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Use Raven to create fully scalable vector art appropriate for logos or tee shirt designs. You won't find a similar tool on the web." "Aviary is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing."" Look at the other Aviary applications: "Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We're on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. Sign up for an account today to start creating, sharing, and collaborating with our community of artists."http://aviary.com/tools

Most Web Design Layouts are normally done in Photoshop and since its the most overused application on creating web layouts, I list down some of the most helpful and nice photoshop tutorials on how to make a good web design layout to enhance your experience and ideas.

Great post on exploiting icons consistently - one of a number of recent Edutopia posts by CranfordTeague on materials design for educators.

THE GUIDE TO SOUND EFFECTS Sound designer David Filskov's collection of tips for making your own sound effects, submitted by sound designers from all over the world. Click on the LISTEN tab to see photos and hear the sounds. Would make great writing starters or conversation starters.

There's no "right" way to author your about me page. Some read like resumes, and others read like fun stories. Designers have the skills to add a little (or a big) artistic flair to their blogs' autobiographies, but you don't need to be a designer to be creative. Most pages at a minimum include the author's name, purpose for creating a website, and links to the author's other online content. It's all about presentation.

"Drawing on case studies from news media to visualization research, we identify distinct genres of narrative visualization. We characterize these design differences, together with interactivity and messaging, in terms of the balance between the narrative flow intended by the author (imposed by graphical elements and the interface) and story discovery on the part of the reader (often through interactive exploration). Our framework suggests design strategies for narrative visualization, including promising under-explored approaches to journalistic storytelling and educational media."

During World Mathematical Year 2000, a sequence of posters designed at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences was displayed month by month in the trains of the London Underground. The posters were designed to stimulate, fascinate - even infuriate! But most importantly that they bring maths to life, illustrating the wide applications of modern mathematics in all branches of science - physical, biological, technological and financial.

The VADS image collection provides over 100,000 art and design images free for use in education, drawn from university and college art collections, museums and archives across the UK

"The Visual Thinking Mind Map breaks down how the use of images, clear design and creativity can greatly improve comprehension and convenience in the world around us. In addition the mind map explores how visual thinking can be utilised to provide simple instructions, create user-friendly products and services and share knowledge and ideas. The full Blog Post via the download link below expands the ideas further."

VisualWikipedia is a visual, intuitive, and interactive web interface to encyclopedic knowledge/information. It is designed to provide a fun place to learn stuff in an efficient manner.

"BubbleJoy enables you place a video of yourself inside a fun card design that you can send to all your friends and family... and now in the case of Twitter, all your followers too. "

You can design attractive visuals by following simple guidelines. One of these simple guidelines is the Rule of Thirds - a composition technique borrowed from photography and other visual arts that works wonderfully in PowerPoint.

iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and collaboration tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of usage in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students.

free Use POSTERIZA to design your own big posters and signs from any digital photo with your home printer!

You are invited to host or participate in a DigiTales Storytelling Camp . Bring your memories, experiences, images, videos, and other memorabilia along with a readiness to have great fun and learning. No techno savvy needed to join in! This is a perfect experience for beginning storytellers or technology learnersmemorable experiential event designed to give paper-trained adults of all ages an in-depth and personal immersion with the power of reading/writing multimedia communication.

In this workshop you will: * Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video. * And then create it quickly using one of 50+ different web tools that are free to use. * Plus, you will share in this wiki site your example and observations on the value of the tool

Your gateway to innovative, standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history, designed and developed by the National Museum of American History as part of Verizon's thinkfinity.org consortium. Explore the rich resources of the Museum and bring history to life with artifacts, primary sources, and online tools for the classroom, afterschool programs, and home.