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Links to valuable sources of information from on-line Graphics and Design portals

Use these as a source of inspiration or examples of professional work for students to view. It will provide ideas for presentation and development of a variety of design solutions.

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• Design Museum - London An awesome site that has resources for education and professionals	• The IDE Virtual Design Museum Famous designers archives
• Design Council - UK The Design Council enhances prosperity and well-being in the UK by demonstrating and promoting the vital role of design in a modern economy	• Tributes to Famous Graphic Designers find out about world famous graphic designers, typographers, illustrators and artists and their work
• Better by Design NZ This directory is New Zealand’s primary site for design resources, and constitutes a practical guide to enable business and design service providers to connect and engage effectively. A key extension of the Better by Design programme, the Design Directory is a comprehensive listing of New Zealand's designers. Check out their great list of resources	• Architectural design - Great buildings This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. * Shayne Irving from Edgewater College has sent me this link to an architectural CAD application called "Sketchup". click on the word and download the application FREE!!
• Writing a Design Brief - A good resource for level three students undertaking the negotiated brief 3.1	• Brilliant designer to study Karim Rashid - check out this web site for awesome ideas
• Fantastic design site IDEO Design - check out this web site	• Better by Design UK Better by Design presents a uniquely revealing insight into the design process as Richard Seymour and Dick Powell take on six 'design challenges' to improve everyday products
• The wonderful Dyson designs - fantastic and inspirational • Check out this coooool Typography site	• Check out some really BAD designs. Why are they bad design? - A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.
• some new design sites, thanks to Shayne Irving http://www.design-engine.com/ http://www.cnac-gp.fr/education/ressources/ENS-starck/ENS-starck-texte.html#FauteuilJ http://www.cappellini.it/ http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/ http://designindustry.co.nz/index.html http://www.vitra.com/home/default.asp?lang=gb_en&stat=1 http://www.typography-1st.com/typo/txt-lay.htm http://www.marcprensky.com/default.asp • Some excellent design ideas from the Australian design awards • Smithsonian - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - Thanks Gillian Smillie	• Vectorworks web site http://www.archoncad.co.nz/ Some wonderful sites from Gillian Smillie http://www.designboom.com designers and lots of great stuff! http://www.coroflot.com designers portfolios, great for images and ideas http://www.designprize.net/index.htm packaging http://www.containerarchitecture.co.nz/index.html container architecture http://www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/ARTiculationFinal/MainPages/Reviews%20and%20Resourcesmain.htm good resources for design elements and principles (art bias) http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/design/exhibition/top.asp austalian top students portfolios, covering 4 technology areas.
• Brilliant new web site to check out provided by Katy Whelan, Timaru Girls .. Mundi design.com	• Here is a link to an Australian visual communication web site - Thanks Gillian Smillie, Kavanagh College, Dunedin
• New! Here is a comprehensive list of sites from Philip Mottram who is at the Corrospondence School. Awesome contribution. Be ready it goes forever Examples from Design Eras and Timelines. Here are some sites that give examples from specific design eras. Modernist timeline http://www.artsmia.org/modernism/ Great time line of the last 150 years of design. Lots of examples and links. A local perspective http://www.qdesign.co.nz/designhist.html A history of industrial design from a New Zealand viewpoint Design-technology http://www.design-technology.info/designers/default.htm A brief introduction to 20th century designers Image Library http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index2.html Huge international architectural image library Art Deco Posters http://www.postershow.com/art_deco_poster/poster_database.htm Examples or Art Deco Posters. Choose your examples carefully as some were produced before the recognised start of the Art Deco style. 1950's Fashion http://www.operagloves.com/Fashion/1950sFashion/50sfashions.html Lots of examples from the 1950's. This site may be blocked on some school networks. Computer Graphics http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/timeline.html The history of computer graphics. Search Engines Look here for links and tips for researching design. Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com Possibly more familiar as a web mail site, Yahoo does have a good directory system. At the bottom of their home page, find the Web Site Directory, go to Arts and Humanities. The Art History and Design Arts sections have good links to design eras and designers. Design Addict http://www.designaddict.com/design_index/ Brilliant search site - and stylish design! Infoplease http://www.infoplease.com Yet another search engine - let us know how useful you think it is. About.com http://www.about.com Great general reference site Design Analysis Look here for various articles on design Mundi design http://www.mundidesign.com/presentation/index2.html By far the best site we have found... John Lovett http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm A simple explanation of the elements and principles of design from an art perspective. Colour Theory http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html A simple explanation Artsconnected http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/ An interactive site, presentation aimed at young teens, but very clear explanations. New Zealand styles and designers Look here for local content! Design Guide http://www.agm.co.nz/index.html?category=30 This links page from Associated Group Media - publishers of most of the design magazines in New Zealand has lots of useful links, explore! Architects Architecturenz.net http://www.architecturenz.net The public face of the New Zealand Institute of Architects - has lots of current projects. Links to practice's web sites. Some of the larger practices are listed below. Craig, Craig and Moller http://www.ccm.co.nz Jasmax http://www.jasmax.co.nz Warren and Mahoney http://www.wam.co.nz Natinal Library Image Collection http://discover.natlib.govt.nz/view/object/coll/13 Here's a great group of images from the last 150 years! John Scott http://www.johnscott.net.nz The introduction to the site says it all..."Scott's work is bold, original and distinctly New Zealand. While the Futuna Chapel is his best known and most highly regarded work, there are many other magnificent buildings he has designed. A few of them are featured here" National Library Architecture Catalogue http://digital.natlib.govt.nz/support/discover/va8bib.htm Here's the link to the National Library Catalogue on Architecture. If you're in a secondary school, your school librarian may be able to get these on interloan, adult students - try your local library, full time students - try the TCS or your local library. Industrial and Product Designers Look here ......... Designers Institute of New Zealand http://www.dinz.org.nz DINZ represents a wide range of design professionals in New Zealand. Oblong Design http://www.oblong.co.nz Young, innovative designers, and stars of our video! Great article on design to dowmload pHd3 http://www.phd3.co.nz Formerly PeterHaythornwaitedesign (yes, one word), this is one of New Zealand's longest established practices. Custance design http://www.custance.co.nz Multi-disciplinary practice, specialising in architecture, interiors and producr design. Shape Design http://www.shapedesign.co.nz Wide range of projects, simple descriptions.	• New! Here is a comprehensive list of sites from Philip Mottram who is at the Corrospondence School. Awesome contribution. Be ready it goes forever Graphic and Media design Gardyne design http://www.gardynedesign.co.nz Small site, not much content, but brilliant design. Well worth a look. Styles Starting with Art Deco in Auckland... Art Deco Auckland http://www.artdeco.org.nz/ An interesting site... some interesting examples, but double check the references. Some of what is shown would not usually be classified as Art Deco. International Designers - Product and Industrial Links to well known and interesting designers. Raymond Lowey http://raymondloewy.com The father of Industrial design - great site Verner Panton http://www.vernerpanton.com For researchers of Scandanavian style - a Danish designer whose work spans 1955 - 1998. This site might take some time to download if you are on a dial-up connection. International Designers - Architecture and Environmental Links to well known architects and other designers Verner Panton http://www.vernerpanton.com For researchers of Scandanavian style - a Danish designer whose work spans 1955 - 1998. This site might take some time to download if you are on a dial-up connection. General architectural references http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/arc/os_websites/arcsourc4.htm General intrerest Great achievements, how this work and other stuff we haven't found a home for! Great Achievements http://www.greatachievements.org/ An engineer's view of human progress! Paper darts http://http://www.fantasmagoria.com/site_2002/main.html Paper darts – great fun!, clever site design Eco design Interested in ecologically friendly, low environmental impact design? - if so, start here. Powered living http://www.poweredliving.co.nz/index.html A commercial site selling design services. Great examples of low energy design. Ergonomics Examples and requirements of ergonomic design. Ergonomics4schools http://www.ergonomics4schools.com/index.htm Examples and requirements of ergonomic design. Typography A large subject, big enough for it's own folder. Definitely look in here if you're into Media Design. About half??? http://www.abouthalf.com/class_site/week1/type_terminology.html Typography terminology, text heavy, but clearly explained. About.com http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/basic/g/typography.htm Part of the large About.com site. Clear, lots of links, handy to have a pop-up blocker! Glossary of terms http://rbreed.com/design/typography/type-glossary.htm Another clear glossary Software Smart Draw http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/mechanical.asp?id=15514 This hasn't been tested - anybody interested? Design era http://dmoz.org/Arts/Art_History/Periods_and_Movements/ Useful information on lots of design era and styles. Tutorials for drawing in Microsoft Word. Most people think of Word as a word processing programme, but it has several drawing tools. These sites introduce you to using these tools. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_draw_a_diagram_with_Microsoft_Word James Madison University http://www.jmu.edu/computing/ittraining/tutorials/microsoft/powerpoint/lesson8.shtml Indiana University http://www.iupui.edu/~webtrain/tutorials/powerpoint2000_basics.html#drawing Electric Teacher http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorials.htm Work through section 4 - Drawing Tools. Internet4classrooms http://www.internet4classrooms.com/msword_toolbar_drawing.htm Basic information. Screen shots are from a Mac. Includes a little quiz. Northcanton http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~technology/Tutorials/Files/Microsoft_Word_Drawing_Tools.doc Detailed instructions - simple examples! Software tutorials Here are four sites that offer tutorials on Powerpoint - if you are familiar with Word or Publisher, you will find many common features. Powerpoint 1 http://www.actden.com/pp/ Powerpoint 2 http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/ppt/ Powerpoint 3 http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm Powerpoint 4 http://www.bcschools.net/staff/PowerPointHelp.htm Hey... here are some great links to info on 'one point perspective' - Thanks Gillian Smillie, Kavanagh College, Dunedin http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/index.html http://www.windsorpark.staffs.sch.uk/departments/dt/worksheets/bedroom.swf http://www.retromodern.com/ http://www.qdesign.co.nz/designhist.html