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DESIGN RESOURCES
Fonts and Typography:
26 free progressive and experimental fonts
How to mix font type faces (little outdated but helpful for new designers)
http://webtypography.net/ (The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web)
Letter head fonts (not free, but great retro styles)
http://www.typography.com/ (I'd buy every font if I won the lottery)
Fresh and beautiful free premium fonts (50 awesome fonts from 2011)
Font Squirrel - free commercial use fonts
www.dafont.com - huge font repository
Lost Type - selection of stylized fonts
Font Stacks Just click and it's copied to the clipboard
www.whatthefont.com - backwards font look-up
http://www.google.com/webfonts
Fonts In Use fonts used in popular media
Identifont reverse font lookup
Lost Type Co-op pay what you want fonts
Tutorials:
Photoshop Letterpress Effect (Letterpress effect in Photoshop)
Vintage effects within Illustrator (Vintage Effects in Illustrator)
http://garmahis.com/tutorials/pixel-art-tutorials/ (Pixel Art Tutorials)
35 Vintage & Retro Photoshop tutorials - Smashing Magazine
Method & Craft - BEST design tutorials hands down
Premium Pixels - free tutorials and resources
Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials - Vandelay Design (30 text effect tutorial for Illustrator)
Stock:
http://www.sxc.hu (Have to sign up but it's free.)
http://www.flickr.com (Yup. Flickr. Go to advanced search and search under creative commons, you can find photos that are usable for personal work as well as commercial.)
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Not all are available for use. Double check)
Morgue File : free HQ photos
Comp Fight - It searches flickr, but its search algorithm is way better than the one on flickr itself. You can also search by license.
Inspiration:
Creattica for inspiration and freebies
http://www.mishes.com/articles/sites-design-inspiration
Behance - galleries of user-submitted inspiration
http://abduzeedo.com/ - tutorials and inspiration
http://creativerepository.com/ - tutorials and inspiration
Who Killed Bambi - inspiration
http://www.awwwards.com/ - inspiration for CSS web design (kind of off topic i know)
http://jessicahische.is/awesome/ (So jealous of her talent.)
http://www.packagingoftheworld.com/
AIGA always a good source for inspiration
Technical/Web Development:
Can I Use? See browser support for certain css/html items
Full height wrapper/containers Get those footers to stretch all the way to the bottom of the browser on height challenged pages
Shape Catcher Draw something and get a unicode character back
Launchlist A checklist for things to do before launching a site
Wordpress Themes Mainly portfolum or whatever it's called.
http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/
FlexSlider Jquery slider that's responsive and supports gestures
Orbit Slider Tiny (4kb) slider that supports images and content
CSS Type set (does the css for you, for the not css savvy)
Text effects through CSS3 Great css3 text effects.
Design:
Media Queries Responsive website inspiration
Skeleton A html/css framework for making responsive websites
Twitter Bootstrap Not just for Twitter, this is a complete css/html framework for working with grid and forms
Subtle Patterns Free tastefull tileable background patterns
Design Moo - Discover and Share Quality Design Resources
Designer Toolbox LOVE this site has various die lines for packaging and envelopes, has information on envelope enclosure sizes, loren ipsum generator and photoshop files of browser windows that are customizable.
Smashing Magazine - best practices
FamFam - Icons
Logopond is a great resource for logo and identity inspiration.
For Print Only is good if your looking for print inspiration, as well as some basic information on the production side of print design.
designworklife on a daily basis for miscellaneous inspiration.
Six Revisions (Great design blog)
Photoshop:
http://365psd.com/ - download a free psd every day
Textures & Patterns
Subtle Patterns is must-have resource site
Ultimate collection of Photoshop Patterns
Deviantart/Textures (gotta sort through it but it pays off.
Great old and vintage textures - Flickr
200 high quality free paper textures (200 paper textures)
Design Theory:
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