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Design

Welcome! This guide will help you find the best information sources for Design

Websites

Recommended Websites

General Discipline Focus

Arts General

Ars Electronica

IdeoU

Stanford d.school | Home

Stanford d.school | Starter Kit - Interactive Crash Course in Design Thinking

Stanford d.school | Resource library

 

Graphic Design

3x3, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration 

ABduzeedo

Eye on Design – AIGA Eye on Design

Computer Arts magazine | Creative Bloq

Art & Design Magazine for the Creative Industries | Creative Boom

Creative Review

Communication Arts (commarts.com)

Dieline

Eye Magazine

IDEA Magazine - international graphic art and typography (idea-mag.com)

Home - Layers Magazine

PRINT Magazine

Slanted Graphic Design Magazine

Interior

Azure Magazine

Designboom magazine: architecture, interior, product design

Dezeen | architecture and design magazine

Interior Design | Newsletter, Projects, Careers, eJournal + Resources

Wallpaper*: design, interiors, architecture, fashion, art

Product/Industrial

Core77 / Industrial Design Magazine + Resource

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Healthy Materials Lab | The next generation of materials

OpenIdeo

Textiles + Fashion

Fashion Trendsetter - Fashion Insights, Color Predictions, Trend Analysis and Fashion News.

Trendstop | Trend Forecast Consultancy for Fashion and Luxury Brands

Motion Graphics

Art of the Title

Motionographer® Unexpected Inspiration™

Typography

I love Typography (ILT)

Type Directors Club (tdc) 

Design Organisations

Arts Thread Homepage - ARTS THREAD

The American Institute of Graphic Arts

Global Association for Creative Advertising & Design Awards | D&AD (dandad.org)

Homepage - DCCI

Home | IDI Institute of Designers in Ireland 

Interaction Design Association

International Society of Typographic Designers

It's Nice That

Visual Artists Ireland | the representative body for visual artists

Creative Ireland - Connecting people, creativity and wellbeing

Tips for Evaluating Websites

How do you know if information you find on the Internet is reliable?

Take a minute to ask yourself the following questions.

Accuracy

• Is the information reliable and error-free?
• Is there an editor or someone who checks the information?

Authority

• What are the author’s qualifications for writing on this subject?

Coverage

• What are the topics included in the work?

Currency

• Is the content of the work up-to-date?
• Is the publication date clearly labelled?
• Broken links are one measure of an out-of-date page

Objectivity

• Is the information presented with a minimum of bias?
• To what extent is the information trying to sway the opinion of the audience?


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