Note: All links are provided as a service. DCTC and the VCOM Department are not responsible for accuracy of information provided on the websites.
General
- DCTC Library – Graphic Design
- Graphic Arts Blue Book
- GASC Graphic Arts Show Company. Producer of events.
- Workbook.com
- Yahoo!: Business: Graphic Design
- CIP4 International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress. Press and Postpress Organization
- GRACoL General Requirements for Applications in Commercial Offset Lithography
- ICC International Color Cnsortium ISO 15076-1
- OSHA Assistance for the Printing Industry
- NPES Standards Workroom With links to CGATS, B65 and ISO TC 130 and US TAG
- PDFzone Online authority for PDF and document management professionals
- Planet PDF
- Printers’ National Environmental Assistance Center
- SWOP: Specifications Web Offset Publications
- Glossarist: Printing Glossaries and Printing Dictionaries
- Glossary of Printing Terms
- Graphic Design Glossary from ARS Logo Design
- Graphic Design Glossary from Design Talkboard
- Visual Dictionary Online From Merriam-Webster, access to over 6,000 images
- Webreference.com From Internet World
- Yahoo!: Graphic Design
Design/Page Layout
- Adobe Design Center
- Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design
- Design & Publishing
- Design Talkboard Graphic design news, resources, forums and reviews
- Desktop Publishing
- Digital Thread
- Graphic Design From About.com
- Labels and Labeling
- Ad Access Ads from 1911-1955
- Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design
- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Printing
- Resources for the History of Books and Printing University of Pennsylvania
- Publishers’ Bindings Online 1815 – 1930 The art of books
- Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders & Book Designers
- Printmakers A-Z Georgetown University
- Print Portfolio From the Brooklyn Arts Council
- Printmaking From Crown Point Press
- Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center
- Briar Press A community of printers and artists dedicated to the preservation of letterpress
Typography
- TypeIndex.org Fonts from all over the world
- The Scriptorium Original fonts adapted from historic source material
- ABC Typography: A Virtual Museum of Typography
- www.ilovetypography.com
- www.dafont.com
- www.fontfont.com
Logo Design
Software /Tutorials
Magazines/Periodicals
- Print magazine – www.printmag.com/
- Printing Impressions
- Printing News
- Publish
- Advertising Age
- American Printer
- Digital Output Magazine
- DT & G Magazine Electronic journal of design, typography and graphics
- Commercial Printing News
- Communication Arts
- FontSite
- Graphic Arts Online
- How Design
- Information Week
- International Designers Network (IdN)
- Upper and Lower Case Magazine
Professional Organizations/training/career info
- American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
- PIM: Printing Industry of Minnesota
- GAIN: Graphic Arts Information Network Portal to the printing industry
- AAP: Assocaition of American Publishers
- AGAT: Association for Graphic Arts Training
- American Print Alliance
- American Printing History Association
- Flexographic Technical Association
- Gravure Association of America (GAA)
- IAPHC The Graphic Professionals Resource Network
- IDEAlliance International Digital Enterprise Alliance
- IPA: Assocaition of Graphic Solutions Providers
- MPA Magazine Publishers of America
- NAPIM: National Assocaition of Printing Ink Manufacturers
- NAQP: National Assocaition of Quick Printers
- National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL)
- NPES National Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies
- Newspaper Association of America
- NPTA Alliance Association for the Paper, Packaging and Supplies Distribution Channel
- PIW: Printing Industries of Wisconsin
- PMA: Publishers Marketing Association
- SGIA: Specialty Graphic Imaging Association
- SPTA: Screen Printing Technical Association
- TAGA: Technical Association of the Graphic Arts
- TAPPI: Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry
- WPA: Waterless Print Association
- Fine Print Knowledge Center
- Graphic Arts and Printing Career Guide
- Graphic Comm Central Portal for graphic communications and training