Resources for Designers

I discovered I wanted to be a designer back in the 1980s when I was working as an accountant, a job I hated for 26 years. When we started using spreadsheet programs all I wanted to do was design beautiful spreadsheets. I really wasn't interested in the numbers that went in them. I found these resources in a wonderful book I am reading titled A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. It explains why, in the near future, a MFA will be more valuable than a MBA.

Fonts & Typography

www.fontifier.com - Create a font from your own handwriting

Design Studios

Karim Rashid
http://www.karimrashid.com/index.html
Animatrix
http://www.animatrix.com/animatrix.htm

Museums of Design

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
http://cooperhewitt.org/

Design Museum of London
http://designmuseum.org/

The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union
http://lubalincenter.cooper.edu/

Museum of Modern Ar
thttp://www.moma.org/

The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/

V & A (United Kingdom)
http://www.vam.ac.uk/

Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design
http://www.eisnermuseum.org/

Robin Williams (the designer, not the actor
)http://www.ratz.com/