The blog of inspirations and useful tutorials

This is my favourite design blog that I have known in 2008. I would like to share this blog because it is really useful and has tons of inspirations for your future design works. Going through different aspects of designs and even architecture, the blog updates Daily Inspirations as well. Furthermore, I found that the interviews with some popular designers and the studycase of some members are really useful. About itself, Abduzeedo is a collection of visual inspiration and useful tutorials.

Yes, best of all to me, the Photoshop tutorials are amazing, they are really irresistible. Besides, I didn't go through the whole blog to see each corners of it but there are a lot of other kinds tutorials as well (e.g : Illustrator, Pixelmator, Firework...). You can also find a design job here or get some books to read in spare time.
OK, let's now go open a new tab and go straight to the address : www.abduzeedo.com

Jimmy Nguyen

It’s a Designing world out there.

Sure it’s a game, sure it’s not about us as designers, but this game is the ultimate form or design where you creations can be made, houses, pixel art and recreation of real objects. Anything can happen. Minecraft is your ticket to design heaven. People all round the world play this game almost 24-7 just to impress others with their extensive creations. Sure, I’m basically advertising a game and you should be doing work instead but boy, this is just the design world. I had to show you this because I absolutely love it and all its tremendous creativity and design interaction. Create your mind, create your world design your universe in Minecraft!

Here are some other more impressive creations that other people have made (this one above is just a mare 5 minute house I made):

http://www.geekosystem.com/21-amazing-minecraft-creations/

have fun creating! In your spare time that is ;)

Cameron Watson

Inspirational design blog

http://www.dezeen.com/

This is a design and architecture blog which my brother referred me onto. I've used it a lot throughout the year for help with projects - especially when trying to find inspirational designs or quotes as it regularly posts news and articles of interest about all kinds of design. The search engine is great if you're looking for anything in particular and for anyone that is unsure about careers in design, having a look through the job listings can 

give you a clearer idea on what you can do with a design degree and seeing where it can take you. 

Isabelle Bush

Use this post

The above is by Keri Smith, a freelance illustrator and the author of several bestselling books about creativity. It was adapted from another of her projects entitled “Use this Poster." "The idea is to shift the context in many directions, depending on perception or state of mind." You may find some inspiration within her website too, such as her 100 ideas post.

Lydia Diver

Design fetish blog

I really wanted to share with everyone this really cool design blog - http://design-fetish.blogspot.com/, I'm personally not a big blog follower but I love this one because you can just look at the pictures without having to read anything. The blog is basically anything cool the guy finds about design, for example it contains things from concrete couches (http://design-fetish.blogspot.com/2010/08/concrete-chesterfield-sofa.html) to BLT rings (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWP2M1PcvM1C8F7eXa3AQ_gz1qBA4LgW_xW2zlU_nNY38ipqwIrTpHAa-x4PoYXkwGndd3ZozDO0YpnHzfYTPmJ0isT6QCFGJEg_CtwzoBfEdKBQvHDDxPfGk4Iao4MPIei9UDhFkl6s/s1600/design-fetish-hamburger-BLT-ring.jpg).

It's definitley worth a look! He uploads weekly so there are always new and crazy design things to get inspiration off.

Jessica Campbell

Attention DSDN142 students (term 2)

in our coding course we are going to work on a physical exercise in week one.
Please bring along all equipment that you have available, such as your drawing board, lots of white paper (different thickness), grid paper, cardboard, black pens (different thickness), pencil, rubber, scissors, craft knife, glue, blue-tac, ruler, set square, pair of compasses, pins, nails, toothpicks and any other material that is suitable for treating and leaving traces on paper.

On Monday the tutorial is going to take place in room VS 308. The lecture will be in LT2 - as scheduled

Thanks,
Angela

Creating new blogs for term 2

In several courses you will be asked to create a blog on blogger.com. To make this easier for you, we have written a little tutorial. You can download the pdf http://www.firstyeardesign.com/files/dsdn112outlinet22011final.pdf or view it online http://issuu.com/firstyeardesign/docs/blogger_tutorial