Become a really good graphic designer
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Milton Glaser threw me out of his graphics class at the New School
My loss is your gain. I think for not much money you can use new tools to create better than average work.
Lousy work is now unacceptable!
YES! You need a world-class professional when you need design worth paying for. But lots of time, you need design you can't pay for. That's when you need to be really good.
Start with this simple book
Before and After Graphics for Business
Amazon Price: $16.81 (as of 02/12/2012)
Not a lot of theory, not a lot of rules, just useful approaches to common problems.
Typography is the window into the soul of business graphic design
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition)
Amazon Price: $19.00 (as of 02/12/2012)
This book will change (forever) the way you think about type.
Death to ugly presentations!
slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
Amazon Price: $18.99 (as of 02/12/2012)
Do you spend more time and money on your suit than on the design of your slides? Shame on you.
Another classic
The InDesign Ideabook: Over 300 Ready-to-Use InDesign "PrePages" for Marketing Your Products, Your Services, and Your Organization
Amazon Price: $49.95 (as of 02/12/2012)
Shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts.
There are versions for different programs.
Sites worth checking out
Presentation Zen
15 points
Before & After magazine
Before & After, How to design cool stuff, is a more...12 points
The Non-Designer's Design Book
4 key principles of design - 2 hours flicking thro more...6 points
Slides that stick
Blog with ideas that improve your PowerPoint prese more...6 points
Graphics | Smashing Magazine
Graphic inspiration.4 points
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Free, Open Source graphic design software, similar more...4 points
slide:ology
A distillation of Duarte Design's 20 years of expe more...3 points
I love Typography (iLT), devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical
The typography and fonts blog. Typographic inspira more...2 points
TheDieline.com
The Dieline covers the world's best packaging desi more...1 point
Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
Pictures and more pictures.1 point
Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Newsletter on Web Usability
User research findings, Design guidelines for Web more...1 point
Lovely Charts | Free online diagramming application
Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application more...1 point
Better Posters
A poster presentation resource.1 point
Design Reviver - Web Design Blog
Web Design Blog - Web Design Tutorials, Inspiratio more...1 point
The Grid System
The ultimate resource in grid systems.1 point
http://fontfeed.com/
Font blog.1 point
Royalty Free Photos, Download Stock Photos and Images Stock Photos Royalty Free Downloads
Cheap stock photo download royalty free - high res more...1 point
dafont.com
Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by al more...1 point
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop: Timothy Samara: Books
Amazon.com: Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphi more...0 points
Coghead, Inc
RIA Forms Generator.0 points
http://www.hongkiat.com
Design inspiration and freebies.0 points
http://www.justcreativedesign.com
Tips for designers.0 points
MOO | Custom Business Cards, MiniCards, Postcards and Stickers | moo.com
Create and customize premium Business Cards, MiniC more...0 points
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Tolovaj says:
We live in the world of images, so design is very valuable. But I think in many cases it is overrated. Call me old fashioned, but contend should still be more important than the package.
Posted January 28, 2012
thickntech says:
Ha! Nice we all need graphics we can't pay for. That's really why I got in the business in the first place!
Posted December 16, 2011
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What if I am really good designer? I designed my six pack abs, if you need to see a demo! Ha, Just kidding...Good stuff anyways.
Ken
Posted October 20, 2011
jenfro says:
Thanks for the pointers, I think I'm going to check out the InDesign book.
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