really helpful web links:
  blogs
  conferences
  design firms
  design organizations
  design publications
 
illustration interests
  graduate programs
  paper companies
  type foundries
  what is graphic
    design?

  web design resources
  writing resources
  artists and designers i
    respect and admire

some good reading

blogs:
    design observer
    typotheque
    underconsideration / speak up

conferences:
    atypi
    how design conference
    next: aiga national design conference

design firms:
    charles s anderson design
    eden design & communication
    ham in the fridge design
    hornall anderson design works
    lpk
    marc english design
    methodologie
    modern dog design
    Ralph Applebaum Associates
    sagmeister, inc.
    skolos wedell
    skyron
    studio dumbar
    tenazas design
    the designers republic


design organizations:
    aiga
    aiga cincinnati
    art directors club of cincinnati
    association typographique internationale
    design council, uk
    graphic artists guild
    icograda
    international society of typographic designers
    society for environmental graphic design
    
society of typographic aficionados

design publications:
    adbusters
    baseline magazine
    communication arts
    design issues
    dot dot dot
    eye magazine
    graphis
    how magazine
    id magazine
    metropolis
    print magazine
    step inside design
    visible language
    voice: aiga journal of design

illustration interests:
    society of illustrators
    the illustrators' partnership of america
    the illustration conference


graduate programs in graphic design:
    art center, pasadena
    school of the art institue of chicago
    calarts, valencia
    california college of art & crafts, san francisco
    carnegie mellon, pittsburgh
    cranbrook, michigan
    kent state university, ohio
    minneapolis college of art & design
    north carolina state university, raleigh
    ohio state university, columbus
    rhode island school of design, providence
    royal college of art, london
    school of visual arts, new york
    university of the arts, philadelphia
    university of cincinnati
    university of florida, gainesville
    university of hawaii, manoa
    university of minnesota, twin cities
    university of utah, salt lake city
    university of washington, seattle
    virginia commonwealth university, richmond
    yale university, new haven

paper companies:
    french
    fox river
    gilbert
    international paper
    mohawk
    neenah
    sappi
    strathmore
    wausau

type foundries:
    adobe
    bitstream
    chank company
    international typeface corporation
    emigre
    fontboy
    fontshop international
    hoefler & frere-jones
    house industries
    lucas fonts
    t26
    thirstype
    typotheque
    underware

web design resources:
    html dog
    css zen garden
    web monkey

writing resources:
    the chicago manual of style
    nku writing center

artists and designers I respect and admire :
    judy anderson
    kate bingaman
    anne burdick
    julie chen
    leslie dill
    tim hawkinson
    jenny holzer
    connie hwang
    barbara kruger
    ellen lupton
    steven mccarthy
    martin meersman
    modern dog
    christopher ozubko
    bern porter
    emma powell
    mark rothko
    robert rauschenberg
    jim sherraden
    jayme stone
    henk van assen
    douglas wadden
    carrie mae weems
    sharon werner
    rachel whiteread
    piet zwart

 

some g o o d reading
    (book titles grouped by topic)

general graphic design:
    the graphic design reader, heller
    the education of a graphic designer, heller
    a smile in the mind, mcalhoune & stuart
    visual function, mijksenaar
    mixing messages, lupton
    marks of excellence, mollerup

graphic design theory:
    design, writing, research, Lupton
    looking closer: critical writings on
         graphic design
, (vols. 1-4), beirut
    the idea of design, margolin
    what is a designer?, potter

history:
    A History of Graphic Design, Meggs
    graphic design in america, walker art center
    twentieth century type , blackwell
    a short history of the printed word, chappell
    pioneers of modern typography, spencer
    high & low: modern art & popular culture,
        moma
    graphic design: a concise history, julier
    the twentieth century poster, ades
    bauhaus, könemann

typography:
    Unjustified Texts, Robin Kinross
    an essay on typography, gill
    typography: macro+micro aesthetics, kunz
    typography now: the next wave,
        why not associates
    stop stealing sheep, spiekermann
    type & typography, baines
    the new typography, tschichold (mclean)
    grid systems in graphic design,
        müller-brockmann
    typographic design: form & communication,
        carter