WEB112 » Resources
Books:
- Fluid Web Typography, by Jason Cranford Teague
- Design-it-Yourself Graphic Workshop: The Step-by-Step Guide, by Chuck Green
- The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type (2nd Edition), by James Felici
- Logo Savvy: Top Brand Design Firms Share their Naming and Identity Strategies, by Perry Chua & Dann Ilicic
- Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artwork, by Von R. Glitschka
Products:
- Suitcase Fusion | Academic Superstore
Websites:
- Fonts, Typefaces and All Things Typographical | I Love Typography
- Logo Inspiration, Corporate Identity and Online Portfolios | Logo Lounge
- Logo Design Love | Logo Design Love
- Identity Inspiration | Logo Pond
- Illustrator & Vector Tutorials | VectorTuts
- Ideas, Articles, and Resources for Graphic Designers | IdeaBook
- Convert PostScript to TrueType or OpenType | Free Font Converter
- The Kerning Game | KernType
- The Letter Shaping Game | Shape Type
- Exposing the overuse of the Papyrus font | Papyrus Watch
- Download vector logos and logotypes | Brands of the World™
- Download Brand Logo Vectors | Logo Vectors
Articles:
- 30 Fonts That All Designers Must Know & Should Own | Just Creative Design
- 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design | Smashing Magazine
- Logo Design Process for Just Creative Design’s Award Winning Logo | Just Creative Design
- The Truth Behind Comic Sans | Real Life Comics
- 50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration | Fuel Your Creativity
- 16 Unveiled Logo Design Processes | The Design Cubicle
- Typographic Contrast and Flow | Web Designer Wall
- Readability Lab Experiment | Arc90
- Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free. | 27bslash6
- 25 Negative Logo Designs | DdesignerR
- Get Inspired By These 50 Incredibly Clever Logos With Hidden Meanings | Digital Synopsis
- OGC Unveils New Logo to Red Faces | Telegraph
Case Studies:
- Integrated Financial Technologies Brand Strategy | Premium Design Works
- Capture Press Branding Case Study | Razterized
- Aaron Draplin Takes On a Logo Design Challenge on Vimeo | Lynda.com
Tutorials:
- Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough | Spoon Graphics
- How to design an awesome logo | Blue Laguna
- 3D logo Tutorial | Good Walls
- Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment | VectorTuts
- Create a Swirly Type Treatment – VectorTuts
- Step-by-step logo | Ideabook
- Illustrator Basics | Premium Design Works
- Object Basics in Illustrator | Premium Design Works
- Using Type & Printing in Illustrator | Premium Design Works
- Drawing with the Pen in Illustrator | Premium Design Works
- Recreating the Duane Reade Logo | Martin McCann
- Create an Aged Vintage Style Logo Design in Illustrator | Spoon Graphics
Examples:
- Flickr: The Smart, Simple Logos Pool
- Integrated Financial Technologies | Premium Design Works
- CK Designs | Premium Design Works
- Brand Guidelines | University of Washington
Videos:
Downloads:
- Pepsi’s Gravitational Field
- A Logo of Letters | Before & After Magazine
- Logo Samples | IdeaBook
- Naming Worksheet | Wow Branding
- Naming Critera | Wow Branding
- WebEx Brand Style Guide | WebEx
- Fonts From Mike | DoWhatMikeSays.com
This portion of the Premium Design Works website is written by Mike Sinkula for the Web Design & Development students at Seattle Central College and the Human Centered Design & Engineering students at the University of Washington.
45 Comments:
Here is the tutorial for Illustrator that I found. It’s meticulous and pedantic but very helpful. So for those of us at the very beginning it proving to very helpful.
http://www.pgsd.org/cms/lib07/PA01916597/Centricity/Domain/202/illustrator_for_beginners_tastytuts.pdf
Just fyi in case anyone else is as uninitiated as I am.
https://vimeo.com/113751583
Cool video on designing a logo
oops just saw its already posted
https://designschool.canva.com/blog/typography-terms/
Really awesome resource with images! Highly recommend!!
https://design.google.com/articles/evolving-the-google-identity/
Whether you love or hate Google’s latest rebrand, this site shows the ‘Web 112’ process that Google went through.
Enjoy
nice list of resources. you should also consider adding my favourite website for logo design inspiration http://logovectors.net/ its the best website and also they have a great advanced search tool, give it a try
Offical Adobe Illustrator Cheatsheet. Very useful for this class if you have not used Illustrator before
https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/illustrator/pdf/illustrator_cheat-sheet.pdf
This is a resource that I personally use and like I hope you do to.
An amazing site, Thinking with Type full of resources for type– Letter Text & Grid
“Type is the foundation of print and web design. Everything you need to know about thinking with type, you will find here. This richly detailed update to the classic text belongs on the shelf of every designer, writer, editor, publisher, and client.”
-Jefferey Zeldman-
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/
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