Links

  • Absence of Ugliness  A look at desktop design.

  • Alexander's Creative Conundrum  contains topics such as 3D, Photoshop, Plugins, Actions, filters, multimedia, and more.

  • American Institute of Graphic Arts  The purpose of the AIGA is to advance excellence in graphic design as a discipline, profession, and cultural force. The AIGA provides leadership in the exchange of ideas and information, the encouragement of critical analysis and research, and the advancement of education and ethical practice.

  • American Museum of Papermaking  internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology. In addition to more than 2,000 books, the Museum features a remarkable collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts.

  • Aquent  specializes in providing clients with artistic, creative, and visual talent. Aquent is different from headhunters and personnel agencies, since they do their own testing to pinpoint qualifications in computer and technical areas. They also maintain locations in major cities around the world. Additionally, if you would like to register with Aquent, you can do so here.

  • Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington  is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating professionalism in the field of visual communications. Formed in 1953, the Club is dedicated to educating our members about design and the professional aspects of design, and educating the business community which uses our member's services about the power and value of good design.

  • Building a better interface   Jakob Nielsen, David Kleinberg, and Jared Spool share opinions in this builder.com interview.

  • Center for Creative Photography  is a museum and research center devoted to photography as an art form offering public printviewing from the photography collection, research archives, changing exhibitions, educational programs, a library, online publications, and a museum shop.

  • Communication Arts Magazine  World's largest magazine on creativity for graphic designers, art directors, copywriters, photographers, illustrators and multimedia designers.

  • Cross-Platform Web Design on the Mac  this article from webreference.com is a discussion of how to simulate a PC on your Mac so your pages will look great everywhere. By John Bancroft.

  • DesignCafe.com.au  is Australia's leading on-line design magazine focused at print, multimedia and web design.

  • DesignMore  Find out how to make your web site faster, easier for the user to navigate, and to keep them coming back. You will find many free design tips on our web site.

  • Design ideas and recipes  contains step-by-step design projects from www.ideabook.com.

  • Designer's Guide to the Internet  This site, and the book it is based on, attempts to raise the right questions, and propose answers that will help us design our information future. While the site only has excerpts from the Book's contents, it also has does things the book Designer's Guide to the Internet, can't do. Explore the site for free, and, oh yah, buy the Book!

  • DesignLink  Online Resources for Creative Professionals

  • DesignPoint  Designpoint is a graphic design practice specializing in traditional and electronic publishing. Formed more than ten years ago, the company quickly became a pioneer in digital layout, illustration and image manipulation. Designpoint provides solutions in the following fields of graphic design

  • Design Research  Research project focusing on the changing processes affecting design practice; from traditional 'design for print', to what has become known as 'interactive' design. This ranges from web design through to digital television.

  • DesignSphere Online  If you are involved in commercial design, illustration, photography, new media, lithography, printing, art, advertising, or providing hardware or software to businesses in these areas, then DesignSphere Online is for you.

  • Digital Creativity  Magazine that keeps you on the leading edge of the digital imaging revolution.

  • DocB's WebDesign Clinic  is a Step-By-Step Guide to Effective WebSite Design. This ongoing series of brief articles will guide you from planning through execution of your site.

  • Document Design  Online journal explores the constantly evolving boundaries between text and graphics, authors and readers.

  • Dreamlabs  DreamLabs is a small organization devoted to the facilitation and promotion of Information Interchange at the individual and community level.

  • DreamInk Digital Design  Design tutorials and resources for building an effective, faster-loading website. Guidelines for design, optimizing graphics, color and style, focused content, and navigation. New articles are added bi-weekly.

  • GetInfo Newsletter  ASAP's resources for graphic arts professionals.

  • Graphic Artists Guild  promotes and protects the economic interests of member artists and is committed to improving conditions for all creators of graphic arts and raising standards for the entire industry. The Guild is an egalitarian union that embraces all creators of graphic arts intended for presentation as originals or reproductions at all levels of skill and expertise.

  • Graphic Arts Technical Foundation  headquartered in Pittsburgh, the (GATF) serves the graphic communications community as a leading source of technical information, education, and services about lithography and other printing processes. The Foundation is a nonprofit, member-supported, and member-directed organization. The dues for U.S. and Canadian-based companies range from $350 for companies with annual sales of up to $1 million to $4,000 for companies with sales over $150 million. The dues for companies based in other countries range from $250 for companies with annual sales of up to $1 million to $3,500 for companies with sales over $150 million. The annual dues for teachers is $40, and the annual dues for students is $30.

  • Graphix Designer's Studio  contains graphics resources, free images, downloads, plugins, fonts, tips, backgrounds, and more.

  • Michael J. Sullivan's Scanning Tips Website  Michael J. Sullivan is partner and artistic director of Haywood & Sullivan in Quincy, Massachusetts, an award-winning full-range design firm that excels at communication design using various media.

  • Missing Things: International Design Competition  Funny, attractive, comfortable, practical, entertaining.

  • My Design Primer  An easy-to-understand resource that explains about graphics, type, computers, web pages, printing and more.

  • OnlyInkOnPaper.com  Designed for the Graphic Print Buyer. The only site of its kind, offering commercial print job specification reviews, not limited to or connected with any specific printer, machine, merchant or process. A truly unbiased review of your print spec's to insure that you receive the most value and best product for the money when sent out to bid. Also offering graphic, paper and e-commerce links and other helpful information.

  • Secrets of the Web design masters  is an article from c|net featuring interviews with some of the masters who have created the most visually exciting and thought-provoking sites on the Web.

  • Tips on Outputting Your Electronic Files  DO's & DON'Ts On Sending Files To A Printer / Service Bureau For Output by Julian Foster.

  • Top 10 Reasons to Become a Graphic Designer  From ADCMW

  • Top Ten Web Design Tips  is a collection of brief tutorials, bug alerts, and general advice on HTML and its extensions, Web page design and layout, browsers, and web graphics from Dmitry Kirsanov.

  • Warren Idea Exchange  Resource for the graphic arts community.

  • Yale HyperText Style Guide  This manual describes the design principles used to create the pages within the Center for Advanced Instructional Media's (C/AIM) World Wide Web site.

  • Zen and the Art of Desk Top Publishing  By Brian Gawor.