DESIGN PROCESS

Research
Gather all the data

Immerse yourself in details relating to the material

The Design Process

Thumbnail samples: thumbs.html
Mock-up samples: mock-ups.html
Site map samples: sitesketch.html
To do list: todo.html

Barb's Design Process Overview (pdf)

Brainstorming Exercise
What Color is Thursday?

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Design Information

Barb's Design Principles Cheatsheet (pdf)

Design Principles
and links to other design sites

The best design magazine
Before & After Magazine: full of tips and tricks for great design and software how-tos. A few great issues are available to download for free.

About.com
Always a good resource. Click to read info and follow links about graphic design.

Top 10 Type Crimes
Article by Ilene Striver on Fonts.com. Peruse the site for more great info on type and design

Fun site to critique Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity
http://www.jamesyang.com/

B R E A K: Taking care of yourself!
http://www.mydailyyoga.com/yogaindex.html

TYPOGRAPHY

Where to buy typefaces

Links to cool type sites

The ever amazing Robin Williams

Typography

List of type foundries on the web
Fonts and Foundries

Barb’s list of type-related sites
http://www.sonic.net/~ohbarb/fonts.html

Fun & informative type site
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/

Barb's Type Contrast Cheatsheet
contrast.html

R E S O U R C E S
For Your Typographic Information
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/

Fine Typography
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/FineTypography/

Robin Williams
Her personal site
(Are you a Shakespeare fan? Find out who Robin believes was the real Shakespeare)
Check out Robin's and John's books on Peachpit press

Web design and typography
http://www.wpdfd.com/pdtypo.htm