Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 27 – Pretty Pictures, Better Design

Join Dan for an episode full of tips, tricks, tools, and techniques for creating better graphic design! After all, you don’t want a dumb looking sign in your library! Put some thought into your design and it’ll show in the end result! Links Books worth checking out Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans – Amazon | WorldCat Graphic Design: The New Basics – Amazon | WorldCat Websites worth clicking Have a look at some beautiful examples of De Stijl. Behance Graphic Design Portfolios are great places for some ideas and inspiration! Smashing Magazine goes in-depth about design tips and tools. Hack Design will teach you about graphic and web design via email! The Design Blog is another fantastic place for ideas. Identifont will help you discover great fonts and replacements for fonts you don’t have. Library Signage gives you the good, the bad, and the OMG of library sign design. Software worth your while Office 365 Personal and/or Home editions will get you the latest versions of Microsoft Office direct from the source. Always updated and always available via the cloud. Scribus – The graphic design studio for the rest of us. Also available in a Portable Apps edition. LibreOffice – The FOSS solution for your office suite. Also available in a Portable Apps edition. Pixelmator – The best, most affordable image editor for OS X. Highly recommended. GIMP – Cross platform, free and open source image editing. Also available in a Portable Apps edition. PaintShop Pro – A sadly underused bit of kit that is just as useful as Photoshop for 90% of the population at a tiny fraction of the price! Music and Audio Woman in Blue by Cafe Del Chillia Ivana Kupala Night by Crosswords Gravitational Slingshot by Daniel Messer. Download for free on SoundCloud or buy yourself a copy of The View From Amalthea which includes this song and a few others. Printer sound courtesy of FreeSound.org.