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
