Fun Friday Resources

Graphic Design History Resources does what it says on the label: A graphic designer has a list of online resources that provide his students with better examples than, say, G**gle image search. Much like those much-maligned recipe blogs, there’s a lot of explanation and rationalization up top, but it’s worth the read before scrolling down to the good stuff.

If you’re on a Macintosh computer, check out the Mac App Directory at joodaloop.com. I use more than a couple of these apps and can vouch for at least those, so the offerings here are worth exploring. If you’re not on a Mac, there’s a Web App Directory, though those apps tend more towards the development side of tech. Still, worth looking at.

Speaking of the development side of technology, here’s the Tangible Media Collection, a library of 1700 items that held information of some kind on a medium that you could hold in your hand. How can you not want to explore a library that has the following categories for storage mechanisms that are “geometric”?

Finally, we have previously looked at some of the works entering the public domain this year, but this website, Tapestries.media, popped up and has some offbeat resources from that same release. My question now is how did Duke University fail to mention that the Savoy Cocktail Book was now public domain?? How are we supposed to value them now as an institution of higher — nay, civilized — learning? (Sidenote: Over on my personal blog, I play a game with the Savoy.)