GRDSN1104-001 Fall 2012

Links/Tutorials

Type Projects

http://shoppinglosts.blogspot.com/

Tons of Tutorials

Adobe Tutorials
Adobe Labs (learn)
Adobe Video Workshop
Tutorial House
Collection of
Make a worn stamp look
Type in Illustrator (similar to InDesign)
Change default font in AI

Class Demos
(quicktime)

Note: New system. This will evolve into a more improved tool .!.
Assigning an intro master to intro spreads. Also some advice on the order of these production procedures. (dropper tool also)10.2MB file. Not streaming, so wait. I am styling my copy here, so you can FF through this.
How to set up a duotone
How to create a Photoshop Action
How to perform the duotone Action
Poor Man's duo (color flat color gray images)
Set up for placing images. Pasteboard area increase and setting "place" prefs.
Bridge/MiniBridge Note: The reason for the "cut/paste into" is because you might have object styles on your frames. It seems unnecessary in this example, however, my other pages have more object styles. I could also just use the frames they are in and attach the object style.
Full Bridge (CS4 - email if you need further help)

Fun tutorials

Grunge type in Illustrator
Typographic
More typographic tuts
Lines with text
Trendy Type Poster
Type Wallpaper
Ants Magaziine Tons of Tuts
Typography Posters (Smashing Mag)
Type Portraits
Type Texture
Type Effects
Grunge Effects on type
type poster (Wordle)
Typographic Wallpaper

Web Typography

50 web type tutorials
Typographic CSS design Techniques
Web Typography General Understanding (WebMonkey)

InDesign Technical Tutorials

ID Baseline Grid (Typophile)
Create forms in InDesign

Acrobat Tutorials

PDF portfolio
Brian Wood PDF portfolio
Peachpit PDF portfolio
Building a PDF portfolioo on a PC video
Layers Mag Tutorial

Adobe Bridge Tutorials

Flash Bridge portfolio

About.com Tutorials

Make money creating tuts
Movies
Eyedropper
numbered lists
Placing images
Page numbering (starting a section)Section naming

FontExplorer X

How to use (Youtube)
Manual for Windows (PDF)

Links

For Breakfast every day

Abuzedo Daily Inspiration
Daily Calligraphy

What is Typography?

The Real World

Portfolios - What you don't learn in school

Clients look for

The Truth about Graphic Design

Most important skill to have

Student work

Student Newsletters (16MB) R click and open with Acrobat Pro or Reader 9
PRO NEWSLETTER LAYOUTS
Class Work 1st semester students
Possible Typeface Creations
Creative brief examples (5MB)
Student Work Columbia #1
Student Work Columbia #2
Student Work Columbia #3
Zines Columbia Colelge

comic sans

Funny molologue
Site dedicated to dissing CS
Facebook group
Creator of Comic Sans

Newsletter Info

RESEARCH newsletters (17MB)
Designing a Nameplate
Designing a Newsletter Nameplate
Tips on newsletter design
Fabulous pull-quotes
4 rules for newsletters
type for magazines
Good Points for Newsletters
Common Mistakes
Newsletter Nameplates

Book Info

Typography Posters
Sample Personal Section
Typography Posters (book cover ideas)
Tables of Contents Examples

Hierarchy

Non-linear Hierarchy

Games

Anatomy Game
Font recognition
Kern Type

tools

Megapixel converter
About image resolution
online type specimen book (set type and compare)
Identifying fonts
Typography keyboard
Freebie background textures
About Lorem Ipsum

Stock Photos

12 free stock resources

Layout

Lifelounge layouts
Nice Layouts
Angled/Perspective
Inspirational brochures
Bhance (layout)
Grid system
Type Layouts (Smashing Mag Layouts specific)
Brochures for thought
Magazine Typography
BOOKS! (nice studio)

Found Typography Images (photos)

Labworks Photostream
Google maps images
Itchy Robot
old historic
Expressive / clever
historic/expressive/old signs OK
Found Type be a fan on facebook
blog from people who love found type (click on Found type Sunday)
found typography wall
Old type on buildings
About high contrast type (finding found type help)
High contrast sign (Cambridgeport)
High contrast lettering (car)
Type Tattoos (self-branding)
Type Furniture
Art Found Type
Type on buildings (old)
Type signage type art all around us

Typeface Pairing

typeface pairing
Typophile thread
Fonts on your computer how to use them
Choosing a good typeface (not pairing)
Another good one on choosing a face
What type to use
If you have a sec, go here and contemplate
faces that work well together
Big Book of font combinations
Pairing in Logo Design
Selecting a typeface
Eight Ways to Combine

Fonts/Meaning

7 most used by designers
Type Connotations/movie typefaces
type personality test (fun)
Know/learn these typefaces
General Font related sites
Fonts True Meaning (funny)

Web Typography

10 Great Rules
print type VS. Web type
Elements of Typographic Style
Miguel Ripoll (fabulous typography)
JonesingFor
Great tips from Sitepoint
Beautiful Web Typography (article)
Google font directory (use fonts on their servers)
10 Type Tips (like print)
Works for print, too
Headers with good type
8 ways to improve type
Mixing Fonts in Web Type

Graphic Designers

20 Great Designers
J Keller (someone to follow)
Jessica Hische
Type Tips from 7 Designers
Great hand-made vector type
Michael Ciancio

Book Cover Design

Book Covers
Famous/Popular (good typography)
Archive
Interesting book covers
Some great concepts (not all good but really a good link)
Page of book covers
Book Worship

Expressive Type

Type as art (book covers)
flickr link
Deviant Art General
Examples
another Flickr Link
Embroidered type
Daily Drop Cap
Additional (good for book covers)
Expressive Type button (make some)
30 handmade examples
Type with emotion (?)
Type examples
Page of type graphics
Type as art (inspiring)
More Type As Art (inspiring)
Type as art (illustration)
Various classroom examples(Texas)
Backgrounds from type (glyphs)
Distressed Type Examples
new designs updated routinely

Typographic Portraits

Logo type

Logo type examples
Logos and logotypes

Typographic Posters

Typographic Posters
Type Poster Design Samples
more posters
Deviant Art inpirational
Type ads
Typeposters.com
Grunge type posters

Get Inspired

http://typornography.blogspot.com/
typography served (general)
Typenuts.com (general posters and type design)
Web Design Ledger (type art RSS feed) (general reference)
List of inspirational sites (general)
Page of designs (general)

InDesign

InDesign User's Group
Handy Scripts
Shortcuts (video)
Pdf of shortcuts (used in class)
Sample InDesign Magazine (PDF)

Acrobat 9

PDF portfolio examples
PDF portfolio examples 2

Type Anatomy

Review Anatomy (pdf)
Quiz yourself (form pdf)
terrific PDF on anatomy
Street Type Anatomy
Terminology (font or typeface?)

Research/Reference

Typography=Brain Ergonomics
Definition of Typography
What typography is and is not
Proposed addition to alphabet (by Obama)
Eye tracking/line length (study for reading and retention–readability)
TYPE TERMINOLOGY (Design/Form/Communication)
More Terminology
Fun application to learn about type
Short type quiz
The Elements of Typographic Style (web typography)
typography in comics
CSS3 @font-face (embed your font of choice - web typography)
Better web type through CSS
GoodTypography Movies (smile)
Type development
!5 steps to better type!
8 Rules for better type
11 tips for good type
10 fonts to NEVER use
Gutenberg's press demonstration (youtube)
Should fonts be free?
The Scourge of Arial
typographic tattoos
found Newsletters Rclick and open with Acrobat Pro or Reader 9
Ad Design Slideshow (9)
Designing a Newsletter Nameplate
Sign language fonts
Serif or Sans Serif ?
15 signs you are a bad typographer
Great PDF to download about type (cool book)
10 common type mistakes
Gigantic Type Glossary
5 steps to better type
Definition of typeface VS font
Magazine Typography
Consider Numbers

Historic Typography

Historic Typography (vintage)
More Vintage Type
Still More Vintage Type
Hieroglyphic history

Type History

History of Western Type
Hieroglyphics

General History

Short History
Really short history
Good short list
Another short list
Short History
Periodic Table of Typefaces
Origins of ABC
part 1 Venetian/Humanist
Part 2 Old Style/Garalde
Part 3 Transitional/Réales
Part 4 Modern/Didone
Part 5 Slabs/Machanes(Egyptians)
Eric Gill (interesting images)
Great short series
Franklin, Caslon, Baskerville (good read)

Victorian Industrial Type

Classification

Milestones in Type (historic basis)
Lynda movie on classification
Interesting infographic (visual)
Vox ATypI Classification system
Designer's Chart on VoxATypeI
Classification Handout (PDF)
Glyphics (Neuland/Lithos)
Old Style (and others-Brief)
Overview with a poster
The first Sans Serifs
Grotesques
Quick rundown
Some Images unordered

Typeface design

Typeface Design Typophile
School in UK $$$$
Some cheaper fonts designed poorly
Course at The Hague

Type Creation (make your own font

TypeTool ($74.95)
FontStruct
Create a font
Inspiration to design one

Identify fonts

What the font
Great Type ID tool
Identifont

Free Fonts (use with utter discretion)

Da Font
Good free fonts
1001 fonts
Acid Fonts
Font Space
Urban Fonts
Simply the best
Get Free Fonts (.info)
unstage.com
Fontsquirrel (great stuff)
Free fonts (urban fonts)
Quality Freebies
The League of Movable Type
Open Source Fonts
ffonts.net
Grunge Fonts

Typographers

Historic Visionaries
Carol Kemp Typographer
Jessica Hische (Drop Cap Queen)
Wood Cuts and Printmaking blog
Catherine Griffiths (amazing person)

Type Nerd Stuff

Ditto Marks in a typeface?
KERN iphone game
iLoveTypography (has it all)
Typography T-shirts
Wordboner.com (Ts)
More Ts
60 Type T's
Fontifier (make a font out of your handwriting)
Joey Katzen's Retail Alphabet Game iPhone app
hand made typography (expressive)
Helvetica Mug
Helvetica the film
Cool type objects to want

Cool Mags & Subscriptions

A List Apart (typography)
Life Lounge Mag
Typo Magazine
InDesign Magazine (discount code "student")
NAPP (Natl. Assoc. of Photoshop Users)
Layers Magazine
Lynda.com (1 week full access free)
HowMag Typography (can also get print subscription)
Kelby Training
Baseline Magazine
Lifelounge Nice layouts
8 faces
Communication Arts mag

Groups/blogs/memberships

Typotech.com My Fonts
You the Designer iLoveTypography (Twitter)
Typographerorg
Just Creative Design
Typesetting Forum - Review the topics
Typographica
InDesign User
Group (free)
Smashing Magazine (Web typography)
Type Goodness
typogaphica
typefoundry (blog) fascinating blog about type history
Ministry of Type

Foundries

Long list
Underware foundry

(movies/animation) humor

Overview of What Typography is
Type in motion (teacher's favorite)
Neutra Face (Parody on Lady Ga Ga)
Collection of More
Hatch poster (old letterpress posters)
more kinetic typography movies
The best type movies, ever!
Type Humor

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