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Great website for design inspiration and tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, and more

Initiated by Xavier Encinas, this blog focuses on typography and graphic design, with posts on advertising, fashion and Helvetica. One book review looks at how companies like Apple make design a competitive advantage and an integral part of business. Illustrating the tension between print and digital publishing, a post on Process Journal shows how a print publisher redesigned its content to create an iPad app.

Psdtuts+ is a blog that offers some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. The site has an extensive library of tutorials covering many different areas, including 3D, illustration and text effects to name but a few. It also has a Basix section for beginners so users of all skill levels can learn the art of photo manipulation, retouching, icon design, text effects, and much more.

Cadence Wu and Mark Geno Arguelles offer news, design trends and tutorials. Freebies include icons, brushes, textures, vectors and wallpapers. Articles cover the many facets of logo design: why less is better, reasons to avoid using stock art, the choice of raster or vector graphics, and decisions about color and shape in logos.

What started as a blog morphed into a community resource, full of real world advice from working designers about art, graphic design and the business smarts needed in this field. The site offers videos, tips, tutorials and freebies like plug-ins and presentation templates. Articles include Blank Canvas discussions like "Students - What's Missing From Your Classes?" and "How Do You Learn?"

a teacher website used for teaching digital arts and animation

Find resources to help integrate technology across the curriculum.

How to guides from Make Use Of

Visual Design is a year-long, project-based curriculum that develops skills in design and print production using Adobe tools. You can use the curriculum in graphic design education or in more general career and technical education.