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ESC IMIM M1 & M2

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24/10/2009 13:30:49
http://issuu.com/michaelejahn/docs/master_colors_article_9__final
18/10/2009 20:36:57
http://pa.photoshelter.com/learn

20/09/2009 22:22:48
8 façons simples d’améliorer la typographie dans vos designs
Par Antonio Carusone
http://www.pompage.net/pompe/ameliorer_typographie
sur le même site :
Contraste et sens
Par Andy Rutledge
http://www.pompage.net/pompe/contraste-et-sens/


17/07/2009 01:31:38
Explaining what and why to avoid basic mistakes when it comes to designing a logo >
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/25/10-common-mistakes-in-logo-design/

09/07/2009 19:01:17





29/05/2009 23:13:28
A very fascinating website showing the works of an image company from Barcelona (FX orientated)
http://www.dvein.com/

25/05/2009 09:58:33
"Before and after" post production in Photoshop I suppose by Ben HEINE on Flickr


http://www.chilloutzone.to/video/krieg-der-buchstaben.html

A typographic animation. The objects are made of extruded letters... avery good ad — you only discover the message a the end…
Une animation montrant une sorte de jeu de guerre avec des objets-typos au message dévoilé à la fin — pub bien envoyée !

10/05/2009
A very talented graphic artist using Illustrator and Photoshop I guess. Very good mix of art, design and advertising…
http://www.marasmalley.com/

27/04/2009
A very catchy website in terms of modern interface
Really worth seeing!
Go on,... click! >
http://www.freedominteractivedesign.com/


27/04/2009
Rectification sujet et date de rendu pour M1
24/04/2009
Some tutorials about stylesheets and page numbering in InDesign >
http://cgstudents.net/specific/indd/

An interesting series of tutos (text & pix) in english [Thanks Guillaume!] >
http://vector.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/illustration/

19/03/2009
Your finished assignement publications (I will upload them little by little)
(tell me by mail if you don't feel like seing it here)


19/03/2009
An example of an elaborate visual presentation >>> Go full screen and use the little arrows of your keybard


16/03/2009
A series of tutorials on Illustrator in English for exemple : how to use pathfinders (bolean operations in 2-D)
http://seaserpentdesign.blogspot.com/2008/10/vector-drawing-using-adobe-illustrators.html

01/03/2009

Vector Image Portal >
http://www.webchantier.com/

An american website










"HOW magazine’s goal is to help designers, whether they work for a design firm, for an in-house design department or for themselves, run successful, creative, profitable studios. >
http://www.howdesign.com/tips/

A series of vector files (Adobe Illustrator) here >
http://qvectors.com/vector-icons/ecology-vector-4/









27/02/2009
Ten free online tools every designer should know :
http://www.creativepro.com/article/ten-free-online-tools-every-designer-should-know

A very good color illustrated book about Illustrator >





















A very good color illustrated book about Photoshop "Photoshop WOW! Book" >
http://www.design-bookshelf.com/Photoshop/WOW/index.html

























26/02/2009










one good case managed by the FBI
















09/12/2008:
For the main glyphs (special caracters in french >
http://lucma.free.fr/pages/COURS/INDD/caractere_speciaux.pdf
For the main glyphs (special caracters in english wait a little I have to find them first ;-)>


07/12/2008 :
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
http://designarchives.aiga.org/
Why Design? (pdf)






















30/11/2008 :
I have cancelled the dead line for the work I expected from the M2 [planned for the second of dec. (we shall see that during our last lecture on the 8th of dec.) It was landing in the middle of nowhere in my planning and the students seemed puzzled apparently.]

But here is an interesting statement of intent about Design and life and business
What is Design and why is it important? >
What is Design
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design is)


18/11/2008 :

• IN DESIGN TUTORIAL #02 about Style-Sheets (Feuilles de Style)
one video tutorial in 4 parts (5 minutes each, in french), avalaible >

http://cgstudents.net/specific/ESC/exercices_base/10-STYLESHEETS_FOR_CV/

Following the lecture of the 5th of November and explaining how to manage easily the typesetting of your elements like title, subtitle, captions, bodytext, etc. with the help of style sheets.


13/11/2008 :
A blog explaning Adobe Illustrator basic techniques with tutos in English.
http://www.vectordiary.com/tutorials/

12/11/2008 :
• IN DESIGN TUTORIAL #01
one video tutorial in 5 parts (5 minutes each in english), avalaible >

http://cgstudents.net/specific/ESC/exercices_base/08%20-%2010_busi_cards_in_adobe_INDESIGN/
Following the lecture of the 10th of November and explaining how to create easily 10 different business cards with the help of master pages.

• UNITS
What does a pica unit mean ? (abbreviated "p")
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Pica-(unit-of-measure)
What does a point mean ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)
To make it short :
1 pica = 1/ 6 inch (British/American inch of today) = 4.233 mm.
1 point = 1/ 12 pica = 1⁄72 inch = 127⁄360 mm = 0.3527 mm.

• FONT CHOICE
DaFont for finding fonts or styles of fonts (Official in english) >
http://www.dafont.com/
some of them are free for personal use like >
http://www.dafont.com/pixelyourlife.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/capture-it.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/kawoszeh.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/marcelle.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/geo-sans-light.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/joehand-2.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/fff-tusj.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/hand-of-sean.font http://www.dafont.com/fr/digital-7.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/famous-logos.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/urban-sketch.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/ruritania.font
http://www.dafont.com/fr/riesling.font

More free fonts
http://www.2200freefonts.com/
http://www.pcfonts.com/index.php

05/11/2008 :
An interesting site showing the press books of graphic people (Graphisme | Design | Web | Motion design | sound design | Architecture | Photographie | Illustration | Image 3D) >
http://www.creabook.com/

I have added a section about InDesign on the forum >
http://cgstudents.forum-actif.net/the-basics-indd-f9/

26/10/2008 :
How to create an album of your work online from a pdf file which you can generate from Illustrator (or best, with InDesign because it easily contains several pages) >
http://issuu.com
or >
http://en.calameo.com/


Links to :
John MAEDA's work >
http://www.maedastudio.com/index.php?category=all
for instance >
http://www.maedastudio.com/1997/cal1/index.php?category=type&next=1997/cal2&prev=1997/imda&this=orbit_calendar
David CARSON, the father of "The end of print"... : some example of his typographic work >
http://www.typogabor.com/David_Carson/index.html
Some interviews of this master of type >
http://www.ilovedesign.com/fr/exclusives/?interview=247












• Some nice wall papers like this one created by CARSON (but bigger)





















• April GREIMAN a very innovative experimental way of communicating, have a look at her official website >
http://www.madeinspace.la/
• A website showing many examples of contemporary graphic design
http://www.ilovedesign.com/uk/gallery/



02/10/2008 (2):
The website where you can find a lot of ressources
as seen during my lectures,
to understand and practice graphic communication

is now opened...Help yourself! >
http://cgstudents.net/orientation-platform.html


If you want access to some exercices and video tutorials in english (.swf), go there and try to spot the ones which are the heaviest: they should correspond to the video-tutorials>
http://cgstudents.net/specific/ESC/exercices%20base
BUT keep in mind some are pretty heavy more or less 50 Mb

02/10/2008 (1) :
Cindy, an ex-student of mine is working at the moment in SeymourPowell - London (a well established design agency) Their website is worth the detour... very catchy I think >
http://www.seymourpowell.com/


30/09/2008:
Just created a section about interesting stuff for IMIM students of the ESC called "SPECIFIQUE ESC - ESC SPECIFIC" in the "links" tab. Not a lot yet but you can also refer to the existing sections about Adobe Illustrator etc...


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On another blog you can find interesting articles by Katrina Panchout, IMiM Programme Director, about what's going on on our little planet and more, have a look there >
http://imim-lille.blogspot.com/
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