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Internet Public Library: Design - provides web links relating to all aspects of Design.

Calligraphy

Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society (CLAS) - aims to promote the study, practice and teaching of Calligraphy in all its forms.

Calligraphy Centre - provides links to resources and organisations.

Letterarts - This site links to three calligraphy sites:  John Neal Bookseller, Letter Arts Review (international magazine for calligraphers and lettering artists) and Tabellae Ansata (quarterly publication of calligraphy, artist's books, bookbinding and books for kids).

Letterheads - provides information for signmakers, pinstripers, carvers, gilders and airbrush artists.

Fashion design

ApparelNews.net - weekly magazine.

Furniture design

FDM Online - Furniture Design & Manufacturing magazine. Good online resource.

Graphic design

Institute of Design, Umeε University - was founded in 1989 and is organised and equipped solely for the teaching of industrial design.

Interior design

D&WC Online - the online source for Draperies & Window Coverings Magazine for interior fashion professionals.

ISdesigNET - Interiors & Sources magazine online with lots of other information.

Jewellery design

JewelryNet - provides information to the jewelrey industry and links to companies, designers, suppliers and provides news. 

Professional Jeweler - monthly trade publication received by retail jewelers and to better serve the changing needs of today's retail jeweler.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 10 April, 2007

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