A Critical Architecture Blog | Critique This! » Graphic Resources for Architects http://www.critiquethis.us Critique This is an architecture blog in a magazine format which critically examines the state of architecture within the United States. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:36:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 LEED Accredited Professional 3.0 Vector Logo Collection http://www.critiquethis.us/2010/06/28/leed-accredited-professional-3-0-vector-logos-collection/ http://www.critiquethis.us/2010/06/28/leed-accredited-professional-3-0-vector-logos-collection/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:30:38 +0000 James http://www.critiquethis.us/?p=2556 Related Photos
]]> The LEED Accredited Professional 3.0 vector logo collection contains every official LEED AP logo created by the USGBC in vector format. The logos can be downloaded in Adobe Illustrator file format, which allows for complete control over the size and style of the logo without loss of clarity. The LEED Accredited Professional 3.0 vector logo collection is available for download absolutely free. If you require the logos in another file format, please contact us, and we will be more than happy to make additional file formats available for download. If you find these logos to be helpful, please make a donation to Critique This! so that we can continue to bring you quality content absolutely FREE!


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Download: LEED AP Vector Logo Set

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Today’s download resource is a 3D Apple Power Mac g5 & Cinema Display combo complete with keyboard and textures. The model has a low polygon count and makes use of textures for most of the detail. I have had 30 or so of these computers in a model and render times and Open GL performance has not diminished. The model is supplied in dwg and fmz file formats. The FormZ file is completely textured, and materials are set up in the model, requiring only minor tweaks. This is the only computer I use in my renderings, because it is dead sexy and instantly makes any space cool. If you have any problems downloading the model please contact me, or if you require the model in another file format please post comment below. If you would like to see a resource added to this site, please comment and I may already have it modeled, and if not, I will add it to the list of things to do!

Download: 3D Apple Power Mac G5, Cinema Display & Keyboard.(dwg file format 655kb) Texture maps are included, but must be mapped.
Download: 3D Apple Power Mac G5, Cinema Display & Keyboard. (fmz file format 1,393kb) Texture maps are included in the FormZ file, mapped and with materials defined.

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]]> It’s not just important to be a talented renderer,  developing a great set of resources is essential, and allows you to spend your time on design rather than modeling a lamp. Time spent searching the internet for the perfect sky could be better spent developing a stronger proposal in order to win a new commission or simply meet a deadline.  This posting contains many high resolution (3,000 pixels wide) images of skies that are open source and free to use. Over the years I have developed a plethora of graphic resources that I keep in my satchel (LaCie Little Disk 500 GB Portable Hard Drive, designed by Sam Hecht), and I will continue to organize these resources and post them on this site absolutely free!

Any experienced renderer knows that selecting the perfect sky for a rendering is very important because it is the sky that  sets the mood for the architecture in your renderings.  I used to scour the internet for images of skies that were nice, high resolution images, but after awhile I realized that I was fully capable of creating my own sky images for use in renderings. In the future I will create a series of video tutorials that will show you step by step the process that goes into creating a sky and different techniques that are easy to incorporate into your renderings, but make a huge difference.

All of the images available for use on this post have been taken with my Nikon D50 digital SLR camera, which unfortunately is no longer available and is a few years old now, I just wanted to give the Nikon brand a little plug here because they really make great cameras.  Most of the images posted in this post have been photographed by myself and digitally altered for use in renderings.  The others are images which I have found on the internet and have altered for use as entourage.  This post will continually be updated to contain all of the sky images that I have used over the years. The images posted on this site are open source and serve as a free resource for anyone that would like to use these images in their own renderings. If this resource proves helpful, please make a donation to our chosen charity. It requires time to develop these images, but more importantly it requires hardware, software and other resources to produce great digital content free for you to use.  Again if you find these resources useful please make a donation to our site so that we can continue to bring you great content.

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]]> This is the first resource of what I hope to be many in the Graphic Download page.  The LEED Certification Logo Set is a set of 2d and 3d logos that I have created for visualization purposes and for LEED presentation slides.  The 2d logo set is pictured below and includes all four of the LEED logos in Adobe Illustrator vector format.  At the bottom of the page 3d files of the LEED logo are available in dwg and fmz file formats.  If there are other LEED graphic resources that you would like to see added to this site, please contact us and we will do our best to track them down.

If you are in need of LEED AP 3.0 logos visit our LEED Accredited Professional 3.0 Vector Logo Collection.

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LEED Linework Logo Set
LEED Certified 3D Logo Set

The LEED 3d logo set includes one file with the wording for the certified, silver, gold and platinum logos on different layers. Simply turn on the layer associated with the logo that you wish to use.  The 3d logo set is available in dwg and fmz file formats below:

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