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DESIGN RESOURCES

Fonts and Typography:

Movable Type

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How to mix font type faces (little outdated but helpful for new designers)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

Font Park

 

 

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

http://arsenal.gomedia.us/ 

Go Media Zine

Method & Craft - BEST design tutorials hands down

Premium Pixels - free tutorials and resources

The Tuts+ Network

Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials - Vandelay Design (30 text effect tutorial for Illustrator)

PSDTuts

Cedar Seed

Tutorial Blog

 

 

 

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)

Active Den

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:

http://www.owi.bz/

http://blog.vanstee.be/

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Designspiration

Creattica for inspiration and freebies

http://www.mishes.com/articles/sites-design-inspiration

http://dribbble.com/

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://www.janeemeadows.com/

http://butdoesitfloat.com/

http://edfella.com/

http://www.designsnips.com/

http://www.faustltd.com

http://www.studioonfire.com

http://www.beastpieces.com

http://jessicahische.is/awesome/ (So jealous of her talent.)

http://fromkeetra.com/

http://jk-keller.com/

http://www.tstout.com/welcome

http://www.pabloalfieri.com/

http://www.chrisbolton.org/

http://www.thedieline.com/

http://www.packagingoftheworld.com/

http://www.notcot.org/

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/

http://digwp.com/book/

DevSnippets

The Grid system

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

Veer

Everything Digital

Kuler

GraphicRiver 

Envato Marketplace

FamFam - Icons

The Noun Project

Color Lovers

The Inspiration

Designer's Couch

Web Design Ledger

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.

Graphic Exchange

Pixeden

Design you trust

Cargo Collective

Six Revisions (Great design blog)

Web Designer Depot

Noupe

Specky boy

 

 

Photoshop:

PNG optimization

More PNG optimization

JPG optimization

Smushit

http://365psd.com/ - download a free psd every day

PSD Tuts

Photoshop Lady

Photoshop Brushes

 

 

Textures & Patterns

Lost & Taken

CGtextures

Subtle Patterns is must-have resource site

Free Photoshop Patterns

Ultimate collection of Photoshop Patterns

Texture King

Fuzzimo

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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