learning actionscript 3.0 : tips
many things changed since actionscript 2.0, learn more here:
http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:Learning_Tips
Archive for November, 2005
media art: studying in vienna
The university for applied arts vienna offers two studies focused on media and art:
http://www.digitalekunst.ac.at
pic from: http://pb.attacksyour.net/crowds/
A design link portal: distinct styles
a guide on graphic design at amazon
many books, quite useful
book on innovative animation
Animation Unlimited: Innovative Short Films Since
https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1856693465/
qid%3D1132568783/302-7408637-3462424
new book from IdN
Idn books are always quite fresh!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/9889706563/
ref=pd_ecc_rvi_f/202-0890407-3259023
online - learning: trainit
the online-learning platform of the johanneum university
topics:
2D Pixel2D Vector 3D Colors Illusions Imaging Interfaces Typography
http://trainit.fh-joanneum.at/
international:
some machinima links - filmmaking with games
platform for machinima film
archive.org tries to archive the internet. they also have a nice section on machinima and speedruns
http://www.archive.org/details/gamevideos
links on the history on graphic design
these links come via: http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/historyof-graphicdesign-arts.html
A Brief History of Type - It is difficult to cover all the developments and movements of typography in a short space. My separation of evolving technologies from the development of typefaces is an artificial one—designs and the technology used to create them are not truly separable—but perhaps it is conceptually useful.
ABC Typography - A virtual museum of Typography.
Book History - Time table of book design history
Deconstruction of Graphic Design - Since the surfacing of the term “deconstruction” in design journalism in the mid-1980s, the word has served to label architecture, graphic design, products, and fashion featuring chopped up, layered, and fragmented forms imbued with ambiguous futuristic overtones. This essay looks at the reception and use of deconstruction in the recent history of graphic design, where it has become the tag for yet another period style.
Design History Discussion List - Threads of the design history discussion list
The First Hundred Years of Printing in British North America: Printers and Collectors - This year marks the 350th anniversary of printing in what is now the United States. In the first century of that period the business of printing was in its infancy, confined to a handful of developing cities on the Atlantic seaboard and practiced by a small number of craftsmen. Even before the first century drew to a close in 1740, a historian, Thomas Prince, was attempting to collect the materials printed in the British colonies in North America.
Frank Granger’s “Printing’s Past” - Frank teaches printing technology and uses the history of printing as a teaching tool.
Graphic Arts - The Senate maintains a collection of over 900 historical prints and engravings. This collection contains a rich array of 19th and early 20th century images portraying the events, people, and settings of the U.S. Senate.
Graphic Design Archive Online - 20th Century Editorial Online Design Archive
Graphic Design Timeline: 1975-1995 - Important Dates in the Last 20 Years of Design
History of Books and Printing - Chronological History of Books and Printing
History of Graphic Design (1945-Present) - Graphic design is as old as civilization itself. The development of written languages, for example, entailed a lengthy process of graphic design, as scribes gradually agreed that certain symbols would represent specific words or sounds. Over the centuries, these symbols were refined, clarified, simplified, and standardized–generation after generation of anonymous design work.
History of Graphic Design - History of graphic design with Signs, Symbols and the orgins of Typography and The Graphic Revolution of the 19th Century
History of Graphic Design and Its Audience - To insist that, or to prescribe how, the history of graphic design need be taught in any particular way is to unnecessarily limit the field in both methodology and pedagogy. Since there is no consensus amongst historians of graphic design on what the history of graphic design is or what it should be, no scholar studying the subject should commit to any one way of researching, writing, and teaching.
History of Papermaking - The papermaking process has come a long way since 105 A.D. when Ts’ai Lun, a Chinese court official, invented paper. Paper as we know it today is what your are holding in your hand. In all likelihood, Ts’ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid, and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun. Thus began humanity’s greatest revolution in communications.
Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation - History and timeline of graphics and animation.
History of Graphic Design Powerpoint Presentations - Downloadable Powerpoint Presentations on the History of Graphic Design
Letterpress Printing in the 1960’s - A compilation of information ‘deciphered’ from my old note books whilst an apprentice letterpress machinist at The Melbourne School of Printing & Graphic Arts, plus numerous old trade journals and books collected or ‘borrowed’ from employers over many years. I have had to exclude some drawings and diagrams of press settings and adjustments etc, due to their poor quality, but hope to rectify that problem some time soon!
Reading Design - My stomach dropped the first time I opened a copy of Warren Chappell’s A Short History of the Printed Word.
The Infancy of Printing - In 1639, Bernard von Mallinckordt of Munster Cathedral first associated the term “Incunabula” with books. The study of books printed during the first fifty years of printing illuminates the birth of the craft and the transition from the manuscript tradition to the print tradition.
Timeline for Graphic Design History - Design history, basic research theory, and the opportunity to experiment are essential for students to develop. The pressures of the workplace do not allow this higher development to occur on the job.
The Contributions to The History of Graphic Design PDF (1927-1942) - A thesis paper I found on the web, it might be useful to those looking for more abou the history of graphic design
Ad Classix - Vintage ads offer a fascinating glimpse of history and represent the archival documents of our consumer driven society. If you own a vintage or show vehicle, a print of its original publicity advertisement is the finishing touch to your investment.
American Sign Museum - The American Sign Museum was founded to inform and educate the general public as well as business and special interest groups of the history of the sign industry and its significant contribution to commerce and the American landscape.
Dr. Leslie and The Composing Room - 1934 - 1942 - An Important Historical Time In The Development Of American Graphic Design … An MFA Thesis Project
Design Archive Online - Review twentieth century magazine design and photography with biographical profiles of designers. A project of the Rochester Institute of Technology, the image archives have limited access.
Fine Printing - Fine printing is a very broad subject, but my aim at this Web site is relatively modest: to bring together some basic information that may be of interest to those who are fascinated by beautiful books and their histories.
Follow The Sun Australian Travel Poster History - Archival History of Australian Travel Posters 19302-1950s
Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera - This is a virtual online gallery I’ve created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera.
History of Swiss Posters - The Swiss Poster Collection: 1970 to the Present
History of Postscript - PostScript now exists for almost 20 years. It has made a profound impact on the publishing industry and even today remains as important as it was when the first LaserWriter printer became available.
Italian Futurist Book - This is an online exhibition of Italian Futurist books, famous for their innovative uses of typography and graphic design, from the years 1909-1944.
Kunst - The print collection contains prints and other art on paper, i.e. drawings, engravings, woodcuts within and relating to the subjects addressed by the Library.
Library of Congress Print Collections - Collections of prints
Medicine and Madison Avenue - This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or “Madison Avenue,” as the latter is colloquially termed.
Media History Project - Promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels
Metal Type - Metal Type is the place for Printers and Typesetters who remember the old days of Letterpress Printing to come and reminisce.
NY Public Library - The New York Public Library encompasses a specialized reference collection of over 15,000 volumes on the history of prints and printmakers; artist clipping files; and a collection of close to 200,000 original prints
Old Ads - Old advertisements from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s
Posters American Style - At the present time, poster art is in a period of renaissance. Posters have come to be regarded as mysterious cultural objects, whose flatness and literalness only deepen their resonance, as well as inexhaustibly rich emblems of the society. . . . Posters have become one of the most ubiquitous kinds of cultural objects—prized partly because they are cheap, unpretentious, “popular” art
Posters American Style - View major posters from the last century. Learn about their design, printing and historical impact on culture. Includes audio. Collection by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Swiss Posters - Take a look through The Carnegie Mellon University’s Swiss Poster Collection exhibit
The Art of Poster - Contains 5000 images and descriptions of posters.
The Art of Persuasion - The history of American advertising in the early part of this century (and graphic design history more generally) is crucially in need of serious study. Only in the past fifteen years has this area of American history received any real scrutiny at all, and this has been scant.
University of Florida Rare Book Collections - The pages below are drawn from the holdings in the rare book section of the Dept. of Special Collections. They are to give you some idea as to what we have that can be used in the study of the history of typography and book design. The images of the printed material can be quite large; all sizes are given below the thumbnail.
World of Spectrum - The official world archive for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the largest on-line gaming center on the Internet
directors label: music videos by director DVDs
a collection of DVDs from the best directors of video clips. a lot of material behind the scenes and making ofs are also available
Anton Corbijn
Jonathan Glazer
Mark Romanek
Stephane Sednaoui
Spike Jonze
Chris Cunningham
Michel Gondry
the sequel to epic 2014
with an alternative ending!
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic
here is the old one:
http://mccd.udc.es/orihuela/epic/
also available in german now:
http://media.aperto.de/google_epic2015_de.html
political activism and grafitti
these liks come via: http://www.banksy.co.uk/links/index.html
www.freewayblogger.com - this one is a bit special
www.adbusters.org - not as good as the magazine but still worth it
www.woostercollective.com - street art site staffed by workaholics
www.davidshrigley.com - funny bloke
www.picturesofwalls.com - pictures of walls
www.space-invaders.com - recently managed to sticker the french president
www.popaganda.com - contains one really good picture of mickey mouse
www.artcrimes.com - the encyclopedia of world graffiti
www.stencilrevolution.com - for people who think stencils are a good thing
www.akayism.org - for the traffic island alone
the intersection of art, technology, science and culture
video, music, dance, performance, film and literature: thekitchen.org
- Low-fi art, or dirt style, distills the old from new media, casting a nostalgic and sometimes skeptical glance on the rapid obsolescence of new technologies. Take Paul Slocum’s dot matrix printer turned synthesizer, or Cory Arcangel’s hacked Nintendo cartridges: both pay homage to somewhat outdated technologies while, at the same time, breaking them down and de-mystifying them technically.
via: http://rhizome.org
meta RSS search engine
- Using KBCafe search is easy, simply enter a keyword in the input control and click on the Search button to find results. KBCafe search is a meta RSS search engine, that is, it queries many other search engines by using their RSS interface and presents the results from these search engines in one common interface. This allows the user to quickly view all the results of various search engines. You can also use KBCafe search to easily subscribe to results of the searches, so you can stay on top of your favorite subjects without having to remember to come back to KBCafe search.
showcase of what web can be: styleboost
- For four years, since January 2001, Styleboost has been about showcasing the most beautiful links on the web. Focusing on my own subjective experience and taste instead of trying to stay entirely objective has been an integral part of shaping Styleboost into what it is today. As a student and designer myself, I started the project with the intention of learning about good web design.
crisp graffiti sites
some link recommendations from mike orduna
http://www.123klan.com //very nice stickers
via: http://www.nervousroom.com/interrogation/012/main.php
pdf on art and visual perception
basic principles of graphic design
- 1 Alignment
- 2 Balance/Harmony
- 3 Contrast
- 4 Emphasis
- 5 Gestalt
- 6 Movement
- 7 Proportion
- 8 Proximity
- 9 Repetition
- 10 Rhythm
- 11 Unity
- 12 White Space
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Principles_of_Design_(Graphic_design)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_literacy
also interesting:
online learning: schule des sehens
this platform makes it possible to make several courses on art and the basics of perception online without being registered on an university
http://www.schule-des-sehens.de/
the topics are continously updated, for now, these topics are to choose:
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Einführung in die antike Mythologie (Katharina Krause, Lutz Heusinger) |
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Einführung in die politische Ikonographie (Martin Warnke) |
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Einführung in die Architektur der Renaissance und des Barock (Ulrich Fürst) |
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Einführung in die Filmanalyse (Heinz-Bernd Heller) |
article on social net - working
the site myspace.com hosts many band websites, read its history
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/
myspace.html?pg=1&topic=myspace&topic_set=
proportion: le corbusier: modulor
human proportion in architecture, as well as design use this modulor proportions
http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/kuehn/lec4.html
proportion: DIN formats
A4, A3 and so on, but where does this proportion come from? read more here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papierformat
kumawar - games, reality and war
Playable re-creations of real war events
released weeks after they occur.
Accurate missions developed in advanced
war game and distributed free
online.
a list of pdf mags
- Candy
- Bastard
- Beast — The Bible of Inspiration
- Meskalin Five
- Oragngeflow
- Paus Kruske — Tartart
- Phonk Magazine
- Büro am Meer
- NewWebPick — E-Zine *
- ekosystem *
- 72 quadratmeter
- Hassler
- Destructed
- Identify Questions
- Sceyelines
- Vektorika (warning: explicit graphics; for adults only!)
- Ladestation — Batterie
- Nomagazine