"[A logo] should look just as good in 15-foot letters on top of company headquarters as it does one sixteenth of an inch tall on company stationery."
-- Steven Gilliatt, Director of Design, Lippincott & Margulies, on making corporate name changes, quoted by Lisa Belkin, “How American Can Became Primerica,” New York Times, 8 Mar 1987.
AIGA Design Archives
The current annual is displayed on the main page. Click "Search" to find collections by volume/year, to search by design category, medium, region, client industry or by keyword.
Copyright and Multimedia Law for Webbuilders and Multimedia Authors
Links to general and media-specific copyright sites. Maintained by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa.
Copyright and Images @ 2Learn.ca
General guidelines from 2Learn.ca, a non-profit educational website created by, for, and with teachers, for students and teachers on identifying copyright statements and using images appropriately.
Best Brands of the World
Provides examples of world-famous brand logos. "The primary use of site is to enable designers to access vector-forms of the well-known brand-logos that they can use in their presentations, given the permission of the copyright owner."
Design and Publishing Center
Parent site of DT&G News, Photoshop 911, and home to a community of graphic designers. Provides guest interviews, seasonal design templates and general information on the business of graphic arts, photography, publishing, printing, and more.
Designer's Jumpola
Chuck Green maintains a large list of links--an attempt to create the designer's ultimate start page. He has categories with links for nearly every topic a designer could need. A good place to start. ©2007 Logic Arts Corporation.
Designer's Toolbox
Contains print, online, and legal tools for designers. There's a "lorem ipsum" (greeking) generator for laying out text on a page. Click "Design Resources" to get to the menu.
A Digital Dreamer
"Learn how to become a graphic designer. Read career articles, find graphic design schools, & discover Jobs. Also explore video game design, animation & photography. Get the information you need to become who you are meant to be!" Good career development resources.
Graphic Arts Bluebook
A guide to the commercial printing industry from Reed Business Information, this site provides industry rankings, print channels, resources, eGam newsletter, blogs, forums, and multimedia.
Graphic Comm Central
Virginia Tech's huge graphic communication resource is a virtual textbook, a resource for career information, and more.
Historic Illustrators
Links to illustrators and their works, compiled by a "global community of volunteer editors" for the Open Directory Project.
the ispot.com
Illustration, illustrators' portfolios, stock illustration--the "premier illustration Internet site" is great for inspiration.
SYMBOLS.com: An Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
"SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics." You can search by using the word index or the graphic index, where you specify characteristics of the symbol you want to find. The encyclopedia also includes histories, uses and meanings for many symbols.