Course Links
Below please find links and support materials to help you succeed in this course and beyond. If you don’t find the resources you’re looking for, just ask!
Google Drive:
gd2 fall2023
Before uploading files, make sure you have named them correctly:
name files: course and section_season year_project name_last name_
For example: comd1200_f23_letterform white_smith_amy
Miro
Course resources and help
Helpful videos
Logo design
Logo Design with Grids
https://vimeo.com/197723902
• detailed
Letter Logo Design Tutorial in Adobe illustrator / Logo Design illustrator tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQwWNfRQ8I
• concise
Negative Space Logo Design Process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnaI8EJtDUc
Creating a logo in illustrator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZMNVTRADfg
Logo Design with Grids
https://vimeo.com/197723902
Abstract iconology in illustrator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZgYP7yOdSc
The science of logo design
https://www.lynda.com/Graphic-Design-tutorials/Science-Logo-Design/641630-2.html
lynda.com has a one month free trail and is free for students through NYPL
Drawing Vector Graphics
https://www.lynda.com/Illustrator-tutorials/Drawing-Vector-Graphics/109450-2.html
Logo tips and tricks
https://www.lynda.com/Logo-Design-tutorials/Before-After-Logo-Design-Tips-Tricks/380379-2.html
Logo Design: shapes and symbols
https://www.lynda.com/Logo-Design-tutorials/LogoLounge-Shapes-Symbols-Logo-Design/147013-2.html
How to Create A Logo in Adobe Illustrator CC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkuqVDdCklo
Logo Design Techniques with Nigel French
https://www.lynda.com/Illustrator-tutorials/Welcome/173877/361058-4.html
Logo design techniques
https://creativepro.com/free-lynda-com-video-logo-design-techniques/
Logo Design Tutorial How to Make a Leaf Logo
https://webdesignvideotutorials.com/illustrator/adobe-illustrator-cc-logo-design-tutorial-how-to-make-a-leaf-logo-text-logo-design-beginner/
Graphic Design
Layout and Composition in Graphic Design
https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/graphic-design-layout-composition-tutorial/
Online classes from famous designers and illustrators
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/creative-business/10-online-classes-from-famous-designers-illustrators/
Typography
Graphic Design Foundation: Typography
https://www.lynda.com/Graphic-Design-tutorials/Foundations-Typography/106698-2.html
Top 50 type tutorials
http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/typography-tutorials-1232719
Reading
Books available in the Citytech library:
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- Graphic design: the new basics Ellen Lupton; Jennifer C. Phillips
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The People’s Graphic Design:
A virtual archive built by everyone, about everyone, for everyone.
Contemporary Articles
Milton Glaser Made You Look Once, Think Twice
History
The Visual Language of Herbert Matter
Grain Edit
Typeface Identification
WhatTheFont
Upload an image and it magically tells you the name of the font
Type Sample
Install this bookmark let to identify and save samples of web fonts.
Fibonacci System
Additional books
Design as Art, Bruno Munari
Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice, Armin Hoffman
Armin Hofmann (Poster Collection), Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Counterprint, Karel Martens
Printed Matter, Karel Martens
What is a Designer, Norman Potter
Typographie, Emil Ruder
Thinking with Type, Ellen Lupton
Grid Systems in Graphic Design, Josef Müller-Brockmann
The Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst
Type & Typography, Phil Baines & Andrew Haslam
Edward Fella: Letters on America, Lewis Blackwell & Lorraine Wild
Ways of Seeing, John Berger
Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History, Robin Kinross
Graphic Design: A Concise History, Richard Hollis
Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, Michael Bierut, Steven Heller
Design Magazines
Eye London-based graphic design magazine.
ID Magazine Product, graphic design magazine based in New York.
Metropolis Architecture, product, graphic design magazine based in New York.
Dot Dot Dot General visual culture experimental magazine based in New York.
Other Useful Resources
The Walker Channel: Online video archive of visiting artist and designer lectures at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
UbuWeb: Online experimental film archive.
Safari Books Online: Searchable, full-text, electronic books of Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop tutorials.
Scratching the Surface: podcast about design, theory, and creative practice. Hosted by Jarrett Fuller, each episode features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with designers, architects, writers, academics, artists, and theorists about how design shapes culture.
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