Quick Design Inspiration

Great inspiration from the web...

• From Up North
• Abduzeedo
• Shockblast
• Design You Trust
• The Design Inspiration
• Dzine Blog
• Vectro ave
• Form Fifty Five
• Looks Like Good Design
• The Inspiration Grid
• Defringe
• Daily Inspiration
• Cuded
• Piked
• Designspiration
• 123Inspiration

Creative Agencies

Top designers united...

• De Monsters
• Momkai
• Media Monks
• Big Spacehip
• North Kindom
• Teehan-Lax
• FI
• Humaan
• Carsonified
• ISO 50
• Lift
• Brand Nu
• B-Reel
• Sourcebits
• Soap Creative
• Perfect Fools
• Karakter
• Achtung!

Designers & Developers

Talented people worth following...

• Brian Hoff
• Jacob Cass
• James White
• Rogie King
• Nick Campbell
• Justin Cline
• Martijn van Dam
• N.C. Winters
• AddyOsmani.com
• Orman Clark
• Paul Irish
• Veerle Pieters
• Patrick Monkel
• Nick La
• Thorsten Konrad
• Maciej Kwas
• David Pache
• Barton Damer
• Jay Hollywood
• Daniel Nelson

Design Blogs

Great blogs about design...

• The 99 Percent
• Computer Arts Daily
• CMYKern
• FrancescoMugnai.com
• Design Defined
• Design Juices
• Fudgegraphics
• Designrfix
• Method and Craft
• Blog.SpoonGraphics
• OurTuts.com
• Slodive
• Inspiredology
• Nenuno
• Other Focus
• Downgraf
• Hongkiat.com
• Smashing Buzz
• COLOURlovers
• Bittbox
• Naldz Graphics
• The Web Design Blog
• You The Designer
• GraphicMania.net
• GoMediaZine
• Visual Swirl
• Pixel 77
• Swiss Miss
• Stop Design
• UFunk
• Graphic Design Blog
• Vandelay Design
• Design.CreativeFan
• Snap2Objects
• LBOI Design Blog
• Fuel Your Creativity
• Lava360
• Inspiration Hut
• Creative Nerds
• My Ink Blog

Web Magazines

Top stories on various topics...

• Design Instruct
• Speckyboy
• Smashing Magazine
• .NET Magazine
• Dzine Press
• DesignM.ag
• Layers Magazine
• Inspired Magazine
• Axet.net Magazine
• Tripwire Magazine
• Odd Mag
• The Finished Box

Freelance Blogs

All you need to know before you go solo...

• The Next Web
• Freelance Switch
• Work Awesome
• Onextrapixel
• Sparksheet
• iBrand Studio
• Stunning Mesh

Freelance Websites

Here is where you can make some money...

• WP Hired
• Elance
• Freelancer
• 99 Designs

Logo Design

Beautiful logos...

• Logo of the Day
• Logo Designer Blog
• Logo Pond
• Logo Fury

Typography

Typographical lettering stuff...

• What The Font
• Resistenza
• Typography Served
• I Love Typography
• TYPEinspire

Business Cards

Business card inspiration...

• Card Observer
• Itevenhasawatermark.com
• Best Business Card
• Fresh Business Cards
• Card Stache
• Card Rabbit

Print Design

Inspiration about print...

• Print Bench
• idsgn
• Flyerfolio
• Lovely Stationery
• Oh So Beautiful Paper

Application Design

Showcasing application design…

• IICNS
• IcoIcon
• Mac Appstorm
• Beautiful Pixels
• MyColorScreen

Product Design

It comes in all shapes and colors...

• The Dieline
• Lovely Package

Industrial Design

• Yankodesign
• Core77
• 1 Design Per Day

Architecture

• Freshome
• Contemporist

Art & Technology blogs

Beautiful, awesome, geeky things...

• Illusions
• Design Milk
• The Coolhunter
• The Cool List
• 2experts
• Mocoloco
• Coolhunting

Advertising & Marketing Blogs

The creative way of telling something...

• Creative Criminals
• The Los Angeles Egotist
• The Inspiration Room
• Ads of the World
• I Believe in Adv

Useful Websites

Handy sites for your designs...

• Golden Ratio Calculator
• Color Scheme Designer
• Adobe Kuler
• Noise Texture Generator
• Gravatar
• The Colour Clock

Web Blogs

Great websites for making websites...

• A List Apart
• Web Designer Depot
• Webdesign Tuts+
• Nettuts+
• The Ultimate jQuery List
• Codrops
• Queness
• Inspect Element
• Impressive Webs
• Tutorialzine
• Web Design Ledger
• WebAppers
• 1stwebdesigner
• Six Revisions
• Underworld Magazines
• CSS Globe
• Spyre Studios
• Web Designer
• Line25
• Flash User
• SPLASHnology
• Treehouse Blog
• design-newz
• Noupe
• ilovecolors
• Insic Designs
• Build Internet!
• Envato Notes
• CSS3 Watch
• Lorelei Web Design
• Hybrid Lava
• design xlnc
• Marked Lines
• Web Designer Aid
• Themeflash
• Web and designers
• CSS3 Info
• CSS-Tricks
• The Design Superhero
• PVM Garage
• Web Designer Wall
• Think Design
• Instant Shift
• Design Reviver
• Skyje
• DesignModo
• 2Experts Design
• TutsList
• Ajaxian

User Experience Blogs

The best resources for UX Designers...

• Johnny Holland
• Konigi
• UX Booth
• Usability Post
• Boxes and Arrows

Wordpress Blogs

All about Wordpress...

• Wptuts+
• WP Candy
• Cats Who Code
• Wpbeginner
• WPTidBits

Wordpress Themes

Themes and templates for Wordpress...

• Themeforest
• Themeshift
• ThemeFuse
• WOO Themes
• Themes Kingdom
• Mojo Themes
• Obox
• Wizard Themes
• GogoThemes
• eFrog Themes
• Super Themes
• WP Latte

Content Management Systems

The best CMS systems available...

• WordPress
• BuddyPress
• Joomla
• Drupal
• Concrete5
• Square Space
• Silver Stripe
• LightCMS
• MotoCMS
• Umbraco
• CushyCMS
• Vanilla
• Contao
• Weebly

E-commerce

Online shopping...

• Magento
• Shopify
• Big Cartel
• Made Freshly
• Hero Framework

Flash

I like to move it, move it...

• Monster Debugger
• Closier
• Unit Zero One
• Levitated
• Flash Bookmarks

Mobile Web

Resources for building mobile websites...

• CSSiPhone
• Media Queri

Frameworks & Grid Systems

Working with guides...

• 960 Grid System
• Blueprint
• Less Frame Work
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Less Css
• Sass

Web Hosting

Host those websites...

• Hostgator.com
• GoDaddy.com
• Media Temple
• One.com

Web Monitoring

Keep an eye on your websites...

• Google Analtics
• Woopra
• GoSquared

SEO Tools

Awesome SEO Tools...

• XML Sitemaps
• Google Webmaster Tools
• Bing Webmaster Tools
• Google Adwords Keyword Tool
• Google Adwords
• Loading Time Calculator
• W3C's Unicorn Validator

Design Patterns

Excellent UI elements...

• Pattern Tap
• UI Patterns
• Lovely UI
• House Of Buttons
• WeGraphics
• Mepholio

Social Bookmarking

Shareables across the web...

• Design Bump
• StumbleUpon
• Design Float
• Digg
• Delicious
• Reddit

Social Networking

Twits, tweets and faces...

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Google+
• LinkedIn
• Path
• Pinterest
• Behance
• Dribbble
• Designmoo
• DeviantArt
• Design Related
• Carbonmade
• Krop
• Creattica
• Coroflot
• Zootool
• Forrst
• GitHub
• Vimeo
• YouTube
• Quora
• Formspring
• Stackoverflow
• Stack Exchange
• Fousquare
• Flickr
• Daily Booth
• Tumblr

Website optimisation

Get the best out of your websites...

• Rewordious
• HTML-Ipsum
• Coda Clips
• Dynamic Drive Favicon Generator
• Launchlist.net
• Yahoo Smush It
• PageSpeed Insights
• Backup Machine

Site Awards

Nice Awards for nice websites...

• The FWA
• The CSS Awards
• CSS Design Awards
• Webby Awards

Top 20 Web Design Galleries

The best among many...

• Unmatched Style
• Site Inspire
• One Page Love
• Make Better Websites
• Folio Focus
• Minimal Exhibit
• Style Boost
• CSSDSGN
• CSS Heroes
• Best HTML5 Gallery
• QNT GALLERY
• CSS Clip
• Design Shack
• CSS Genius
• CSS Garden
• Web Creme
• DzineMart
• InspirationTime
• Design Bombs
• 1page Web Design

CSS Lists

A list of css galleries...

• MeeCSS
• The CSS Gallery List
• CSS Gallery list

Other CSS Design Galleries

The best of the rest...

• Design Delight
• CSSray
• CSSBright
• Design Fringe
• The Best Designs
• Design|Snips
• CSS Based
• Website Gallery
• Pixel Perfect Portfolios
• CSS Nature
• CSS Religion
• CSS Lounge
• CSS Impress
• styleprone
• CSS Collection
• CSS Bloom
• CSS Beauty
• CSS Design Yorkshire
• Best CSS Vault
• CSS Elite
• Blog Design Heroes
• CartCraze
• crazyleaf
• CSS Bag
• CSS Classic
• CSS Count
• CSS Cutie
• CSS Depot
• cssem
• CSS Gallery Pro
• CSS Gallery
• CSSLoaf
• CSS Loggia
• CSS Luxury
• CSSMoon
• CSS Showcase
• Designer Source
• DivineCSS
• ForAllToSee
• Gallerific
• Inspiration King
• Light on Dark
• Most Inspired
• Screenalicious
• Screenfluent
• Selected Webdesign
• Style The Web
• Submit CSS
• SwellCSS
• Wanted CSS
• Wake up Gallery
• Wow Css
• Web Design File
• CCS Creme
• Boxed CSS
• Best web Gallery
• Flash Gallery
• CSS Remix
• CSS Mania
• Beautiful 2.0
• Web Designire
• CSS Glance
• Design Awards Gallery
• CSS Gallery
• nice{stylesheet;}
• CSS Drive
• CSS2.0
• Creative and Link
• CSSArts
• CSS smooth operator
• Design Slurp

CMS Galleries

Special CMS showcases...

• WPFloat
• WPView
• beautiful wordpress
• CMS Designs

Photoshop Tuts

Make better graphics...

• Ultimate Designer Toolkit
• Grafpedia
• Psdeluxe
• Creative Sessions
• Tuts+ Network
• Psdtuts+
• Planet Photoshop
• Photoshop Lady
• Photoshop Girl
• Tutorial9
• PSD Vault
• Tut Factory
• Photoshop star
• PSDCore
• Photoshop Plus
• Logolitic
• PSDFAN EXTRA
• Tutorial King
• Design Chair
• 10steps
• Best Design Tuts
• Advanced Photoshop

Illustrator Tuts

Go vector...

• Vectortuts+
• Supercolor Tuts

Online Learning

Your personal course...

• Lynda.com
• Treehouse
• Kelby Training
• Kelby TV
• Schoolism
• Digital Tutors
• The Gnomon Workshop
• 3D Total
• Digital Photography School
• Vectology

Design Freebees

Great free web patterns…

• 365psd
• Freebies Booth
• Design Kindle
• tfbox
• PSD Chest
• Design Deck
• Pix Eden
• Free Photoshop Download
• Blaz
• Fribbble
• Psddd
• Freebiesbug

Icons

Little iconic elements...

• Picto Foundry
• Web Icon Set
• Iconnice
• Icon Toucan

Fonts

Typeface...

• DaFont
• Fontcubes
• Fontsquirrel

Stock Photos

Get the picture...

• iStockphoto
• Shutterstock
• Fotolia
• Stock Fresh
• Stock.xchng
• Deposit Photos
• Corbis Images
• Pixmac

Apps

Useful Apps...

• Dropbox
• Onehub
• Coda
• Sublime Text
• Versions
• Sparrow

Gadgets

James Bond doesn't have an explosive pen...

• The Gadget Flow
• Fancy