14 Awesome Design Resource Websites

Design niche is one of the more dense ones around. There are many quality blogs that focus on various aspects of design, from typography, tutorials and resources, to web design and logo design. If you are interested in any aspect of design, you would find the blogs and websites listed here interesting.

As always, suggest your favorite design resources and blogs in comments below, I’m sure we can all benefit from sharing sites that we have not come across. Good suggestions will be included in part 2 of this roundup, to be posted next week.

1. Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazines design inspiration comes in the form of tutorial roundups, and also beautiful free font roundups. This is definitely the blog to subscribe to, as they will most likely blog about something you’re more interested in later on.

2. Noupe

Noupe

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. (stole this from their about page!)

3. Design Float

Design Float

The holy grail of design inspiration. When someone blogs about design, it will normally make it to Design Float, so the rest of us can find it :)

4. Positive Space

Positive Space

Mostly for inspiration, this blog brings us web design and graphic design inspiration. They’ve also recently redesigned their site, so be sure to check it out.

5. Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design is most helpful in bringing us tutorial roundups, including some of my own tutorials, which is really nice of them! They also blog about very helpful design and freelance tips.

6. Pro Blog Design

Pro Blog Design

As the name suggests, Pro Blog Design is a blog about web design. There are plenty of helpful WordPress theme tricks on this site, such as separating Trackbacks from Comments, which I personally used.

7. Just Creative Design

Just Creative Design

Just Creative Design, blog focused on design and creativity.

8. Nice Web Type

Nice Web Type

I’ve known about Nice Web Type since the start, and I love the site, but it hasn’t exactly been up-to-date over the last few months.

9. Typographica

Typographica

Best blog around on typography.

10. Colour Lovers

Colour Lovers

Beautiful colors – lots of them! Colour Lovers also stock nice patterns.

11. Dezignus

Dezignus

Dezignus blogs about free vector resources.

12. Vecteezy

Vecteezy

Vecteezy only stock the best, free vectors for your photoshopping or illustrating needs!

13. Brusheezy

Brusheezy

Not as good as vectors, but still have some value! ;)

14. iStockPhoto

iStockPhoto

If you have a few bucks to spare for your next design, iStockPhoto is the place to spend those few bucks. They have everything you could possibly need, plus there are some awesome textures in the ‘dollar bin’, where they will only set you back one credit.

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Comments
  1. Rachel said at 1:30 am on August 27, 2008

    Nice list. You might want to check out my All Graphic Design Resources ;-)

  2. Twitterbies said at 12:51 am on July 17, 2009

    Thats amazing!! What about twitterbies.com?

  3. iris said at 4:19 am on July 17, 2009

    nice post! you can also check http://scarletbits.com they are new and realy promising

  4. Sumesh said at 6:39 am on July 17, 2009

    Thanks for your suggestions, guys. Twitterbies and Scarletbits look good, I’ll add them to part 2 of this post (yep, it’s coming soon).

  5. Danny Hinde said at 8:01 pm on July 17, 2009

    Good compilation, I love SmashingMagazines site, they’re all excellent. Thanks for sharing.

  6. Michael said at 3:26 am on July 22, 2009

    Great list. Actually a few there I’d never been on before. Thanks for sharing. Check out this link for a few more really inspirational sites – ‘Quick-stop Creative Inspiration’ http://tinyurl.com/nmfm25

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