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Resources

One thing I would have all advanced students do is contextualize your work - get a copy of Meggs Graphic Design A New History and read it front to back. Go to designboom.com and familiarize yourself with all the designers there. Go to Edward Tufte's website - find out who he is - read his forum...and go to john maeda's website and know who he is, as well as David Carson and Emigre mag, and its founders...
In other words, start exploring the conceptual underpinnings of design - get a book on design theory - I picked one up last year - great for midnight reading!

An interesting designer Elliot Earls http://www.theapolloprogram.com/

Have you read adbusters magazine? If you haven't, go get a copy - and another site worth exploring hillmancurtis.com

daphne.palomar.edu Asymmetry and informal designs

DQ Contrast Image Analysis

Example Dq: How do you use contrast in your design + image analysis related to contrast

I don't know how many of you saw this on my website - but it is a great example of contrast in idea (versus contrast in value) fragile.jpg. What examples of contrast are around us that spice our lives up daily? Sweet and sour sauce, Hannah Montana and her brother, and if we continue with characters - how about Cinderella and her sisters? I like this cover where they placed the coliseum on the ocean luzerintarchivecover.jpg and a great contrast of scale - Charles-Ray_puzzle-bottle95.jpg

http://www.theapolloprogram.com/ designer Elliot Earls

Fragile.jpg Conceptual contrast

Luzerintarchivecover.jpg Coliseum Oil Rig

Charles-Ray_puzzle-bottle95.jpg and a great contrast of scale

Contrast in your design + image analysis Example