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 fall2022

Before uploading files, make sure you have named them correctly:
name files: course and section_season year_project name_last name_
For example: comd1200_f20_letterform white_smith_amy

Miro

 

Course resources and help

Google Drive with various resources
from making duotones to typography to requesting a referral: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uCudONE_S1_NdvOwMtYf8npmdTfCcjFA

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:

• • • Graphic design: the new basics Ellen Lupton; Jennifer C. Phillips
      • Graphic design: the new basics:  download as pdf.

• • • Books available as free pdfs

 

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

Phaidon history-of-design

             The Visual Language of Herbert Matter

Eames

Bauhaus

Grain Edit

 

Typeface Identification

 

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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