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Courseware

ArchiStar Academy

ArchiStar Academy has world class software and training for architects, engineers and universities students.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Design Technology
Resource Type:: Courseware

Others

Data visualisation.ch

Datavisualization.ch is a resource for data visualization and infographics. You'll find articles about events, tools, datasets, and showcases.

Course related:: LSGI2B01 Map Reading and Interpretation and SD1105 Digital Literacy for Designers
Subjects:: Visualisation, Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and Computing
Keywords:: Information visualization
Resource Type:: Others

Others

Behance, part of the Adobe family, is the leading online platform to showcase & discover creative work. Creative people around the world join Behance, entering a community made with their original work and creative process in mind. Here, users showcase their work in the form of profiles comprised of Projects. A Project is a grouping of images, videos, and other digital content with a related theme or process. Every project has a unique URL that can be shared across the web, as well as a View and Appreciation counter so you can track how many people have seen your project and given you kudos on a job well done. Here is an example of a Project created by the Behance Design Team. Behance members can Follow your profile and you can, in turn, follow other users. When you Follow someone, their updates (projects they’ve uploaded, Appreciated, or Added to a Moodboard) appear in your For You feed.The For You feed is the home screen for signed-in Behance creatives. As you follow more profiles, you'll start to see more projects appear in your feed. To view a Project that appears in your For You feed, simply click the Project Cover and the full contents of the project will open for you to view. In your feed, you may start to notice projects that have a small badge in the corner of the Project Cover. Those projects have been Featured. Our team of curators search for the best creative work on Behance and showcases them using Curated Galleries

Course related:: SD1103 Communication Basics for Designers
Keywords:: Art design Design Graphic arts
Resource Type:: Others

Others

Coolors

Coolors is the most loved color palettes app and website that inspires 1M+ creatives every day!Using Coolors, you can: (1) create your color schemes with the super-fast generator. (2) organize them in handy projects and collections. (3) export as image or PDF, or just copy and share the link (4) pick colors from your best photos with ease (5) choose by several layouts and create beautiful collages with photos and palettes (6) explore thousands of ready-made palettes to inspire your work

Keywords:: Color
Resource Type:: Others

Video

PiXimperfect Youtube Channel

PiXimperfect, hosted by Unmesh Dinda, is a free resource for learning Photoshop and Lightroom. We believe in learning the concept, rather than learning the steps so that you can translate "your" imagination visually to the world. This will make you a better decision-maker, rather than letting others make decisions for you. Since every situation is different and the definition of "beauty" is subjective, it is essential that you master the approach, and then the steps will automatically follow. Our motto is "Keep Creating." We always say to our students: "Don't worry so much about the quality, because time will improve it. Don't spend so much time getting things pixel-perfect, so that you end up not finishing it. Just 'Keep Creating,' and your consistency will take care of the rest."

Course related:: SD2862 Advertising Photography
Subjects:: Photography
Keywords:: Photography -- Digital techniques Adobe Photoshop lightroom Adobe Photoshop
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals

This textbook -- written by a group of select experts with a focus on different aspects of the design process, from creation to production -- addresses the many steps of creating and then producing physical, printed, or other imaged products that people interact with on a daily basis. It covers the concept that, while most modern graphic design is created on computers using design software, the ideas and concepts don't stay on the computer. The ideas need to be completed in the computer software, then progress to an imaging (traditionally referred to as printing) process. Keywords are highlighted throughout and summarized in a Glossary at the end of the book, and each chapter includes exercises and suggested readings.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media and Computing
Keywords:: Graphic arts Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

Introduction to Design Equity

Why do affluent, liberal, and design-rich cities like Minneapolis have some of the biggest racial disparities in the country? How can designers help to create more equitable communities? Introduction to Design Equity, an open access book for students and professionals, maps design processes and products against equity research to highlight the pitfalls and potentials of design as a tool for building social justice.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Social justice in art Design -- Social aspects Textbooks Equality
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

Child, Family, and Community

Over the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis, from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model, Family Systems, Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Psychological Perspectives.