Deane Nettles | Advertising & Graphic Design
DESIGN LINKS
- Internships
- IMPORTANT Design Info
- Resumes
- Tech Tips
- Tutorials
- Inspiration
- Organizations
- Drawing & Illustration
- History
- Typography
- Technical
- Interface Design
- Direct Marketing/Sales
The basics of Design Theory
Elements and principals of composition
45+ Free Lessons in Web-centric Design Theory
Internships
Those of you looking for internships, this Internship List is from the AdClub in DC (Jan 2012). If this seems old, the most recent version may be online at dcadclub.com, but it's likely these people are always interested in interns.
Look through what they are looking for (some want designers, some want account reps, etc.), check out their website so you know a little bit about them (they may ask you why you're interested in interning with them), and contact them.
It's good practice to try, and even if you don't get in now it could give you a foot in the door.
IMPORTANT Design Info
What designers need to know — a short list on a long topic
RISD's intro to their graphic design program
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008, specifically about it taking 10,000 hours to become an expert (close to 5 years at 40 hrs. a week).
Crossing The Creative Divide: Three Intrinsic Attributes Of Creativity/UX Magazine
Why Persuasive Design Should Be Your Next Skill Set/UX Magazine
Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips
Resumes
The Ladders: 9 Resume Tips Hiring Managers Wished Creatives Pros Knew
60 Most Creative Resumes of All Time: Ridiculous headline, and most of these are crap; poor typographic skills, difficult to read, even harder to understand, and if they land on HR's desk instead of the Creative Director's desk they will be thrown in the trash. But look at numbers 1 (would be better without background image), 2, 7, 9, 12, 18, 22, 23, 27, 45, and 48.
47 is a little difficult to follow, but the quality of illustration and how well the entire page works as a unit sets it apart. It doesn't hurt that they want to work in film and they've completed films that have competed internationally.
10 Handy Tips for Web Design CVS and Resumes: Some better samples.Tech Tips
Podcasts about design from the designers at Mule Design
Designing Smarter, Faster and Easier (notes from lecture)
Nobel Program Shortcut Key Command Guides
http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/
Design Info from designer/teacher Anne Kerns
Tutorials
Lynda.com (general)
photoshopcafe.com (Photoshop)
CSS — W3Schools (Web)
Inspiration
Steve Jobs is our hero because he loved beauty and understood typography
www.girleffect.org — EXCELLENT copywriting, typography and new media example
Communications Arts
If you are a student of mine at Howard and Montgomery colleges, you can subscribe to Communication Arts for the special price of $39 at: commarts.com/students
The FWA, web design
Films about designers — Hillman-Curtis
The Die Line — the best of packaging design
Bibliodyssey — Books and book illustrations
Birka Jazz's Blue Note album covers, 1950s
Threadless talks about building their business
Organizations
Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington (ADCMW) — Regional, primarily in-house designers, smaller design firms and freelancers, really good programs, Annual Show design competition, excellent discussion list (for members and non-members).
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) — National graphic design organization; national convention; local chapters in Washington, DC and Baltimore, chapters in some schools.
Graphic Artists Guild — National organization for in-house and freelance graphic designers; provides health insurance, pricing guidelines and contract arbitration
Adclub of Washington DC — Local organization for advertising agencies; affiliated with the American Advertising Federation.
Illustrators Club of DC, Maryland and Virginia — Professional illustrators
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) — Studio photographers
National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) — Editorial photographers
Professional Photographers of America (PPA) — Portrait and wedding photographers
Drawing & Illustration
Best Anamatics and Storyboards of 2011
40 years of illustrations for the New York Times Op-Ed section
Escape from Illustration Island
Line by Line: James McMullen on Drawing, from The New York Times
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
Reasons to Embrace Being Sketchy, Mark Avnet, VCU Brandcenter (ad school in Richmond, VA)
The Answer Sheet Archives: Arts Education, washingtonpost.com
Science of Aesthetics (Includes interesting analysis of how to show motion in animation)
Alice Flaherty, research into creative drive
History
Icons of Graphics (famous graphic designers)
Design — www.designhistory.org
Library of Congress collection of WPA Posters
National Gallery of Art Classroom — References on a wide variety of art styles and periods
Alvin Lustig (1950's American modernism)
Typography
Adobe Crash Course in Typography
Jonathan Hoefler (type designer) and Steven Heller (NYT Magazine) on Typography
History of Typography, I Love Typography
"I Love Typography" blog (history of type, etc.)
Hoefler & Frere-Jones type foundry, arguably the best type foundry today.
Emigre.com, the foundry that started the computer type revolution. Still creates beautiful fonts.
FontShop's type education guides
Technical
Graphics Master (book) — contains most of the technical knowledge a print designer needs, including standard envelope sizes, information on various printing techniques, and a glossary of terms. Published by the Printing Industries of America (PIA).
Initialize Apache & mysql on Snow Leopard
Interface Design
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."
Direct Marketing/Sales
Knowing about direct marketing can make a big difference in the effectiveness of anything you design.
Dick Benson's Direct Marketing Rules of Thumb by John Newtson
David Ogilvy, The Theory and Practice of Selling the Aga Cooker