DESIGN PROCESS

Research
Gather all the data

Immerse yourself in details relating to the material

Brainstorm!

The Design Process

Thumbnail samples: thumbs.html
Mock-up samples: mock-ups.html
Site map samples: sitesketch.html
To do list: todo.html

Barb's Design Process Overview (pdf)

Brainstorming Techniques

How-Tos
MindTools
eSSORTMENT

Tutorial about Brainstorming

Brainstorming in Meetings

Links to articles about Brainstorming

Courses in Creativity, Edward DeBono

Brainstorming Exercise
What Color is Thursday?

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Subscribe to Before & After magazine in PDF format.

Design Information

Barb's Design Principles Cheatsheet (pdf)

Design Principles
and links to other design sites

The best design magazine
Before & After Magazine: full of tips and tricks for great design and software how-tos.

About.com
Always a good resource. Click to read info and follow links about graphic design. Including:
5 Design Disasters to avoid
Avoid creating amateurish design

Good sites to critique Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity
http://www.jamesyang.com/
http://counterspace.motivo.com/

Before & After
Marty's Pub: Before
Describe how the principles have been applied: After

B R E A K: Taking care of yourself!
http://www.mydailyyoga.com/yogaindex.html

TYPOGRAPHY

Where to buy typefaces

Links to cool type sites

Contrast examples

Robin's articles on type

Typography

List of type foundries on the web
Fonts and Foundries

Barb’s list of type-related sites
http://www.sonic.net/~ohbarb/fonts.html

Fun & informative type site
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/

Barb's Type Contrast Cheatsheet
contrast.html

Size & structure contrast
http://www.virtuallastchapter.com

R E S O U R C E S
For Your Typographic Information
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/

Fine Typography
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/FineTypography/

Robin Williams
Her personal site
(Are you a Shakespeare fan? Find out who Robin believes was the real Shakespeare)
An interview with Robin
Check out Robin's and John's books on Peachpit press

Web typography
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdtypo.htm