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Site covering both traditional and digital illustration.
Froehlich, Sara. Designorati. Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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Digital Photography for the Web
Like digital photography? Here's a look at tools and tricks you can use to create great photos for your site.
Calore, Michael. Webmonkey (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Web Design
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Distance Measurement in Perspective
In isometric, it is possible to work directly with measurements only on the main axes. Here you can learn what you have to do if you need a measure beyond the main axes.
ITEDO Software (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Isometric
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Doing Illustrations: A Question of Accuracy and Fairness
Does the illustration I'm creating, or using, depict that person's race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, abilities, etc. accurately?
Colon, Aly. Poynter Online (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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Most technical writers use much more care in choosing words than in presenting numbers. The writer who presents numbers poorly loses credibility. Poorly presented numbers also cause reader misunderstanding that leads to poor decisions.
Robbins, Naomi B. MetroVoice (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Charts and Graphs
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Don't Fool with Graphs, Part II 
Using evenly spaced tick marks to represent different time intervals is a common error which has been repeated several times in recent STC publications and presentations.
Robbins, Naomi B. MetroVoice (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Charts and Graphs
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If you create technical art in Illustrator, check out these tips - in fact, check them out even if you don't.
Alspach, Ted and Jennifer Alspach. Adobe Magazine (1996). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Adobe Illustrator
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To prevent the infographic artists from getting bored somebody invented the web ... But we still think like we do work for printed papers. I won't suggest that we should concentrate on entertainment, but there's a lot we can learn from game-design.
Longauer, Walter. VisualJournalism (2002). Articles>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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La Edad de Oro de la Visualización
Después de repasar la semana pasada los inicios de la visualización en este artículo veremos el arranque de los gráficos modernos, la edad de oro de la creatividad gráfica y los avances previos al actual momento de explosión creativa.
Dursteler, Juan Carlos. InfoVis (2003). (Spanish) Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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This presentation examines ineffective technical graphics with problems in simplicity, orientation, and scale. It identifies principles of effective graphic communication that could prevent such problems, and clarifies objectives and techniques in designing editing and preparing technical graphics for printed documents and briefing materials. Graphics principles illustrated by transparencies include avoiding clutter, orienting properly, controlling scales, checking the content, and avoiding extraneous graphics. message, and that the table title or figure caption focuses clearly on the subject of the graphic.
Samson, Donald C., Jr. STC Proceedings (1993). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Visual Rhetoric
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Jacques Bertin es una de las figuras fundamentales de la visualización de Información dado que fue el primero en articular una teoría coherente y razonada para el análisis de la representación cuantitativa en forma gráfica. En este artículo contesta a nuestras preguntas.
Dursteler, Juan Carlos. InfoVis (2003). (Spanish) Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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As the term implies, the exploded view shows an assembly with its components blown out from the main body, but still remaining in relative order along their respective centrelines.
Lightfoot, Peter. ITEDO Software (2002). Articles>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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General guidelines for illustrative figures in technical reports.
Young, V.L. and K.J. Sampson. Ohio University (2004). Articles>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Charts and Graphs
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The illustration of a cube with filleted corners follows specific rules. Therefore, you must account for certain considerations when you depict such a cube. Get to know more about these filleted corners and learn how to build such a cube correctly.
ITEDO Software (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Isometric
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Gears: A Simple Procedure to Create a Complex Shape 
Drawing gears is now very simple using CorelDraw.
Broz, Donald. Broz and Dian (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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El proyecto genoma humano (PGH) genera un volumen de información inabordable sin el uso de medios sofisticados para su tratamiento. La visualización de información tiene aquí un gran campo de aplicación.
Dursteler, Juan Carlos. InfoVis (2002). (Spanish) Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Charts and Graphs
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Glossary Of Technical Illustration Terms
A concise reference guide to technical illustration terms.
Hulsey, Kevin. Kevin Hulsey Illustration. Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Glossary
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Good, Fast and Cheap: Producing Computer-Generated Isometrics from Engineering Drawings 
It is possible to produce a computer-generated isometric illustration of sufficient quality for most applications directly from a scanned engineering drawing. The process described in this article uses Corel Trace and Corel Draw, but it can be adapted to suit other drawing or CAD programs, and it can generate sophisticated isometric illustrations.
Morris, John M. Technical Communication Online (1997). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Isometric
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The Graphic Artists Guild is a national union of illustrators, designers, web creators, production artists, surface designers and other creatives who have come together to pursue common goals, share their experience, raise industry standards, and improve the ability of visual creators to achieve satisfying and rewarding careers.
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One of the nice things about technical writing courses is that most of the papers have graphics in them — or at least they should. A lot of professional, technical writing contains graphics — drawings, diagrams, photographs, illustrations of all sorts, tables, pie charts, bar charts, line graphs, flow charts, and so on. Once you get the hang of putting graphics like these into your writing, you should consider yourself obligated to use graphics whenever the situation naturally would call for them. Unlike what you might fear, producing graphics is not such a terrible task — in fact, it can be fun. You don't have to be a professional graphics artist or technical draftsperson to produce graphics for your technical writing. There are ways to produce professional-looking graphics with tape, scissors, white-out, and a decent photocopying machine.
McMurrey, David A. Illuminati Online. Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte's Principles
This is an outline of Edward Tufte's pioneering work on the use of graphics to display quantitative information. It mainly consists of text and ideas taken from his three books on the subject along with some additional material of my own. This page is in text only format: in order to understand the concepts you need to read the books because the concepts cannot really be grasped without the illustrations, and current video monitor technology is too low in resolution to do them justice. His work has been described as 'a visual Strunk and White.'
University of Washington-Seattle (1999). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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A collection of technical illustrations submitted and collected by professional technical illustrators.
VisualJournalism. Academic>Course Materials>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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The Guide to Effective Illustration: Images for Presentation and Publication
An important part of modern communication is the use of images, both with oral presentations and in publications, to convey the essence of the author's message. As the methods of preparing, transmitting, and presenting images proliferate, we are all challenged to make the best use possible of each imaging technology.
Walworth, Vivian, Mary McCann, John McCann and Louis Rosenblum. Society for Imaging Science and Technology, The (1999). Books>Information Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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Illustrations and technical graphics are essential to any technical documentation. They assist users' understanding by simplifying complex content through clear, understandable and effective information. A primary objective of technical documentation is to ensure that users use products effectively and safely. Graphics and illustrations assist in accomplishing this objective. Striking the right balance between text and graphics enables documentation to be effective support to product use. This article recommends a few guidelines and best practices to adopt when working with illustrations and graphics in technical documents.
Chava, Uday. Indus (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
The GNSI is a non-profit organization that sets high professional standards, provides opportunities for professional and scholarly development, encourages and assists member networking, and promotes itself to potential clients and the general public.
GNSI. Organizations>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Scientific Communication
