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Books:
- The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type (2nd Edition), by James Felici
- Fluid Web Typography, by Jason Cranford Teague
- Logo Savvy: Top Brand Design Firms Share their Naming and Identity Strategies, by Perry Chua & Dann Ilicic
- Design-it-Yourself Graphic Workshop: The Step-by-Step Guide, by Chuck Green
- Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artwork, by Von R. Glitschka
Products:
- Suitcase Fusion 2 | Academic Superstore
Websites:
- Fonts, Typefaces and All Things Typographical | I Love Typography
- Logo Inspiration, Corporate Identity and Online Portfolios | Logo Lounge
- Logo Design Love | Logo Design Love
- Identity Inspiration | Logo Pond
- Illustrator & Vector Tutorials | VectorTuts
- Ideas, Articles, and Resources for Graphic Designers | IdeaBook
- Convert PostScript to TrueType or OpenType | Free Font Converter
- The Kerning Game | KernType
- The Letter Shaping Game | Shape Type
- Exposing the overuse of the Papyrus font | Papyrus Watch
- Download vector logos and logotypes | Brands of the World™
Articles:
- 30 Fonts That All Designers Must Know & Should Own | Just Creative Design
- 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design | Smashing Magazine
- Logo Design Process for Just Creative Design’s Award Winning Logo | Just Creative Design
- Logos with a meaning | Creative Bits
- The Truth Behind Comic Sans | Real Life Comics
- 50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration | Fuel Your Creativity
- 16 Unveiled Logo Design Processes | The Design Cubicle
- Typographic Contrast and Flow | Web Designer Wall
- Readability Lab Experiment | Arc90
- Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free. | 27bslash6
Case Studies:
- Integrated Financial Technologies Brand Strategy | Premium Design Works
- Capture Press Branding Case Study | Razterized
Tutorials:
- Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough | Spoon Graphics
- How to design an awesome logo | Blue Laguna
- 3D logo Tutorial | Good Walls
- Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment | VectorTuts
- Create a Swirly Type Treatment – VectorTuts
- Step-by-step logo | Ideabook
- Illustrator Basics | Premium Design Works
- Object Basics in Illustrator | Premium Design Works
- Using Type & Printing in Illustrator | Premium Design Works
- Drawing with the Pen in Illustrator | Premium Design Works
- Recreating the Duane Reade Logo | Martin McCann
Examples:
- Flickr: The Smart, Simple Logos Pool
- Integrated Financial Technologies | Premium Design Works
- CK Designs | Premium Design Works
Downloads:
- Pepsi’s Gravitational Field
- A Logo of Letters | Before & After Magazine
- Logo Samples | IdeaBook
- You Didn’t Get This From Me – MAC
- You Didn’t Get This From Me – PC
- Naming Worksheet | Wow Branding
- Naming Critera | Wow Branding
- WebEx Brand Style Guide | WebEx
This portion of the Premium Design Works website is written by Mike Sinkula and dedicated to the Web Design & Development students at Seattle Central Community College.
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look how cool this is.
http://www.losttype.com/
Wow your friends with arcane punctuation! (And good luck finding them on a keyboard….)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-knew-existed
Bold Stroke: New Font Helps Dyslexics Read
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-font-helps-dyslexics-read
i found this site helpful for learning the basics of illustrator and how to use its tools. you can also download a trial version of illustrator for 30 days on this site !!
http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-illustrator-cs5/
A keming – er – kerning game, more fun than a bucket of ants:
http://type.method.ac/
Here’s a page with a list of both mac and windows font managers, many of them are freeware.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/05/25-font-management-tools-reviewed/
Windows
Otherwise the fonts can be viewed one by one and added directly from the folder, or by dragging them to the system fonts folder located at C:\Windows\Fonts.
Hope this helps the windows users in the class.
Chris
MIC102i (AI Short Course) Links
The Basics – Parts & Pieces of Illustrator
http://martinmccann.net/SCCC/mic-102i/day-01/
Object Lesson – Shapes & Transforming Techniques
http://martinmccann.net/SCCC/mic-102i/day-02/
Using Type & Printing – Combing Text with Paths
http://martinmccann.net/SCCC/mic-102i/day-3/
Proper Pen(manship) – Using the Pen Tool
http://martinmccann.net/SCCC/mic-102i/day-04/
here is a great post displaying some text book logo examples.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/09/30-great-logos-with-smart-concepts/
I found these two sites to be pretty inspirational for logo design.
http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/50-kick-ass-logos-for-inspiration/
http://www.logofaves.com
Here’s a very detailed and interesting perception study of 40 different screen typefaces:
http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/112/typeface.asp
http://www.fontexplorerx.com/download/
here is a free mac font management tool.
It is no longer supported but it’s free.
It is specifically the
Linotype FontExplorer X 1.2.3
16 Logo Design Processes Unveiled
A look on how these 16 logos were designed.
http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2009/05/16-unveiled-logo-design-processes/