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Web Links You’ll Find Valuable
Get Manufacturer’s information for your favorite software. Find shareware utilities. Look up a tutorial. Or download graphics for your next project. Here are links to many of the web’s best sites for graphics and marketing professionals. Tell ’em Eric sent you!
Software Vendors
- Adobe - Photoshop Photoshop is the image-editing software standard all others are measured by.
- Adobe - GoLive A worthy competitor to Macromedia’s Dreamweaver and an excellent web page design product. We use it.
- Adobe - Illustrator The best-selling illustration product in the business has tight integration with other Adobe products.
- Apple - Quicktime The higest-quality streaming media comes from this exciting technology, which just gets better.
- Macromedia - Flash The new leader in web-animation and multimedia software can do anything you can imagine!
- Macromedia - Freehand One of the top two illustration programs available today, with tons of web-enabling technology built-in.
- Macromedia - Dreamweaver The current standard for WYSIWYG page development and a great resource for training.
- Microsoft Like anyone doesn’t know where to find this company. You’re soaking in it!
- Quark Developers QuarkXpress and arguably the worst customer support in the industry. Lots of free extensions here.
Artist’s Toolbox
- Aladdin Software Makers of Stuffit and StuffitExpander compression utilities for online file transfers.
- Boxtop Software Makers of ProJPEG and PhotoGIF image compression plug-ins for Photoshop, these are the best!
- Casady & Greene Makers of Conflict Catcher, an essential utility for Macintosh OS-9 system maintenance. Sadly, C&G have gone out of business. We will miss them!
- Connectix Makers of Copy Agent, the essential file copying utility that should have been built into the Mac OS years ago.
- Extensis Long-time plug-in vendor has made extending the abilities of design software their mantra.
- Panic Makers of the best darn FTP utility available for Mac users: Transmit.
- Publicspace.net Makers of A Better Finder Rename, a great file renaming utility with Mac OS-X Finder integration.
Art Resources
- Artville Some of the coolest and most original illustrations available for editorial or commercial license-free use.
- Corbis Enormous resource for high-quality license-free imagery.
- Eyewire Huge collection of graphics, illustrations and fonts for all uses plus tips and technique stories.
- Fonts.com Agfa’s resource for all their licensed type libraries.
- ForDesigners Popular and hard-to-find typeface vendor with fonts from dozens of type houses.
- Gif.com Online art specialists with commercial-quality clip art.
- Icon Factory If you need an icon for your desktop, button or banner, these artists may have it.
- Image Bank The oldest licensed photography vendor in the US with some of the best commercial photographers.
- PhotoDisc Very high quality license-free photography for print and web.
Editorial Resources Online
- CreativePro Editorial arm of Extensis is geared towards the design professional with reviews and articles, plus giveaways!
- FlashPlanet Tutorials from expert Flash users.
- HTMLGoodies Tips and techniques for manhandling code from respected author of the book of the same name.
- WebDeveloper A large resource for budding web developers with areas on useability, scripting, theory and browser wars.
- WebMonkey Put a little Monkey in your day with these irreverent web development experts (part of the Wired web group)
- WebProNews.com Sign up for their weekly newsletter; has great articles on e-marketing, PR, search engine optimization, etc.
- Webtechniques.com Another source of web development techniques to help chill-out your web design work.
- DesktopPublishing.com A design resources site with a wealth of topics.
Editorial Resources Print
- Communication Arts Widely considered to be the foremost authority on photography, illustration, design and advertising.
- Graphis Quarterly publication displays the most acclained international design and advertising.
- HOW The magazine for graphic designers tells you how the experts do their best work.
- Print Specializes in promoting the highest quality design in print media.
- Step-By-Step Graphics Tutorial-of-the-month magazine has techniques by the pros.
Industry Groups and Organizations
- AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) One of the founding protective bodies for the graphics professional.
- Art Directors Club ADC in New York City has annual competitions which feature some of the world’s best ads.
- Graphic Artists Guild Their yearly Pricing And Ethical Guidelines book is the industry bible.
- Society of Illustrators Specializing in promoting the works of prominent and upcoming artists.
Job Sources
- CreativeHotlist Design specialty jobs and community forum.
- e-talent agency High-tech-oriented company serving New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
- Craigslist.org Surprisingly valuable community site started in San Francisco, now national.
- Thingamajob.com Best with IT, but has some creative jobs on occasion.
- Guru.com Specializing in placing freelancers into production positions.
- Jobs.com More on the business side, but with hundreds of thousands of listings.
- Monster.com The big daddy of online job boards.
- MacDirectory Jobs Search their jobs database and access thousands of Macintosh jobs. This service is free and updated daily.
- Careerbuilder.com Los Angeles Times-owned classified system has occassional design listings
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