99 Sites ALL Designers Must Know About

Written by Jacob Cass on Monday, February 25, 2008 – 3:59 pm

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):

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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… Visit his site!

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.

Just Creative Design

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79 Responses to “99 Sites ALL Designers Must Know About”

  1. By speckyboy (1 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    Excellent resource list. I have dugg it. Keep it up.

    speckyboy’s last blog post..53 Steps to follow if you want to become Freelance Web Designer/Developer (60+ Resources)

  2. By Mark Bloomfield (1 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    Awesome post! Well researched…

    My addition:

    Wikkid Apps is a great showcase of awesome web applications for a wide variety of applications.

    Mark Bloomfield’s last blog post..Pulse

  3. By Dexter | Techathand.net (8 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    A very good resource… I like it ( Stumble )

    Dexter | Techathand.net’s last blog post..WordPress Tips : Is it good to Use Excerpt

  4. By kroma (1 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    Great Collection

  5. By Dmitry (1 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    Jacob, great job!

  6. By Tjobbe (1 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    Great set of links there, but a lot of your title tags on the links are completely muddled up.. Tjobbe’s last blog post..Facebook fading away?

  7. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks everyone for the comments.

    Thanks Tjobbe. I have no idea how all the title tags just swapped everywhere, never seen it happen before?

  8. By thomas (1 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    you forget http://sharebrain.info :-)
    thomas’s last blog post..CSS Addict - Blog

  9. By john (17 comments) on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply

    Absolutely great list!
    I’m bookmarking it!

    john’s last blog post..Coolest Ads Ever

  10. By Ray (3 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    A friend of mine told me about this website: http://www.designmeltdown.com. It tags websites by different design elements and gives descriptions of each of the elements - pretty useful IMHO.

  11. By Chad Mueller (2 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    A great blog that offers inspirational designs, showcasing posts full of brilliant images, logos, websites and more.

    Chad Mueller’s last blog post..120 Brilliant Logos

  12. By Brian Yerkes (47 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Hi Jacob,

    Great extensive list. You’ve got “Web Designer Wall” listed as “Web Wall Designer” in number 23 and 74 though…

    thanks for the list, great work

    Brian Yerkes’s last blog post..Logo Design Contests - Good or Bad

  13. By Tristan Bethe (1 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    As alternative image resource why not give http://www.imageafter.com a try?

    Or find lot of other free image resources on the forum:
    http://www.imageafter.com/foru.....ead_id=250

  14. By Jessica Sprague (1 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    This is awesome! Thank you for putting this list together!

    Jessica Sprague’s last blog post..And the winners are….

  15. By David Airey (52 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks for the mentions, Jacob. I’m pleased with how you’ve signposted both my blogs, and how they stand out quite nicely. Blues and reds are always effective at attracting attention. Just ask a news reader.

    David Airey’s last blog post..70 of the best logo design resources

  16. By Tyler (2 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Great post!
    Add Ignitemotion.com to the sites for free video content.

    keep it coming!

  17. By jesusOmar (6 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Great, I didn’t know about half of this sites. Thanks

    jesusOmar’s last blog post..January 2008 Desktop

  18. By anglictina (1 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    WOw, really great list

  19. By johno (2 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    A very good list, and quite a number I’ve never herd of. This should keep me busy for the next few days. Didn’t I see you on Lauren’s blog the other day?

    johno’s last blog post..Sunday Type: fruity type

  20. By Jenny (10 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Oh wow. I haven’t heard of some of these. I’m just starting my business so checking these out would prolly be a good idea huh?

    Jenny’s last blog post..Share The Food You Love

  21. By CSSArtillery (1 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    You forgot http://www.cssartillery.com :)
    CSSArtillery’s last blog post..Peminoz.com

  22. By peter gabor (1 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    thank’s Jacob for this magnificent promotion. it’s a honnour for me to be among so prestigious links.

    the bests | peter

    peter gabor’s last blog post..“Pauv’con” | LaCie | Spams et calculs arithmétiques

  23. By DM (2 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Great list, a few I’d not seen before, thank you!

    Quick note of a typo:

    76- Stuff And Nonsense
    Super and super blog of Markley, one of best WebDesigners in the world.

    “Markley” should be “Malarkey” (roughly translated as balivernes).

    :-)

  24. By inspirationbit (47 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    excellent post, I’m sure Digg users will digg it ;-)

    I was wondering why this list was familiar to me - now that you mention that French site, everything makes sense. Still you’ve put lots of work into this - well done.

    inspirationbit’s last blog post..A Bit Of Literature - Mr. Know-All

  25. By DM (2 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Er… I don’t know why I add the French in there, for some reason I assumed you were French mother tongue. Have now read your About page and realised that *ahem* you’re not. Sorry!

  26. By kristarella (61 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Wow, great round-up!

    I’ll bookmark it :)

    BTW the two titles called “[something] Point” are showing up as “[Something] Not”. Very odd :P

  27. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Thomas, thanks for the site add.
    John, Thanks for bookmarking, along with the other 700.
    Ray, Thanks for that add, I think designmeltdown deserves to be added as well :)
    Chad, Thanks for the comment chad, you social media posting king :P I will add your site too.
    Tristan, Thanks for the link to Image After, I use that site too! I will add it.
    Jessica, Your welcome.
    David, Your welcome too. Yes they do stand out don’t they!
    Tyler, I have added IgniteMotion too :) Jesus, Your welcome.
    Anglictina, Your welcome.Johno, It will keep you busy for many many days :P And yes I am a regular over on Creative Curio.
    Jenny, What type of business are you starting?
    CSSArtillery, I have added your site. Thanks.
    Peter. Your welcome, your site deserves it
    DM, Thanks for the point out.
    Vivien, Unfortunately Digg users did not digg it as much as StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us
    Kristarella, Thanks for the point out.
    Thanks to all visitors too!

  28. By David Airey (52 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Thought you’d like to know, the link from Logo Design Love goes to Ads of the World.

    Where the images eating too much bandwidth?

    David Airey’s last blog post..70 of the best logo design resources

  29. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    Sorry David you are correct. Something went strangely wrong when I copied this post from Dreamweaver, you will notice all of the title texts are completely muddled up.

    Some links also went weird, and words went back to front… ie. Web Designer Wall went to Web Wall Designer. And ‘Showcase Point’ went to ‘Showcase Not’ - No idea what happened, there has never been a problem before. I have fixed it up now.

    Yes the images were chewing right into the bandwidth. 3.5mb per visit.

  30. By David Airey (52 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    No worries at all. Interesting that you draft your posts in Dreamweaver.

    David Airey’s last blog post..70 of the best logo design resources

  31. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    I find it a lot quicker, especially for adding pictures and you have more control over the layout and more functions as well. For smaller posts I use the Wordpress built in one.

  32. By Jim (3 comments) on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    I’m truly hurt. You didn’t mention my site (thegraphicmac.com) ;-)

    And how about CreativeBits.org and Adsoftheworld.com - both excellent resources as well.

  33. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    Your site seems to be down Jim. Ads of the world was mentioned. I will add CreativeBits.Org - Thanks!

  34. By Brian Yerkes (47 comments) on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    Jacob / David,

    I use Dreamweaver also for most of my posts, if they include several images, special formatting etc. It is much easier and you can also have more control over uploading images and graphics…gives you complete freedom to put images in different directories etc…

    I actually use Dreamweaver when editing my entire blog…the style sheets etc. I also find this to be much more efficient.

    Brian Yerkes’s last blog post..Logo Design Contests - Good or Bad

  35. By Fubiz (7 comments) on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks for the focus!

  36. By Steven Snell (11 comments) on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks for mentioning Vandelay Design.

    Steven Snell’s last blog post..25 Beautifully Dark Website Designs

  37. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    I agree with you Brian as well.

    Your welcome Steve and Fubiz.

  38. By Cássio Lacerda (1 comments) on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    More than good for it all!
    Thanks.

  39. By Pneumatiky (1 comments) on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply

    Nice, very useful

  40. By Robot Cartoons (1 comments) on Mar 6, 2008 | Reply

    Sweet! Thanks for the links, I bookmarked this page so hard.

    Robot Cartoons’s last blog post..Death and Supreme Knowledge

  41. By Mohammad Amin (1 comments) on Mar 9, 2008 | Reply

    great …
    thanks

  42. By Ryan (10 comments) on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks for the list. thumbs up:)

  43. By Dom (1 comments) on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply

    Stumbled, thumbed, used, thanks! http://www.thevirusmustbestopped.com/

  44. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply

    You’re all welcome :)

  45. By Zoznam Horoskopy (1 comments) on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply

    Useful list, thankx, by the way good design of your website, your work?

  46. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Mar 20, 2008 | Reply

    It is a heavily modified theme :)

  47. By free icons (1 comments) on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply

    Very Nices Work,
    Can you add my free icons site to your list
    http://www.freeiconsdownload.com

    Free Icon Download Offers Over 230 High Quality Royalty Free icons Set, Everything is free there and they are all useful.

    Thanks

  48. By ali Sabet (1 comments) on Mar 27, 2008 | Reply

    hey you forgot http://www.sabet.tv and http://www.mojizu.com
    my 2 design networks!! Awesome article.

  49. By Jacob Cass (635 comments) on Mar 27, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks Ali Sabet! :)

  50. By Webdesigner (1 comments) on Mar 30, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks a lot! This list is awesome. I found a lot of excellent sites for design inspiration. I became your RSS subscriber.

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