SCCA Resource List
INCLUSIVITY & DIVERSITY
Motion :: Film:
Sage (also VR & Architectural Visualizations)
Jonathan Winbush (also VR/AR & Mixed Reality)
UI/UX:
Illustration or Animation:
Emory Douglas
Branding:
Bobby C. Martin Jr. and Champions
Type Design :: Lettering:
Type: Liron Lavi Turkenich: A meeting of Types
Liron Lavi Turkenich: One Script, Two Languaghes (Hebrew & Arabic) (video)
Advertising:
Design:
Black Graphics: Celebrating Designers of Color
Designer & Educator:
Douglas Davis :: The Davis Group
Local:
Slack Channel: Where are the black designers?
Slack Channel: Blacks who design
Revision Path — has podcasts too
Past and Present: Influential Black artists and brand experts you should know about
Conversations with Latinos working in the technology industry: Podcasts
Photography/Stock Photography Sites:
Free photography Stock Site: Burst
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:
PAPER
PRINTING & THE PRODUCTION LAB
HPs: Printing duplex for gate fold and barrel fold brochures
Xerox: Printing Duplex Custom Business Cards
Coming soon — Over Size Printers
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
Coming soon — 3D Printer
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
Videos for printing magazines/multiple page documents:
Step 1: InDesign — Ed’s 3 min video demo for printing your magazine
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:
COLOR
— Compilation of Design Resources
— 4 Color Process Printing — What You Need to Know
— Spot Color vs Full Color Printing
ColorHexa: Information & conversion
Accesibility:
— 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
ILLUSTRATOR
Adding grain/noise to illustrations
Airbrush styling with gradient mesh
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Basic Line Tool
Layers Panel
Pencil Tool
Kitchen Videos
Align and Distribute
Creating Pointers and Connectors
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Eyedropper and Add Selected Color
Understanding Color Gamut and How to Fix Out of Gamut Colors
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Illustrator Paragraph and Point Type
INDESIGN
PHOTOSHOP
PHOTOGRAPHY
AFTER EFFECTS
WEB DESIGN
CSS KEYFRAMES:
BLEND MODE:
CSS background-blend-mode Property
Advanced effects with CSS Background Blend Modes
CSS CLIPPING PATHS:
CSS Introduction to Clipping Using Clip-path
Wrapping Content around Images Using CSS Shapes
How to make your HTML responsive by adding one line of CSS
UI/UX/Experience Design
DESIGN HISTORY
13,000+ illustrations from 1851
Lessons from Swiss Style Graphic Design
You Thought We Wouldn't Notice
Do you want typography or do you want the truth?
MICRO TYPOGRAPHY
FINDING A TYPEFACE:
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COMBINING TYPEFACES :
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Stop Feeling Dumb About Pairing Fonts
Four techniques for combining fonts
A collection of font pairings from Typekit
Eight tips for combining typefaces
*Tools to find Font Combinations
MACRO TYPOGRAPHY
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
LETTERING & TYPE DESIGN
Monotype
FontBureau
FatType
T26
P22
Emigre
TypoTheque
Betatype
CamelotTypefaces
BoldMonday
Colophone
Fountain
Klim
HouseIndustries
TYPOGRAPHY:
SITES OF INTEREST
PACKAGING
Advertising
Magazine
Videos for printing magazines/multiple page documents:
Step 1: InDesign — Ed’s 3 min video demo for printing your magazine
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:
POSTER
Projects & Sprints
BRANDING
• 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:
University of California Berkeley
Identity style guides from around the world
A List of Style Guides, Brand Guidelines, and Front-End Frameworks
VR/AR/Mixed Reality/AI/Voice
Sources:
- Moz://a — Mixed Reality for the Open Web
Groups:
Virtual Reality Facebook Group
Jobs:
The VR Job Hub (weekly article release of the latest AR/VR jobs)
Event List:
PORTFOLIO
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES