resources

Principles of Visual Design

Blogs and Websites

Design Observer
Good
Subtraction
Design Boom
Interactive Ad Bureau – ad unit guidelines

    Books

    Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual by Timothy Samara

      Exhibits

      Cooper Hewitt: National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?

      Signage and Information Systems

      Blogs

      Airport Signage: Photo Inspiration
      Slate: The Secret Language of Signs
      Government Standards on Legibility
      Legible London
      The Big Red Word vs the Little Green Man
      Signspotting

      Books

      Image of the City by Kevin Lynch

      The Wayfinding Handbook by David Gibson

      Introduction to Typography

      Blogs and Websites

      Thinking with Type
      Designing with Type
      Type Foundries
      15 Tips to Choose Good Text Type
      How to Make a Font
      NPR The Leonard Lopate Show, Please Explain: Typography
      NY Times: The Art of the Word
      Cheese or Font?

      Worth A Read

      A Face Lift for The Times, Typographically, That Is – NYT.com
      What Does Your Typeface Say About You?
      What Type Are You?
      Gotham: Barack Obama’s Favorite Font
      Salon: A Font Primer (font 101 for Mac fonts)
      New York Times: Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists

      Typography and Design

      Blogs and Websites

      Type Arrangements from Designing With Type
      Type Size from Designing With Type
      I Love Typography blog

      Logo and Brand Design

      Blogs and Websites

      Logo design history
      Iconic logo designers
      Use of negative space in logo design
      Brand New
      SeekLogo.com

      Iconic logo designers:

      ChermayeffGeismar
      Joe Fino
      Landor
      Pentagram
      Paul Rand

      Advertising and Branding Books

      Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising
      Cutting Edge Advertising II
      Sun Tzu Strategies for Selling: How to Use The Art of War to Build Lifelong Customer Relationships
      How to Advertise, Third Edition
      A Technique for Producing Ideas

      Interface and Instruction Design

      Tools

      Yahoo Design Pattern Library
      Designing Interfaces
      UX Matters

      Books

      Don’t Make Me Think by Steven Krug
      Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

      Color Theory

      Tools

      Colour Lovers
      Color Scheme Designer
      Color Blindness Simulator
      Color Basic Do’s and Don’ts
      Pantone Color Definition Tools

      Books and Articles

      The Psychology of Color
      The Elements of Color by Johannes Itten

      Color Psychology

      NY Times: Reinvent Wheel? Blue Room. Defusing a Bomb? Red Room.
      The Psychological Properties of Color

      Inspiration

      MOMA: Reinventing Color exhibit
      The Work of Josef Albers

      Photography

      Stock Photography

      Getty Images
      Veer
      Crobis
      iStockPhoto

      Information Design

      Blogs and websites

      Flowing Data
      Information Aesthetics
      Information is Beautiful
      Fathom

      Tools and How Tos

      Using Color to Convey and Simplify Information

      Books

      Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design

      Product and Package Design

      Books

      Deconstructing Product Design: Exploring the Form, Function, Usability, Sustainability, and Commercial Success of 100 Amazing Products by William Lidwell

      Websites

      Google patent search