I think learning about typography would be a good stepping stone to learning design in general.
Start off by reading Typography for Lawyers and iA’s post “Web Design is 95% Typography”. Both links have great advice and talk about the fundamentals of typography and type on the web.
If the last links perked your interest than I recommend picking up The Elements of Typographic style. It is a great bible on the subject at the macro level.
hackdesign.org is pretty good provided you actually take their advice and look into the materials provided.
For example: there are 5 typography related 'modules' in the top level list.
In module 1. 'Dive into Typography', there are 6 different resources within.
From the one of those 6 resources, here are a list of materials mentioned:
* book - Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals [0]
* book - The Elements of Typographic Style [1]
* book - Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works [2]
* post - Unicode Beginners Introduction for Dummies Made Simple [3]
I've found this to be the norm for most posts, they may not cover absolutely everything about a single topic, but they will most definitely point you to somewhere that will.
This one is short
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
but see the collection of additional threads at the bottom of that thread.*
Also, Bringhurst: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin...
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*I like the "local masters" concept Tufte has (full disclosure, I helped prototype it), and Wikipedia does something similar.
Start off by reading Typography for Lawyers and iA’s post “Web Design is 95% Typography”. Both links have great advice and talk about the fundamentals of typography and type on the web.
If the last links perked your interest than I recommend picking up The Elements of Typographic style. It is a great bible on the subject at the macro level.
[1]http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/
[2]http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typogra...
[3]http://www.amazon.ca/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bring...
For example: there are 5 typography related 'modules' in the top level list.
In module 1. 'Dive into Typography', there are 6 different resources within.
From the one of those 6 resources, here are a list of materials mentioned:
* book - Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals [0]
* book - The Elements of Typographic Style [1]
* book - Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works [2]
* post - Unicode Beginners Introduction for Dummies Made Simple [3]
I've found this to be the norm for most posts, they may not cover absolutely everything about a single topic, but they will most definitely point you to somewhere that will.
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[3] - http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/un...