Useful Links
| Blogs and Podcasts | Real World Illustrator — Mordy Golding's blog covers everything there is to know about Adobe Illustrator, its use, its culture, its behaviors, and its users. Smashing Magazine — A weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers. Adobe Creek — בלוג של אלכסיי קלצל בעברית על אילוסטרייטור ואינדזיין Дежурка — Дизайн-журнал, во многом перевод Smashing Magazine на русский язык. Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices. Behance Network — Creative portfolios, projects and collaborations. |
| Books & Video Tutorials | Adobe Classroom in a Book The Adobe Illustrator CS4 Wow! Book
Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts Illustrator CS4 for the Web Illustrator CS3 and Flash CS3 Professional Integration   — by Mordy Golding |
| Tutorials | Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide Illustrator tutorials on Smashing Magazine. Photoshop tutorials on Smashing Magazine. Vectortuts — Illustrator tutorials. PSDtuts — Photoshop tutorials. 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials on Smashing Magazine. ACE Questions — At $150USD per Adobe certication exam it’s not cheap or indeed easy, so plenty of study and practice is required. AceQuestions Practice Exams are written by an Adobe Certified Expert and are designed to simulate the real exam. AceQuestions Practice Exams are ONLY $9.99 each. |
| Plug-ins and Scripts | Third-party plug-ins on Adobe.com Plug-ins for InDesign by: DTP Tools | WoodWing | Teacup Software 10 Free and Extremely Useful Illustrator Scripts Code Line Communications — Some useful plug-ins for Illustrator and other graphical apps. Art Files — Collect for output for Illustrator. Kelso Cartography — Plug-ins and scripts for Illustrator. Worker72a — Plug-ins for Illustrator Hot Door — Design and CAD plugins for Adobe Illustrator. Phantasm CS — The Phantasm CS family of tools is designed specifically for Adobe Illustrator and integrates perfectly for a seamless experience when adjusting, controlling or checking color in your documents. Markzware — Plug-is for converting and prepress checking of projects. PDF2ID — Convert FreeHand files into InDesign. Graffix — Plug-ins and scripts for Illustrator and InDesign (removing overprints and more). Ajar Productions — Illustrator scripts: Merge Text and Send Swatches to Flash. |
| Icons & UI Design References | Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing a Pencil Icon by Smashing Magazine. Mac OS X Leopard: Designer’s Guide to Icons by Smashing Magazine. 7 Principles of Effective Icon Design by PSDtuts. Prototyping tools: Design — It is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet. Resize Your Web Browser with Bookmarklets |
Design Books
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
