What to do in Baltimore

• CREATING STUFF

Creative Alliance www.creativealliance.org


• SEEING STUFF

American Visionary Art Museum
             www.avam.org
Baltimore Museum of Industry
             www.thebmi.org
Maryland Science Center
             www.mdsci.org
B&O Railroad Museum
             www.borail.org
Contemporary Museum
             www.contemporary.org
Geppi's Entertainment Museum
             www.geppismuseum.com
Baltimore Museum of Art
             www.artbma.org
Walter's Art Museum
             www.thewalters.org
Smithsonian Museums (field trip from Baltimore)
             http://www.si.edu


• BUYING STUFF

Atomic Books: Cool Stuff
            www.atomicbooks.com
            See also: Atomic Pop atomicpop.blogspot.com
Craig Flinner Gallery: prints and more
            flinnergallery.com
Kelmscott Bookshop: fine used books
            www.kelmscottbookshop.com
Sound Garden: used CDs extraordinaire
            www.cdjoint.com
Book Thing: Free Books!
            www.bookthing.org

• VISITING STUFF

Hampden Neighborhood: 36th Street & Falls Road
            www.hampdenmerchants.com
Fells Point: Broadway and Fleet Street
            www.fellspoint.us
Charles Village: Home of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the famous
            Painted Ladies, and the year-round 32nd St. Farmers' Market.

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Resources

• GENERAL RESEARCH

Library of Congress
             www.loc.gov
Footnote: original historical documents
             www.footnote.com
U.S. Government Portal: Access to all U.S. government websites
            www.usa.gov
National Archives
            www.archives.gov
Prelinger Archives
            www.archive.org/details/prelinger
The Internet Archive
            www.archive.org
Art and Culture
            www.artandculture.com
The Poynter Institute
            poynter.org


• DESIGN RESOURCES

Designer's Toolbox
             www.designerstoolbox.com
Jumpola
             www.jumpola.com
Dynamic Graphics
            www.dynamicgraphics.com
Wayback Machine
            www.archive.org/web/web.php
Creative Pro
            creativepro.com
Adobe help with CS3
            www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop

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Writing Tools

• GOOD WRITING

Bob Bly, Copywriter
             www.bly.com/newsite/Pages/
How to prepare an annotated bibliography
             www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm
APA guide: Purdue University Writing Center
            owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
MLA guide: Purdue University Writing Center
            owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
Useful Grammar Web site
            www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/
Internet resources for writers
            www.internet-resources.com/writers


• PUBLISHING

Electronic Literature Organization
            eliterature.org
Institute for the Future of the Book
            www.futureofthebook.org


• MEDIA WATCHDOGS

Editor & Publisher
             www.editorandpublisher.com
Reporters without Borders
             www.rsf.org
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
            www.fair.org
Fact Check
            factcheck.org

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Design Tools

• PHOTOGRAPHY

123RF
            www.123rf.com
Blue Vertigo
            www.bluevertigo.com.ar
iStockphoto
            www.istockphoto.com
Fotolia
            www.fotolia.com
Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Reading Room
            www.loc.gov/rr/print/
morgueFile: A Public Image Reference Archive
            www.morguefile.com
stock.xchng
            www.sxc.hu


• ILLUSTRATION

Brands of the World
            www.brandsoftheworld.com
Clipart.com
            www.clipart.com
Medieval Woodcuts
            www.godecookery.com/clipart/clart.htm
Ron and Joe
            www.ronandjoe.com


• TYPOGRAPHY

Adobe Fonts
            www.adobe.com/type/index.html
Counterspace
            www.counterspace.us/typography
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
            typography.com
Linotype
            www.linotype.com
Mark Simonson Studio
            ms-studio.com
Planet Typography
            www.planet-typography.com
Typography Museum Links
            www.tug.org/museums.html
Virtual Museum of Typography
            abc.planet-typography.com
House Industries
            www.houseind.com
Trypo
            www.trypo.com


• COLOR

COLOURlovers
            www.colourlovers.com
kuler
            kuler.adobe.com
Color Theory
            www.worqx.com/color


• MAPS

BJ Designs
            www.bjdesign.com
Historical Map Collection
            www.davidrumsey.com


• VIDEO

Final Cut Studio Tutorials
            www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/tutorials
UB Media Lab Tutorials
            raven.ubalt.edu/departments/corpcom/mediaLab/tutorials.html


• INTERFACE DESIGN & USABILITY

Web Page Design for Designers
            www.wpdfd.com/wpdtypo.htm
World Wide Web Consortium: The Final Word
            www.w3.org
User Interface Engineering
            www.uie.com

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Reading Material

• PUBLICATIONS

Communication Arts
            www.commarts.com
The International Design Magazine (I.D.)
            www.id-mag.com
Dwell
            www.dwell.com
HOW
            howdesign.com
CMYK
            www.cmykmag.com
Print
            www.printmag.com
Dynamic Graphics
            www.dynamicgraphics.com
Step Inside Design
            www.stepinsidedesign.com
Graphic Design USA
            www.gdusa.com
Mastheads for almost every magazine in print
            www.mastheads.org
Poets & Writers
            www.pw.org
Writer's Digest
            www.writersdigest.com
The Writer
            www.writermag.com/wrt
d|visible
            www.dvisible.com
Creativity: advertising industry publication
            creativity-online.com
Colophon: Portal to many magazines
            colophon2007.com


• USED BOOKS

hi+lo modern: book section
            www.hiandlomodern.com/BooksMain.htm
Optos Books
            www.optosbooks.com
Alibris
            www.alibris.com
Powell's Books
            www.powells.com
Biblio
            www.biblio.com

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Career

• ORGANIZATIONS

Public Relations Society of America: Maryland chapter
            www.prsamd.org
Public Relations Society of America: National
            www.prsa.org
International Association of Business Communicators
            news.iabc.com
AIGA: Baltimore Chapter
            baltimore.aiga.org
AIGA: D.C. Chapter
            www.aigadc.org
AIGA: Blue Ridge
            blueridge.aiga.org
AIGA National
            www.aiga.org
Type Directors Club
            www.tdc.org
Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington
            www.adcmw.org
Society for History and Graphics
            shag.squarespace.com
American Society of Journalists & Authors
            www.asja.org
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
            www.clmp.org
College Art Association
            www.collegeart.org
Society for Technical Communication
            www.stc.org
Advertising Association of Baltimore
            www.baltimoreadvertising.com


• OPPORTUNITIES

Design21
            www.design21sdn.com
Media Bistro
            www.mediabistro.com
Creative Hotlist
            www.creativehotlist.com

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Web sites to look at

• BLOGS

Design Observer
            designobserver.com
Media Bistro: writing and design
            www.mediabistro.com
The Old Hag: writing blog
            theoldhag.com


• MUSEUMS

Museum of the Moving Image
            www.movingimage.us
Flash Gallery
            levitated.net
Smithsonian Museums
            www.si.edu
Phillips Collection
            www.phillipscollection.org
National Museum of Women in the Arts
            www.nmwa.org
Museum of Television & Radio
            www.mtr.org
Museum of Broadcast Communications
            www.museum.tv
Newseum: The Museum of News
            www.newseum.org


• FEED YOUR HEAD

McSweeney's
            www.mcsweeneys.net
The Visual Dictionary
            thevisualdictionary.net
TED Conference
            www.ted.com

To suggest a link, email Stephanie Gibson, PubDesign Program Director.

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