“I can’t imagine that a modern day pharmaceutical company would produce a book like this one. Although this was produced by Pentagram in 1971, the diagrams look as contemporary as any found today. A truly splendid book to lay your hands on if you can. This is one of the sad things about so many great books, they are in such rare supply. This book must be considered one of the definitive examples of diagram heaven.” (Thanks Heath!)

“Although some of the topics are universal to all fields of design, this book is designed for the graphic designer. It’s well-suited for students and emerging professionals as a
handy reference guide. It would be perfect for a freelance designer working on their own, providing them with information that will benefit their designs and business.”

“AIGA has published a series of brochures outlining the critical ethical and professional issues encountered by designers and their clients. The series, entitled “Design Business and Ethics,” examines the key concerns a designer faces in maintaining a successful practice and speaks directly to the protection of individual rights.

Authored by industry leaders from across the country, each brochure offers clear and concise information, as well as practical and specific directions for approaching design issues. “

“These pages are provided as an outline for [Marietta College’s] GRPH: 210 Typography. At right you will find links to the material covered each week throughout the course, as well as links to each weeks assignments, distributed via Adobe PDF files.” (Scroll down for a broad overview of typographic history and usage…)

“I’d like to think that any effort we put into learning something is because there was some level of awe and wonder when we first discovered it. Especially something we have enough interest in to develop a career, or an education, around it.”

“I’m a Photography Director based in New York City. While I don’t care if you know who I am or what magazine I work for, I would like to remain anonymous so I can keep my job and blog.”

“Michael Fallon presents the interesting idea that creativity–or at least the mandate for it–can create boredom, discontent, depression, and a lot of cruddy work. Agree? Disagree?” (Thanks fimoculous!)

“Covering Photography is a web-based archive and resource for the study of the relationship between the history of photography and book cover design. The images / book covers contained in our database may be accessed via a number of categories including by Photographer, Author, Publisher, Publication Date and Designer.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)

“As Dave outlined previously, running a Visual Thinking School (VTS) style event isn’t all that difficult, some supplies (pen & paper), a space and idea will go a long ways. That said, I’m sure some of you are thinking ‘Sounds great, but a party of one isn’t going to be very fun.’ …The reality is these events have grown through word of mouth using a few free tools online. In this post I’ll outline some of the tools I’ve made use of to help promote the events and hopefully help you connect with the visual thinkers amongst us.”

“I put together this list of my favorite figure drawing, sketching and anatomy books for fellow artists and student friends. You can download any and all of these books for free. I hope you’ll find them useful.”

“DrawIt is not your typical image-editor. It does not fill up your window with lots of pallets you don’t use but instead presents with just one simple and clean window. Nevertheless, DrawIt packs an impressive feature-list into this single window. DrawIt is layer-based, has a powerful vector-drawing tool, incredible support for masks and much, much more. Check the feature-list below to discover why DrawIt might be the tool you need.”

“Welcome to The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies… where tools of the trade that have died or have just about died a slow slow death are cheerfully exhibited. Due to severe government budget cuts to the arts, our little museum’s acquisition funds are frankly, well, bupkus. So, we welcome Drawgerers to submit images of any artistic tools, machinery, gadgets, etc. that they feel have bitten the dust.” (Thanks Chris Glass!)

“Bad Archaeology is the brainchild of a couple of archaeologists who are fed up with the distorted view of the past that passes for knowledge in popular culture. We are unhappy that books written by people with no understanding of real archaeology dominate the shelves at respectable bookstores. We do not appreciate news programmes that talk about ley lines (for example) as if they are real.

In short, we are Angry Archaeologists.”

“We at Strategic Name Development introduce to you the Seven Deadly Sins of Company Naming Changes, inspired by our proprietary Company Naming Changes research. We’ve covered major trends and pulled out the Greatest Hits, and we’d like to wrap up this undertaking with a few words of advice for what not to do.”