Blogroll

• A Digital Dreamer Learn more about graphic design careers, including what training is needed as well as salary information.
• AIGA The Professional Association for Design
• AIGA: Chicago The Chicago chapter of the AIGA
• Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation .
• Behance Network Creative Portfolios, Projects, and Collaborations. A new platform for the creative professional community.
• Cool Hunting a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them.
• Core 77 Since 1995 Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals.
• D*Hub D’Hub brings the world’s best design collections out of the basement, connecting them with news, interviews, opinions and ideas across the breadth of design.
• DESIGN 21: Social Design Network DESIGN 21: Social Design Network’s mission is to inspire social activism through design. We connect people who want to explore ways design can positively impact our many worlds, and who want to create change here, now.
• Design Boom Industrial design today: courses, education, competitions, history and contemporary, shop, interviews, snapshots, design-aerobics, it’s aperitivo time
• Design For Mankind Through photography, product design, style and craft, Design for Mankind is dedicated to showcasing the talents of the emerging art and design community.
• Design Friends Design Friends is a non-profit association gathering together people who are interested in design and its creation, whether it is graphic or not. We will, together with our members, propose many activities such as conferences with well-known designers, ev
• Design Matters – Debbie Millman Design Matters with Debbie Millman is a thought-provoking internet podcast, which profiles industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers and educators.
• Design Meltdown What you find here is a collection of hand picked, hand cataloged web sites. The goal is to inspire, challenge and inform you.
• Design Observer Features critical essays and selected writings of design culture.
• Design Resources THERE IS A WHOLE HEAP OUT THERE HERE IS YOUR START…collected and loosely organized links to design related information, work and resources.
• Design Talk Board LATEST NEWS – Keep up-to-date with the latest graphic design industry news.
• Design*Sponge Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney.
• design:related design:related(tm) is a community site and inspiration tool that brings together creative people from different disciplines (and parts) of the design world. Design:related serves to motivate designers to share ideas, inspire, and be inspired.
• Designer Sobriety This site is brought to you by the good folks at Rule29. Our goal is to share with you the things we have learned, observed, or refined over the last 15 years.
• Designers Toolbox Design tools for creative professionals. Print resources, online guides, legal forms, and much more.
• Digital Thread Dedicated to the graphic designer, Digitalthread is the oldest existing web design community web site.
• Emigre A digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design related software and printed materials based in Northern California.
• Favourite Website Awards Web Awards recognising the very best in cutting edge website design.
• Freelance Switch We are a community of freelance professionals from around the world, spanning all manner of fields.
• Fun is Learning A resource for everything concerning graphic design students and young professionals.
• Gig Posters This site is dedicated to the artists, designers and musicians who create amazing gig posters to advertise shows and events.
• Handmade Nation Handmade Nation documents a movement of artists, crafters, and designers that marry historical techniques with a punk and DIY (Do It Yourself) ethos.
• Hillman Curtis Hillmancurtis, inc. is a film and web design firm in New York City. Principal and Chief Creative Officer, Hillman Curtis, founded the firm in 1998, after three years as Art Director at Macromedia, Inc.
• History of Graphic Design A website dedicated to putting forth the amazingly rich history of graphic design.
• Hoefler and Frere-Jones Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world’s foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography.
• HOW Magazine HOW magazine’s goal is to help designers, whether they work for a design firm, for an in-house design department or for themselves, run successful, creative, profitable studios.
• I love Typography (ILT) ILT is designed to inspire its readers, to make people more aware of the typography that’s around them.
• Indexhibit A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound.
• Interactions Magazine The human-built world can afford a sense of beauty, sublimity, and resonance, and through our advancements in technology can come advances in society. At the center of these advances are interactions – conversations, connections, collaborations, and relat
• It’s Nice That It’s Nice That is focused on publicising, promoting and archiving the very best contemporary work from across the creative industry.
• Logo Pond A website dedicated to helping inspire creativity in logo design.
• MOMA's Tall Buildings New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s permanent tall buildings exhibition presents a focused study of twenty-five tall buildings around the world.
• Never Sleep To demystify the transition, we share the failures, successes, and surprises during our years in college and progression into the field: the creative process, monetary problems, internships, interviews, mistakes, and personal relationships.
• Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
• Omnispace A website dedicated to all things architecture and more.
• Pinball Publishing Pinball Publishing grew out of the owners Laura and Austin’s desire to be involved in their own design projects from conception to final printed manifestation.
• Posters for the People In 2008 we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal presidency and his vision for a hopeful and strong America.
• ReadyMade: Instructions for Everyday Life Readymade.com provides great ideas for everyday life including home decor, home design, DIY (Do It Yourself), kitchen designs, and home improvement.
• Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers.
• Stefan Sagmeister: Answers For Students Stefan Sagmeister’s advice, ideas and maxims to live by all gread towards students and all in one place!
• Swissmiss Swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a ’swiss designer gone NYC’.
• TED: Ideas Worth Spreading TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
• The Cool hunter The Cool Hunter celebrates creativity in all of its modern manifestations.
• The Daily Monster Stefan G. Bucher of 344design.com creates a brand new monster every day, time-lapsed before your very eyes.
• The Design Encyclopedia A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design.
• The Donut Project On The Donut Project, we will post anything that inspires us, makes us laugh, makes us think or pisses us off. Design is not only about literal design, and this site won’t be either. If we like it, whatever it may be, it’ll be here.
• The FontFeed A daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world.
• The Webby Awards The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
• Things I have learned in my life so far Stefan Sagmeister’s website and extenstion of his book “Things I have learned in my life so far.”
• Time Tracker Time Tracker is a simple tool to keep track of the time you spend on any task. Think of it as a to-do-list with a clock. And yes, it’s free.
• Under Consideration A growing network and enterprise dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. At times intangible, its purpose is to question, push, analyze and agitate graphic design and those involved in th
• Visual Culture Visual Culture is a daily design blog that presents a fresh mix of visually inspiring material as it relates to modern day life.
• We Love Typography WLT is an image, video, & text ‘bookmarking’ site that is wholly dedicated to type-related content.