101 Design resource sites
We love prowling the web for the latest trends and design
inspiration. Here we have composed a list of common resources we use.
The primary focus of this list is inspiration, it can come from a
photograph, font, or a website. The secondary focus is improving your
design skills, which can be done by keeping up to date with tutorials
and reading other graphic design blogs. We hope you enjoy our personal
list of great sites, and we will be adding to this list in the coming
weeks and months as there are a lot of great new sites coming online
every other day now.
Free Font Downloads
Free Fonts and Other Resources: Web
Page Publicity
Huge Collection of Free Fonts: Da
Font
Nice Selection of Free Fonts: Urban
Fonts
Fonts and Other Freebies: Simply The
Best Fonts
1001 Free Fonts for Download: 1001 Free Fonts
Over 9000 Free Fonts: Creamundo
A Small List of Free Fonts: Best
Free Fonts
Paid Font Sites
A Large Selection of Fonts for Purchase: My Fonts
Quality Fonts for Purchase: Veer
Information and Fonts for Purchase: Fonts
Font Resources and Sales: Font
Haus
Stock Photos and Vectors
The Best Stock Photo and Vector Website: iStockphoto
Quality Photos for Purchase: Shutterstock
Stock Photos and Other Pay Downloads: Veer
Quality, Affordable Vectors for Purchase: Vector Stock
Stock Photos With a Great Selection: Jupiter Images
Stock Photos and Photography Network: Stock Vault
Quality Stock Photos: Corbis
Free Photos and Vectors
Submit Vectors or Download Others for Free: Open Source Vector Art
Tons of Great Free Vectors and Photos: Deviant Art
59 Pages of Free Vector Art: Free
Vectors
Large Gallery of Free Vectors: Vecteezy
Quality Vector Downloads: Vector
4 Free
Neat Collection of Free Photos From Around the World: Free Stock Photos
Great Collection of Free Vectors and Resources: You
The Designer
Great Free Stock Photos: Free
Foto
A List of Free Downloads: Bittbox
700 Free Stock Photos: Free
Picture Click
Website Templates
A Few High Quality Wordpress Themes: Evan Eckard
Over 2000 Free Web Templates: OSWD
A Small Selection of Nice Templates: Open Source
Templates
A Large List of Free Templates: Free CSS Templates
Nice Wordpress Templates for Download: Free CSS Templates
A Combination of Free and Pay Templates: Free Templates
Online
Affordable, Quality Templates: Templamatic
Free Blog Templates: Blogging
Themes
CSS Galleries
The Best Sites on the Web: CSS Remix
A Frequently Updated Gallery of Sites: CSS Mania
An Organized List of Nice Sites: Most Inspired
CSS Gallery of Quality Sites: CSS Design
Yorkshire
A Selection of Only Nature Based Sites: CSS Nature
A Selective List of Well Designed Sites: Web Creme
High Quality CSS Showcase: CSS
Tux
Nice CSS Websites: The
Designed Tree
A CSS Collection Organized by Category: CSS Elite
Inspiration
A Great Site About Everything Type: I Love Typography
An Incredible Illustrator: Burst
of Beaden
A Great Designer and Illustrator: Fully Illustrated
Customizable List of Design Resources: Cork Dump
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada: GDC
Freelance Advice Blog and Resources: Freelance Switch
Amazing Collection of Logos: Logopond
Stunning Desktop Wallpapers: Desktopography
A Graphic Design Magazine: Computer
Arts
Tutorials
The Best Photoshop Tutorials: PSD Tuts
A Talented Photoshop Designer: Abduzeedo
Photoshop Tutorials and Web Design Resources: Web
Design Library
Tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator and More: Tutorial Vault
A Few Neat Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials: Design
Spice
Great Photoshop Tutorials and Downloads: PS Wish
Tutorials for Every Computer Program: Tutorialing
Free Photoshop Downloads
A Couple Free Patterns for Download: Design
Spice
Free Photoshop Brushes: Design
Fruit
Free Photoshop Actions: Visual
Blast
Tons of Free Photoshop Brushes: Brusheezy
A Few Nice Free Photoshop Brushes: Obsidian
Dawn
Great Grunge Brushes and Others: Photoshop
Brushes
Free Background Patterns for Photoshop: Free BG
Over 150 Free Background Patterns: Squidfingers
Design Blogs
A Frequently Updated Design Blog: Veerle’s Blog
A Design Magazine and Blog: Smashing Magazine
A European Design Blog: Design
In Europe
A Unique Nerdy Blog: Design
You Trust
The Personal Blog of a Graphic Designer: Larissa Meek
A German Design Blog: David
Hellmann
The Blog of a Canadian Geek/Model: Mostly Lisa
A Graphic Design Blog: Bittbox
A Blog About Freelance Graphic Design Advice: Freelance Switch
A Design Blog Full of Resources: You The Designer
A Popular Design Blog: Fazai
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Colour Palettes
A Flash Site of User Generated Colour Palettes: Adobe Kuler
Using Colours From Photos: Colr
Colours, Palettes and Patterns: COLOURlovers
A Colour Palette Generated From Your Images: Color
Palette Generator
See The Results of Your Palette on a Website: Color Spire
Create and Email Colour Palettes: Color
Blender
Tips and Tricks
Vector Do’s and Dont’s: iStockphoto
The Web Design Polish: PSD
Tuts
Promote Your Design Business: Freelance
Switch
How To Increase Web Traffic: You
The Designer
Coders
Quality Programming: XHTMLized
Professional Web Slicing: PSD
Slicing
XHTML in 24 Hours: We
Use Scissors
Affordable, Quality Coding: PSD2HTML
From Design to Code, Quick and Cheap: Front Enders
Designer Geek Merch
Great Nerdy Clothing and Accessories: Veer
Nice T-Shirt Collection: Design
Loot
Graphic Design T-Shirts and Accessories: Cafepress
Geek Merchandise For Everyone: Think
Geek
Graphic Design T-Shirts: Zazzle
Unique T-Shirt Designs You Can’t Find Anywhere Else: Allmightys
Newly added resources (Thanks everyone for the link
suggestions)
A fantastic resource for finding information on corporate
brand identity: Brands
of the World
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