The Best Graphic Design Articles from 34 Top Design Blogs as Chosen By The Authors Themselves
Written by Jacob Cass on Monday, April 21, 2008 – 10:27 pm
I went around to the top graphic design blogs on the net and asked their authors to choose their best or most popular graphic design article that they have ever written and here are the results. I present to you…The Best Ever Graphic Design Articles as chosen by the authors themselves.
They are in no particular order but I have organised them into categories.
- Graphic Design
- Web Design
- Picture Based Posts
- Tutorials
- Other
- Thought Provoking Articles
Graphic Design
- 99 Graphic Design Resources ALL Designers Must Know from us at Just Creative Design
- The Dos and Dont’s of Colour from Inspiration Bit
- Top 50 Graphic Design Blogs from David Airey
- My Top 5 Biggest Freelancing Mistakes from Freelance Folder
- Best Logo Design Resources from Logo Design Love
- 8 Little Design Secrets from Leslie Tane Design
- How Can We Stop The Thieves from Elliot Jay Stocks
- How To Be A Design Superstar from Design Sojourn
Web Design
- The 25 Ways To Improve Your Site in 5 Minutes from Fadtastic
- Applying Hicks Law To Web Design from Alpha Blog Designs
- 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time from Noupe
- 77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer from Vandelay Design
- A Guide To Web Typography from I Love Typography
- Extensible CSS (A Series of articles) from Cameron Moll
- How to use WordPress to build a website with user-generated content from Creative Briefing
- Student Questions: What Should I Study To Become A Web Designer? from Positive Space Blog
Picture Based Posts
- 36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work from Job Mob
- Cool Business Cards from Inspiredology
- 20 Beautiful HDR Pictures from Adubzeedo
- Save The Earth from Mohdrafie
- Coffee Kiss from Design You Trust
- The Kotatsu - A Different Way Way of Thinking About Tables from Core77
Tutorials
- The One Page Graphic Design Portfolio Guide from You The Designer
- Vector Polishing Techniques from WebDesignerWall
- The Ultimate Guide To Designing with Black from Spoon Graphics
- Give Your Resume A Face Life from LifeClever
- Using the Blend tool and Distort Zig Zag Effect in Illustrator from Veerle
- Removing Wrinkles and Keepin’ It Real - How to use the Healing Brush and Patch Tools from Laughing Lion Design
Other
- The Art of Self Branding - from LeaLea Design
- Interview with Poster Designer Jason Munn - Small Stakes from GrainEdit
- Kick Butt Holiday Gifts For Designers from Bad Ass Ideas
- Recent Great Graphic Design Discoveries from Graphic Design Blog
- Wordpress as a CMS - Content Management System from Graphic Design Blog.co.uk
Thought Provoking Articles
- 99 Designs: Bullshit 2.0 - from Graphic Push
- What Do You Consider Good Design from Creative Curio
- Poynter’s Eye-Tracking Follies from Andy Rutledge
- You TOO Can become a graphic designer from The Graphic Mac
Best Graphic Design Blogs
Here is the list of all the graphic design blogs who partipated. Thank You!
- Creative Curio
- Graphic Push
- The Graphic Mac
- Andy Rutledge
- Graphic Design Blog
- Bad Ass Ideas
- GrainEdit
- Veerle
- You The Designer
- Spoon Graphics
- LifeClever
- Design You Trust
- Job Mob
- Adubzeedo
- Inspiredology
- Mohdrafie
- Fadtastic
- Alpha Blog Designs
- Noupe
- I Love Typography
- Vandelay Design
- Cameron Moll
- Laughing Lion Design
- Creative Briefing
- Positive Space Blog
- Inspiration Bit
- Logo Design Love
- Design Sojourn
- David Airey
- Freelance Folder
- Elliot Jay Stocks
- LeaLea Design
- Core77
- Leslie Tane Design
- Just Creative Design (Don’t forget us!)
I know there are many many more great blogs out there so please leave a comment with a link to the best blog article you have ever written - it doesn’t have to be related to design.
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By Armen (4 comments) on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
Hey Jacob!
Pretty awesome collection. Chris Spooner made a good choice with his article; I found it extremely informative when he first published it.
SU’d and Dugg!
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By Jacob Share (9 comments) on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
Stumbled, Dugg and Floated. Great roundup, nice work compiling this, Jacob.
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By Jennifer (4 comments) on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
Thanks, Jacob for inviting me to participate. There’s tons of great stuff on your list.
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By Toon (4 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Really great articles, going to take some time to get through them all - Thanks
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By David Airey (44 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Hey Jacob, thanks again for asking me to join in. All the best with it.
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By Sarah (9 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Great list of design article. You really did a good job.
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By inspirationbit (42 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
added my 21st digg on April 21st, so hopefully #21 will be the lucky one for you to get this article to Digg’s front page
Thanks for the invite. Lots to read here. Great job, Jacob.
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By kaaliss (1 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
wow!!
how am i suppose to work if i need to see all this stuff!!?
great great list, ty
By Rafie (16 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Hehey! Thanks Jacob! I’m glad to be featured on the ‘Picture Based Post’.
1 simple message to all designers:
Please DON’T leave your Mac/Pc overnight as it is enough to make 1000 cups of coffee.
Happy Earth Day!
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By Geoserv (1 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
STUMBLED!
Fantastic post, thanks for the hard work.
VOTED for this post at:
http://www.newsdots.com/bloggi.....-articles/
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By RedesignYourBiz.com (1 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Woooooooooooooow………….. thanks a lot for that lovely collection.
By Jeffrey Way (12 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Hey, Jacob. New reader here from Nashville, Tennessee. Great blog. I check in every couple days here. …Great resource.
By Libor Fikr (1 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Hey. Great list!
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By Lea (1 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Hi Jacob, thanks for making me a part of this list. It’s nice company.
By Steven Snell (10 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for including me Jacob!
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By Jon Phillips (5 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Hey Jacob, thanks a bunch for putting all this together and for including FreelanceFolder. Now let’s Digg it
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By Brian Yerkes (30 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
I love the Noupe 101 CSS tips and resources! MIssed that post! Thanks Jacob, excellent resource
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By Jacob Cass (429 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Armen, Jacob, Jennifer, Toon, David, Sarah, Rafie, Steven, Jon, Brian
Thank you and your welcome.
Vivien,
Well 80 diggs hasn’t sent much traffic but we will see how the Digg community likes it. StumbleUpon sent about 5000 visits over night though.
Kaaliss,
Work? who needs that
Geoserv, Jeffry, Libor, Lea
Welcome to Just Creative Design, it is always good to have new readers / commentators. Hope you stick around.
By Kelly (49 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Jacob,
Very cool. A lot of these are new to me—it’s gonna take a week to go through them!
I know what I’m doing whenever I need a mental stretch for a while…
Regards,
Kelly
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By LaurenMarie - Creative Curio (79 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the chance to participate, Jacob. This will be a list to refer back to! Stumbled
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By Zinni (13 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
I floated, Dugg, and Stumbled the post
Thanks for the inclusion…
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By Desmond Haynes, Jr. (1 comments) on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
Super collection! Dugg, SU’d…
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By liam (32 comments) on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Great collection, going take me a while to read through them all. But I’m looking forward to it, they seem really useful resources, thanks.
By Fubiz (4 comments) on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Excellent roundup !
By SHAAY (1 comments) on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
butiful and its realy use full site
By Chad Mueller (2 comments) on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the invite to participate Jacob.. this is a great idea and I look forward to seeing more of these great posts.
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By modemlooper (31 comments) on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Great list I’ve read a few of these posts and they are awesome
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By Noura Yehia (3 comments) on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Thanks, Jacob for inviting me to participate.
Excellent roundup !
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By Joel (1 comments) on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Don’t forget :
8 ways to drive a graphic designer mad :
http://groy82.blogspot.com/200.....r-mad.html
By DT (6 comments) on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
Nice one and great job Jacob! Thanks for getting me involved.
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By Web Developer India (1 comments) on Apr 28, 2008 | Reply
Well featured list of design article. You really did a good job, including i was willing to find these sort of web design articles.
By petnos (6 comments) on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
great list. thanks buddy…
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By compwrite (1 comments) on May 17, 2008 | Reply
nice article, i really appricate it
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By James Kurtz III (4 comments) on Jun 17, 2008 | Reply
Great post! Thanks for the resource!!
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By Fred (1 comments) on Jul 11, 2008 | Reply
I really enjoyed the visit of your awesome site here. So much wonderful info and great gathering of wonderful people.