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Area of Design - Area of Design is an organization that showcases established and emerging artists, designers, commercial firms, and non profit groups based in the United States.
Coolest Designs -The best web sites directory
Spoono - The Designers Playground.
Design Addict - THE portal for Modern and post-modern design lovers. Virtual exhibitions, interviews, designers and manufacturers index, links directory, free ads, books and more.
Design Directory - A design directory filled with resources for all types of designers.
Design Directory cc - A directory made by designers for designers
Design Dump - The design dump is your total graphic design resource for graphic design books, web design books, news, articles, links, conferences, statistics and much more.
Digital Thread - A large and great looking design directory.
Digital Refueler - Your daily portion for creative inspiration.
Design Feeds - Graphic Design News Feeds.
Designer's Jumpola - The ultimate start page for desktop publishers and web designers
Designers Network - The Designers Network is a creative design community and directory of designer sites.
Design Snack - Puts a different spin on today's link portals. We think stimulating your taste buds to get you hungry for design is a pretty unique thing, so we called our design entries "snacks" and anyone can submit a snack.
Design Taxi - TAXI is an international multidisciplinary design network that features the latest design news, design competitions, design websites, design portfolios and design events across the global creative industry.
Dexigner - Graphic Design News and Competitions.
Digital Art Links - Digital resource links for digital artists
Dreamer - Inspirations for the Mind. Portal of design inspiration.
Figoo - A great design portal that gets 20 new links to its site every week.
Go Dote - A design portal community of Indonesian Designers that contains design news, design stories, a store, forums, and a showcase.
Graphic Brain - Graphic Brain is a specialized search engine and a personal assistant focused on the technology, products and equipment (incl. software) used by the graphic arts, printing and publishing industry.
Graphic-Design.com Design, typography, graphics, illustration, writing, printing, publishing, advertising, signs, displays and information for graphic communicators of all kinds!
Graphic Design Schools - Directory of Graphic Design Schools and Colleges. Search our network of schools and request free information.
Graphic Org - Interesting design portal.
Ideabook - A place learn how-to design and market anything
Linkdup - World wide web graphic design links
Publish
RGB The online magazine for electronic
publishers
Many Great Misc Tips - Painter, Photoshop, Xara, Corel, and PaintshopPro
Misspato - Directory of Inspiring Web Sites.
Moluv - The best of the best, if you will. These sites are all beautiful, innovative, functional, and consistent.
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DesignPrimer.com - An easy-to-understand guide
to graphic design,
printing, fonts and more.
Net Diver - A digital culture magazine and portal for designers.
Netzministerium - A great German Design Portal (in English).
Newstoday - Awesome site for new and great work.
No Limit Media - A collection of the best designs on the Web
Plastic Pilots - Plasticpilots.com assigns awards to web sites featuring excellent design.
Project Neo - Your daily graphic design refueler.
Strange Fruits - art and design portal.
Style Boost - Sweet and lovely design links since 2001
Surf Station - Because content is king.
Upward Link - Really nice design portal
Visual Designer - Another Inspiration portal - Find inspiration for your next design project.
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