Resources
ANIMATION TUTORIALS
Wonderfy.net
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Taschen Basic Art Series
BRAND DESIGN
Logo Design Love by David Airey
Logo Modernism by Taschen
Recycling & Redesigning Logos: A Designer’s Guide to Refreshing and Rethinking Design by Michael Hodgson
COLOR PLANNING
pantone.com
colours.com
On Color by David Scott Kastan
The Designer’s Dictionary of Color by Sean Adams
DESIGN RESEARCH & THINKING
A Designer’s Research Manual by Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady
Graphic Design Thinking edited by Ellen Lupton
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (Available on Barnes & Noble)
Designing Brand Identity, Fifth Edition
DEVELOPER TOOLS
CSS Lint
Safari
Firefox
Chrome
pingdom.com
gtmetrix.com
ETHICS FOR UNICORNS
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) aiga.org
Consciously Digital consciously-digital.com/resources.html
EXCELLENT BLOGS & WEBSITES
graphicdesignblender.com
medium.com
creativebloq.com
digitalartsonline.co.uk
underconsideration.com
itsnicethat.com
webbyawards.com
awwwards.com
w3schools.com
responsivedesign.is
abookapart.com
FILM & DOCUMENTARY
Abstract: The Art of Design
Art & The Artist Series by Hillman Curtis
Helvetica
PressPausePlay
FORUMS
github.com
stackoverflow.com
wordpress.org/support
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Computer Arts UK (Magazine)
Design School Type by Richard Poulin
Design School Layout by Richard Poulin
Graphic Design for Art, Fashion, Film, Architecture, Photography, Product Design & Everything In Between by Andy Cooke
Burn Your Portfolio by Michael Janda
How To by Michael Beirut
A Designer’s Art by Paul Rand
Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Mülller-Brockmann
Pentagram: Marks Monograph
NAMES TO KNOW
Jessica Hische
Sagmeister & Walsh
Pentagram
Wolff Olins
Minale Tattersfield
Landor Associates
Paula Scher
Neri Oxman
ONLINE LEARNING TOOLS
codex.wordpress.org
lynda.com
treehouse.com
codeacademy.com
youtube.com
PRICING
Graphic Designer’s Guild Pricing and Ethical Guidelines Handbook
nuschool.com
Jessica Hische
The Futur
PSYCHOLOGY IN BUSINESS
Seth Goden
Malcolm Gladwell
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung (1964)
James Altucher
Wayne Dyer, author and philosopher
THOUGHT LEADERS TO FOLLOW
John Maeda, Designing for Simplicity (TED Talk)
The Futur
WRITING
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (1989)
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker (2015)
The Associated Press Stylebook by the Associated Press (2016)