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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.

13 Comments:

  1. rebeccachizeck says:

    look how cool this is.
    http://www.losttype.com/

  2. Leslie Strom says:

    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

  3. Kwame W says:

    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 !!

  4. Leslie Strom says:

    A keming – er – kerning game, more fun than a bucket of ants:
    http://type.method.ac/

  5. Christopher Gubbels says:

    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

  6. 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/

  7. Carl Hughes says:

    here is a great post displaying some text book logo examples.

    http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/09/30-great-logos-with-smart-concepts/

  8. Erik Richert says:

    Here’s a very detailed and interesting perception study of 40 different screen typefaces:

    http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/112/typeface.asp

  9. 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

  10. Matt Coppins says:

    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/

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