design can positively impact our many worlds, and who want to create change here, now.
Design Boom
Industrial design today: courses, education, competitions, history and contemporary, shop, interviews, snapshots, design-aerobics, it’s aperitivo time
Design For Mankind
Through photography, product design, style and craft, Design for Mankind is dedicated to showcasing the talents of the emerging art and design community.
Design Friends
Design Friends is a non-profit association gathering together people who are interested in design and its creation, whether it is graphic or not. We will, together with our members, propose many activities such as conferences with well-known designers, ev
Design Matters – Debbie Millman
Design Matters with Debbie Millman is a thought-provoking internet podcast, which profiles industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers and educators.
Design Meltdown
What you find here is a collection of hand picked, hand cataloged web sites. The goal is to inspire, challenge and inform you.
Design Observer
Features critical essays and selected writings of design culture.
Design Resources
THERE IS A WHOLE HEAP OUT THERE HERE IS YOUR START…collected and loosely organized links to design related information, work and resources.
Design Talk Board
LATEST NEWS – Keep up-to-date with the latest graphic design industry news.
Design*Sponge
Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney.
design:related
design:related(tm) is a community site and inspiration tool that brings together creative people from different disciplines (and parts) of the design world. Design:related serves to motivate designers to share ideas, inspire, and be inspired.
Designer Sobriety
This site is brought to you by the good folks at Rule29. Our goal is to share with you the things we have learned, observed, or refined over the last 15 years.
Designers Toolbox
Design tools for creative professionals. Print resources, online guides, legal forms, and much more.
Digital Thread
Dedicated to the graphic designer, Digitalthread is the oldest existing web design community web site.
Emigre
A digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design related software and printed materials based in Northern California.
Freelance Switch
We are a community of freelance professionals from around the world, spanning all manner of fields.
Fun is Learning
A resource for everything concerning graphic design students and young professionals.
Gig Posters
This site is dedicated to the artists, designers and musicians who create amazing gig posters to advertise shows and events.
Handmade Nation
Handmade Nation documents a movement of artists, crafters, and designers that marry historical techniques with a punk and DIY (Do It Yourself) ethos.
Hillman Curtis
Hillmancurtis, inc. is a film and web design firm in New York City. Principal and Chief Creative Officer, Hillman Curtis, founded the firm in 1998, after three years as Art Director at Macromedia, Inc.
History of Graphic Design
A website dedicated to putting forth the amazingly rich history of graphic design.
Hoefler and Frere-Jones
Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world’s foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography.
HOW Magazine
HOW magazine’s goal is to help designers, whether they work for a design firm, for an in-house design department or for themselves, run successful, creative, profitable studios.
I love Typography (ILT)
ILT is designed to inspire its readers, to make people more aware of the typography that’s around them.
Indexhibit
A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound.
Interactions Magazine
The human-built world can afford a sense of beauty, sublimity, and resonance, and through our advancements in technology can come advances in society. At the center of these advances are interactions – conversations, connections, collaborations, and relat
It’s Nice That
It’s Nice That is focused on publicising, promoting and archiving the very best contemporary work from across the creative industry.
Logo Pond
A website dedicated to helping inspire creativity in logo design.
MOMA's Tall Buildings
New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s permanent tall buildings exhibition presents a focused study of twenty-five tall buildings around the world.
Never Sleep
To demystify the transition, we share the failures, successes, and surprises during our years in college and progression into the field: the creative process, monetary problems, internships, interviews, mistakes, and personal relationships.
Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Omnispace
A website dedicated to all things architecture and more.
Pinball Publishing
Pinball Publishing grew out of the owners Laura and Austin’s desire to be involved in their own design projects from conception to final printed manifestation.
Posters for the People
In 2008 we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal presidency and his vision for a hopeful and strong America.
ReadyMade: Instructions for Everyday Life
Readymade.com provides great ideas for everyday life including home decor, home design, DIY (Do It Yourself), kitchen designs, and home improvement.
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers.
The Cool hunter
The Cool Hunter celebrates creativity in all of its modern manifestations.
The Daily Monster
Stefan G. Bucher of 344design.com creates a brand new monster every day, time-lapsed before your very eyes.
The Design Encyclopedia
A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design.
The Donut Project
On The Donut Project, we will post anything that inspires us, makes us laugh, makes us think or pisses us off. Design is not only about literal design, and this site won’t be either. If we like it, whatever it may be, it’ll be here.
The FontFeed
A daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world.
The Webby Awards
The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
Time Tracker
Time Tracker is a simple tool to keep track of the time you spend on any task. Think of it as a to-do-list with a clock. And yes, it’s free.
Under Consideration
A growing network and enterprise dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. At times intangible, its purpose is to question, push, analyze and agitate graphic design and those involved in th
Visual Culture
Visual Culture is a daily design blog that presents a fresh mix of visually inspiring material as it relates to modern day life.
We Love Typography
WLT is an image, video, & text ‘bookmarking’ site that is wholly dedicated to type-related content.
As promised, after putting everyone’s name in a hat, Stephen Emlund is the winner of Logo Lounge 1, the hardbound edition! Thanks to everyone who commented. It really helped me come up with some ideas that I’m working on, albeit very slowly.
Since I just can’t seem to leave well enough alone, I’ve decided to embrace that desire to change instead of fighting it. As a result, Use A Concept got a face lift for the start of a new academic year and is now running on Wordpress. As I stated in an previous article, Wordpress does have more features that make its less than designer friendly coding well worth the switch from Movable Type.
As I have asked for in the past, I’m asking for again, but this time with a bribe. I still want to know what content you want to see on this blog! Really give it some thought. It’s your chance to build a resource that caters to your specific needs as a student. Do you want podcasts and videos that are produced specifically for you? Do you want more articles that give you advice and feedback or is simply gathering all the articles from across the internet enough?
Post your comments here, with specific details, and those commentors who take this task seriously will be entered in a drawing for a free copy (shipping included) of Logo Lounge 1, hardback edition. The drawing will be held on September 30th. Remember to include your email address when posting or I wont be able to contact the winner.
From the creators of I Love Typography come We Love Typography. Kind of like a ffffound, but for type and curated by super type lovers! You can search by subject, color, style, designer – just search! just look! the site is FILLED with inspiration!
I found this 1991 interview on YouTube where designer Miggs Burroughs
interviews Paul Rand. While not the wittiest of conversations, Miggs
does let Rand go off on tangents where he does make some profound
comments.
Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.
Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.
The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: “Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your type.’” On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare.
The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web. The mission: “to eradicate this font” and the “evil of typographical ignorance.”
I found the following interview with Ira Glass of NPR’s This American Life fame (if you don’t listen to this, it’s time to start). While Ira maybe a writer for a radio program, his message applies to design as well. You will continue to produce bad work unless you are willing to put the time, effort and repetition in until your execution is equal to your vision (and this takes years by the way).
As blogs and blogging becomes more and more popular, you’ll be expected to be able to build blogs for your clients from scratch. Using services like TypePad and Blogger just wont cut it. So that leaves you, the web developer, two mainstream options, Wordpress or Movable Type for pre-built blogging software. Since I have worked with both now, I figured I would give you the benefits of each platform and my overall opinion.
If you read through the articles in the blog, you will come across a few about newspapers going to online format only. Well, a newspaper in Europe is taking it one step further and customizing their content and design for mobile phones.
European newspaper giant Axel Springer is more than a huge print operation, it also aims to become Europe’s most creative and profitable multimedia publishing enterprise. To this end, the company has transformed itself from an old-school publisher to a digital media powerhouse. One phase of this metamorphosis is Axel Springer’s embrace of mobile digital content delivered by Apple iPhone 3G.
