As a graphic designer, the practice of prowling the web for the latest trends, tips and tricks is a common one. 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 38
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
Jess
May 15, 2008 2:00 pmHey great list! I especially love the links to the t-shirt websites.
Here’s another website for design inspiration: http://www.cssdivine.com
Yudith
May 23, 2008 9:08 amwell this is a very good help for all of us who are always trying to find new stuff to learn about thanks a lot
anggi
June 2, 2008 8:01 pmsome day i will give great free template :D, nice list bro
Joltster
July 8, 2008 8:59 amWow, just wow.
Riz
July 9, 2008 3:03 amSoon I’ll try new design for my website
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Yannis
July 9, 2008 5:14 pmGreat resources…I was about to start searching for something like this…you just save me some time…thanks!
Laran Evans
July 9, 2008 5:35 pmBest collection of resources for great design I’ve found … and I’ve seen many.
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Mas Jabier
July 9, 2008 11:03 pmWell, this is a well recapitulated list. Save my time a lot.
Thanks.
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BoomBuz
July 10, 2008 4:48 amThat’s a fine list, could help lots of new and experienced webmasters
howshouse
July 10, 2008 8:28 pmGreat collection of lists there. love that it’s neatly categorized into l logical subsections. thanks a lot!
CSS Brigit
July 11, 2008 7:09 am…
Extensa lista de 101 websites sobre diseño, incluye galerías de websites, blogs, páginas de recursos, páginas de tutoriales, etc. Visto en CSS Clip Resources….
Beth
July 12, 2008 12:36 pmYour list is extensive and well organized, just the resource I need to redo my site. Right now it’s just optimized for the search engines. Thank you for putting this list together and sharing it!
paresh
July 13, 2008 12:49 amnice useful list. I like it.
Pedro
July 13, 2008 4:56 amNice List…
I will add this post to my list of resources in my new site.
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Mike
July 14, 2008 2:20 pmNice work on this list. I might add a few of my own. *Bookmarked
Trey
July 15, 2008 2:02 amNo mention of brandsoftheworld.com ??
Hamed Miah
July 15, 2008 8:04 amFantastic site with an abundance of resources…I will be coming back more often. Many thanks!
Hamed
Min Thu
July 16, 2008 12:15 amVery nice collections! thanks
Website Design Company
July 16, 2008 4:27 amThanks for compiling this long list. Haven’t yet gone through all of them though.
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Shaka
July 16, 2008 10:52 pmThanks. I like them.
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romina
July 17, 2008 8:46 pmhttp://psdtuts.com
that´s a good one too.
ty! bye
romina
July 17, 2008 8:47 pmi know.. it´s on the list.. lol
Flexo Petinat
July 18, 2008 4:22 amHere I leave you 2 websites with resourser for designers, check this out: http://www.brushesdownload.com this website offer free photoshop brushes for download, also Gradients, Icons and more. Enjoy it !! and this is another website for download True Type Fonts: http://www.fontonic.com free for download. I hope you like this websites !
Urls Sinistras
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Spaksu
July 18, 2008 11:31 pmThanks I Like it..
Mayur
July 19, 2008 6:34 amThanks for providing a Gr8 collection of huge sites
studio design
July 20, 2008 9:54 amWhat about design bookmark sites like http://www.graphic-design-links.com
Avenues_Nepal
July 21, 2008 2:55 amthat’s an amazing collection. sure have to thank you for this list!!
FMS
July 21, 2008 3:51 amthat´s a good one too.
ty! bye
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Fredrik
July 22, 2008 10:31 amNo space for http://www.smashingmagazine.co.uk or http://www.cssbeauty.com?
Projector Rentals
July 23, 2008 7:42 pmNice post… I like it…
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StudioWordpress
July 25, 2008 8:41 pmThat’s indeed a great list of resources. Will blog about it soon
David Mackey
July 25, 2008 10:21 pmAwesome list. Thanks.
Web Design Company
July 27, 2008 11:53 amVery comprehensive list. I’ll have our CMO check to see if we have any that are unique from your and post them with a comment here as well.
Thanks,
Chris Turnquist
CEO- Proteus Design Studio
Graham
July 28, 2008 1:27 pmThanks for compiling this really useful resource for professional designers.
Modulesoft
July 29, 2008 8:57 pmThis is a nice posting. I really like this post.
Cool Interesting Facts
July 30, 2008 4:12 amVery interesting and useful, thank you
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Utah Blogger
August 1, 2008 5:22 pmThis is a great list and your blog’s design is cool as well!
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Affordable Web Design
August 4, 2008 3:55 pmAwesome collection of resources. Thank you for posting the links, especially the ones for free fonts and tutorials!
Janet Lane
August 5, 2008 2:25 pmThanks for the extensive list of resources. I’m still climbing the learning curve and appreciate the info! –Janet
Janet Lane
August 5, 2008 2:27 pmI have a question - I have a 20-minute video of my book signing, and I’d like to put it on YouTube, but they take only 10 minutes or less of video. Is there a simple (please, simple) program I can download to select the ten minutes I’d like to share on YouTube and on my website? Thanks every so much for the help! –Janet
servlet tutorial
August 8, 2008 1:58 amThanks,
Nice list…
Freelance website and graphic designer
August 13, 2008 5:52 amThanks for this list, It’s really a useful one
seo company
August 15, 2008 2:25 amdelicious to stumbleupon such a digg
marquee hire
August 15, 2008 2:26 amloving your work, thanks!
Carrie Farley Web Designer
August 25, 2008 12:00 amOther than ColourLovers I would list Color Schemer as the top color picking mashing site out there. Some brilliant themes and you don’t need to use their application to get some great inspiration.
Yannick
August 25, 2008 3:40 amHello,
another great stockphot site is Van Beek Images (Dutch, English and Italian)
http://www.vanbeekimages.com
Nik
August 25, 2008 6:42 amMy congratulation with first place in overall count on Olympic Games. Basketball team was the best!
CSS:Jockey
September 1, 2008 7:14 pmGreat List, Very Useful, keep it up, Thanks for sharing.
WarMac
September 22, 2008 5:42 amhttp://www.sxc.hu/ is another nice site with many free stockphotos.
Nice summary by the way.
Football Manager 2009
September 29, 2008 1:07 amGreat list mate, thanks alot
Grant
October 1, 2008 11:13 amyou can find lots of stuff for graphic and web designers at http://www.lordofdesign.com
Ovi Dogar
October 3, 2008 12:02 amExcellent resources! Keep up the great work!
Ovi Dogar
new media design
October 9, 2008 11:13 pmReally good list and helpful, i use smashing magazine for inspirational ideas and designs.
Professional Website Templates
October 13, 2008 11:37 amVery nice post. This comprehensive list of sites are all very well designed, planned, and implemented! All should follow such steps when creating their own site!
Website Design Kent
October 14, 2008 4:15 amAmazing list, thanks very much!!!
Steve
Simon Bowler
October 16, 2008 5:02 amVery good list, I will bookmark it for later use
hira kumar
October 20, 2008 9:50 pmnice site and beautiful
tsquez
October 21, 2008 4:59 amJust wanted to say this is an awesome list. Thank you for the information. Bookmarked.
brian
October 23, 2008 8:36 amHi,
If I may give a plug to Anistock, loads of animations and video backgrounds plus we have subscription partnership with iCLIPART
Thanks
Brian
Mike Archibald
October 29, 2008 3:13 amGreat list of resources - thanks for sharing and thanks for including our Gallery - CSS Web Design Yorkshire.
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Alex
November 1, 2008 5:37 amAmazing! thanks for the new bookmark
Marluxia
November 3, 2008 12:44 amI added a link back to my growing image and photoshop forum http://www.imagecrossing.com
Mark @ Techachino
November 11, 2008 1:46 pmNice list
There’s some new sites on there for me.
I would like to add http://www.sxc.hu to the list of free stock images.
Also my own free xhtml/css templates at http://www.techachino.com/freebies/ - there’s only 2 at the minute but i will be churning out more over time. Quality over quantity here…
Thanks again
Acquiro Systems
November 12, 2008 7:40 amWow! Great list. Thanks!
Web Design
November 12, 2008 11:55 pmWow It is really nice list. Its outstanding collection. Thanks for sharing. Its all resources are very useful to all also newbie too. Great post.
Long
November 14, 2008 10:10 amYou forgot a cheap psd to xhtml service http://www.9xhtml.com
Pascal
November 16, 2008 6:43 amVery nice list, thanks! Could have been years before I found them all myself.
Amy
November 18, 2008 2:11 amGreat resource! Thanks!
http://www.wan2design.co.uk
Bryan adams
November 18, 2008 6:35 amwow, this website is brilliant.. lots of resources and useful links to other great sites.