Online Electronic Design

NOTE: I haven't taught this course in at least a couple of years - but there are a few things here worth archiving

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Bill Packard
Brandy Rees
Jeff Anderson

Web Roughs

sample pages, screen shots
Page elements, components 1 2
more examples
related Student Samples from another course/dig image manipulation
Morrow
Van Hamersveld
Martinez

Brainstorming and Concept Development

TEMPLATE for submitting info as a gif

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Bradley Brandt
Christy Claybourne
Combo
Jim Schugsta

Resources

Course consists of page design, layout, conceptual design process, typography. Projects include designing a web page layout, an ad, a newsletter, a magazine spread.

Recommended Texts

Typography: Macro+Micro Aesthetics by Willi Kunz
Making and Breaking the Grid by Samara
The New Graphic Design School by David Dabner
Anything by David Carson or Tufte

DO you agree with the statement "Creative design doesn't begin on the computer; it ends there, in production."

How about Paul Rand's (New York school of modern design in the '40s, '50s, and '60s) statement: "Graphic design is the integration of form and function for effective communication"

webstyleguide.com use of grids in web design
designwritingresearch.org Willi Kunz essays, other
Internet Movie Poster Awards site - Posters
planet-typography.com/ information about typography, typographic art, news, and resources, foundries, downloadable typefaces, history of printing, museum that list your classic, 20th century, Modern, and miscellaneous types. Click on the typeface from that era and it will show you numbers and letters of that font type.
MICROsoft typography Arabic Cyrillic Greek Hebrew
http://www.fonts.com/ articles, lists of fonts you might be be looking for: Western, scary, technical, kids, image, formal, etc.
graphic-design.com/Type/voice/