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A Web journal of the best Graphics, Graphic Design, Web Design, & Digital Arts Sites on the Internet, as well as articles, reviews, and commentaries....also listed here.
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The idea behind this blog is primarily to be a channel for me to write down some ideas, experiments, news, and a lot of thing that I see online and probably will forget in a couple of months. Basically it is an archive of my adventures online as a designer on the daily basis. Another thing that I want to do with this blog is to improve my english skills, as a brazilian and non-native speaker of english, it's a good way to practice it.
A blog for the creative graphic designer.
Another graphic design blog.
The best and the worst in advertising and design.
Asterik (Now called D.Keith Robinson)
Asterisk is (according to Google) the #1 Web design blog in the world.
An inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism.
A List Apart Magazine and Blog explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
Learn to design and create beautiful design layouts.
The excellent design blog creation of Cameron Moll.
BittBox is a great blog that likes to give away only the best quality stuff to help designers everywhere, and to post workflow tips to help people work faster. Bittbox is a community of professionals (and non-professionals.
A blog of inspirational and design resources
Computerlove {cpluv.com} is a unique social platform and source of inspiration for talented creatives. You can find inspiration and get fresh, hot design news .. . Share you work with talented and awarded creatives (Population: 17, 000+) .. . Stay connected with creative people you know and admire .. . Promote yourself to find a job or get famous !
Blog of frequent, sometimes lengthy discussions of electronic, Web, and print topics.
Design Magazine Blog as well as a great resource for designers.
One of my favorite graphic design and web design blogs.
News and Views on visual communication from the writers and readers of Creative Review.
An Apple Design Community and Blog.
Creative Curio is about exploring and discovering (or rediscovering!) the world of graphic design and how exciting it can be to create! It will be like my yoga class; there are beginners and there are the more advance students, and the instructor always shows variations on poses for each level. Every visitor should find something useful here. I will cultivate a community of learners by sharing my knowledge, skills and understanding and having you share your own, too. You can learn so much from other people’s experiences!
The personal web log of Mike Lee, a web information architect living and working in Baltimore.
David Airey Graphic Design Blog
One of my favorite Graphic Design blogs, including graphic design topics such as Advertising, Art, Blogging, Branding, Business cards, Colour, Copywriting, Creative resources, Critiques, Dealing with designers, Graphic design, Logo design, Marketing, Music, Personl, Photography, Portfolio, Poster design, Printing, Typography, and Web development.
Posts helpful and inspiring posts about graphic design and typography.
Articles about web design, blog design, and CMS design.
The goal of Design Reviver is to provide Web Designers with valuable information. Here you will find useful tutorials, free downloads, sources of inspiration, and articles covering a wide range of web design related topics.
Design Sojourn catalogs DT’s journey in design. A journey that, should you decide to follow, will teach you how to do good design and create clever products.
‘Designers who Blog’ is about blogging designers. Due to the slop over in the industry, also included are illustrators, photographers, writers, advertisers, marketeers and more.
DesignNotes originally started in Canada though is now published in New York. Michael Surtees tries to see life filtered through design as opposed to placing design on a pedestal, once in a while food and music slip on in to the discussion. When Michael is not talking about design, he’s the Design Director of Daylife. Please keep in mind that the views expressed on this blog are solely Michael's, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts and opinions of anyone else. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees.com.
Designer Daily is a blog for designers and webdesigners by Mirko Humbert, a Swiss graphic designer who shares his thoughts on design, ressources and tips for designers, beautiful stuff & more. Don’t worry if you are not a designer, you are also welcome to browse around and enjoy yourself.
Design View is the creation of Andy Rutledge who is a designer, writer, composer, and bonsai artist. Andy writes about design culture, professionalism, and technique from the perspective of how human perceptions govern the fundamentals involved.
Elite By Design is a freelance and web design community website where bloggers, web designers, and graphic artists can come to share innovative ideas and opinions. We offer a multitude of resources ranging from Photoshop freebies to blogging tips, to help getting noticed online, and how to get started as a freelancer. No matter what your online occupation may be, you are sure to find some interesting articles and some great tools and tips to improve your online career.
Blog about thoughts and observations about design, information architecture and design history
Some of the blog musings may be a bit removed from basic print design and desktop publishing but there are interesting links to news and other tidbits of general design interest. Updates more or less weekly.
Used to be called The Serif - a great blog about Typography and Graphic Design.
This site is an open forum where everyone is welcome (and encouraged!) to exchange ideas and tips. It’s not just for designers either. Writers, photographers, graffitists…come one, come all. There will be new posts a couple times a week and depending on the moods of my dogs, sometimes more than that. Check back often. It is my hope that you will…
Graphic Design Blog is a semi-automated blog with aggregated news and comments. All quotations come with full attribution to their authors. Posted using Technorati and Google sources. Thumbnail previews come from Thumbshots.org.
Peter This work is published by Peter Grossmann, cofounder of the acado.com ebusiness research group.
Grain edit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period. Site content includes interviews, articles, designers’ libraries as well as examples of rare design annuals, type specimens, Ephemera, posters and vintage kids books from our bookshelves.
Graphic Define Online Magazine is all about encouraging professionals in the graphic, web, and interactive industries to share their tips and experiences that have helped them in their business endeavours.
Graphicpush is a sporadically but faithfully updated blog on a variety of topics affecting creatives, including management issues, business, freelance, design, web development and much more.
One Guy, Two Eyes. The Blog of a Graphic Design Student
Graphic design blog is to share views on design books, websites, graphic design programs, graphic design training, design employment, freelancing, ideas and all things graphic design.
A blog that summarizes all the going ons within the Graphic Design forum.
Hicks
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The Blog / Journal of Jon Hicks, a freelance print and web designer based in Oxfordshire, UK. He create sites built with web standards, design print materials and have a thing about creating icons.
IDblog is Beth Mazur tilting at power law windmills. A little bit Internet, a little bit technology, a little bit society, and a lot about designing useful information products. Send your cards and letters to.
Eric Karjaluoto discusses design, brands, and his experience.
I love Typography (iLT) was born on August 8, 2007; I, on the other hand was born in 1969. iLT was born from a desire to bring the subject of Typography to the masses. All too often, articles on typography are rather bland and, although informative, do little to elicit feelings of wow.
InfoDesign supports the growth and application of information design. Information design helps people and organizations achieve understanding through the creation of relevant, clear and memorable information.
This blog provides readers with topics on Web design and development, Art and Photography, other bloggers, tutorials on various topics, site reviews, internet prodigies and much more.
Inspiredology is a new resource that covers everything that inspires us. Most sites show Best of galleries and massive databases of thumbnail sized screen shots of css sites. We are here to give you what our name says, we are here to inspire. If you find yourself stuck or looking on how you can make your project better, visit inspiredology.com to get yourself out of that dark creative hole.
ISO50 includes a lot of amazing examples of design as well as commentary.
Another one of my favorites. Just Creative Design is a blog which focuses on graphic design, offering free graphic design tips, articles & resources on all subjects of design, ranging from, but not limited to; print design, logo design, web design, branding, typography, advertising & more! It also showcases my graphic design portfolio.
Still Designing for Moolah.
If you're looking for a wide range of Photoshop tips, tricks and tutorials, and some design resources and inspiration, then please check out the blog. It's updated several times each week, here's some of the latest posts:
Because it's nice to say it twice. Thoughts on design, business, the web, and beyond!
The best of Logo Design Love.
Maniacal Rage is the weblog of Garrett Murray, filmmaker, web developer and creator of the OS X application xPad.
My name is Marco Lüthy and I was born on January 14th, 1986. This makes me 19 years old. marco.luethy.net is my weblog and homepage which I have actively been keeping up since 2000.
Not really a blog, but there are almost daily Typography and Fonts News updates.
A blog about web and graphic design, the creative industry and multimedia.
NETTUTS is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.
Written by Ben Terrett, a Graphic Designer in London. This blog is primarily about graphic design followed by design in general and then some related stuff about communication, ideas and inevitably brands.
NOTCOT is a visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements. NOTCOT's two sites have become the daily sources of inspiration for creatives everywhere, fighting the good fight against "creative block" since 2005 with visually stunning imagery, the latest in international trends, and a passion for all things well designed.
Noupe passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from; CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more. Our goal is to help you communicate effectively on the web with an engaging website or functional interface.
Rich and Shameless.
One of the best blogs for graphic designers.
The writings on Positive Space are considerably different than other “design” blogs. The topics range from the typical inspirational roundup to functional articles based around running a successful agency and working as a professional graphic designer.
PSDTUTS is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain in a friendly, approachable manner.
Quipsologies is a division of UnderConsideration and is bent on keeping the design community aware of as many things as possible through an ever-growing cluster of creative morsels found on and offline.
The Randa Clay blog centers on Design, Marketing, Blogging, Branding and all things Creative.
The glasshouse of designer Shaun Inman featuring insights on websites, css and design accompanied by original music.
Blog from SimpleBits. SimpleBits is a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Founded by web designer and author, Dan Cederholm
Simon Willison's Weblog of PHP, Python, CSS, XML and general web development.
Six Revisions is a weblog the provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate. You’ll find a variety of content from tools that can speed up your workflow processes to showcases of beautiful designs for inspiration and tutorials on JavaScript frameworks like jQuery and MooTools.
One of the best design blog for web designers and blog designers out there. Lists of tools and resources are what I get from Smashing Magazine.
A division of UnderConsideration and contains design dialogue.
Blog.SpoonGraphics is the personal project of Chris Spooner, a UK based Graphic/Web Designer. The site acts his digital playground where he presents Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials, Free Vector Resources and Articles on the topic of Graphic Design.
A blog by Stop Design. A design consultancy based in San Francisco, California, Stopdesign specializes in a simple, beautiful aesthetic, balance of form and function, and highly flexible design.
StylizedWeb is a blog about web trends and tutorials, KnowHow community forum designed and maintained by Dejan Cancarevic who also runs Serbian IT job board at itPoslovi.info
Khoi is working at The New York Times as the Design Director and writes about design topics.
Swiss Legacy, by the initiative of Xavier Encinas, is a collaborative blog focused on typography, swiss graphic design and grid.
Tina Roth Eisenberg is a 'swiss designer gone NYC'. swissmiss is her visual archive of things that 'make her look'.
The leading package design blog.
This site represents Cameron's desire to create a content driven, standards compliant Internet with a certain amount of pretiness. At the moment this means the Web structure is written in valid eXtensible HTML, using Cascading Style Sheets to control all visual styling, and a custom Perl backend to grab all the data.
A blog about art, design, inspiration, and thougts on design.
Tutorialblog was started in 2005 to provide Photoshop Tutorials on various techniques and effects. It was acquired in 2008 by Hecta Media with aims of broadening the scope of the site and becoming a useful resource for beginner and intermediates alike.
This blog was created and developed by Akhtar Sheikha, a Pakistani designer living in Karachi Pakistan. I am a Graphic Designer as well as blogger. I have been freelancing since 2002. I like to playing around with web designing tools such as Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop CS3 and designing WordPress Themes, I also enjoying development with XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and testing out different tools and Softwares.
A great Typography and design blog.
TypeNeu is an odyssey in typography. TypeNeu reports on the past, present and the future of typographic culture, with main focus on typefaces and applied typography in different forms. Typophile is a common diagnosis, and yes this is the cure.
A daily journal / blog of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.
Through the Vandelay Design Blog there is helpful and informative posts that meet the needs of their readers. The majority of their readers are web designers or online entrepreneurs of some sort.
In 2003 the author discovered Web Standards after seeing the CSS Zen Garden and the work of Douglas Bowman. Since then she has never looked back and I'm actively promoting the benefits of Web Standards through this personal journal. Her dream is that she have a small contribution in making the interweb a better place.
We Function Prides themselves on giving you Great design & Functionality, providing a website that will impress on first looks, and continue to impress as you explore it.
You the Designer is a graphic design blog dedicated to providing you with quality graphic design tips, graphic design resources, graphic design news and much more!
A graphic design blog by a working freelance graphic designer.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report: web design news and information since 1995.
List of Graphic Design Podcasts on Topics Graphic Design, Web Design, Typography and More - Podcasting is a radio show like production that is typically listened to on an iPod (hence the 'pod in podcasting) or other audio player that supports mp3. This is a great list of graphic design podcasts.
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