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.