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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1 Spunk United
An excellent magazine with a selection of the worlds best artists providing inspiration, interviews, articles and more.
2 FreeLance Switch
The community site of reference for all freelances. You must know this one!
3 Computer Arts
The site of the excellent international magazine Computer Arts. I have subscribed to this mag and love it!
4 David Airey
A graphic and logo designer who shares his knowledge on these areas.
5 Behance
A site gathering the portfolios of the artists of the whole world, a true inspiration.
6 Pdf Mags
References all the PDF mags out there! A great resource.
7 Graphic Design Forum
The most active of the graphic design forums out there. A bit more focused for the beginner designer.
8 Design Is Kinky
An Australia site focused purely on design news and design in general. Stay up to date!
9 Freelance Folder
A community blog which posts regular articles on freelancing. Very diverse.
10 Bittbox
Provides regular resources for design… tutorials, brushes, vectors and more!
11 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.
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.
Web Design:
14 Noupe
An excellent site on Web design & the development of the web (CSS & Ajax).
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.
16 Think Vitamin
Vitamin is a resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs. 50,000 subscribers can’t be wrong.
17 24 Ways
Web design and development, quality articles are always here.
18 A List Apart
Another pillar of the Web Design blog world, very good articles with diversified contributors.
19 Site Point
Very diversified site, graphics, css, ajax… Also editor of many Web Design books.
20 The Rissington Podcast
Excellent podcasts full with humour of excellent the Web Designer John Oxtonand Jon Hicks.
21 Web Appers
Blog of Open Resources for Web Developers. .
22 Happy Cog
They publish their best ideas and speak out to the world on web design.
23- Web Designer Wall
A must have for all web designers and designers out there!
Resources:
24 Design Float
A digg like site for design related subjects. Must know!
25- Psd Tuts
The best tutorials on the web. Mmmmm.
26- Blue Vertigo
The MUST HAVE bookmark of all stock resourceson the net.
27- SXC.hu
My favourite stock site, you may notice I use this site for most of my images on this site.
28- Icon Finder
Self explanitory.
29- Da Font
Free fonts. Mmmm.
30 Maniackers Design Make
A lot of inspiration can be found here along with a lot of free resources. Bit hard to navigate though.
31- Colour Lovers
Find, create and exchange your pallets of favourite colors.
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.
33- Showcase Point
Showcases Flash & CSS sites with several options of sorting.
34- Zeniltuo
Large database of all the inspiration sites out there.
35- The FWA
Mainly shows off flash websites but is always of high quality. Great inspiration here.
36- CSS Mania
Another showcase site.
37- CSS Remix
A very good gallery of CSS websites.
38- Best Web Gallery
A very good selection of designs.
39- ScreenFluent
A very good selection of Web designs.
40 W3C Sites
Excellent selection of valid W3C sites.
41- CSS Beauty
A good gallery and it also has very interesting articles on the development of websites with news.
42- Edu Style
The schools and universities have also right to a gallery css, this one is particularly remarkable.
Development:
43 – Problogger
Tips on blogging in general. Must have for any blogger.
45- Pro Blog Design
Tips on improving your blogs design. Only quality articles here.
46- WP designer
The blog of reference for all the WordPress developers.
47- Ajax Rain
One of largest Ajax bookshops on the Web.
48- CSS3.info
The site of future standards – CSS3.
49- CSS Earth
Site referring the best articles on the development of CSS on the Web.
Flash & Flex:
51- Labs Adobe
New technologies and development from Adobe.
52- Christophe Coenraets
Blog of a Flex developer.
54- Adobe AIR Tutorials
The site of for tutorials on AIR.
55- Mike Chambers
The blog of Mike Chambers based on programming and technology.
56- The Blog Flash
Blog for Action Script 3 and Flex.
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
Typography:
60 Swiss Legacy
A blog focused on typography, swiss design and the grid.
61- I Love Typography
Speaks for itself. A must know.
62- Design & Typo
The blog of the famous Peter Gabor, posts cool inspiration pieces (in English too).
63- The Typographer
The site on typography for the French.
64- Slanted
Large German site on typography.
Video & Motion:
65- Stage6
YouTube of animation (2d and 3d). Great quality.
66- Fubiz
A great blog which posts creative daily inspirational pieces of design. Bookmark this one for sure.
67- Motiono Grapher
International reference for all who are in the motion business.
68- Video Copilot
Tutorials of creating special video effects.
69- Graphics/ Motion
Italian Blog of Motion, the articles are of great quality and are updated very regularly.
70 FX Guide
Great Community site of Video and Motion, do not miss this one!
71- Works Motion
The site of John Dickinson, great inspiration here.
Personal Design Blogs:
72- Elliot Jay Stocks
Just check it out. His name pops up everywhere!
73- Veerle Blog
One of most beautiful blosg on the Web, very complete articles and tutorials, in short a must.
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.
76- Snook
Blog of the graphic designer, developer, writer and lecturer of Jonathan Snook – very complete tips and tricks for all Web Designers.
76- Stuff And Nonsense
Super and super blog of Markley, one of best WebDesigners in the world.
77- Lysergid
Blog of the excellent French Art Director Loïc SATTLER. Great articles, fresh design.
78- Iso 50
Blog of the excellent graphic designer Scott Hansen.
79- John Nack Blog
Blog of John Nack, composed of very complete article on graphics and Adobe.
Web2.0:
80 NetVibes
The web comes to you. News aggregator plus!
81- Del.Ico.Us
A tool for bookmaking and social media attention, must have!
82- Twitter
Get updates on what your friends, co workers, etc are doing.
83- FaceBook
A website where you can pass your life.
84- Flickr
The social site of photography – a great number of people are present there with new photographs to discover each day.
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.
86- Discobelle
Excellent site of music, showcases music videos, parties, etc.
87- Hype Beast
Magazine for fashion design and culture.
88- Lense
A French reference for all those who wish to know some more about photography.
90 PopRave Blog
Underground culture of the clothes industry.
Various:
91- All Graphic Design
A site for everything graphic design related.
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
95- Logo Design Love
A blog focused totally on Logo Design. Regular articles and resources.
96- Split Da Diz
I have translated his page from French into English as he was the originalposter 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.
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.
More Sites You Should Know About
- DesignFlavr -The masters of Design and Illustration.
- Inspiredology – The social media master of design. Inspiration at its best.
- DesignMeltDown – Categorises websites into categories for inspiration.
- Creative Briefing – A web workers blog.
- ImageAfter - A great stock site.
- IgniteMotion – Free motion backgrounds.
- CSS Artillery – A showcase of web standards across the globe.
- CreativeBits – A mac orientated website around design.
- Communication Arts – The essential creative resource.
- Designers Who Blog – A blog dedicated to designers who blog among other things.
- NO-SPEC – Educate the public and designers about speculative, or ‘spec’ work. Must read.
- Creative Latitude – A worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice.
- Foto Search – A stock photography & footage site.
- Passpack Tour – Free online password manager.
- Free Website Templates – Free website templates for inspiration.
- Logo Of The Day – A logo design inspiration gallery that gets updated daily.
- Logo Designer Blog – A blog focused purely on logo, branding and identity design.