99 Sites All Designers Must Know About

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

For more resources you can check out the 101 Places To Get Design Inspiration. Also don’t forget to subscribe for more graphic design resources.
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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

Spacer
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
Spacer
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