Graphic Design Resources
Below is a list of 99+ graphic design resources, in English and (and a few other languages), that all designers must know about.
It is sorted by category (click to go to category):
* General Design
* Web Design
* Resources
* Show Cases
* Development
* Flash and Flex
* Typography
* Video and Motion
* Personal Design Blogs
* Web 2.0
* Relaxation
* Various
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General Design
1 Spunk United
An excellent magazine with a selection of the worlds best artists providing inspiration, interviews, articles and more.
Spunk United
2 FreeLance Switch
The community site of reference for all freelances. You must know this one!
Freelance Switch
3 Computer Arts
The site of the excellent international magazine Computer Arts. I have subscribed to this mag and love it!
Computer Arts
4 David Airey
A graphic and logo designer who shares his knowledge on these areas.
David Airey
5 Behance
A site gathering the portfolios of the artists of the whole world, a true inspiration.
Behance Network
6 Pdf Mags
References all the PDF mags out there! A great resource.
PDF Mags
7 Graphic Design Forum
The most active of the graphic design forums out there. A bit more focused for the beginner designer.
Graphic Design Forum
8 Design Is Kinky
An Australia site focused purely on design news and design in general. Stay up to date!
Design Is Kinky
9 Freelance Folder
A community blog which posts regular articles on freelancing. Very diverse.
Freelance Folder
10 Bittbox
Provides regular resources for design… tutorials, brushes, vectors and more!
Bittbox
11 Vandelay Webdesign
Vandelay Webdesign
Provides very social media friendly articles, large resource lists and tips for web designers.
12 You The Designer
Very complete and diverse range of articles on graphic design.
Computer Arts the U.K.
13 Design You Trust
A daily design magazine, blog and small community, full of new design trends, news and events, great design portfolios and hand-picked design stuff from all over the globe.
24 Ways
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Web Design:
14 Noupe
An excellent site on Web design & the development of the web (CSS & Ajax).
Site Not
15 Smashing Magazine
Information for all. So broad that if you are a designer and you don’t know this site, we all have pity for you.
John Oxton
16 Think Vitamin
Vitamin is a resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs. 50,000 subscirbers can’t be wrong.
Web Appers
17 24 Ways
Web design and development, quality articles are always here.
Vandelay Design
18 A List Apart
Another pillar of the Web Design blog world, very good articles with diversified contributors.
Float Design
19 Site Point
Very diversified site, graphics, css, ajax… Also editor of many Web Design books.
Psd Tuts
20 The Rissington Podcast
Excellent podcasts full with humour of excellent the Web Designer John Oxton and Jon Hicks.
sxc.hu
21 Web Appers
Blog of Open Resources for Web Developers. .
Icon Finder
22 Happy Cog
They publish their best ideas and speak out to the world on web design.
Maniackers Design Make
23- Web Designer Wall
A must have for all web designers and designers out there!
Ads Of The World
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Resources:
24 Design Float
A digg like site for design related subjects. Must know!
Command Shift 3
25- Psd Tuts
The best tutorials on the web. Mmmmm.
Showcase Not
26- Blue Vertigo
The MUST HAVE bookmark of all stock resourceson the net.
The FWA
27- SXC.hu
My favourite stock site, you may notice I use this site for most of my images on this site.
CSS Handled
28- Icon Finder
Self explanitory.
CSS Remix
29- Da Font
Free fonts. Mmmm.
ScreenFluent
30 Maniackers Design Make
A lot of inspiration can be found here along with a lot of free resources. Bit hard to navigate though.
W3C Sites
31- Colour Lovers
Find, create and exchange your pallets of favourite colors.
CSS Beauty
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Show Cases:
32- Command Shift 3
Have you heard of hot or not? This is like that but for web designs, you choose the best website of 2. Great for inspiration.
Pumping
33- Showcase Point
Showcases Flash & CSS sites with several options of sorting.
456 Berea Street
34- Zeniltuo
Large database of all the inspiration sites out there.
Pro Blog Design
35- The FWA
Mainly shows off flash websites but is always of high quality. Great inspiration here.
Ajax Rain
36- CSS Mania
Another showcase site.
CSS3.info
37- CSS Remix
A very good gallery of CSS websites.
CSS Earth
38- Best Web Gallery
A very good selection of designs.
Referencing, Design and Co
39- ScreenFluent
A very good selection of Web designs.
Labs Adobe
40 W3C Sites
Excellent selection of valid W3C sites.
Christophe Coenraets
41- CSS Beauty
A good gallery and it also has very interesting articles on the development of websites with news.
Blog XML
42- Edu Style
The schools and universities have also right to a gallery css, this one is particularly remarkable.
Adobe AIR Tutorials
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Development:
43 – Problogger
Tips on blogging in general. Must have for any blogger.
Problogger
45- Pro Blog Design
Tips on improving your blogs design. Only quality articles here.
Contain 99 High Web Designs
46- WP designer
The blog of reference for all the WordPress developers.
Swiss Legacy
47- Ajax Rain
One of largest Ajax bookshops on the Web.
ICoil Typography
48- CSS3.info
The site of future standards – CSS3.
Design &Typo
49- CSS Earth
Site referring the best articles on the development of CSS on the Web.
The Typographer
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Flash & Flex:
51- Labs Adobe
New technologies and development from Adobe.
Fubiz
52- Christophe Coenraets
Blog of a Flex developer.
Motiono Grapher
54- Adobe AIR Tutorials
The site of for tutorials on AIR.
Graphics Motion
55- Mike Chambers
The blog of Mike Chambers based on programming and technology.
FX Guide
56- The Blog Flash
Blog for Action Script 3 and Flex.
Works Motion
57- Jean Phi Blog
One of the largest French flashers. Has some great work, but the French part may be a problem for some. :P
Elliot Jay Stocks
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Typography:
60 Swiss Legacy
A blog focused on typography, swiss design and the grid.
Stuff And Not Sense
61- I Love Typography
Speaks for itself. A must know.
Loïc SATTLER
62- Design & Typo
The blog of the famous Peter Gabor, posts cool inspiration pieces (in English too).
Iso 50
63- The Typographer
The site on typography for the French.
John Nack Blog
64- Slanted
Large German site on typography.
NetVibes
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Video & Motion:
65- Stage6
YouTube of animation (2d and 3d). Great quality.
Twitter
66- Fubiz
A great blog which posts creative daily inspirational pieces of design. Bookmark this one for sure.
FaceBook
67- Motiono Grapher
International reference for all who are in the motion business.
Contain 99 High Web Designs
68- Video Copilot
Tutorials of creating special video effects.
Discobelle
69- Graphics/ Motion
Italian Blog of Motion, the articles are of great quality and are updated very regularly.
Hype Beast
70 FX Guide
Great Community site of Video and Motion, do not miss this one!
Lense
71- Works Motion
The site of John Dickinson, great inspiration here.
PopRave Blog
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Personal Design Blogs:
72- Elliot Jay Stocks
Just check it out. His name pops up everywhere!
Carsonified
73- Veerle Blog
One of most beautiful blosg on the Web, very complete articles and tutorials, in short a must.
North X East
75- Jina Bolton
Design of Jina Bolton (aka Sushi Monster), author of the book “Art & Science of CSS” and of the excellent conference “Create Sexy StyleSheet.” A very envious portfolio.
Well well well
76- Snook
Blog of the graphic designer, developer, writer and lecturer of Jonathan Snook – very complete tips and tricks for all Web Designers.
Boing Boing
76- Stuff And Nonsense
Super and super blog of Markley, one of best WebDesigners in the world.
W3sh
77- Lysergid
Blog of the excellent French Art Director Loïc SATTLER. Great articles, fresh design.
Topic WordPress Split Da Diz (?e%)
78- Iso 50
Blog of the excellent graphic designer Scott Hansen.
2 subjects
79- John Nack Blog
Blog of John Nack, composed of very complete article on graphics and Adobe.
3 subjects
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Web2.0:
80 NetVibes
The web comes to you. News aggregator plus!
1 subjects
81- Del.Ico.Us
A tool for bookmaking and social media attention, must have!
1 subjects
82- Twitter
Get updates on what your friends, co workers, etc are doing.
2 subjects
83- FaceBook
A website where you can pass your life.
1 subjects
84- Flickr
The social site of photography – a great number of people are present there with new photographs to discover each day.
3 subjects
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Relaxation:
Places for just browsing – Areas that most designers are interested in. (ie. Fashion, Music, Design)
85- Vinyl misuses
A magazine about toys.. Must check this site out, some really cool designs.
The blog of the boss
86- Discobelle
Excellent site of music, showcases music videos, parties, etc.
For good badges
87- Hype Beast
Magazine for fashion design and culture.
The blog of Pierre
88- Lense
A French reference for all those who wish to know some more about photography.
That good
90 PopRave Blog
Underground culture of the clothes industry.
A small good cendar
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Various:
91- All Graphic Design
A site for everything graphic design related.
All Graphic Design
92- North X East
Articles for bloggers.
93- Ads Of The World
Web site which publishes all of the worlds ads. Great inspiration here.
94- LogoPond
Logo Design Inspiration
Logo Pond
95- Logo Design Love
A blog focused totally on Logo Design. Regular articles and resources.
Logo Design Love
96- Split Da Diz
I have translated his page from French into English as he was the original poster of this article however I changed the French sites he recommended into English ones, fixed the old links he had posted and changed the order of some items…
97- Boing Boing
A genearl directory of wonderful things.
98- Business of Design Online
Pretty much anything to help a design business grow online.
Just Creative Design
99- Just Creative Design
Who else would have brought you this massive English list of 99+ graphic design resources? We provide graphic design tips, resources and articles for all.
http://justcreativedesign.com
