Bauhaus

Let's start from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus

and continue with the following:

Anni Albers Josef Albers Herbert Bayer Max Bill Marianne Brandt Marcel Breuer Avgust Černigoj Christian Dell Werner Drewes Lyonel Feininger Naum Gabo Ludwig Hilberseimer Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Johannes Itten Wassily Kandinsky Paul Klee Otto Lindig Gerhard Marcks László Moholy-Nagy Piet Mondrian Oskar Schlemmer Lothar Schreyer Joost Schmidt Naum Slutzky Gunta Stölzl And a must read, free online: Dot and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky: https://archive.org/details/pointlinetoplane00kand

Icons - Free Stuff - Posters - etc.

Nasty Icons
http://nastyicons.com
to download...

free: Retro Vectors + Tutorial
http://retrovectors.com

Logo Builder
http://www.inkydeals.com/deal/logozilla-2/?ap_id=216216

Logo Remix:
http://logoremix.tumblr.com

Inky free [I did not check it out]
https://www.facebook.com/InkyDeals?v=app_360966883957762&app_data=entry_id%3D48060950%26gaReferrerOverride%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.facebook.com%252F


Inky Deals: The Super Premium Infographics Bundle with an Extended Royalty License:
http://www.inkydeals.com/deal/the-super-premium-infographics-set-2/?ap_id=216216

COLOR TRENDS
https://www.pinterest.com/sorchaleanai/colour-trends/

Free Vector Files:
http://webmaster-deals.com/free-deals/

Over ### for Webdesigners:
http://webmaster-deals.com/?utm_source=Facebook

The Top 25 Cosmetic Brand Logos
http://stocklogos.com/topic/top-25-cosmetic-brand-logos

Famous Company Logos
http://stocklogos.com/topic/famous-company-logos-non-matching-products

Why Do Canadian Municipality Logos Suck?
http://stocklogos.com/topic/why-do-canadian-municipality-logos-suck

The Power of Archetypes in Design and Branding
http://www.graphics.com/article/power-archetypes-design-and-branding
and
http://stocklogos.com/topic/archetypes-branding

Drawing Logo Design Inspiration from Heraldry
http://stocklogos.com/topic/drawing-logo-design-inspiration-heraldry

Hand-lettered Country Identities:
http://stocklogos.com/topic/hand-lettered-country-identities

Mateusz Witczak: handlettered logotypes
http://stocklogos.com/topic/beautiful-handlettered-logotypes-mateusz-witczak

When Pokemon meets NBA Logos:
http://stocklogos.com/topic/when-pokémon-meets-nba-logos

Snag 145 new free 3D plant models from Xfrog:
http://xfrog.com/category/samples.html

40 Posters to Celebrate Paris:
http://www.graphics.com/article/40-posters-celebrating-paris

Design Fundamentals: Mixing Typefaces Effectively
http://www.graphics.com/article/design-fundamentals-mixing-typefaces-effectively

Game of Thrones house logos redesigned:
http://stocklogos.com/topic/game-thrones-house-logos-redesigned

Designer Pens down 25 things to remember
http://stocklogos.com/topic/designer-pens-down-25-things-remember

When Space Agency Logos Collide
http://stocklogos.com/topic/when-space-agency-logos-collide

The Academy Awards / Oscars reveals new logo
http://stocklogos.com/topic/academy-awards-oscars-reveals-new-logo

Unity _ Game Development:
http://unity3d.com/unity/
free basic download:
http://unity3d.com/unity/download

glyphr Studio: free html5 based font editor
http://www.glyphrstudio.com

Designing Patterns for Decoration, Fashion and Graphics:
http://www.graphics.com/article/designing-patterns-decoration-fashion-and-graphics

In Search of Design Inspiration
http://stocklogos.com/topic/search-design-inspiration


Interesting sites:

250+ free books from the Getty Museum:
http://stocklogos.com/topic/250-free-art-books-getty-museum



RSQ
http://rsq.com

Edgy Cute: Disney Poison
http://www.graphics.com/article-old/edgycute-disney-poison

Design Thinking....

What does a Graphic Designer Do? The Industry Revealed
https://www.udemy.com/blog/what-does-a-graphic-designer-do-2/


Six Thinking Hats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats

Exercise:
Choose a Course and explain why.

Mood Board & JOBS

Gain Efficiency with Mood Boards by Joel Steidl:

http://atendesigngroup.com/blog/gain-efficiency-mood-boards

An article from Creative Bloq.com: 

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/mood-boards-812470

AIGA DESIGN JOBS

http://designjobs.aiga.org

1. mood board

   Web definitions

   1. A mood board is a type of collage that may consist of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition of the choice of the mood board creator. Designers and others use mood boards to develop their design concepts and to communicate to other members of the design team.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_board 

Where Design is Going, and How to Be There

http://www.aiga.org/where-design-is-going-and-how-to-be-there/

by Cheryl Heller.

Portfolios

39 brilliant design portfolios to inspire you
from Creative Bloq

Font of the Day

Movies

At times students ask me for English movies. I will upload here the ones I have watched. Before watching, please click on the title and read the review on Rotten Tomatoes:

some funny comedies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHkcYCRjr2Y

Nowhere to land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udk2XpNyxLI

Last Man Standing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3pZzaLP8A

Earth Days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBVGzf-fFl0&index=26&list=PLEE54950D026DAC24

Crash! [from James Ballard's story]
Crash! (1971) by J. G. Ballard - YouTube
and the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LMaoC23vCU


Audiobook: Philip K. Dick's Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3_HAcxsvpg

Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, from Philip K. Dick's novel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HKmcojLcfg

Mark Lester's Class of 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AszQnGzbpKY

The Day After (1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUEINQCKLHc

AIGA

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS

Case Studies:

New Case Study:
Inneract Project: Bringing Design to the Community

What We Eat and Why It Matters

Be Careful What You Cut

for other case studies see under WHY DESIGN?
http://www.aiga.org/design-for-good/

Hopefully you will also have a Case Study to be featured at the end of your course.

Fashion & Apps

When it comes to fashion, shouldn't there be an app for that?

Graphic Design

Shawn Barry shows us some of his achievements:

Typography and Design .

Choosing Fonts

Creating Visual Tension

Creative Design Variations

On the edge of graphic design, Design Lecture: Anthony Burrill

The Diane Rehm Show

Today in class we mentioned Diane Rehm and listened to part of her program. For those who were absent, but also for those who were present and would like to have a direct link to her show, here is the direct link:

http://thedianerehmshow.org

we also scrolled through Wikipedia for an immediate reference to her, here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Rehm


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Oral

Why might the people have decided to do these activities?
What might their families think about their doing these activities?

Oral

What do you imagine the nature of the relationship between these people to be?
How might their relationship change in the future?

Oral:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these means of transport for holiday trave?
Which of these types of transport will be most popular for holiday travel in the future?

Oral:

Why do you think these people have chosen to eat together?
What might they be talking about?

Writing

Do practice the Writing test:
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/writing/index.htm

direct link to the Writing task:
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/writing/task.htm

read through and send me your work.

Summerhill School

Lisa Braus was so kind as to forward the following links, the first is a documentary and the second is a short movie that promotes the school:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE20ylESsY4

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfuQqVMu0Y

very enjoyable. Do watch them.

Readings

Saint Patrick's Day

Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about Mozart

Calenders

Bilingualism

Environmental Protest Groups

Exams

Be your own investigative journalist

Information Society

Parts of the Body



Amelia Earhart

Acupuncture

Food

Food (2)

Gardening: the Beginnings

Jokes

Hallowe'en

Test your English!

This is a very safe and easy way to test your level, if you have some time, otherwise we will do it in class:
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/test-your-english/

Try also this one:
http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/index.htm

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/tsindex.htm

http://englishtests.ucoz.com/index/0-15

http://englishtests.ucoz.com/index/0-15

Working towards the exam

You will have to pass the British Institute Upper Intermediate test. The following .pdf shows the required skills:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ps-learn-english-upper-intermediate-list-blue-gaza.pdf

These are guided B2 exercises:
http://www.teachya.com/reading/reading_exercises/upper_intermediate.php

[skip Amelia Earhart, the page does not exist]

Just B2 exercises:
http://www.teachya.com/my_level/upper_intermediate.php

on the phone:
http://www.teachya.com/speaking/upper_intermediate/telephone.php

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"Pulse of the Planet" might be an interesting way to learn new words:
http://www.teachya.com/listening/listen_and_read/advanced.php


and here we can find a series of topics/articles to read, listen to, and speak about:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine

E-Commerce and E-Business

We will be reading parts of the following E-Book tomorrow:
E-Commerce and E-Business

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/E-Commerce_and_E-Business

although it reports E-Commerce in the years that go from 2000 to 2004, phraseology has not changed.

We will then start understanding what a sustainable business practice is. The following link:
 http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=download&collection_id=52c90ac2b8682456&writer=rl&return_to=Wikibooks%3ACollections%2FSustainable+Business

offers a booklet we might read together with hints to open a sustainable business or cooperate with people who apply sustainable business practices. Several case studies are presented, they might trigger interesting ideas to be applied to local businesses.

If the .pdf does not open up, go to Wikibooks: Collections/Sustainable Business:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Collections/Sustainable_Business

and you will be directed to the download or you can read - chapter by chapter - directly online.


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