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DESIGN BLOGS
AIGA Eye on Design
LOGO DESIGN
Brand New: Under Consideration’s blog section about logo design
Aaron Draplin’s Video of speed-logo-design.
LETTERERS AND CALLIGRAPHERS
Allen Crawford‘s “Song of Myself”
Lettering versus Calligraphy Martina Flor vs. Giuseppe Salerno
Seb Lester brilliant calligrapher
Elvis Swift calligrapher/illustrator extraordinaire
Dana Tanamachi Queen of chalkboard lettering
TYPOGRAPHERS
Laura Worthington many calligraphic and historic genre fonts
TYPOGRAPHY
Free Fonts! A recent selection of 19 free fonts
Font Classification: Allan Haley
Test drive your fonts at Wordmark
Type Infographics Some amusing, some with flawed details
Type Connection Typography dating game; can you make a match?
BOOK JACKETS
Custom border path in Adobe Illustrator
Width tool in Adobe Illustrator
VIDEOS
Jessica Hische speaks (look at 25 minutes on in)
Jon Contino’s BBQ sauce handlettering for Texas Monthly
Glen Weisberger hand letters with brush
Explore Syracuse: Cayetano Valenzuela
James Victore shows NYC signage
Marian Bantjes TED Talk
Stefan Sagmeister at TED talks and talks and talks
MISCELLANY
Color Gamut explained
Color palette utilities
The Dieline Website devoted to package design
Gestalt Principles in Web Design
Online Bezier curve game with tutorials: suck at pen tool? Try this.
ILL 300 Spring 2015 