This is a directory of resources for graphic artists or those that aspire to be so. The links are heavy on vector graphics as that's what I use every day being in the sign business. There's also a bunch of links for hard to find graphic art supplies. If there are sites you know of that would fit this directory please let me know. The site will be reviewed and added if it meets my standards. If you find this site useful please let others know about it.
You might also be interested in the following related directories:
- Cool Sign Shops Directory
- Calligraphy, Calligraphers, & Calligraphy Supplies Directory
- Fonts & Font Resources Directory
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Note: Links Checked and Updated January 13, 2009
Graphic Arts Resources
- 9 Surf Studios
- A high end graphic design firm with some very cool artwork in their portfolio.
- Accugraphic
- Equipment supplier to the digital graphic industry.
- Air Brush Resources
- Everything airbrush related.
- American Dye Sub
- A supplier of professional aluminum blanks for your dye sublimation projects.
- Animated Xara Gifs
- Tutorial to create your own 'animated gifs' with Xara X.
- Anzai Corel Stuff
- A Corel training site.
- Association of CorelDraw Professionals
- A new association catering to those that use CorelDraw to earn money.
- Artist Mike
- A 'Logo Designer' type site.
- Blender Tutorials
- Learn 3D animation using 'Blender'.
- Boogie Jacks Web Depot
- Links to 'website graphics' resources.
- Borges Lettering & Design
- A real fine lettering artist and type face designer. Nice clean looking website.
- Brands of the World
- The place to go if you need a logo in 'eps' - nothing left out. Being a graphic artist for a sign company means I visit this site regularly.
- Canadian Design Firms Database
- A Canadian Design Firm Database - what more can I say.
- Cartoonster - Cartooning Tutorials
- Digital Cartooning Tutorial.
- Commercial Signs Edmonton
- A decent sign shop out of Edmonton - a 'Letterhead' regular.
- CoCut Euro Systems
- Vinyl cutting software add-on for CorelDraw.
- Corel's Designer Site
- Corel's Designer Website - very CorelDraw specific.
- Corel Knockout
- The best product out there for 'knocking out' the background of a photo.
- Corel Tutorials and Resources
- Lot's of links and resources.
- Craft Association of British Columbia
- The Association you need to belong to if you want to be a starving BC hippy artisan/craftsman.
- Crafts Etc
- An 'online' craft store - lots of stuff.
- Cricket Cage
- An interesting site done with Bryce and Poser. Some very cool fanatasy illustrations.
- Cutting Edge FX Photo Paint Stuff
- Corel PhotoPaint centric - slighltly outdated.
- Daniel Pelavin Design & Lettering
- A top rate designer with a great portfolio.
- Daniel Smith Art Techniques
- Fine art supplies - check out the leaflets.html page for tips and tricks.
- Design Etch
- A 'Glass Etch Artist' from the Maritimes.
- Dick Blick Art Supplies
- One of the big art supply stores out of the USA.
- Digital Printing and Imaging Association
- The Association for Digital Printing and Imaging.
- Dye Sub.org
- A Dye Sublimation Education site.
- Etched Glass Resources
- Some real pretty stuff here from Kersey Glass.
- Etched Glass Supplies
- Glass Etching supplies.
- Etched Glass Supplies Two
- Glass Etching supplies.
- Etched Glass Supplies Three
- Glass Etching supplies.
- Etched Glass Supplies Four
- Glass Etching supplies.
- Etched Glass Supplies Five
- Glass Etching supplies.
- Etch Master Site
- Glass Etching supplies.
- Fine Art - Figure Studies
- Human Anatomy for Artists.
- Flash Graphics Site
- A Macromedia Flash Gallery type site.
- Framing Equipment
- Supplies for the picture framing industry.
- Free Frog Design
- An interesting site from a guy that does all sorts of design but I liked his logo designs so that's what's linked here.
- Gary Priester Graphics
- A Corel PhotoPaint and Xara X Xpert.
- Gary Priester Logo and Web Graphics
- Another Gary Priester site with a focus on logos and logo creation.
- Graf-X Design
- Covers all the Windows Platform graphics applications.
- Graphics Artists Guild
- Now there's a million dollar URL! They say they're, "... a national union of illustrators, designers, web creators, production artists, surface designers and other creatives who have come together to pursue common goals, share their experience, raise industry standards, and improve the ability of visual creators to achieve satisfying and rewarding careers." Lots of links if you follow through the "Portfolios" link.
- Graphics dot Com
- An excellent resource for graphic design professionals. Lots of things to check out when you should be concentrating on your design work but if you can pick up a tip or two why not. Looks to be an active forum on graphic design topics as well.
- Graphics News
- A computer graphics portal type site.
- Graphics Unleashed
- Another computer graphics portal type site with a focus on Corel products.
- Gerard Huerta Design
- A designer, illustrator, and lettering artist with an inspiring portfolio. Well worth checking out.
- Guru Digital Arts College - Edmonton Alberta
- A private vocational school that knows it's stuff.
- Image Maker Arts
- A sculptors web site - interesting and well done stuff.
- Juicy Blender - Blender Tutorial
- One of the better 'Blender' 3D animation tutorial sites out there.
- Letterhead Fonts
- Check out the Gallery for truly inspirational design.
- Letterhead Web Site
- A 'Hang Out' site for calligraphers and sign lettering artists.
- Logomotive
- A logo designer's website. This guy is also a font contributor to Letterhead Fonts.
- Logotypes
- One of the better places to find logos when the bonehead representing the large nameless corporation refuses to answer your request for artwork. The files are in eps format which can be opened with just about any vector graphics program.
- Lost Pencil Animation Studios
- A real interesting website to check out if you're the least bin interested in computer generated character animation. Curiously enough this studio is operated out of Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. Go figure.
- Lotus Art Supplies - Nepal
- Another online art supply merchant but this one has some very unique artist supplies. Very cool stuff here folks!
- Lotus Art Supplies - Whistler BC
- Another online art supply merchant that happens to be another Lotus Art Supplies and also happens to be in the mountains like the one in Nepal but the connection ends there.
- Mexican Graphic Arts Association
- A Graphic Arts organization out of Mexico.
- Mimaki Dye Sublimation
- The site for graphics on textiles.
- ND Graphics Canada
- A graphic arts supply company out of Canada - offices country wide. They're somehow controlled by Gerber although they don't make that totally clear.
- Oberon Corel Things
- The site for scripting with Corel products. A bunch of really useful scripts for CorelDraw.
- Oce Printers
- Specialty printers for signmakers.
- Omer Art Supplies
- Another online art supply merchant.
- Open Clip Art Library
- Good selection of public domain or otherwise free vector clip art.
- Otto Carter Signs
- Just another signmakers site - pretty decent stuff.
- Paramount Services Inc.
- All sorts of interesting things for those interested in Dye-Sublimation.
- Photo Brasive Systems
- UV cured sand etching mask site.
- Photo Paint Tutorials
- Learn Corel PhotoPaint with the tutorials on this site - other tutorials as well.
- Pin Striping Site
- So you want to learn how to pin stripe - this is the place.
- Pre-Pressure
- Everything you need to know about pre-press matters. This could save you a ton of grief when dealing with printers and other service bureau type places.
- Print Making Links
- All sorts of links for the 'print making' trade.
- Procut
- Resources for the digital signmaker - check out their 'Vectography' product.
- Rayzist Photo Resist
- Another UV cured sand etching mask site.
- Renderosity
- A 3D graphics portal type site.
- Rick Altman
- A Corel expert.
- Sawgrass Dye Sub
- Sublimation printing solutions from Sawgrass.
- SBA Signage Tips
- Signage tips from the Small Business Administration of the US Government.
- Segura Design Firm
- A design company out of Chicago.
- Shockwave Swish Zone
- Another Macromedia Flash type portal site.
- Sign Business Magazine
- A trade publication for the signmaking industry.
- Sign College
- A signmaking suppliers learning site - quite well done.
- Sign Craft Magazine
- A trade publication for the signmaking industry - focused on the creative side of signmaking.
- Sign DNA Font Site
- Signmakers fonts designed by signmakers for signmakers.
- Sign Industry Com
- The online magazine for the signmaking industry.
- Sign Links
- A bunch of good links for signmakers.
- Sign Makers.com
- The place to go if you need to find a signmaker anywhere in the world.
- Sign Search
- The search engine for the signmaking industry.
- Sign Shop Network
- Resources for signmaking shops.
- Sign Trader
- Classifieds for signmakers.
- SignWare Canada
- Canadian signmakers supply company.
- SignWeb
- Resources for signmakers.
- Sign Writers Publishing Company
- Publishers of Signmakers Pricing Guides.
- Square One Graphics
- Graphic Design and Embroidery Digitizing.
- Stevo Design
- A talented designer, illustrator and Letterhead out of Edmonton.
- Summa Corel Draw Tips
- CorelDraw tips from the maker of Summa Vinyl Cutters.
- The Fontry
- A good selection of fonts pretty much specialized for the sign making industry. They have clipart as well and a free font available for download.
- Tom Nikosey Design
- A designer and illustrator with some very cool artwork in his portfolio.
- UK Signboards
- A good resource for sign makers and sign designers. Looks to be an active forum with sign making experts from around the world.
- US Sublimation Incorporated
- Sublimation = Print on anything.
- Wayne Kaplan
- Another one of those 'Corel Guru' types.
- Window Jeannie
- Alberta Window Painter that does 'Window Painting' courses.
- Xara Corporate Site
- The home of Xara - one of the best graphics apps out there for the Windows platform.
- Xara Xone
- Everything Xara by Gary Priester - an Xara Xpert.
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