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

Periodicals

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)