📝 Penn Week 7b – Visual Research Workshop, CSS Animations

đź’¬ Visual Research Workshop

As we’re working on our Fan Page mood boards, I want to encourage everyone to continue building out their personal references and image libraries. Anything can be visual research, but it might be helpful to observe a few resources and practice sourcing images a class.

đź‘€ Image Sourcing Ideas

Image Archives


Illustrators and Photographers

Look for the photo/illustration credits in publications, and research these individuals.

→ Starting point: NYTimes article (Could also be Refinery29, Bloomberg Business Week, Instagram, Vice, etc.)

Illustrator Archive

Graphic Design Stores

Tumblrs, Blogs

Museum Collections


Vimeo, Youtube

Searching for types of content, digging deeper. I like to search for “MTV Idents” and then see what else people are creating. You can also search for particular artists on these platforms and then see who they follow, who likes their videos etc.

Looking up design studios on social media, seeing what they follow and look at. Look up who works at these companies, see what their websites look like, what their social feeds look like.

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