Resources
Ciao,
and welcome to this beautiful page filled with interesting stuff selected by Emmaboshi for you.
Books
Typography
- The Elements of Typographic Style (Gli elementi dello stile tipografico), Robert Bringhurst
- Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Caratteri, testo, gabbia. Guida critica alla progettazione grafica), Ellen Lupton
- A Type Primer, John Kane
- On web typography, Jason Santa Maria
- Just My Type (Sei proprio il mio typo. La vita segreta dei caratteri tipografici), Simon Garfield
- Typography Terms Cheat Sheet
Usability
- Don’t make me think (Don’t make me think. Un approccio di buon senso all’usabilità web e mobile), Steve Krug
- The Design of Everyday Things (La caffettiera del masochista. Il design degli oggetti quotidiani), Donald A. Norman
- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, Victor Papanek
Creativity
- Fantasia. Invenzione, creatività e immaginazione nelle comunicazioni visive, Bruno Munari
- Da cosa nasce cosa: Appunti per una metodologia progettuale, Bruno Munari
- Critica portatile al visual design, Riccardo Falcinelli, Einaudi
- Cromorama, Riccardo Falcinelli, Einaudi
- Design is a job, Mike Monteiro, A Book Apart
- Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
- How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) … make people laugh, make people cry, and…, Michael Bierut
Data visualisation
- The Atlas of Design, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4
Conferences
- Kerning, Faenza, Italy (kerning.it)
- Typo Talks, Berlin, Germany (typotalks.com/berlin)
Web
Inspiring websites
- fontsinuse.com
- typewolf.com
- typeroom.eu
- fontreviewjournal.com
- itsnicethat.com
- AIGA Eye on design
- Art of the title
Youtube channels
- Zimri Mayfield
- Sketch Together
- Marco Goran Romano
- Bardot Brushes
- Procreate
- iPad calligraphy
- The Future Academy
- Gal Shir
Fonts
Download free fonts
Buy quality fonts
- myfonts.com
- commercialtype.com
- frerejones.com
- colophon-foundry.org
- fontshop.com
- grillitype.com
- klim.co.nz
- a2-type.co.uk
- abcdinamo.com
- daltonmaag.com
- fontofthemonth.club
- c-a-s-t.com
- lettersfromsweden.se
- boldmonday.com
- underware.nl
- xyztype.com
- ludwigtype.de
- schick-toikka.com
- thedesignersfoundry.com
Free font list
Google fonts
- Work Sans
- IBM Plex (all families)
- Space Mono
- Libre Franklin
- Rubik
- Cormorant
- Fira Sans
- Eczar
- Alegreya Sans
- Alegreya
- Chivo
- Lora
- Source Sans Pro
- Source Serif Pro
- Roboto
- Roboto Slab
- BioRhyme
- Poppins
- Archivo (all)
- Libre Baskerville
- Playfair Display
- Karla
- Montserrat
- Proza Libre
- Spectral
- Domine
- Crimson
- Inknut
- PT Sans
- PT Serif
- Lato
- Cardo
- Neuton
- Open sans
- Inconsolata
- Cabin
- Raleway
- Arvo
- Merriweather
- Tangerine
- Dancing Script
- Bad Script
- Sacramento.
- Barlow Condensed
- Pathway Gothic One
- Fjalla One and Oswald.
- Abril Fatface
- Rozha One
- Ultra
- Zilla Slab
- Overpass
- Josefin
- Old Standard TT
- Gentium Basic
- Varela
- Rajdhani
- Bitter
- Nunito
Extra Google
- Peace Sans
- Marsek
- Bourbon
- Mosk
- Inter
- Nimitz
- Soulcraft
- Optician sans
- Morganite
- Understock
- Cast iron
- Aloja
- Space Grotesk
- Disclaimer
- New Transport
- Gilroy
- Public Sans (United States Web Design System)
- Titillium
Designers I look up to
- Paula Scher
- Bruno Munari
- Anthony Burrill
- Michael Bierut
- Matt Willey
- Alex Breuer
Software
- iA writer (text editor)
- Font Base (free font manager)
- Fontstand (font rental)
- What the font (helps identify fonts)
Designers Italia
Designers Italia è il punto di riferimento per il design della Pubblica Amministrazione: guide, strumenti e un forum per favorire la collaborazione e promuovere il ruolo dello human centered design nello sviluppo dei servizi pubblici.
Portfolios
Khoi Vinh, Principal Designer at Adobe in his Own Your Content interview:
Students often ask me about what kind of work to put in their portfolios and my answer is: what kind of work do you want to do?
What I look for is work that reflects a great personal passion, whether it’s for a certain kind of client or industry, or a certain kind of subject matter or even a certain kind of problem solving.
I’d be much more interested in a portfolio full of made up projects that are representative of exactly what a designer wants to do more than anything, than I would be in a portfolio of highly competent but passionless work executed by someone who’s not thrilled by any of it.
The passion is the difference maker.
Portfolio reviews and articles
- Portfolio Tips – Reviewing YOUR Design Work – Part 1 (Youtube)
- The Futur Academy
- 4 tips to Improve Your Design Portfolio
- Portfolio Submission Tips
- Does the perfect portfolio exist? Top creatives and studios offer their advice (It’s nice that)
- The First Five Years: What Should be in your Portfolio?
- Why We All Need a Personal Website – Plus Practical Tips for How to Build One
- Lecture in progress on portfolios
- Toolkit: How to showcase your projects
- What leading companies never want to see in your portfolio
Start your online portfolio
Why
- Why We All Need a Personal Website – Plus Practical Tips for How to Build One
- Why I Have a Website and You Should Too
Buy your domain
- Go Daddy
- Aruba
- I Want My Name
- Who Is JohnMalkovich.com? Get Your Domain Before It’s Gone | Squarespace Super Bowl 2017
Choose your domain name extensions
https://www.godaddy.com/garage/great-domains-for-creative-businesses/
- Photographer/videographer: .com, .net, .photography, .video, .photos, .camera, .digital, .graphics, .guru, .expert, .productions, .pictures, .services, .fail, .media, .style, .wedding
- Artist: .com, .net, .gallery, .guru, .graphics, .ink, .media,
- Writer: .com, .net, .ink, .guru, .media, .marketing, .press, .services, .tips, .wiki, .xyz
- Web designer (inc. graphics & games): .com, .net, .design, .graphics, .website, .guru, .agency, .digital, .services, .ninja, .technology, .tech
- Interior designer .com, .net, .design, .guru, .agency, .services, .house, .space, .tips, .wedding
- Fashion: .designer, .com, .net, .fashion, .clothing, .design, .style, .guru, .services, .tips, .wedding
- Musician: .com, .net, .guru, .band, .rocks, .productions, .academy, .wedding, .club, .zone
- Dancer: .com, .net, .dance, .guru, .productions, .academy, .wedding, .club
- Film/theater: .com, .net, .guru, .actor, .productions, .video, .academy, .camera, .digital, .graphics, .pictures, .agency, .services
Behance
- behance.net/nazariograziano
- behance.net/lottanieminen
- behance.net/AgneseTamburrini
- behance.net/alessandratranchina/resume
- behance.net/matildepescali/resume
- behance.net/AlessandroDadone/resume
- behance.net/Lauracasilli
- behance.net/alicecaldarella
Dribble portfolios
Cargo
($99/y or $13/m)
- cargocollective.com
- cargo.site
- cargo.site/Selections
- cargo.site/Templates
- cargocollective.com/giovannifrasconi
- cargocollective.com/noto
Issuu
- issuu.com/leandroagro1988/docs/portfolio
- issuu.com/andreavitti/docs/andrea_vitti_portfolio_2017
- issuu.com/francescabrighenti/docs/portfolio_francesca_brighenti
Wordpress
WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app. https://wordpress.org
Squarespace
132€/y or 15€/m
Wix
Dunked
Extremes
Online creative portfolio designed in Google Sheets https://itsjakub.com