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Masterpost I: DESIGN Resources* ⎯⎯ by Nicole*** of CMPSBLS

i get a lot of asks/messages about graphic design so heres a rec list!
 ***note: i am not a graphic designer so these are just recs!（○＾▽＾○） *- some sites may have products you have to pay for please look carefully!
 ⟡ - personal faves! || © - sources

GRAPHIC DESIGN:

is art with a purpose. It involves a creative and systematic plan to solve a problem or achieve certain objectives, with the use of images, symbols or even words. ©

how to speak designer: terms (v useful) (*´∇｀*)

TYPOGRAPHY

it is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. ©  

lets talk more about my bf typography ♥（ﾉ´∀`）

90% of design is typography (infographic)

IMITATION VS. INSPIRATION

as we go through these websites note that graphic designers work hard  but so pls take care of the artists (he)art please!

simply put: don’t plagiarize dont copy any art ever in the end you’re going to regret it. （；へ：）

DESIGN RULES GUIDELINES there are no rules in art be freE!

6 principles of design + principles of design!

20 design principles ⟡⟡  fav! the inforgraphic is so wOW!

10 commandments of design

effective visual communications ⟡

iOS cheat sheet dimensions + file formats

WEBSITES for inspiration/resources

BEHANCE ⟡⟡⟡ ⎯⎯ for layout ins/fonts

DRIBBLE ⟡ ⎯⎯ for inspiration

FROM UP NORTH ⎯⎯ for lettering/typography ins

THEDSGNBLOG ⟡ ⎯⎯ for everythigN

CREATIVEBLOQ ⎯⎯ for advice/articles!

CREATIVE MARKET ⟡ ⎯⎯ for resources/psds

PIXEL BUDDHA  ⎯⎯ for resources

ultimate list

go to places for inspo (i feel alive bc these r great!)

2500 resources omfg…i M ALIVE I am fiLLED with energy

TUMBLR BLOGS for advice/inspiration ++

@goodtypography

@behance

@studioblrcollective - art studyblrs!! lIEK?? omg so useful

TUMBLR POSTS of advice/info & everythign!

@educatier‘s graphic design mps! (all her mps tho!! A+++)

answers by @genspen! (one) (two)

masterposts abt graphic design by @rorystudies

FONTS how to use them & where to get them!

dafont ⎯⎯ rly easy to dl fonts here!

googlefonts ⎯⎯ another rly common site but NICE!

1001 fonts

freebiesbug ⎯⎯ also for icons/mockups!!! fav

behance ⎯⎯ i can depend my life on this sItE

fontsource

100 best free fonts

18 rules, another pin, top 5 rules

you need a font? (infographic)

COLORS & palettes /throws flowers everywhere/

coolors

computerhope

colourlovers

prettycolors

colordot

the art of color coordination (infographic)

color psychology

PICTURES free stock photos backgrounds & gradients!

free stock photos

 mp by pistachi-o , neonbikethemes

PLUS stuff fr Nicole

my design & art board on Pinterest

info abt my printables | my printables tag

this will be a good week because:

a friend went to a garden centre across the border yesterday and brought back plants that were cheaper there (i love europe)

i went to get flower pots for them today, then went to the park for coffee afterwards. the weather was amazing. we had to make a detour around the lake to avoid the angry swan family

a friend is back from a trip, so takeout tuesdays + movie nights are back on this week (she can go to the movies for free each tuesday so we split the price)

the! weather! is! nice!

It is, by nature, lonely. Most of your cohort are usually married or have pets or some sort of life outside school, which means that, unlike your undergrad, you might find it difficult to find people to hang out with after school hours. If you’re in a PhD program, this is even worse because everyone does their own thing, most of the time, and apparently year 3 and on is a little more lonely than before (because a lot of us don’t do classes after year 2). Summers, if you choose to stay on campus or your advisor asks you to, are a little lonelier than the academic school cycle as well.

Everyone has their own flow of creative academia, and you cannot be expected to reproduce what worked for other people. As my wonderful coordinator told me, looking me straight in the eyes, as he ignored the other students- Don’t try to reverse engineer the process, that’s not how it works

Time Management, What’s that? The first thing you will notice once you get into classes and research papers is that you no longer know how to manage your time. Years of conditioning has made you work extra hard for your classes and now all your professors are telling you that your classes don’t matter and that you should focus all you time on your research. BUT HOW. Well, that’s a question apparently no one quite knows how to handle. The apps help you keep track of things, but prioritization is an art that can apparently only be learnt through anxiety inducing breakdowns.

I aced all my papers and in-class presentations, and somehow everyone got the idea that I was a great academic, excellent GPA, super promising researcher. But no one had the faintest idea as to who I was. At the end of three years, all the MAs we took classes with had graduated and gone, and my only other PhD friend failed her quals and left. The wave of three new PhD admitted two years after me had their own thing by the time I’d passed my quals and began research, and there I was - completely by myself in our little department, researching away in a bubble.

Lonely? Yes. 

I don’t intend to make a sob-post here, whatever that means, but somehow this blog of mine has over 200 followers now and if any one of you is reading this: grad school does not have to be this way.

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