Murray State Graphic Design Resources

FONTS

Barcode Font 
Baseline Fonts 
Chinese Fonts 
Comic Book Fonts
Dafont.com
Emigre 
Font Burner 
Fonthaus
Font Head 
Font Lab 
Font Squirrel
FontStruct 
Google Web Fonts
Google Fonts for Print
House Industries
ITC
Lettering.JS
Lost Type 
Mini Fonts 
Nice Web Type 
P-22
Stereo Type
Typography.com (Hoefler & Frere-Jones)
Typotheque.com
T.26
Type Workshop 
Typedia 
Underware
Veer
Wood Type

DESIGN FIRMS & AD AGENCIES

AdamsMorioka
Aesthetic Apparatus 
Anderson Thomas Design 
Anode 
Bailey Lauerman 
Big Active 
Blue Tractor 
Bozell 
Charmichael Lynch
Chiat Day Advertising
Corey McPherson Nash 
Coudal Partners 
Creativille 
Crookston Design 
Doe Anderson
Duffy & Partners
Marc English 
Fire Belly 
Frog Design 
Gerardot Design 
Heads of State 
Hillman Curtis 
iDesign
iostudio
Isle of Printing
Joey's Corner 
Latocki Team Creative
Lewis Communications
Lilla Rogers Agency 
Locomotion Creative 
MakeSpace 
MARC USA
McKinney
MindSalt 
Modern Dog 
Mono
Mucca Design 
Mule Design
Nocturnal Show Print 
Ogilvy & Mather 
One Heart Press 
Pentagram 
Philippe Becker Design Inc. 
Post Typography
The Rooster Group 
Rule 29
Salt Branding 
Simple Focus
Spin Web 
SpotCo 
Spur Design 
ST8MNT
Sterling Brands 
StrawberryFrog 
Tether 
Tuitive 
Turn Post 
Typographic Posters
VSA Partners 
Visible Theory 
Wieden+Kennedy
Willoughby Design 
Winterhouse 
Yee-Haw Industries 
Young & Laramore

DESIGNERS & ILLUSTRATORS

Gail Anderson 
Mirian Bantjes
Sasha Barr
Gary Baseman 
Kate Bingaman-Burt
Steve Brodner
David Carson 
Frank Chimero
Seymour Chwast
Louise Fili
Craig Frazier 
Milton Glaser
April Greiman 
Jessica Hische
Brad Holland 
Jason B. Jones
Kangaroo Press
Chip Kidd 
Mary Kate McDevitt
Clement Mok
Christoph Nieman 
Michael Osborne 
Paul Rand 
Stefan Sagmeister 
Paula Scher
Michael Schwab 
Erik Spiekermann 
Ralph Steadman 
Dana Tanamachi
von Glitschka

FLASH ANIMATION

Academy Award Winning Animation Shorts
BestFlashAnimationSite.com
Bitter Films
Billy Blob
Helvetica vs. Ariel
HomeStar Runner
Hoogerbrugge
JibJab
Level Vodka
Lodger
mtb02 Studios
Studio Nix
Typo Biggie 
What we Call the News 
Whitehouse animation 
Words at Play

WEB VIDEO

Cooper Black 
Coudal Video Wall 
Etched 
Hillman Curtis Films
Mark Romanek 
Movie Trailers 
Sony 
Web 2.0
World on Fire 
Ze Frank : A Show

PODCASTS

Design for the Real World 
Des!gn 
Design Matters 
InDesign Secrets 
Reflex Blue Show 
SVA Paul Rand Lecture Series 
TEDtalks (video) 
TypeRadio.org

FUN STUFF

Kern in Space 
Pac Man for Mac 
360 Degrees 
Rum andMonkey
Subservient Chicken
ni9e.com
Microsoft reDesigns iPod packaging

 

GRAPHIC DESIGN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

36 Point
Abduzeedo 
About Fonts
About GraphicDesign.com
Adland
AIGA Journal
A List Apart 
Behance 
Behance.net 
Biz Week Graphics
Brand New
Brand New Classroom 
Coudal Partners 
The Design Cubicle 
The DSGN Blog
Design Observer
Design Philosophy Papers 
Design:Related
Design Taxi
Design Writing Research
Design Feast 
Dexinger 
Dribbble
Font Feed
FPO (For Print Only) 
idgsn 
Little Big Details 
I love typography
Lovely Package 
Nice Fucking Graphics (spanish) 
The Pastry Box Project
QBN 
Quipsologies 
{SHCH} graphics journal (russian) 
Speak Up
Terminal
The Design Blog 
The Die Line 
Things I Have Learned in My Life so Far
Think Design 
Thinking for a Living 
Thinking With Type 
Thirty Conversations on Design 
Type for you.
TypeRadio 
UnBeige 
Undesign 
uppercase 
Web Page Design for Designers 
Word It 
Your Logo Is Not Hardcore

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

Graphic Design 5: Portfolio

Alumni 
Animation Story Boards 
Annual Report Project
Arts & Letters Daily
Color Suckr 
Color Theory 
copyright info 
lorem ipsum 
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Moby Dick (text) 
Murray State Branding Guidelines and logos 
Photoshop tutorials
Poetry.com 
Questions to expect on an interview (pdf)
Quotations 
Seek Logo
Shakespeare (full text) 
Symbols 
Tracing Exercises
Typography at Flickr
Eagle Gallery Logo eps 
Eagle Gallery Logo gif 
visual site map example (pdf) 
Web Design Class
Web Design Syllabus 
Web Design Workshop(text book website) 
DISH student design conference logo

Advising, Senior Show and BFA Paperwork

HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

AIGA Design Archives
Book Cover Archive
Colorado State Poster Archive
Cooper Hewitt, Design Museum 
The Design Encyclopedia 
The Design Museum (London) 
Design Related: Sites We Like 
The Graphic Imperative 
The History of Animation (UCLA)
The History of Graphic Design 
Smart History 
Swiss Poster 
Vintage Logos

COLOR RESOURCES

Color Explorer
Color Scheme Designer 
Colour Lovers
Kuler

STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

Age 
Alamy 
Can Stock Photography
Corbis
Comstock
Food Pix 
Fotosearch 
Getty Images
Iconica
Image Source 
iStockphoto.com 
Jupiter Images 
PhotoSpin 
Brand X
Photos.com
Photonica 
Photo Dictionary
MasterFile 
National Geographic
Queer Stock 
Shutterstock 
Stock.xchng (free)
Veer 
Wonder File

STOCK ILLUSTRATION

Illustration Works
Punch Stock
The I Spot 
Vector Stock

WEB INSPIRATION

Best About Pages 
Theme Forest 
UI Parade 
Creative Market 
Photoshop Etiquette 
The 960 Pixel Grid 
1140 CSS Grid 
Wirify

WEB TECHNOLOGY

A List Apart 
Axure HTML Prototyping
Balsamiq rapid wireframing 
Ben Fry
Bootstrap
Coda
CSS Zen Garden
The Elements of Typographic Style (Web) 
Espresso code editor 
Lemonade
Notable for writing on websites 
OmniGraffle diagramming and wireframing 
Place Kitten 
Slicy (PSD software)
Web Typography
World Wide Web Consortium

GRAPHIC DESIGN ORGANIZATIONS

AIGA 
AIGA Nashville 
AIGA Center for Cross Cultural Design 
Art Directors Club 
Designers' Salaries 
DISH student design conference 
Graphic Artists Guild 
LGDA (Louisville Graphic Designers Assoc.) 
NAPP (natl. assoc. of photoshop professionals) 
Icograda 
Type Directors Club 
University & College Designers Association

GRAPHIC DESIGN MAGAZINES

@Issue 
CMYK (student graphic design)
Communication Arts 
Design Issues 
Emigre 
GDUSA (free subscriptions) 
Graphis 
How 
Print 
Typo 
U&Lc

PRO BONO & VOLUNTEER

VolunteerMatch.org 
Ideas that Matter grant

JOBS SEARCH / FIND

37 Signals 
AIGA Design Jobs
Aquent 
artcareer.net
Artjob 
Authentic Jobs
Brand New Jobs List
Craig's list Louisville
Craig's list Nashville 
Craig's list St. Louis 
Craig's list Indianapolis 
Craig's list Chicago
Craig's list Atlanta 
Craig's list New York City 
Craig's list Los Angeles 
Craig's list San Francisco 
Creative Hotlist (Communication Arts) 
CreativeHub 
Creatives on Call 
HOW Job Bank 
Indeed
Jobs & Gigs 
Jobs in Advertising 
Krop
Print Magazine's Job List 
Talent Zoo 
Volunteer Match

GRADUATE SCHOOLS

Cranbrook
Creative Circus 
GradSchools.com 
Jim's Big List of Schools 
Portfolio Center 
RISD Rhode Island School of Design 
School of Visual Arts NYC 
SenseBox 
VCU Brand Center

PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

Adobe Software Education Discount 
Center for Practice Management
Cloud App file sharing
Designer Salaries 
Designers' Toolbox 
Function Fox
GoodBarry
Joomla! 
Little Ipsum lorem ipsum generator
Lynda.com 
Think Viatamin (web accessibility video) 
What does a website cost?

GRAPHIC DESIGN APPS

The Business of Design
Dexigner
Font Game
Graphic Design Museum
Kern Game
PhotoShop
Sketch Book Mobile
Think Ink
Tru Match
Typography Manual

PAPER

Athens Paper 
Envelope Mall 
Fox River 
French Paper 
Jam Paper 
Monadnock
Mohawk 
Neenah Paper 
The Paper Mill 
Paper Specs 
Stora Enso
Wausau Papers

PRINTERS

48 Hour Print
amp | advocate marketing & print (nashville) 
Custom Ink (t-shirts)
Hemlock (environmentally friendly)
JakPrints 
Jive Digital (Nashville) 
Lithographics (Nashville) 
McQuiddy Printing (Nashville)
Modern Postcard
Paducah Printing
Pinball Publishing 
Print Firm 
Printing for Less
Pro Digital Photos (slides from digital files)
PS Print
Threadless 
Vista Print (free business cards)
Williamson Printing 
Zebra Graphics (paducah)

ART SUPPLIES

Dick Blick 
Jerry's Artorama 
Plaza 
UI Stencils
Utrecht

CONFERENCES

AIGA National 2013 (Minneapolis)
AIGA National 2011 (Phoenix)
AIGA National 2009 (Memphis) 
An Event Apart (Web Designers) 
DISH student design conference 
HOW 
Retreats 4 Geeks
Think Tank (Nashville)
TypeCon (Typographers) 
Webstock

WEB HOSTING

Cargo Collective 
GoDaddy.com 
Hostica.com 
Host Gator 
Murray Electric
Square Space
SuperGreenHosting.com 
ThinkHost.com 
Weebly 
Wix

DESIGN AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The Designers Accord
Green Resource Guide
The Living Principles