Art and Design

Access Art - http://www.accessart.org.uk/index.php

A series of visually exciting and innovative 'online workshops', specially created by AccessArt.

Adobe Photoshop Express - https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

Online Photoshop Tool.

Art, Design & Visual Thinking - http://char.txa.cornell.edu/

An online textbook on design.

Art Teaching - http://www.artteaching.co.uk/

Contains student galleries, lesson plans, and numerous links to art galleries, history of art references and colleges.

ArtsEdge - http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html

For the American curriculum but the site provides great links for art and design.

ArtsEdNet - http://www.getty.edu/education/

The Getty Museum's art education website, containing lesson plans, ideas & image galleries.

ArtisanCam - http://www.artisancam.org.uk/home.php

This site provides an insight into the lives of contemporary artists. Using a mixture of video and interactive activities, it introduces learners to the world of contemporary visual art before encouraging them to have a go themselves in fun and exciting ways.

Axis - http://www.axisweb.org/

Axis provides information on contemporary visual artists and craftspeople.

Colour in Motion - http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/

An interactive experience of colour communication and colour symbolism.

Color, Contrast & Dimension - http://poynterextra.org/cp/colorproject/color.html

An online guide to colour theory.

Computer Arts Online - http://www.computerarts.co.uk/

Online British magazine aimed at those using computers for art/graphic design of any kind.

Design Council - http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/

Case studies, resources and links to range of other relevant organisations.

Design Directory - http://www.designdirectory.co.uk/

A directory of design consultants in various design areas.

eStudio - http://www.e-studio.ac.uk/PaintBox/PaintBox.html

An X4L JISC funded project - Interactive Learning in Art & Design.

Furniture Design - http://www.ifloor.com/flooring-advice/the-furniture-resource.html

This guide offers links to sites on furniture history, antiques, furniture museum exhibits, furniture-making programs and associations to help you get started.

Internet for Image Searching http://www.tasi.ac.uk/training/tutorials/imagesearching

This is a free-to-use online tutorial to assist staff and students within the education sector to locate images for use in teaching and learning. The emphasis of the tutorial is on finding copyright cleared images and other visual resources.

NEADS - http://www.nsead.org/home/index.aspx

For teachers of art, craft or design in school or further & higher education with information about resources, events, in-service education, publications, research, & careers in art and design.

Pieces at teh Prado - http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/prado/

Use Google Earth technology to navigate reproductions of the Prado's masterpieces, delving even deeper into the Prado's collection. In Google Earth, you can get close enough to examine a painter's brushstrokes or the craquelure on the varnish of a painting.Experience art in a new way. Open Google Earth, check the 3D buildings layer on the bottom left panel, go to the Prado and access the masterpieces.

Wordle - http://wordle.net/

Wordle is an online tool for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

World Wide Art Resources - http://www.wwar.com/

This site is one of the largest collections of fine art information.

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