TREVOR ROBERTS
USEFUL LINKS & RESOURCES
GRAPHICS & DESIGN
ISO Equipment Symbols - Collection of standard symbols/icons used on machinery & equipment of all types.
The Engineer's Sketchbook - Exhaustive visual dictionary of devices, assemblies, movements & contrivances for use in designing machinery.
Biodiversity Heritage Library - Over 300,000 scientific illustrations of all types of wildlife.
Indieground.net - Free and Paid textures, fonts, overlays, & other misc. graphical resources.
Eycndy.co - Visual catalog of motion graphics techniques.
Standard Highway Signs - Federal Highway Administration handbook of highway signage design standards.
The Noun Project - Thousands of free icons & symbols available as vector files.
Fonts In Use - Catalog for identifying fonts used by real-world organizations.
Dafont.com - Thousands of free & paid fonts.
Atomic Rockets - Thorough encyclopedia & reference guide for designing realistic spacecraft, space stations, space colonies, etc.
Consumer Aesthetic Research Institute - Ongoing catalog of visual & thematic styles found within print & commercial interiors.
Dimensions.com - Dimensioned drawings of common/everyday items and spaces.
RetroWDW.com - Archive of vintage photos, maps & ephemera from Walt Disney World.
Unsplash.com - Collection of thousands of free stock photos.
ShadedRelief.com - Exhaustive resource for creating National Park Service maps and diagrams.
Old Robots - Visual catalog of thousands of vintage robots and robotic products.
RECOMMENDED READING
How to Draw by Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order by Francis D.K. Ching
Building Construction Illustrated by Francis D.K. Ching
H-Point: The Fundamentals of Car Design & Packaging by Geoff Wardle and Stuart Macey
Presentation Techniques by Dick Powell
Architects' Data by Ernst Neufert
Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything by Aaron Draplin
The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration by Elaine R. S. Hodges
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.