Resources

These resources provide good starting points for finding inspiration or visual examples for your Design Blog entries and your class projects.

 

Blogs

• Book by its Cover, www.book-by-its-cover.com (showcases innovative print design for creative publications)
• The Design Observer Group, designobserver.com
• Grain Edit, www.grainedit.com (classic design from 1950s–1960s)
• Graphique Fantastique, graphiquefantastique.com (Career/design/inspiration of a young graphic designer in the UK)
• It’s Nice That, www.itsnicethat.com
• Spiekerblog, http://spiekermann.com/en/ (German typographer Erik Spiekermann’s Blog)
• Under Consideration, www.underconsideration.com (see Brand New for logo design and Art of the Menu for restaurant menu design)

 

Designers / Design Firms

• Marian Banjes, www.bantjes.com (typography)
• Nicholas Felton, www.feltron.com (data and charts)
• Alan Fletcher, www.alanfletcherarchive.com
• Jerod Gibson, www.jerodgibson.com (Interface and Product Design)
• Malcolm Grear Designers, www.mgrear.com
• Jessica Hische, www.jessicahische.is
• Pentagram, www.pentagram.com
• Stefan Sagmeister & Jessica Walsh, www.sagmeisterwalsh.com
• Jason Santa Maria, www.jasonsantamaria.com
• Studio Shafei, www.studioshafei.ch (art direction, visual identity, book design and typography)

 

Design Websites

• Abduzeedo, http://www.abduzeedo.com (design inspiration and tutorials)
  
• Book Cover Archive, www.bookcoverarchive.com (search by designer, author, photographer, publisher, etc.)
• Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/ (search their collection)

 

Experimental / Visual Texts

• Skin Project by Shelley Jackson, www.ineradicablestain.com/skindex.html
  
• The Periodic Table as Assembled by Dr. Zhivago, Oculist by Jena Osman, www.jenaosman.com/zhivago (hypertext poem organized according to the periodic table of elements)
• Born Magazine, www.bornmagazine.org/mother (animated/interactive texts)

 

Information Visualization

• I Want Data, iwantdata.tumblr.com
• Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, www.scimaps.org (Showcases visualizations utilizing large amounts of data)

 

Pattern Design & Color

• Pattern Foundry, www.patternfoundry.com
• Marimekko Textiles, https://us.marimekko.com/fabric

 

Periodicals

• Print, http://www.printmag.com
• Graphis, http://www.graphis.com

 

Poetry Broadsides

• A Look at Some Contemporary Broadsides by Kyle Schlesinger, www.thevolta.org/ewc29-kschlesinger-p1.html (helps explain what a broadside is)
• Broadsided Press, www.broadsidedpress.org (examples of broadsides under Archive link)
• Center for Book Arts: Broadsides, www.centerforbookarts.org/bookstore/broadside/ (examples of poetry broadsides)
• A Short Introduction to Graphic Design History, www.designhistory.org (history and images for broadsides, posters, and typography)
• Woodside Press, www.woodsidepress.com/#!letterpress/ctzx (examples of letterpress printing)