Graphic Design
Graphic design is the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience.
The history of graphic design has been shaped by technological advances, from the limitations of black and white letterpress and woodblock illustrations, to the advances of lithographic printing in the late nineteenth century, which enabled designs painted by artists to be reproduced in colour. Continuing through the last century to the proliferation of photomechanical transfer (PMT) methods in the late sixties, to the current predominance of computers at all stages of the design process.
theispot.com showcases the work of illustrators from over 15 countries and serves buyers throughout the world. It receives nearly 10,000,000 hits monthly and is widely recognized as the world's premier illustration Internet site.
www.theispot.com
Flatliner v2 is based in London and has been a practising commercial illustrator for seven years. He creates contemporary images for the advertising and commercial markets.
http://www.flatliner-v2.com/
Capricorn Multimedia is a London-based design studio which specialises in multimedia, 3D visualisation & animation, graphics and the Internet. http://www.capricorn-multimedia.co.uk/
Resources and Lessons explores Andy Warhol's art and practice and the social and cultural context of his work and makes connections to contemporary themes and students' own experience.
http://www.warhol.org/education/resources_lessons.html
Loewy spent over 50 years streamlining everything from postage stamps to spacecrafts. His more famous creations include the Lucky Strike cigarette package, the slenderized Coca-Cola bottle, the John F. Kennedy memorial postage stamp, the interior of Saturn I, Saturn V, and Skylab, the Greyhound bus and logo, the Shell International logo, the Exxon logo, the U.S. Postal Service emblem, and others.
http://www.raymondloewy.com/
British Art Nouveau illustrator and graphic designer.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/beardsley_aubrey.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/beardsley.html
The site gives useful information with illustrations on how colour affects mind, body, vision, Design and Art, Science, global issues and computers, even recent lawsuits over copyright to hues (Who Owns Hues?) - plus an interactive global colour survey.
http://www.colormatters.com/
Online design course from Palomar College, California. It covers basics, painting and colour, the design process, principles and elements of design with practical projects for each section and examples.
http://daphne.palomar.edu/design/contents.html
This is an interactive artists toolkit for pupils to find out about line, colour, movement, scale, balance, colour, perspective and shape through online activities.
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/
Graphic design is the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience.
The history of graphic design has been shaped by technological advances, from the limitations of black and white letterpress and woodblock illustrations, to the advances of lithographic printing in the late nineteenth century, which enabled designs painted by artists to be reproduced in colour. Continuing through the last century to the proliferation of photomechanical transfer (PMT) methods in the late sixties, to the current predominance of computers at all stages of the design process.
theispot.com
theispot.com showcases the work of illustrators from over 15 countries and serves buyers throughout the world. It receives nearly 10,000,000 hits monthly and is widely recognized as the world's premier illustration Internet site.
www.theispot.com
Flatliner v2
Flatliner v2 is based in London and has been a practising commercial illustrator for seven years. He creates contemporary images for the advertising and commercial markets.
http://www.flatliner-v2.com/
Capricorn Multimedia
Capricorn Multimedia is a London-based design studio which specialises in multimedia, 3D visualisation & animation, graphics and the Internet. http://www.capricorn-multimedia.co.uk/
Resources and Lessons
Resources and Lessons explores Andy Warhol's art and practice and the social and cultural context of his work and makes connections to contemporary themes and students' own experience.
http://www.warhol.org/education/resources_lessons.html
Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986).
Loewy spent over 50 years streamlining everything from postage stamps to spacecrafts. His more famous creations include the Lucky Strike cigarette package, the slenderized Coca-Cola bottle, the John F. Kennedy memorial postage stamp, the interior of Saturn I, Saturn V, and Skylab, the Greyhound bus and logo, the Shell International logo, the Exxon logo, the U.S. Postal Service emblem, and others.
http://www.raymondloewy.com/
Aubrey Beardsley
British Art Nouveau illustrator and graphic designer.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/beardsley_aubrey.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/beardsley.html
Colour and Design
The site gives useful information with illustrations on how colour affects mind, body, vision, Design and Art, Science, global issues and computers, even recent lawsuits over copyright to hues (Who Owns Hues?) - plus an interactive global colour survey.
http://www.colormatters.com/
2D Design Notes
Online design course from Palomar College, California. It covers basics, painting and colour, the design process, principles and elements of design with practical projects for each section and examples.
http://daphne.palomar.edu/design/contents.html
The Artists Toolkit
This is an interactive artists toolkit for pupils to find out about line, colour, movement, scale, balance, colour, perspective and shape through online activities.
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/