Color in Motion
This incredible Flash-based website is "an interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism." It is educational, creative, and really fun and it was one of the winners in the 2004 Communications Arts Interactive Annual.
http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com
Articulation: Learning to Look at Art
The content of this website is wonderful (even if some of the image files are a little messed up). This website is a great place to do some research on the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design.
Principles of Graphic Design
This site, by Mundi Design Studios, has a neat and quick way to get an introduction to the principles of design. Topics include: color theory, composition and layout, perspective, and typograpy. Make sure you roll over everything, there is lots of information that is hidden!
http://www.mundidesign.com/presentation/index2F.html
Professor Jim Saw's Design and Composition Notes
Jim Saw is a design professor at Palomar College here in San Diego. At his website you will find "fundamental concepts for designing two-dimensional artwork. The theory is straight-forward and stripped to essentials."
http://daphne.palomar.edu/design/contents.html
ArtsConnectEd
ArtsConnectEd is a very cool website by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center. They have a huge collection of art to view, articles to read, online activities to play, audio and video samples to listen to and watch, etc. Make sure you really spend some time exploring to find eveything they have available.
Also, make sure to check out their "Artist's Toolkit" which will help you with some of the the Art Elements and Principles of Design.
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/
ArtLex Art Dictionary
ArtLex is an amazing "art dictionary" with over 3,600 terms and definitions and articles on everything art-related, such as famous artists and their works, art techniques, art movements, etc.
Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Study Art
This website explains art concepts in a way that's very easy to understand. It also has fun little activities like a drag and drop face proportion Java game. This website is a good place to start your research of the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design.
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/study.html
SenseBox
SenseBox is a comprehensive guide to graphic design schools. They have direct links to more than 290 visual communications programs in the US and more than 140 internationally. The website covers art schools, university programs, design institutes, online education, and other forms of graphic design instruction.
Lorem Ipsum
"Lorem Ipsum" are the first 2 words of the standard text that designers use when they are laying out a page. It is also called "dummy" or "placeholder" text. This site will generate this industry standard dummy text for you in lengths that you specify and includes a fascinating history of the text.
Digital Mastery: The Ultimate Guide to Photoshop 7.0
This is part of a site by Ben Willmore, the author of "Adobe Photoshop: Studio Techniques," the book that I am hoping to adopt as the official textbook for Imaging. On his site, he has a guided tour of Photoshop 7.0 and files that go along with his book. He also has a form you can fill out to subscribe to Ben's Photoshop Tip of the Week, an e-mail newsletter.
http://www.digitalmastery.com/7guide/index.html
Adobe Evangelists Photoshop Tips & Techniques
Julieanne Kost, Daniel Brown, and Tim Cole are "Adobe Evangelists." They work for Adobe, are power-users of Adobe's software programs, and their job is to pass that knowledge on to us! Their Photoshop section has lots of really cool tips, recommendations for books and magazines to read, actions you can download, and lots of inspirational websites you can look at.
http://www.adobeevangelists.com/photoshop/
Inspirational Websites
Maggie Taylor—Digital Artist
"This site gives you a glimpse of an evolving series of images made using a flatbed scanner in place of a traditional camera. This body of work is my attempt to create a dreamlike world inhabited by everyday objects which take on new meanings unique to each viewer."
Jerry Uelsmann—Digital Artist
"Vague, despite their sharpness and fine detail, and ambiguous despite our recognition of their constituent elements, his photographic montages are like dreams that slip past our perceptual defenses triggering a response but never quite revealing their meaning...Uelsmann's work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States and abroad over the past thirty years."
P.J. Saine—Digital Artist
"Photography has a rich tradition of revealing ‘the unseen’. As we view these images, our retinas are privy to a part of the body which is normally hidden. At the same time, this is art which is looking back at us."
http://www.pjsaine.com/FineArtPrints/PJSFineArt.html
MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The official site for the Museum of Modert Art in New York which includes a collection of architecture and design, drawings, film and video, painting and sculpture, photography, and print and illustrated books.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
An off-shoot of the Museum of Modert Art in New York.
The Getty Center, L.A.
The official site for the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The official site for the Museum of Modert Art in San Francisco.
The Louvre
The official site for the Louvre Museum in Paris.
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Please email me if you find other sites that are inspiring and/or useful.
