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Updated October 26, 2006

Useful Websites

Design Blogs, News Sites, Forums

Acidtwist
AdLand
Adrants
Airbag
Anarchitect
BD4D
Be A Design Group
Binary Bonsai
Authentic Boredom
Core77.com
Coudal Partners
Creative Latitude
dangerousmeta!
Daring Fireball
The Designers Network
Design is Kinky
Design Observer
Designweenie
DigiKitten
Drawn!
Fire and Knowledge
Foreword: A Book Design Blog
Snog Blog
Mark Simonson Studio
Netdiver
Newstoday
pixelsurgeon
posterwire
RE. Design News Reluct.com
Retrolounge
RobotJohnny.com
scottberkun.com
scrubbles.net
Shift Japan
Art Forum and Graphic Design Discussion
Subsystence | Balance
TextBased.com
Typographica. A Journal of Typography.
Typographic Collaboration | Typophile
Speak Up
URLDJ
webgraphics
Maeda's SIMPLICITY
What Do I Know
xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report


Tutorials, Resources, etc

Good Tutorials - great site!
Webmonkey! For help with coding and many web tutorials
FlashKit! A Site for flash developing resources ^__^
TIEMdesign - very cool!
About.com GD - Graphic Design, has good tips about portfolios, and lots more
About.com DTP - Desktop Publishing, has some helpful stuff about designing things
Graphic Goo - good online newsletter
JavaScript Source
Shiver7 - Tutorials with an Edge
Blue Sfear
Bit 101
A List Apart
Worth 1000
Spoono
DesignFirms Articles
w3schools
DayDream Graphics
www.htmlgoodies.com
www.pixel2life.com
http://css.maxdesign.com.au - great css tutorials, as well as a bunch of stylesheet examples to make a list into cool navbars
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/guilds/viewforum.php?f=615
http://www.mezzoblue.com/
Digital Thread

CSS, PHP etc

CSS Import
CSS playground
CSS Beauty

Just Plain Cool Sites (don't really have to do with design, or don't fit in any of the other categories, but they're fun to look at)
The Webcomics Examiner
MAEDASTUDIO
IDEABOOK.COM
Phrizbie Design

Drawing:

Varied/Misc
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials
http://www.neondragonart.com/dp/
http://www.sumaleth.com/links/
http://www.makeshiftmiracle.com/Tutorials.html
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tutorials/

Figure Drawing
http://www2.evansville.edu/drawinglab/

Anime/Manga
http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial/tutorial.html
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm
http://www.bakaneko.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/community/demonology101/2003/01/19/
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stateofeuphoria/tutorials.htm

Computer Graphics

Colouring/Painting
http://www.neoterranean.com/art/tutorial/coloring.html
http://www.steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php
http://www1.linkclub.or.jp/~ooo/0/htm/eoc01.htm
http://div.dyndns.org/EK/tutorial/
http://www.studioqube.com/arkives1.php
http://www.portalgraphics.net/docs/cg_lecture/index.html
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stateofeuphoria/tutorials.htm
http://www.sumaleth.com/links/
http://clubph34r.com/cgpage1.html

Rendering

http://www.phong.com/
http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html

Theory

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=3148
http://www.maillist.com.tw/maillist/maillist_browse.cgi? maillist_id=yamyoukan <== in chinese

References
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx
http://www.picturequest.com/
http://www.projectnoir.com/gallery/model-sheets01.shtml
http://www.fineart.sk/

Other Helpful Stuff (copyrights info, etc)
Some free alternatives to Photoshop:
GIMP
Pixia
Older, free version of Open Canvas
Deals on Software:
Academic Superstore

More to come soon!!!!

Recommended Books

Look at your local library for these and others.

Books
Design Indexes (5 books by Jim Krause) - Idea Index, Color Index, Layout Index, Design Basics Index, Creative Sparks - the design basics book has some GREAT exercises in it to hone your skills!
Principles of Form and Design - Wucius Wong
Introduction to 2D Design: Form and Function - John Bowers
Graphic Design Sources - Kenneth Hiebert
Design Basics - Lauer and Pentak
Design Paradigms - Warren Wake
Thinking Creatively - Robin Landa
Typographic Design: Form and Communication - Carter, Day and Meggs
The Non-Designer's Design Book - Robin Williams (this is good for non-designers AND designers, its a great book, and will be the basis of my graphic design principles class)
Color Works (5 seperate books) - Dale Russell
The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst.
Hot Graphics USA - Visual Reference Publications
O' Reilly HTML
O'Reilly PHP
The Arcane Eye of Burn Hogarth - Burne Hogarth
Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten
Symbolism of Architectural Form - Robert Venturi ( Its a good book if your going into ad design since it documents Vegas' classic billboards and such)

Magazines
Communication Arts
Graphis
HOW magazine
CMYK Magazine

More to come!

Webmonkey! For help with coding and many web tutorials.
FlashKit! A Site for flash developing resources ^__^

Some free alternatives to Photoshop:
GIMP
Pixia
Older, free version of Open Canvas

Found these in the Technical Art Resources thread in Art Discussion. I haven't actually tried out any of these, so I can't promise how good they are sweatdrop I hear that OC does have a networking ability, so you can draw with people across the internet, which could be fun xd

Worth 1000 has great tutorials from pros, as well as constant contests. I think some are worth money.... I go there for the tutorials and galleries of past winners, though. Some of the stuff is amazing.

Academic Superstore has HUGE discounts on technological stuff- programs and hardware.

Example:

I got Adobe Creative Suite Premium for $379. Suggested retail price is listed as $1229.00... is that a deal or what?
That's Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, GoLive CS, and Acrobat Professional.

DayDream Graphics has many good tutorials, mainly for those interested in web design. The site also has a few Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro tutorials, along with many inspirational designs.

Invisible watermark tutorial. 3nodding

Tutorial(warning, large image) - http://files.deviantart.com/f/2004/163/b/7/watermarking2.jpg

If the above doesn't work(click the download button which is an arrow pointing down) - http://www.deviantart.com/view/8023576/

"Taking Your Talent to the Web" by Jeffrey Zeldman. The best explaination I've seen on design as applied specifically to the web site medium. Also, pack full of resources, on-line and off.

"How to Start a H ome-Based Web Design Business" by Jim Smith. Thorough and easy to understand

I made up a list of tutorials/references for another forum, so I'll just post it here.
Sorry if some overlap with tutorials already posted. sweatdrop

Drawing:

Varied/Misc
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials
http://www.neondragonart.com/dp/
http://www.sumaleth.com/links/
http://www.makeshiftmiracle.com/Tutorials.html
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tutorials/

Figure Drawing
http://www2.evansville.edu/drawinglab/

Anime/Manga
http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial/tutorial.html
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm
http://www.bakaneko.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/community/demonology101/2003/01/19/
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stateofeuphoria/tutorials.htm

Computer Graphics

Colouring/Painting
http://www.neoterranean.com/art/tutorial/coloring.html
http://www.steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php
http://www1.linkclub.or.jp/~ooo/0/htm/eoc01.htm
http://div.dyndns.org/EK/tutorial/
http://www.studioqube.com/arkives1.php
http://www.portalgraphics.net/docs/cg_lecture/index.html
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stateofeuphoria/tutorials.htm
http://www.sumaleth.com/links/
http://clubph34r.com/cgpage1.html

Rendering

http://www.phong.com/
http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html

Theory

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=3148
http://www.maillist.com.tw/maillist/maillist_browse.cgi?maillist_id=yamyoukan <== in chinese

References
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx
http://www.picturequest.com/
http://www.projectnoir.com/gallery/model-sheets01.shtml
http://www.fineart.sk/