SCCA Resource List

 

INCLUSIVITY & DIVERSITY

PoC & Women Designers
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Motion :: Film:

Karin Fong video

Handel Eugene

Amanda Godreau

Sam Bass

Rachel Reid

Sage (also VR & Architectural Visualizations)

Jonathan Winbush (also VR/AR & Mixed Reality)

Antoinie Eugene

Sekani Solomon

 

UI/UX:

JC Chhim

Jite Agbro

Priyanka Basu

Hiroko Ebizaki

Ari Sigglin

LaTiesha Caston

 

Illustration or Animation:

Hank Washington

Sindiso Nyoni — R!ot

Frieda Clements

Marco Cheatham

Tristan Henry-Wilson

Julia McNamara

Shogo Ota: Tireman Studio

Bill Obasi

Kenji Stoll

Gabriel Lopez

Emory Douglas

Joyce Hwang

Dana Tanamachi

 

Branding:

Yo Santosa

Bobby C. Martin Jr. and Champions

Wildern Design

Kenya Hara

 

Type Design :: Lettering:

Adobe Women Type Designers

Type: Liron Lavi Turkenich: A meeting of Types

Type: Pooja Saxena

Liron Lavi Turkenich: One Script, Two Languaghes (Hebrew & Arabic) (video)

Type: Laura Worthington

Type: Juliet Shen

Kunihiko Okano: Shotype

Vocal Type

 

Advertising:

Dominique Wynne

Natalie Lam

Bekah Marcum

Gabrielle Prawl

 

Design:

Arem Duplessis video

Dian Holton

Pley Ground: Gabriel Lopez

Jessica Walsh

Chloe Scheffe

Anderson Newton Design

Aaron Nieh

Liu Kai

African American Designers

Latinxs Who Design

Lexiao Design

Blacks who design

Modern Dog: Robynne Raye

Black Graphics: Celebrating Designers of Color

Creative Reaction Lab

Revision Path: weekly showcase of Black designers, developers, and digital creatives from all over the world — has podcasts too

Jaemin Lee

Silas Munro and Poly-mode

Nathaniel Bergstein

Selena Goodwin

Yasu Fukada

Mistroom

Jin Dallae & Park Woohyuk

 

Designer & Educator:

Douglas Davis :: The Davis Group

Gail Anderson

Terry White :: Adobe CS evangelist

Terry White

Chris Do : The Futur

Cheryl D Miller

Antionette D. Carroll

Saki Mafundikwa

Accessibility & Inclusion

— AIGA: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

— Design for Worldview TEDx

 

ACCESSIBILITY:

— Compilation of Design Resources 

— Accessible Colors

— Contrast Checker: Web Aim

— WAVE plug-in

— Figma plug-in 

— Mac plug-in 

— Create color blind safe palettes

—  Viewing color blindnes on your page

— A window to see color blindness

 

—  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

 

— Dyslexia Font 

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Resources, Conferences, & Books

Local:

Black Designers of Seattle

 

 

Slack Channel: Where are the black designers?

Slack Channel: Blacks who design

Creative Reaction Lab

Revision Path — has podcasts too

Blacks who design

Latinxs Who Design

Lexiao Design

Past and Present: Influential Black artists and brand experts you should know about

28 Designers

Conversations with Latinos working in the technology industry: Podcasts

 

Photography/Stock Photography Sites:

See In Black

Photography Stock Site: Tonl

Tetra Images: Blend

nappy.com

Createher Stock

Free photography Stock Site: Burst

 

Diversify Photo

 

Articles, Blogs, Books, Websites: 

Where are the Black Designers: AIGA 

Searching for a Black Aesthetic in American Graphic Design (1990's) Sylvia Harris

Women Graphic Designes (across the 20th century) Ellen Lupton

Black Designers: Missing in Action (1987) Cheryl D. Miller

Black Designers: Still Missing in Action (2016) Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller

Mograph Special :: Many Hues of Mograph

 

Books:

Linear thinkers vs. non-linear thinkers

 

PAPER

Types of Paper, Paper & Brochure Folds

Types of Paper

Binding Style & Brochure Folds

Paper Folds

Paper Terminology 

 

Suppliers • Samples 

Local: Kelly Paper

Local: Paper Source

Local: de Medici Ming

Mohawk Paper

French Paper

Neenah Paper

Reich Paper

GF Smith Paper

Mulberry Paper

Cave Paper 

UI Center for the Book

Binding Styles, Brochures & Bindery

Binding Style & Brochure Folds

 

 

Ordering :
Business Cards, Magazines, Brand Books, Portfolios

Moo.com

Blurb.com

MagCloud

Issu.com

Dielines
The Dieline
Paper Mechanics

Book: The Elements of Pop-ups

Book: The Pop-up book

Book: Easy to Make Pop-ups

Book: Super Pop-ups

 

PRINTING & THE PRODUCTION LAB

Production Lab Printers

HPs: Printing duplex for gate fold and barrel fold brochures

HPs: Booklets

Xerox: Printing Duplex Custom Business Cards

Xerox: Booklets

Coming soon — Over Size Printers

Laser Cutter • 3D Printer 

Laser Cutter: 43 min demo with Katie

Laser Cutter: 20 min demo with Ed

Laser Cutter: 1 min close up of turning the laser cutter on

Laser Cutter: 5 min close up of printer dialogue presets

Coming Soon — Laser Cutter: Glass Demo

Laser Cutter Manual

 

Coming soon — 3D Printer

Screen Printing

Coming soon — 1: Setting up your files

Step 2: 2.5 min demo for printing transparancies

Coming soon — Step 3: Preparing your screens

Coming soon — Step 4: Printing

Screen printing lab instructions (pdf) 

Letterpress

Type, Parts of the Press, California Job Case

Common Letterpress Terms & Types of Presses

The California Typecase

Making Film

Making Plates

Printing & Pre-Press

Printing Terminology (pdf)

Proofer's Marks

Prepping your files

Print press types

Printing terminology

Getting a print quote

Types of proofs

Working with printers

Imposition

Business Cards

moo.com

In House: 4 Up and 8 up InDesign Templates

Magazine & Branding

Videos for printing magazines/multiple page documents:

Step 1: InDesign — Ed’s 3 min video demo for printing your magazine

Step 2: Xerox Fiery Work Station — Ed’s 1.5 min video demo for printing presets on the Fiery work station

 

PDF files for printing magazines/multiple page documents:

- How to download/install a PPD for your laptop.pdf

- How to print your magazine signatures to the Docucolor.pdf

- How to print your magazine to the Docucolor, part 2.pdf

- Tips for printing your magazine cover.jpg

- How to print your magazine signatures to the HPs.pdf

 

Vendors for printing magazines/brand guide books:

Blurb.com

Magcloud

Special Processes

Button maker demo video

Spot varnish and metallic foil demo

 

COLOR

Color Trends

— Color forecasting :: What is Pantone Color of the year?

 

— Pantone: Color Trend Forecasting

 

— WGSN: Macro Trends

 

WSGN Color Forecasting History

 

WSGN Forecasting

Color Theory

Psychology of Color: Lynda.com

Same or Different?

Color Harmonies

Color for Design and Art: Lynda.com

The weird world of RGB

Resources 

(48 min) How color works

 

— Compilation of Design Resources 

— 4 Color Process Printing — What You Need to Know 

— Spot Color vs Full Color Printing

— What is a Rosette Pattern 

 

ColorMatters.com

Encycolorpedia

Colour Lovers.com

 

ColorHexa: Information & conversion

 

Accesibility:

— Accessible Colors

— Contrast Checker: Web Aim

— WAVE plug-in

— Figma plug-in 

— Mac plug-in 

— Create color blind safe palettes

—  Viewing color blindnes on your page

— A window to see color blindness

 

— Making beautiful/rich gradients 

 

— (xx min) Picking the right pantone swach for print 

 

— (xx min) Choosing color for uncoated and coated paper 

 

— (xx min) How to choose Pantone colors in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

 

— Converting colors from one medium to another

 

 

—  Thermochromic Paint 1

 

— Thermochromic Paint 2 

 

Books, Blogs, Articles

Understanding Color (pdf)

Understanding Color Workbook (pdf)

The Secret Lives of Color

Color Inspiration

Design Seeds for all who love color

Color Pickers & Games

Color Pickers:

Hail Pixal

Color Hunt

color.Adobe.com

ColorExplorer.com

Paletton

Coolors

Colormind 

The Color Scheme Designer

Pantonism

Plenty of Color

Swiss Style Color Picker 

Color Collective

Franklin Till: Using Color

 

— Image search by using color :: Tineye

 

Games:

Blendoku

Color Matching Game

Hex Invaders

Hue Tests

 

ILLUSTRATOR

How to: Videos 

Jason's videos

 

Adding grain/noise to illustrations

 

Another noise tutorial

 

 

Airbrush styling with gradient mesh

 

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Interface and Navigation

 

Panels, Workspace, artboards 

 

Basic Line Tool 

 

Basic Line Tool

 

Transform Panel

 

Direct Selection, Join Paths

 

Pathfinder Panel

 

Shape Builder Tool

 

Layers Panel 

 

Layers Panel 

 

Appearance Panel

 

Free Transform 

 

Freeform Gradient

 

Curvature Tool 

 

Blending Mode 

 

Pencil Tool 

 

Pencil Tool

 

Pen Tool

 

Brushes Overview

 

Calligraphy Brushes

 

Scatter Brushes

 

Art Brushes 3

 

Art Brushes 4

 

Pattern Brushes

 

Offset Path

 

 

Kitchen Videos 

 

Align and Distribute 

 

Align and Distribute

 

Creating Pointers and Connectors

 

Swatches Panel Overview 

 

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Global Colors

 

Color Swatch Libraries

 

Eyedropper and Add Selected Color

 

Understanding Color Gamut and How to Fix Out of Gamut Colors

 

Recoloring your artwork

 

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Type on a Path

 

Type in Illustrator

 

Illustrator Paragraph and Point Type

 

Gradients in Illustrator 

 

Make a color wheel

 

Creating patterns 

 

Illustrator with Adobe Dimensions

How to Create and Import Models into Adobe Dimension CC

Resources

 Jason's website

 

File Formats (pdf)

 

Illustrator shortcuts (pdf)

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Lettering Techniques

Width Tool

Hatched Drop Shadow

Warp Text

3D Text

Text Shadowing

Swirls

Stroke Techniques

Vector Lettering Techniques

Scanning Apps: Convert Drawings to Vector

Adobe Capture

Adobe Capture: How to use it video n1 

Adobe Capture: How to use it video n2

Scanner Pro

 

INDESIGN

How to Videos

*When to use native files, JPG, PNG, TIF, PSD, SVG and AI files as well as PDFs

 

Jason's videos

 

Jason's website 

 

Type in InDesign

 

Color in InDesign 

 

InDesign Shortcuts (pdf)

 

Lynda.com: InDesign CC 2018 Essential Training

 

Lynda.com: InDesign Secrets – Updated Monthly 

 

InDesign Shortcuts Cheatsheet

 

Printing Terminology

 

Shapes, lines, and containers

 

Paragraph and Character Styles

 

Nested Styles

 

Span and Split Column

 

Paragraph borders and shading

 

Tabs

 

Preflight & Package

 

CC Libraries

 

Fonts with good glyphs

 

Dielines

 

Spo 

 

Spot Colors

 

Print and Production terminology

 

Printing terminology.pdf

 

Using grids, part 1

 

Using grids, part 3 

 

Using grids, part 3

 

Snapping to the grid

 

Cave's file

 

Using grids, part 4

 

Using grids, part 5 :: Dynamic Layout

Margins Columns Grids
Setting up a Baseline Grid
Typography

LinkedIn Learning.com: Nigel French — InDesign Typography, Part 1

 

LinkedIn Learning.com: Nigel Frend — InDesign Typography, Part 2

Paragraph Styles

- Paragraph formatting

Spacing & Alignments
How to set perfectly justified type

 

PHOTOSHOP

How to: Videos

Jason's videos

 

Jason's website 

 

Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool

 

Paths with a Pen Tool

 

Blending modes

 

Creating neon by Sam

Color Correction & Resing up Photos

* Let's Enhance

Enlarging Photos 

ON1 Resize

How to use ON1 Resize 

How To: Simulating Materials

How to simulate gold leaf

How to simulate letterpress

Another one: How to simulate letterpress

How to simulate text burned into wood

How to simulate text in metal

How to simulate distressed texture

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Stock Sites

Tonl

Istock.com

Adobe Stock

Createher Stock

Dreamstime.com

Bigstock.com

nappy.com 

GettyImages.com

Shutterstock.com

Tetra Images: Blend

Mock-Ups

unblast.com

psdcovers.com

Smarty

Designrfix 

Design Cuts: Freebies

MockupWorld

Freepik

Free Images

* Same Energy

* Free Textures 

 

Free Range Stock

Free Images 

Burst 

Stock Vault 

LIFE Magazine 

Every Stock Photo

Ar 

National Archives 

NASA 

Flickr

Pexels

Unsplash

Pixabay

Smithsonian 

Shooting Your Own Products

How to: 12 min video 1

How to: 4 min video 2

Color Correcting
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Resing up photographs

* Let's Enhance

Enlarging Photos

ON1 Resize

How to use ON1 Resize

 

AFTER EFFECTS

How to

- Chad Perkin: AfterEffects Video Series through Creative Live

- Exporting animations as SVG

- Learn Tracking 

- Motion Tracking

- How to Use the Point Tracker

- 3D Motion Track Text

- Add 3D Text Over Video 

- Signs over People 

- Visual Effects

- Hoverboard Effects

- Text Behind Mask Effect 

- Ben Marriott: Tutorial Every Thursday

Resources

AfterEffects Plugins

Top 5 Free After Effects Plugins (video)

Overlord: Vector Workflow Ai to Ae

Motion Design School: Classes

Articles, Blogs, Sites

12 Principles of Animation According to Disney

12 Principles of Animation (24 min video)

 

WEB DESIGN

CSS

CSS Grid Layout Crash Course

CSS Basics

CSS Grid Terminology

CSS: Core Principles

CSS Animation Tutorials

CSS Diner (game to learn CSS)

 

CSS KEYFRAMES:

CSS Animations on demand

CSS Keyframes Rule

CSS Animations for Beginners

CSS Animations 

Animated SVGs

CSS @keyframes

 

CSS snippets

CSS Grid Playgound

CSS Grid Layout Generator

 

BLEND MODE:

How to use CSS blend modes

CSS background-blend-mode Property

CSS mix-blend-mode Property

Advanced effects with CSS Background Blend Modes

CSS filter Property

CSS Filter Generator

CSS Generator Filter

Mood Lighting

 

CSS CLIPPING PATHS:

CSS Introduction to Clipping Using Clip-path

CSS Clip-path maker

CSS Clip Path Generator

Wrapping Content around Images Using CSS Shapes

 

How to make your HTML responsive by adding one line of CSS

Build CSS grid layouts visually – in Webflow

Fancy Border Radius Generator

Custom List Number Styling

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator from ColorZilla

Coding

Free Code Camp

Responsive Multi-level Flexbox Megamenu 

SVG animations using JavaScript

JavaScript animation library

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**Massive Google Doc Resource List

Web Design

- Responsive Logos

- The 40 Best Google Fonts

- Dreamweaver Cheat Sheet

- Repeatable SVG Background Patterns

- Tutorials for unique web effects

- Gradients

— Colorable: ADA Compliance

- Contrast Checker: Web Aim

- Color Contrast & Readability

- WordPress Themes & Visual Page Builder

- Favicon Generator

 

UI/UX/Experience Design

UX

- UX Design Weekly

- UX Slack Groups

- UX Case Studies

- UX Design Guidelines for DOntent Heavy UI

- 98 Questions UX Designers Must Ask

- UX Beginner: Job Titles

UI

— Compilation of Design Resources 

- How to create a customer journey map

UCD

— Compilation of Design Resources 

- Color Contrast: Colorable

- What is an empathy map?

- Beginner Guide to Customer Journey Maps 

- How to create a customer journey map video

- How to create a customer journey map

- 5 Essential Components to Customer Journey Maps

- Using Customer Journey Maps to Improve Customer Experience

- Customer Journey Maps: Everything You Need to Know 

 

DESIGN HISTORY

Design Movements

Design is History

Counterspace

International Typographic Style (Swiss Style)

Modernism Timeline

Books & Videos

- 16th century printing press and binding books

- Book: Type. A Visual History 1901-1938 vol.1

- Book: Type. A Visual History 1901-1938 vol. 2

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Articles, Sites, & Blogs

Design Job Titles: Overkill

 

13,000+ illustrations from 1851 

 

Lessons from Swiss Style Graphic Design

 

Designspiration 

 

Graphis 

 

You Thought We Wouldn't Notice

 

Taking Shape 1

Taking Shape 2

Taking Shape 3

Taking Shape 4

Taking Shape 5

 

Do you want typography or do you want the truth?

 

Anatomy of a Typeface

 

Juliet Shen

 

Modes of Criticism.org 

Designers & Design Groups

Armin Hoffman

Kenya Hara

Jan Tschichold

Paula Scher

Ji Lee Personal Projects

Paul Rand

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Saul Bass Poster Archive

Chip Kidd

Alphabettes 

People of Color in Tech

People of Craft

Women of Graphic Design

Women who Draw

Design + Diversity Conference

 

MICRO TYPOGRAPHY

Anatomy & Classification

Type Anatomy App

Type Anatomy Website

Anatomy Cheatsheet.pdf

Anatomy Definitions.pdf

Typeface Classifications

Modifying Type

Letter Shaping Game

The Bézier Game

Plotting Vector Points with Jessica Hische

Letter Building: Scaling & Shaping

Horizontal & Vertical Bézier Handles

Lettering Tutorial

Vector Lettering Techniques

Finding Type & Pairing Type 

FINDING A TYPEFACE:

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Choosing Typefaces P1.pdf

 

Fonts in Use

 

*Typ.io

 

*Font Joy

 

Adobe Fonts 

 

Google Fonts 

 

Future Fonts 

 

TypeMedia   

 

dafont

 

Hoefler & Co

 

Variable Fonts

 

Font Squirrel

 

dfonts

 

Urban Fonts

 

Laura Worthington 

 

 

COMBINING TYPEFACES  :

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Combining Typefaces.pdf

 

Stop Feeling Dumb About Pairing Fonts

 

5 Tools for Pairing Type 

 

Typewolf: Typeface Pairings

 

Type Connection Game

 

Four techniques for combining fonts

 

A collection of font pairings from Typekit

 

Eight tips for combining typefaces

 

*Tools to find Font Combinations

 

*Font Combinations

 

Archetype 


Typographic Sins & Microtype Checklist

Typographic Sins Poster.pdf

Microtype: General Dos & Donts.pdf

Microtype Checklist.pdf

Typewolf's Type Checklist

Spacing, Leading, Line Lengths, Ems & Ens

Spacing Part 1.pdf

Spacing Part 2.pdf

A Beginner's Guide to Kerning

A Kerning Game

InDesign: Setting up your Typographic Workspace.pdf

Lynda.com: Kerning, Letterspacing, Tracking

Kerning & Leading Key Commands.pdf

Leading, Line Lengths, Ems & Ens.pdf

Paragraph Alignments
Lynda,com: Nigel French — Paragraph Alignments
Books & Resources

Mathew Butterick: Practical Typography

Creative Market: Font Bundles

Ellen Lupton: Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton: Thinking with Type (pdf)

Jost Hochuli: Detail In Typography

CounterSpace: Typographic Timeline

Styles, Weights, and Widths

Lynda.com: Nigel French — InDesign Typography, Part 1

Lynda.com: Nigel Frend — InDesign Typography, Part 2

Lynda.com: InDesign Secrets (Updated Monthly)

 

MACRO TYPOGRAPHY

Books & Resoures

Kimberly Elam: Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type

Kimberly Elam: Typographic Systems of Design

Kimberly Elam: Geometry of Design

Josef Müller-Brockmann: Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Emil Ruder: Typographie: A Manual of Design

Timothy Samara: Making and Breaking the Grid

Ellen Lupton: Thinking with Type

Explorations in Typography: Mastering the Art of Fine Typesetting

Lynda.com: Designing a Magazine Layout

Grids & Baseline Grids

- Types of Grids

- The Grid System

- The Traditional Manuscript Grid

- The Modern Manuscript Grid (PDF)

- Setting up a Baseline Grid in InDesign

- Lynda.com: Types of Grids

- Beginners: Modular Grid 

Articles

- The Designer’s Guide to Grid Theory

- How to Create Balanced Layouts

- 892 Unique Ways to Partition a 3 x 4 Grid

 

LETTERING & TYPE DESIGN

Letterers

Alex Trochut

Jon Contino

Jessica Hische

Erik Marinovich

Dana Tanamachi

Louise Fili

Joel Felix

Craig Ward

Simon Walker

Mary Kate McDevitt

Doyald Young

Jeff Rogers Letman

Margo Chase

Carolyn Sewell

Sebastian Lester

André Beato

 

Type Designers & Resources 

Terry White: Variable Fonts & Color Fonts

List of Type Designers

Early Type Designers 

Laura Worthington

Juliet Shen

Doyald Young

Misprinted Type

Robofont: a font editor

Adobe: Women Type Designers

 

Type Houses & Foundries

Hoefler & Co

Linotype

Fonts.com

My Fonts 

Font Shop

Lost Type 

Adobe Typekit

Monotype

FontBureau

FatType

T26

P22

Emigre

TypoTheque

Betatype

CamelotTypefaces

BoldMonday

Colophone

Fountain

Klim

HouseIndustries

Font Spring

Articles/Blogs & Books 

Typographic Overshoots

13 Resources to Learn How to Design Typefaces

Letter Fountain: From Drawing to Font

Book: Designing Type: Karen Cheng

 

There is

Design Sponge

Letter Cult

Better Letters

Hand Lettering Club

 

Groups/Classes

Local:

Type Thursdays

Type Treatment

 

Type@Cooper :: Cooper Union

Old School New School

 

TYPOGRAPHY:
SITES OF INTEREST

Typographic Love

I Love Typography

We Love Typography

Typewolf

Typophile

Letterology

Type Worship

Type Culture

Font Police

IAMPETH

Fonts.com blog

Typostrate

*Fonts in Use

Typographica

Type Room

Typetoken

Typographic Resources

Typography and Type Design Resource Links

Typography for the Web

The Type Snob 

Design is History

CounterSpace

The Font Feed

80 Beautiful Typefaces...

8 Faces

Font Police

Robofont: Font editor

 

Identifying & Finding Type Faces

Fonts In Use

What font (Chrome extension to identify type online)

Typetoken

Font Meme 

What The Font

Font Matcherator

What Font Is

Wordmark.it

Identifont

Typekit

Google Fonts

 

PACKAGING

Resources

— Shooting products yourself, part 1 (video)

— Shooting products yourself, part 2 (video)

 

13,000+ Illustrations from 1851 

 

Packaging Specialties

 

Georgette Packaging: Dielines

 

Label Types

 

Creative Market: Design Assets

 

Template Maker

Regulations

Cosmetics Labeling

Food Labeling

Barcode Standards 1

Barcode Standards 2

Barcode Label Colors

Sites, Articles & Blogs

Packaging Terms, part 1

Packaging Terms, part 2

Brand Packaging

CRP: Packaging and Branding

Design Assets

Creative Market: Design Assets

Template Maker

Nutrition Facts Label Maker 

Inspiration

Packaging of the World

The Dieline

Lovely Package

Mouse Graphics

Create ID

Packaging of the World

The Dieline

Lovely Package

Mouse Graphics

Create ID

 

Advertising

Books & Resources

— Junior: Writing your way ahead in Advertising

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Magazine

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Printing

Videos for printing magazines/multiple page documents:

Step 1: InDesign — Ed’s 3 min video demo for printing your magazine

Step 2: Xerox Fiery Work Station — Ed’s 1.5 min video demo for printing presets on the Fiery work station

 

PDF files for printing magazines/multiple page documents:

- How to download/install a PPD for your laptop.pdf

- How to print your magazine signatures to the Docucolor.pdf

- How to print your magazine to the Docucolor, part 2.pdf

- Tips for printing your magazine cover.jpg

- How to print your magazine signatures to the HPs.pdf

 

Vendors for printing magazines/brand guide books:

Blurb.com

Magcloud

Resources

— Transcribing Voice to Text App: Otter.ai

 

— Compilation of Design Resources 

 

POSTER

Projects & Sprints
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Book Resources

How Posters Work by Ellen Lutpton

 

History of the Poster by Josef & Shizuko Muller-Brockmann

 

Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand

Posters by Bevis 

Posters by Bevis Hillier 

 

BRANDING

Branding Studios

The Brand Union

Ferro Concrete

Lippincott

Chermayeff and Geismar and Haviv

Ogilvy and Mather

Pentagram

Wolff Olins

Landor Associates

Interbrand

Switch

Liquid Agency

Wieden + Kennedy

Total Identity

MetaDesign

siegel + gale

Methodologie

Hornall Anderson

Girvin

Teague

Turnstyle

Tether

Phinney Bischoff

Civilization

Wildren

Mint

Urban Influence

DEI

States of Matter

Wick & Mortar

Graphiti

DNA

Fell Swoop

Kreative

The Hilt

Belief Agency

GMMB

Trademarks

Logo Lounge

Logo Reviews 

Aaron Draplin’s logo design challenge

Skillshare: Logo Design the Draplin Way

George Bakhua: Logo Design with Grids

George Bokhua: Mastering Logo Design: The Golden Ratio

Marina Ivanovic: Using the Golden Ratio to Create a Perfect Logo

 

Articles, Videos, & Blogs

Brand New

Working with CC Libraries

Pricing for Branding with Chris Do 

Videos: Branding for Designers

The Evolution of Brands

Brand Color Hex Codes

Skillshare: Design Adaptable Branding Systems (Paula Scher)

Mood Boards and Writing 

Mood Boards: Dressing for different...

Help Writing Copy 

Style Guides

• Key components for a brand style guide. (pdf file)

• How to Build a Brand Bible & Visual Style Guide (the basic elements in a guide book)

• How to start your basic brand style guide (defining your colors and buffer space)

• How to create a design style guide: 25 pro tips (general overview for creating tone & voice)

• 21 Brand Style Guide Examples

 

Samples of Branded Guide books:

Walmart (pdf file)

Nike Football

Coca-Cola

Ford

University of California Berkeley

Identity style guides from around the world

A List of Style Guides, Brand Guidelines, and Front-End Frameworks

Find guidelines on the web

Corporate Identity Portal

19 Minimalist Style Guides

I Love NY Style Guide

12 Magically meticulous design style guides

Books & Resources

Love Logos? Find them all in Logo Modernism

Design Cuts: Freebies

Designing brand identity

Building better brands

The brand gap

Zag

Brand Bible

Logo design workbook

Logo design love

The logo brainstorm book

How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding Unbranding: 100 Branding Lessons for the Age of Disruption

Fake Clients
Fake Clients
Visual Inspiration

We love branding

Brand New

The Brand Identity

 

VR/AR/Mixed Reality/AI/Voice

Sources, Communities, Jobs, Events

Sources:

- Moz://a — Mixed Reality for the Open Web

 

Groups:

Virtual Reality Subreddit

Women in VR Facebook Group

Virtual Reality Facebook Group

AR / VR Women and Allies

Oculus Rift Subreddit

HTC Vive Subreddit

Steam VR Facebook Group

Oculus Rift Facebook Group

XR Artists

 

Jobs:

VR Jobs Board

The VR Job Hub (weekly article release of the latest AR/VR jobs)

Virtual Reality Job Board

 

Event List:

The VR Fund Conference & Tradeshow List

VR/AR Articles
- The UX of VR
- UX pointers for VR design
- Immersive Design
- Exploration in VR
- Get started with VR: user experience design
- XR Design - AR & VR interaction examples

- The product design challenges of AR on smartphones

- Gestures: Mixed Reality

- Voice Input: Mixed Reality

- StoryTelling in AR

- Designing for AR

- The product design challenges of AR on smartphones

Tutorials

- 5 Best Online Lessos to Learn Unity for VR

- Creating Your First VR app

- ARCore 101: Quick Guide Using Unity

- Intro to Cinema 4D

 

Framer VR & AR/VR Tools
- Designing my first VR experience

 

-“No-Code” Prototyping Option: WiarframeAR

- Engines: Unity

- Engines: Unreal

- Frameworks: A-Frame

- Frameworks: ARKit

- Frameworks: ARCore

- Modeling: Blender

- Modeling: Cinema4D

- Modeling: Maya

- Modeling: Google Blocks

- Toolkits: Virtual Reality Toolkit (Unity Toolkit)

- Toolkits: NewtonVR

- Sketching/Prototyping: Sketchbox

- Sketching/Prototyping: Storyboard VR

- Sketching/Prototyping: Halo Labs

- Sketching/Prototyping: Wiarframe

- Poly: 3D objects for apps

- Sketch Fab: 3D Models

 

PORTFOLIO

Student Samples & Professional Samples

34 Professional Portfolios

Bestfolios

Mock Ups & Prepping Work 

Potential Pieces.pdf

Gifox: App to record your screen to make animated Gifs

Free Design Mock ups

psdcovers.com

Design Cuts: Freebies

Adobe Dimensions

 

For magazines, style guides, books

*Yumpu

*Issuu

 

How I built my design portfolio from scratch

  

Writing for Projects

What to write for your projects

Grammar check website

Telling a strategic narrative

Printing & Production Lab
See ”Printing” Section
Collapsible Group 3
Content for Accordion Panel 3
See "Printing" Section

 

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

Contracts, Resumes, Interviews, Salary

— Freelance, and Business, and Stuff (Ebook Only)

 

— Action Verbs for Your Resume

— Interview Questions

— 10 Questions to Ask in an Interview

— 14 Interview Questions asked of Creatives

— Salary Negotiating

— Freelance Rates

— How much should I charge calculator

— Freelancer: Setting & Negotiating Rates

— AIGA Salaries Guide

— Ladies get paid

— Ladies get paid podcast

— Cost to build a website calculator

— Self Promotion

— UX Designer Resumes

Business Cards & Personal Brands 

11 Personal Brands & Resumes

 

Buy Cards at Moo.com

Creative Bloq

Business Cards

Card Observer

Business Card Techniques

Fake Clients, Real Clients, Non-Profits

Fake Clients

Design Exercises

App Briefs

Design Challenges

 

CatchaFire.org

Research & Resources

— Wayback Machine—Search for defunct websites

— Podcast: Don’t get me started

— Book: Creative Strategy and the Business of Design

Organizations

Graphic Artists Guild

AIGA—Seattle

Know Careers

Presentations & Critiques

Presentations

Telling a strategic narrative

 

How to Survive Critique (pdf) 

Critique Guide

Design Critiques: Encourage a Positive Culture to Improve Products

 

SCCA RESOURCE LIST