#25171
In this article, Fred talks about experiences with some of the greats of typography... and helps to answer the question with a quote from Jan White.
Showker, Fred. Design, Typography and Graphics (2004). Design>Typography>Graphic Design
#22063
Review: White Graphics: The Power of White in Graphic Design 
Every graphic designer or editor who has been forced to explain to a client why there is nothing—text or image—on a part of a page should have Gail Deibler Finke's newest book. It demonstrates clearly and convincingly 'the power of white in graphic design.'
Hudak-David, Ginny. Technical Communication Online (2002). Articles>Reviews>Graphic Design
#27434
Shows you how to brighten those teeth without an expensive trip to the dentist.
Kloskowski, Matt. Planet Photoshop (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Photography>Adobe Photoshop
#20694
Why Illustrations Aid Understanding 
A small collection of illustrations is provided to show some of the diverse ways illustration may aid understanding. The display of parts and assemblies often relies on techniques such as explosions and canonical views to communicate the global structure and relations of a system that may have hidden pieces. Book illustrations exemplify specific visions of described situations and allow readers to save memory and summarily review potentially complex descriptions. Visual proofs abstract from details and embody reliable metatheories that provide semantic guarantees for inferences. And conceptual illustrations when effective rely the logical method of universal generalization to help viewers grasp general ideas.
Kirsh, David. IWM-KMRC. Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Visual Rhetoric
#24253
Wigner Distribution Representation and Analysis of Audio Signals: An Illustrated Tutorial Review 
The Wigner distribution provides a visual display of quantitative information about how a signal’s energy is distributed in both time and frequency. Through its low-order moments the Wigner distribution embodies the fundamentally important concepts of both Fourier analysis and time-domain analysis. Signal energy is distributed in such a way that specific frequencies are localized in time by the group delay time (from classical filter theory) and at specific instants in time the frequency is given by the instantaneous frequency (from classical modulation theory). The energy spectrum (energy per frequency) and instantaneous power (energy per time) are specified by the zero-order moments of the distribution. The net positive volume of the Wigner distribution is numerically equal to the signal’s total energy. While the theoretical underpinnings of the Wigner distribution are mathematically elegant and do merit in-depth study, a substantial amount of practical insight, understanding and interpretive skill can be gained by carefully examining a wide variety of computed Wigner distributions such as those of the audio signals presented in this brief report.
Preis, Douglas and Voula Chris Georgopoulos. STC Proceedings (1998). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Charts and Graphs
#26012
Katherine Huck, owner of Keystone Design, explains 'all the stuff you never knew you wanted to know' in a short and simple handbook entitled Working With a Designer. This hanbook is designed to create a bridge between the designer and the non-technically trained client, explaining in very simple terms key concepts that will make the designer and client's lives much easier.
Huck, Katherine. Elisabetta Bruno. Design>Collaboration>Graphic Design
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Working with Graphic Designers
Offers suggestions to technical writers or project managers on how to successfully communicate design specifications to graphic designers. According to Petersen, an ideal design specification should include an introduction stating the purpose of the document and its audience, tender requirements, a list of elements that need designing, a list of document limitations, a list of necessary hardware and software, design suggestions, printing and distribution information, a list of people involved in the project, and design and project schedules.
Petersen, Judy H. Intercom (2000). Careers>Collaboration>Graphic Design
#30248
Writing for Other Cultures: Cultural Associations of Color and Graphics
When writing for cultures that are not your own, you must consider the powerful cultural associations that color and graphics have. Understanding and leveraging these associations leads to documentation that is strong and usable, while not understanding them leads to cultural miscommunications and misunderstandings that can render your information useless.
Coe, Marlana A. STC Proceedings (1996). Design>Graphic Design>Cultural Theory>Color
#19385
XML in Motion: The Scalable Vector Graphic
Introduces scalable vector graphic (SVG) format, a new, XML-based graphics format for the Web.
Altom, Timothy H. Intercom (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>XML
#21309
Maps are one of the most basic (and informative) infographics. The simple map. A rectangle with a few lines, some labels, and an X can impart what it would take hundreds of words to describe. Lee McCormack offers an insightful look into how to create a simple but informative infographic —the map.
McCormack, Lee. Boxes and Arrows (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
#32104
iLT is designed to inspire its readers, to make people more aware of the typography that is around them. We really cannot escape typography; it's everywhere: on road signs, shampoo bottles, toothpaste, and even on billboard posters, in books and magazines, online...the list is endless, and the possibilities equally so.
I Love Typography. Resources>Graphic Design>Typography>Visual Rhetoric
#32115
In the following tutorials you will be learning how to use a series of points in space to create an illustration. The work will be based on creating a WWII aircraft, the C-47 Skytrain.
Tech Drawing Tools (1999). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>3D
#32116
Constructing the Bicycle in Isometric
This bicycle drawing will be constructed over an orthographic primitive. The scale will be 1 to 1 and you will be able to work in all three axes using the primitive for placement.
Tech Drawing Tools (2001). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
#32252
Color, Contrast and Design in News Design
An online guide that explains color theory and shows how to use it in design through examples and exercises.
Adam, Pegie Stark. Poynter Online (2007). Presentations>Communication>Graphic Design>Color
#32253
Scholars have learned that all the colors in the universe originate from a mere fifteen fundamental physical causes. These causes appear over and over, lending color to the world around us.
Web Exhibits (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Theory>Color
#32254
Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?
At the core of good science and engineering is the careful and respectful treatment of data. We calibrate our instruments, scrutinize the algorithms we use to process the data, and study the behavior of the models we use to interpret the data or simulate the phenomena we may be observing. Surprisingly, this careful treatment of data often breaks down when we visualize our data.
Rogowitz, Bernice E. and Lloyd A. Treinish. IBM (2004). Articles>Graphic Design>Scientific Communication>Color
#32263
Typotheque is a type foundry, run by Peter Biľak (who is responsible for the fonts and website in general), and Johanna Biľak, (who is responsible for other products, such as books and t-shirts). We also work with a number of freelance designers, writers, and programmers who assist in some of our current projects.
Biľak, Peter and Johanna Biľak. Typotheque. Resources>Graphic Design>Typography
#32389
Founded in December 2007, Dzine blog Is all about designs, here you can find inspirational designs and some good tips in logo, graphics and web designing. My aim is to share quality graphic design resources, graphic design tips and much more good inspirational designs and useful information in designing, precisely and regularly.
DzineBlog (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Blogs
#32412
Print-Friendly Images and Logos with CSS
In certain instances, not everyone views every portion of your website online: eventually, someone is going to print parts of it. In many cases, this is perfectly fine: if you have a print style sheet that takes care of your worst sins, your website should look okay. But one area where it may still look lackluster is the images.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>CSS
#32413
Five CSSriffic Treatments to Make Your Images Stand Out
Sometimes just having images isn’t enough. Sometimes we need a little help to make our outstanding images truly stand out. And that’s where CSS can help. Here are five things you can do, using CSS, to make the most of your images.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>CSS
#32433
In this article, I’ll cover colour basics and three simple colour schemes so that you can feel confident about choosing colours for your site. I’ll follow up this article with another piece on how to simplify these colour choices. After all, it’s more fun to enjoy the compliments on your Web site design than it is to sweat over the colour choices.
Goin, Linda. Opera (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
#32435
Colour Schemes and Design Mockups
After a web designer presents a site’s architecture, or wireframe, to a client for approval, the next step is to determine the look and feel of the site through colour and graphics. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how I keep this process as simple as possible, both for myself and for the client.
Goin, Linda. Opera (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
#32499
Creating Bulletproof Graphic Link Buttons With CSS
A CSS problem I have been wrestling with lately is how to create a bulletproof shrinkwrapping graphic button. By that I mean an image-based button that will expand and contract to fit the amount of text it contains. It is a very useful technique for CMS-driven sites that allow the client to change the text that is displayed on buttons, as well as for multilingual sites.
Johansson, Roger. 456 Berea Street (2007). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>CSS
#32549
Drawing Hilbert Curves with SVG
Hilbert curves are a type of space-filling curve that can be constructed with the SVG polyline element, using a basic design and then aggregating.
Opera (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Image Editing>SVG
#32572
Powerful design software makes many choices available to graphic designers, but just because you can do something doesn’t always mean you should. For example, sometimes it’s a good idea to convert your text layouts to outline, but sometimes it isn’t. Learn more about this occasionally necessary, often ill-advised practice before you decide whether or not it’s time to convert.
Strizver, Ilene. Upper and lowercase Magazine (2008). Articles>Document Design>Typography>Graphic Design
