LINKS & STUFF: The Designer’s Toolkit, Pantone and The Help

Here are a few of our favourite links from this week. Feel free to peruse Art Departmental’s Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or our brand new Google + Fan Page for more art department and film related goodies! Circle us on Google + and we’ll be sure to circle you back.

Photo of the Month

Designers were asked around the world which apps they most used for their various design needs. Click the graphic above for the full infographic with all the results.

Links of the Month

• 10 ways to be a more efficient freelancer just in time for those New Years resolutions.

• Architectural Digest interviews Production Designer Dean Tavoularis about designing Roman Polanski’s Carnage.

• Production Designer, Clay Griffith talks about his past art department work and gives some insight into the design of We Bought A Zoo including a few drawings which illustrate how they built the zoo in the film.

• “Bookmark This” alert – 26 gorgeous free retro fonts!

• Set Decor interviews Rena DeAngelo, Set Decorator on The Help.

• Check out this gorgeous Pantone-branded hotel in Brussels.

• Virtually visit the World’s most beautiful subway stations.

• Take three minutes out of your day to watch The Holstee Manifesto below- you won’t regret it.

Video of the Month

How was your week? Did you find any great links online this week?

Alison

Posted by Alison Hickey

Alison Hickey is a set designer based in Toronto. Her credits include 'Schitt's Creek', 'The Good Witch', 'Remedy', and 'Spun Out'.

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