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Place for students to post about graphic designers, printmakers, and design work.

Each assignment will consist of a blogpost: a paragraph (5-6 sentences), source: website link to artist/information, 3-4 photos of design work.

Typical assignment could be:

• Research Graphic Designer, post your favorite pics of his/her work, write a paragraph on why you like their work so much. Post their website link
• Research Font (Type)-  Post pics of the font you chose, Write on the history of the font, who created it, the naming process, what is it used for mainly….and post the link(s) you used for your research (5-6sentences)
• Research a company logo you visually enjoy, write about it’s history, what it does for the company.

Good sites to find out about graphic design/designers:

http://www.behance.net/

http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=graphic%20design (for this one you want to make sure when you click the photo it leads to the artist’s website, or you have their name so you can google them)

http://goodtypography.tumblr.com/

http://abduzeedo.com/

http://www.youthedesigner.com/category/inspiration/

http://www.wabbaly.com/graphic-design-inspiration/

http://artistsinspireartists.com/category/everything (you can click on the drop down menu of ‘Inspiration’ , and click o Graphic Design and or Typography)

http://www.powertotheposter.org/ (poster inspiration)

http://theinspirationgrid.com/category/design/

http://logopond.com/

History of (Font)Typeface: http://www.vletter.com/aboutfonts.htm