Design-related studios and companies

 

VCD and IxD

Hyperkit
Sennep
Graphic Thought Facility
Non-Format
A Practice for Everyday Life

Digital Kitchen
thomas.matthews
Studio Matthews
Simon Johnston

Method
Frederic Teschner
Designbolaget
paprika
Value and Service
Browns Design
300million
Studio8Design
the international office
design-ed
troxler art
story about

Landor
melissa hie
davor vaneijk
experimental jetset
network osaka
seadesign

Pentagram
almost modern
MadeThought
spin
blanka
www.frankchimero.com
plural
TypeNeu, An Odyssey in Typography
typecuts, Andrea Tinnes
Willow
si scott

Methodologie

ID

Insight

RKS

IDEO

Teague

HLB

Altitude

Bresslergroup

Design Continuum

Smart design

Sundberg-Ferar

Lunar Design

Pentagram

Philips design

Ziba Design

BMW-Design Works

Alessi

Carbon Design Group

Pearson Lloyd

Thomas Heatherwick

General Assembly

Product Creation Studio

One & Co

Radius Product Development

Whipsaw Inc.

Pensar Development

Cross-platform

Design Continuum

IDEO

Accenture

Smart Design

Worldchanging

Landor

Pentagram

Hornall Anderson Design Works

 

Good portals for projects and people

Designism Connects: Causes & Creatives for Social Change

Design Ignites Change

Sappi 'Ideas That Matter'

Idealist.org

Designers Accord

Project M Lab

Project H

Worldchanging

 

Job Hunting and Portfolio Tips

Dear Sir or Madam: Ten common mistakes in resumes and cover letters

Portfolio prep (SF Academy of Art)
Answering Tough Interview Questions
Insights on writing your resume
Portfolio Guide: What Not to Do

Get a Gig (presentation from Alex Diener, Pensar Development)
Writing a Cover Letter (NY Times)
Proofread your materials or else...
Be Careful What You Tweet
Bank Intern busted by Facebook
AIGA jobs website

AIGA Seattle

Creating a successful online portfolio

Designers and clients (Michael Bierut presentation_video)

 

Building your Online Portfolio

Workshop by Ben Shown (Feb 2011)

 

Resources for blog and site building

Wordpress

Coroflot

Tumblr

Portals to host your portfolio

behance.net

portfolios.aiga.org

coroflot.com

core77.com

creativehotlist.com

designrelated.com

krop.com

carbonmade.com

Build your own simple portfolio sites

indexhibit.org

indxr.net

cargocollective.com

staceyapp.com

Core (CMS)

What do I need for a website?

about top-level domains (.com / .net / etc)

FTP Access programs + editors

Fetch

Cyberduck

CSSEdit

Dreamweaver

Contribute

Coda

Just text/code editors

A list of them on Wikipedia

BBEdit

TextWrangle

Places to buy domains + hosting

fatcow.com

icdsoft.com

bluehost.com

mediatemple.net

1and1.com

godaddy.com

Basic web language/code

html on w3schools - best/easiest web developer's portal

CSS in Wikipedia - please read this!

Popular CMS (content management system - it's like updating your facebook profile)

CMS on Wikipedia

list of CMSs on Wikipedia

Wordpress

Drupal

Joomla

ExpressionEngine - not free because it's very good

Handy online tools + links

typetester.org

copypastecharacter.com

fonttester.com

csstypeset.com

kuler.adobe

colour lovers

70 of the best Free Fonts

Portfolios of people you may know

Benjamin K. Shown

Alanna MacGowan

Imri Larsen

Elijah Stillson

Jessica Katona

Brenna Marketello

Derek Chan

Lola Migas

Kaisha Hom

Stephen Minarsch

Annabelle Gould

Kristine Matthews

Terry Liu

Leisha Muraki

JT Milhoan

Loc Trinh

Rina Shin

Jennifer Margell

UW Design 11 many more portfolio site links here

UW Design 10 many more portfolio site links here

UW Design 09 many more portfolio site links here

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