Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Art Jobs & Careers
A resource for exploring a wide range of careers in the arts, from advertising and animation to video games and web design.
Kentucky Educational Television
Kentucky Educational Television: Kentuckians in the Arts
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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lester Beall
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Lester Beall is described here along with information on his contributions to art through achievements in graphic design.
Other
Art Daily: Stray Dogs Opens at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Carlos Cortez
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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Jennifer Morla
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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Leonard Baskin
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Leonard Baskin is described here along with information on his contributions to art through graphic design and sculpture.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Circle Designs
In this lesson, young scholars explore circumference and diameter by creating an abstract design with circles. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
Other
U.washington: The Basics of Poster Design
An in-depth site from the University of Washington on poster design and communicating ideas through various visual media. This site covers standard posters but also contains links for creating poster with Adobe PageMaker and Microsoft...
Other
Biddington's: Pop Art
Includes a definition of Pop Art, artists who contributed to the movement, and where they did so.
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Australian Designers at Work
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.
EL Education
El Education: Graphic Lettering Alphabets
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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American Institute of Graphic Arts: Art and Propaganda
Read an illustrated transcript of Milton Glaser's keynote address to a symposium on propaganda held in 2008, in which he muses on the purpose of art. Glaser, a celebrated graphic designer whose work is represented in major museums around...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Joseph Binder
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Joseph Binder in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Enrique Chagoya
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Enrique Chagoya is described here along with information on his contributions to art through graphic design and illustration.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ivan Chermayeff
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Ivan Chermayeff is described here along with information on his contributions to art through graphic design.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Off Book Collection
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...
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Talking Textiles: How Do Textiles Talk?
Interactive series of graphics, with samples of the Bayeux Tapestry and an adire cloth from Nigeria Explains how to look closely at the imagery, color, and patterns of textiles to undercover their hidden meanings and symbolic content.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Multimedia Artist or Animator
If you have an artistic bent combined with an interest in computer graphic design, the career of multimedia artist or animator might be something for you to consider. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements needed to become a...
Other
Write Design Online: Glossary of Terms
This is a comprehensive glossary of terms pertaining to literature, writing, art, graphic design, and technology.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rockwell Kent
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Rockwell Kent is described here along with information on his contributions to art through painting, graphic art, and writing. His graphic art included poster design.
Other
Vocational Informational Center: Graphic Arts and Printing Careers
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.
Other
Graphic Greats: Photo Treatment
This resource presents an article about the use of photos in documents.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: m.c. Escher
An awesome review of the M.C. Escher exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. There are 24 images of Escher's works here out of the 330 that the National Gallery has on hand. There is also a biography on Escher that is very useful.