Designing Logo Tips

http://designshack.net/articles/inspiration/10-tips-for-designing-logos-that-dont-suck/

This website has some helpful tips for designing logos, which could help with our current project.

Farmers Markets

This website has some pretty cool farmers market promos from around the world.

StockLogos

http://stocklogos.com/

Ithaca Farmers Market

http://amrys.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/ithaca-farmers-market/

Graffiti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-Do30-P8A

Sick Paintings

http://dailyartcocktail.com/beautiful-drawings-of-girls/

Two Lighter Fun

http://oddetorium.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-can-be-done-with-two-lighters.html

Snowboarding Rocks

For all  you shredders out there

http://thedeseretkid.com

Stories behind a logo

http://www.fastcompany.com/3017840/dialed/why-great-logo-design-is-only-as-good-as-the-story-behind-it

coloring

http://www.printmag.com/color/

This site gives tips on coloring your work.

understanding light and shadow

This is an website of clips of Light and Shadow use.


http://philipbloom.net/2013/07/19/a-documentary-about-the-art-of-lighting-light-shadow/

helping tutorial on light and shawdow tecniques

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msWv0Tp9L1E

Understanding abstract art

http://www.artsicle.com/blog/understanding-abstract-art

http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/01/17/10-habits-to-help-you-master-graphic-design/

Contour

http://www.pinterest.com/eastozdesign/art-sketches-contour-drawings-with-pencil-pen-and-/

Personally, I had some struggles when it came to doing the contour line drawing of my fruit. I found these great examples on Pinterest that really helped me see how I could make mine work better.

HOW Design Live Conference

If this conference wasn't during finals week, I definitely would have gone to it.

http://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/74927/149480/?&

Top 5 Apps for Artists

If you are ever bored and looking for something to do, this website lists the top 5 apps for artists. I have not tried any yet, but they are definitely worth taking a look at.

 http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/illustration/5-best-drawing-painting-ipad-apps/ 

How to Use Instagram to Showcase your Design.

It's all about social media. Instagram is as much as a professional networking tool as it is an image sharing app. Graphic designers have turned to Instagram as a outlet for showcasing their designs someplace other than the web, with a audience on a much bigger and larger scale than online portfolio websites. This article has really come in handy for all my seniors leaving this place come next spring. I think it's a truly helpful read.

http://www.thedesignrange.com/2013/07/23/how-to-use-instagram-to-showcase-your-designs/

A Magical Land called Behance.net

Behance is one of the greatest resources any wanna-be graphic design professional has at his or her fingertips. Anyone who wants to be creative has access to be inspired by thousands of online portfolios. Behance is an online platform and community that is integrated that serves as a santucary for artists and designers to showcase their professional work for potential clients and simply for the creative world to see. 

Welcome to your second home:

http://www.behance.net

Famous graphic design quotes

These are some interesting inspirational quotes by graphic designers in this article.

http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/09/16/10-famous-design-quotes/

One of them is, “It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.”
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                 — Paula Scher

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/pro-guide-logo-design-21221

Need help with Pictograms?

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/08/100-ideas-that-changed-graphic-design/

100 designs that changed the game.. Really cool animal hand pics at bottom of the.page

Grass tutorial

Awesome tutorial to make grass!
http://vimeo.com/78183651

Skintones!!!!

As an artist who uses photoshop as a medium for drawings and artwork skintones has always been a problem for me. I'm so glad I found out about pantone (awesome stuff) and they have a whole swatch set of skintones!

http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone.aspx?pg=21046

blog

http://www.dexigner.com
This design blog is really interesting. I has many good ideas and inspiration.

Art Movements

This is a neat little website that shows a bunch of examples of art style and techniques!

http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/art_movements.htm

Spot vs. Process Color Recognizing the Differences

TaTake some time on the Pantone Site :)

Behance

This website is a way for artists to showcase and discover creative work.

http://www.behance.net

Useful Tips

Featured artists from this website give advice on how to improve color and composition, produce better inked work and smarter digital techniques. It gives a brief description of each, and even tells one how to come up with better concepts to help create your next artwork. 

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/illustration/illustration-tips-ink-scanning-cleaning-up/

Styles of Art

I thought that this was a really cool way to look at the different styles of art. Although it doesn't include all the ones we have to use for our roughs, it was nice it see one idea in so many different ways.

Visuals

To get a better idea of what exactly constitutes the different visuals and how they should be represented I found a simple collage of the different expressions within drawing a piece of fruit. I'm a visual learner so this helped me to familiarize myself with these concepts fairly quickly.

Skin

I recently logged onto Mohawk's website to get a taste of what big art projects their paper was used for and how successful it printed. Mark Mcarty's Skin is the perfect candidate. The exhibit was called Skin: Mark McCarty Photographs, and was at the Opalka Gallery of the Sage Colleges in Albany, New York from October 30 to December 11, 2011. The images were meant to be seen at least life-size, exposing every unique imperfection, pore, scar and follicle of the subject. The final production was printed by Benchemark Printing in Schenectady on Mohawk Navajo, an "Inxwell" paper described as a "super-bright, super-smooth surface that allows super-detailed photo reproduction." 

The Logo Design Process

        Designing a logo is a long process as we all know, this article shows the process from start to finish.

                      http://justcreative.com/2009/02/04/the-logo-design-process-from-start-to-finish/

Nonobjective Art

                                            Here is a few example of non-objective art.