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Yale Style Manual: Graphic Design 100

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic information about graphic design in an easy to navigate manual form.
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Technology Student

Technology Student: Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
This site covers everything from the basic tools to advanced techniques used in graphics design.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Beginning Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how color, layout, images, composition, typography, branding, and more relate to graphic design.
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Jessett: Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to graphic design that includes information on color layout, design layout, different graphic design software, and tutorials using different types of software.
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Careers New Zealand

Careers Nz: Graphic Designer

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough look at a career as a graphic designer or commercial artist. Information covered includes: tasks and duties, personal requirements, how to enter job, working conditions, employment conditions, and the job market. A personal...
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The Merrill C. Berman Collection of Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Numerous examples of graphic design images from artists around the world. Categorized by country.
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Aiga: Graphic Design Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
The AIGA archives cover a variety of design categories including book design, editorial design, experience design, illustration, information design, motion graphics, package design, and others.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Christmas Creations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create their own Christmas ornaments and gift labels. Students must be able to set up the formatting for these documents appropriately using graphic design software. (Please also see project-based lesson plan attachment.)...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Circle Designs

For Students 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students explore circumference and diameter by creating an abstract design with circles. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Powerhouse Museum: Australian Designers at Work

For Students 9th - 10th
The Powerhouse Museum of Sydney, Australia, hosts an online exhibit about Australian designers. Visitors can explore careers in design by following links to each of six profiles on designers representing distinct design professions.
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EL Education

El Education: Graphic Lettering Alphabets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These graphic lettering alphabets were created by 5th/6th grade students in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. They were products from a study of fonts, lettering and graphic arts, to build skills to enhance the visual presentation of all their...
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University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged: Human Interface Design

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
This activity explores just how hard it is to get things right when it comes to designing good interfaces for computers.
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Art Daily: Stray Dogs Opens at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
As an example of a possible career outlet for a graphic designer, this site provides a graphic novel called "Stray Dogs." The site is looked at as a published book but includes additional information on the publication process as well.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Carlos Cortez

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Carlos Cortez is described here along with information on his contributions to art through graphic design.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Jennifer Morla

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Jennifer Morla is described here along with information on her contributions to art through graphic design.
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Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles

For Students 9th - 10th
An online manual for Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. Includes links to Philosophy, Interface Design, Site Design, Page Design, Web Graphics, and Web Multimedia and Animation chapters, with Appendices.
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Museum of Web Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating site devoted to art and graphics used on the world wide web. Explore the best in buttons, banners, counters, and more.
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Coastal Carolina University: Ashes2 Art Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed descriptions of three projects done by Coastal Carolina University students that combine art history, archeology, graphic design, web design, and digital photography. The projects are a collaboration between other universities...
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Kentucky Educational Television

Kentucky Educational Television: Kentuckians in the Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
Profiles of Kentuckians involved with the arts provides information about arts-related jobs and pursuits. Positions covered range from professors and graphic designers to cartoonists and sculptors.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Lisa Burnett Bossi

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about illustrator and graphic designer Lisa Burnett Bossi. Links to her website and to a list of her books are available.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Off Book Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the art, the people, and the culture of the digital revolution with Off Book. This revolutionary program from PBS Digital Studios combines top-tier journalism with the underground, and often ignored, subject matter of today's...
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Web Reference: Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
WebReference contains many tutorials on many different topics in relation to graphics. It also includes links, informative essays, and interviews.
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University of Washington

World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design

For Students 9th - 10th
A brochure from the University of Washington on accessible Web design for people with disabilities. Includes general page design, graphical features, special features, and a Web pages test.
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Vocational Informational Center: Graphic Arts and Printing Careers

For Students 9th - 10th
A menu of links to external resources about occupations in the graphic arts field from which information on each occupation's job supply, skills needed, working conditions, preparation, and wages can be found.

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