online resources
design portals/blogs
design inspiration
Art and Culture (an unbelievable resource)
Cooper Union design resource center
International Journal of Design
design history
design theory
applying-mathematics-to-web-design/
typography/fonts
29-principles-for-making-great-font-combinations
Lorem Ipsum (dummy type/greeking)
book arts
color:
formats:
freebies:
archives:
Archive of Magazine First Issues
Cover Browser (books, comics, magazines)
Grain Edit (archives of retro design)
Knockoff Project (parodies, spoofs)
illustration:
printing & technical stuff:
30 pdf’s every designer should download
prepress:
Pocketpal:1.800.854.3212 Process color guide: agfa… 1.800.395.7007
postal regulations:
paper:
paper Mills:
business law:
Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS): search for registered trademarks http://tess2.uspto.gov/
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB): used when an application to register a trademark is opposed
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/process/appeal/
stock photography sites:
some FREE photo & texture sites (royalty-free):
communication/marketing/design specialities:
Advertising Education Foundation
American Marketing Association
information graphics: Edward Tufte
Society for New Communications Research
usability:
http://www.designingforhumans.com
mac info:
track software versions:
tricks & tips:
humor:
studios:
architecture/industrial design:
Core77 (industrial design magazine)
moving image (film/animation):
movies:
Helvetica—a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.
Objectified—a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
favorite book resources
