Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010
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Focus And Attitude - Do I have what it takes?
Focus And Attitude - Do I have what it takes?
I really wondered if I had the skill and knowledge to create a site that people would visit.
I really wondered if I had the skill and knowledge to create a site that people would visit.
- I knew there were many, many digital artists and digital imagers who could create incredible images with Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and Painter. They were way out of my league - hey - I'm just the little guy doing the best I can.
- I also knew there was another huge group of people (newbies) who were just getting started and were searching for well presented, basic information about digital imaging.
- I was about average in my knowledge of all things to do with digital imaging and you know what that meant? It meant that 50% of the digital imagers were way beyond me in terms of artistic ability and it also meant that 50% were not nearly as proficient as me.
- I focus my efforts on the 50% who are not as proficient as me and that is an enormous number of people who are potential site visitors!
- Those folks are now my traffic numbers and they are the ones who create my revenue.
- So if you’re hesitating about setting up your own website because you’re thinking “there are so many people out there who know so much more than me” - forget it - focus on the people who are striving to be as proficient as you are in the field that is of interest to you.
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
design brief
How do you get the design you want? The perfect design you envision in your head? … The design brief is the answer.
Whether you are a designer or a client, an effective design brief is the single most critical factor in ensuring that a project is successful.
This article will tell you how to write an effective design brief that will be both beneficial to the client and the designer.
This article will be based from the client’s perspective.
What Is A Design Brief?
First off, you may want to know what a design brief is. A design brief is something that is vital to any design project as it will provide the designer(s) with all the information needed to exceed your expectations.
A design brief should primarily focus on the results and outcomes of the designand the business objectives of the design project. It should not attempt to deal with the aesthetics of design… That is the responsibility of the designer.
The design brief also allows you (the client) to focus on exactly what you want to achieve before any work starts on the project.
A good design brief will ensure that you get a high quality design that meets your needs, providing you have chosen the right designer.
How To Write An Effective Design Brief
If you answer these questions below in an ordered and detailed fashion, your design brief will be 90% done… the other 10% will come from further questions from the designer after you submit your brief.
Have fun answering the questions and remember, provide as much detail as possible! This does not mean one line answers.
What does your business do?
Tip: Never assume that the designer will know anything about your company. Be clear and concise and avoid jargon when replying.
- What does your company / organisation do?
- What is your company’s history?
What are the goals? Why?
- What is the overall goal of the new design project?
- What are you trying to communicate and why?
- Are you trying to sell more products or get awareness of your product / service?
- How do you differ from your competitors?
- Do you want to completely reinvent yourself or are you simply updating your promotional material?
Tip: You should also provide old promotional material to assist the designer.
Who is the target market?
- What are your target market’s demographics & phychographics? ie. the age, gender, income, tastes, views, attitudes, employment, geography, lifestyle of those you want to reach.
Tip: If you have multiple audiences, rank them in terms of importance.
What copy (text) and pictures are needed?
Tip: The copy and pictures used in a design are as crucial as the design itself and you should clearly state who is going to be providing the copy and pictures if needed. You may need to look into getting a professional copywriter / photographer – ask your designer for some recommendations.
- What copy needs to be included in the design? Who is providing the copy?
- What pictures / photographs / diagrams etc need to be used? Who is providing these?
What are the specifications?
- What size is the design going to be?
- Where is it going to be printed / used? The web, business cards, stationery, on your car?
- What other information should the designer know in regards to specifications?
Have you got a benchmark in mind?
- You should provide the designer with some examples of what you consider to be effective or relevant design even if it is from your main competitors. This will set a benchmark for your designer.
- Provide the designer with things not to do, and styles that you do not like or wish to see in your design. This will give the designer an idea of what to avoid and will avoid disappointment on your behalf.
What Is Your Budget?
- Providing a budget prevents designers wasting valuable time and resources when trying to maximise your budget.
- Providing the budget upfront also allows designers to know if the project is going to be worthwhile to complete. Make sure you are worth their time.
What is the time scale / deadline?
- Give the designer a detailed schedule of the project and set a realistic deadline for the completion of the work. You should take into account the various stages of the design project such as consultation, concept development, production and delivery.
Tip: Rushing design jobs helps no one and mistakes can be made if a complex job is pushed through without time to review, however, there are times when a rush job is needed, and in these cases you should be honest and upfront about it.
Tips For The Designer
As a designer it is important to have a template such as this one to give to clients as clients will not always come to you with a design brief – feel free to use this one as you please. By having a template ready, it shows them your professionalism and ultimately saves them (and you) a lot of time and money.
99 Sites All Designers Must Know About
For more resources you can check out the 101 Places To Get Design Inspiration. Also don’t forget to subscribe for more graphic design resources.
General Design
1 Spunk United
An excellent magazine with a selection of the worlds best artists providing inspiration, interviews, articles and more.
2 FreeLance Switch
The community site of reference for all freelances. You must know this one!
3 Computer Arts
The site of the excellent international magazine Computer Arts. I have subscribed to this mag and love it!
4 David Airey
A graphic and logo designer who shares his knowledge on these areas.
5 Behance
A site gathering the portfolios of the artists of the whole world, a true inspiration.
6 Pdf Mags
References all the PDF mags out there! A great resource.
7 Graphic Design Forum
The most active of the graphic design forums out there. A bit more focused for the beginner designer.
8 Design Is Kinky
An Australia site focused purely on design news and design in general. Stay up to date!
9 Freelance Folder
A community blog which posts regular articles on freelancing. Very diverse.
10 Bittbox
Provides regular resources for design… tutorials, brushes, vectors and more!
11 Vandelay Webdesign
Provides very social media friendly articles, large resource lists and tips for web designers.
12 You The Designer
Very complete and diverse range of articles on graphic design.
13 Design You Trust
A daily design magazine, blog and small community, full of new design trends, news and events, great design portfolios and hand-picked design stuff from all over the globe.
Web Design:
14 Noupe
An excellent site on Web design & the development of the web (CSS & Ajax).
15 Smashing Magazine
Information for all. So broad that if you are a designer and you don’t know this site, we all have pity for you.
16 Think Vitamin
Vitamin is a resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs. 50,000 subscribers can’t be wrong.
17 24 Ways
Web design and development, quality articles are always here.
18 A List Apart
Another pillar of the Web Design blog world, very good articles with diversified contributors.
19 Site Point
Very diversified site, graphics, css, ajax… Also editor of many Web Design books.
20 The Rissington Podcast
Excellent podcasts full with humour of excellent the Web Designer John Oxton andJon Hicks.
21 Web Appers
Blog of Open Resources for Web Developers. .
22 Happy Cog
They publish their best ideas and speak out to the world on web design.
23- Web Designer Wall
A must have for all web designers and designers out there!
Resources:
24 Design Float
A digg like site for design related subjects. Must know!
25- Psd Tuts
The best tutorials on the web. Mmmmm.
26- Blue Vertigo
The MUST HAVE bookmark of all stock resourceson the net.
27- SXC.hu
My favourite stock site, you may notice I use this site for most of my images on this site.
28- Icon Finder
Self explanitory.
29- Da Font
Free fonts. Mmmm.
30 Maniackers Design Make
A lot of inspiration can be found here along with a lot of free resources. Bit hard to navigate though.
31- Colour Lovers
Find, create and exchange your pallets of favourite colors.
Show Cases:
32- Command Shift 3
Have you heard of hot or not? This is like that but for web designs, you choose the best website of 2. Great for inspiration.
33- Showcase Point
Showcases Flash & CSS sites with several options of sorting.
34- Zeniltuo
Large database of all the inspiration sites out there.
35- The FWA
Mainly shows off flash websites but is always of high quality. Great inspiration here.
36- CSS Mania
Another showcase site.
37- CSS Remix
A very good gallery of CSS websites.
38- Best Web Gallery
A very good selection of designs.
39- ScreenFluent
A very good selection of Web designs.
40 W3C Sites
Excellent selection of valid W3C sites.
41- CSS Beauty
A good gallery and it also has very interesting articles on the development of websites with news.
42- Edu Style
The schools and universities have also right to a gallery css, this one is particularly remarkable.
Development:
43 – Problogger
Tips on blogging in general. Must have for any blogger.
45- Pro Blog Design
Tips on improving your blogs design. Only quality articles here.
46- WP designer
The blog of reference for all the WordPress developers.
47- Ajax Rain
One of largest Ajax bookshops on the Web.
48- CSS3.info
The site of future standards – CSS3.
49- CSS Earth
Site referring the best articles on the development of CSS on the Web.
Flash & Flex:
51- Labs Adobe
New technologies and development from Adobe.
52- Christophe Coenraets
Blog of a Flex developer.
54- Adobe AIR Tutorials
The site of for tutorials on AIR.
55- Mike Chambers
The blog of Mike Chambers based on programming and technology.
56- The Blog Flash
Blog for Action Script 3 and Flex.
57- Jean Phi Blog
One of the largest French flashers. Has some great work, but the French part may be a problem for some. 
Typography:
60 Swiss Legacy
A blog focused on typography, swiss design and the grid.
61- I Love Typography
Speaks for itself. A must know.
62- Design & Typo
The blog of the famous Peter Gabor, posts cool inspiration pieces (in English too).
63- The Typographer
The site on typography for the French.
64- Slanted
Large German site on typography.
Video & Motion:
65- Stage6
YouTube of animation (2d and 3d). Great quality.
66- Fubiz
A great blog which posts creative daily inspirational pieces of design. Bookmark this one for sure.
67- Motiono Grapher
International reference for all who are in the motion business.
68- Video Copilot
Tutorials of creating special video effects.
69- Graphics/ Motion
Italian Blog of Motion, the articles are of great quality and are updated very regularly.
70 FX Guide
Great Community site of Video and Motion, do not miss this one!
71- Works Motion
The site of John Dickinson, great inspiration here.
Personal Design Blogs:
72- Elliot Jay Stocks
Just check it out. His name pops up everywhere!
73- Veerle Blog
One of most beautiful blosg on the Web, very complete articles and tutorials, in short a must.
75- Jina Bolton
Design of Jina Bolton (aka Sushi Monster), author of the book “Art & Science of CSS” and of the excellent conference “Create Sexy StyleSheet.” A very envious portfolio.
76- Snook
Blog of the graphic designer, developer, writer and lecturer of Jonathan Snook – very complete tips and tricks for all Web Designers.
76- Stuff And Nonsense
Super and super blog of Markley, one of best WebDesigners in the world.
77- Lysergid
Blog of the excellent French Art Director Loïc SATTLER. Great articles, fresh design.
78- Iso 50
Blog of the excellent graphic designer Scott Hansen.
79- John Nack Blog
Blog of John Nack, composed of very complete article on graphics and Adobe.
Web2.0:
80 NetVibes
The web comes to you. News aggregator plus!
81- Del.Ico.Us
A tool for bookmaking and social media attention, must have!
82- Twitter
Get updates on what your friends, co workers, etc are doing.
83- FaceBook
A website where you can pass your life.
84- Flickr
The social site of photography – a great number of people are present there with new photographs to discover each day.
Relaxation:
Places for just browsing – Areas that most designers are interested in. (ie. Fashion, Music, Design)
85- Vinyl misuses
A magazine about toys.. Must check this site out, some really cool designs.
86- Discobelle
Excellent site of music, showcases music videos, parties, etc.
87- Hype Beast
Magazine for fashion design and culture.
88- Lense
A French reference for all those who wish to know some more about photography.
90 PopRave Blog
Underground culture of the clothes industry.
Various:
91- All Graphic Design
A site for everything graphic design related.
92- North X East
Articles for bloggers.
93- Ads Of The World
Web site which publishes all of the worlds ads. Great inspiration here.
94- LogoPond
Logo Design Inspiration
95- Logo Design Love
A blog focused totally on Logo Design. Regular articles and resources.
96- Split Da Diz
I have translated his page from French into English as he was the original poster of this article however I changed the French sites he recommended into English ones, fixed the old links he had posted and changed the order of some items…
97- Boing Boing
A genearl directory of wonderful things.
98- Business of Design Online
Pretty much anything to help a design business grow online.
99- Just Creative Design
Who else would have brought you this massive English list of 99+ graphic design resources? We provide graphic design tips, resources and articles for all.
More Sites You Should Know About
- DesignFlavr -The masters of Design and Illustration.
- Inspiredology – The social media master of design. Inspiration at its best.
- DesignMeltDown – Categorises websites into categories for inspiration.
- Creative Briefing – A web workers blog.
- ImageAfter - A great stock site.
- IgniteMotion – Free motion backgrounds.
- CSS Artillery – A showcase of web standards across the globe.
- CreativeBits – A mac orientated website around design.
- Communication Arts – The essential creative resource.
- Designers Who Blog – A blog dedicated to designers who blog among other things.
- NO-SPEC – Educate the public and designers about speculative, or ’spec’ work. Must read.
- Creative Latitude – A worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice.
- Foto Search – A stock photography & footage site.
- Passpack Tour – Free online password manager.
- Free Website Templates – Free website templates for inspiration.
- Logo Of The Day – A logo design inspiration gallery that gets updated daily.
- Logo Designer Blog – A blog focused purely on logo, branding and identity design.
What other sites should be added? What are your favourites?
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speckyboy on Feb 25, 2008 said:
Excellent resource list. I have dugg it. Keep it up.
speckyboy’s last blog post..53 Steps to follow if you want to become Freelance Web Designer/Developer (60+ Resources)
Mark Bloomfield on Feb 25, 2008 said:
Awesome post! Well researched…
My addition:
Wikkid Apps is a great showcase of awesome web applications for a wide variety of applications.
Mark Bloomfield’s last blog post..Pulse
Dexter | Techathand.net on Feb 25, 2008 said:
A very good resource… I like it ( Stumble )
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kroma on Feb 25, 2008 said:
Great Collection
Dmitry on Feb 25, 2008 said:
Jacob, great job!
Tjobbe on Feb 25, 2008 said:
Great set of links there, but a lot of your title tags on the links are completely muddled up.. Tjobbe’s last blog post..Facebook fading away?
Jacob Cass on Feb 25, 2008 said:
Thanks everyone for the comments.
Thanks Tjobbe. I have no idea how all the title tags just swapped everywhere, never seen it happen before?
thomas on Feb 25, 2008 said:
you forget http://sharebrain.info
thomas’s last blog post..CSS Addict – Blog
john on Feb 25, 2008 said:
Absolutely great list!
I’m bookmarking it!
john’s last blog post..Coolest Ads Ever
Ray on Feb 26, 2008 said:
A friend of mine told me about this website:http://www.designmeltdown.com. It tags websites by different design elements and gives descriptions of each of the elements – pretty useful IMHO.
Chad Mueller on Feb 26, 2008 said:
A great blog that offers inspirational designs, showcasing posts full of brilliant images, logos, websites and more.
Chad Mueller’s last blog post..120 Brilliant Logos
Brian Yerkes on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Hi Jacob,
Great extensive list. You’ve got “Web Designer Wall” listed as “Web Wall Designer” in number 23 and 74 though…
thanks for the list, great work
Brian Yerkes’s last blog post..Logo Design Contests – Good or Bad
Tristan Bethe on Feb 26, 2008 said:
As alternative image resource why not give http://www.imageafter.com a try?
Or find lot of other free image resources on the forum:
http://www.imageafter.com/forum/index.php?thread_id=250
Jessica Sprague on Feb 26, 2008 said:
This is awesome! Thank you for putting this list together!
Jessica Sprague’s last blog post..And the winners are….
David Airey on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Thanks for the mentions, Jacob. I’m pleased with how you’ve signposted both my blogs, and how they stand out quite nicely. Blues and reds are always effective at attracting attention. Just ask a news reader.
David Airey’s last blog post..70 of the best logo design resources
Tyler on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Great post!
Add Ignitemotion.com to the sites for free video content.
keep it coming!
jesusOmar on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Great, I didn’t know about half of this sites. Thanks
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anglictina on Feb 26, 2008 said:
WOw, really great list
johno on Feb 26, 2008 said:
A very good list, and quite a number I’ve never herd of. This should keep me busy for the next few days. Didn’t I see you on Lauren’s blog the other day?
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Jenny on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Oh wow. I haven’t heard of some of these. I’m just starting my business so checking these out would prolly be a good idea huh?
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CSSArtillery on Feb 26, 2008 said:
You forgot http://www.cssartillery.com
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peter gabor on Feb 26, 2008 said:
thank’s Jacob for this magnificent promotion. it’s a honnour for me to be among so prestigious links.
the bests | peter
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DM on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Great list, a few I’d not seen before, thank you!
Quick note of a typo:
76- Stuff And Nonsense
Super and super blog of Markley, one of best WebDesigners in the world.
“Markley” should be “Malarkey” (roughly translated as balivernes).
inspirationbit on Feb 26, 2008 said:
excellent post, I’m sure Digg users will digg it
I was wondering why this list was familiar to me – now that you mention that French site, everything makes sense. Still you’ve put lots of work into this – well done.
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DM on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Er… I don’t know why I add the French in there, for some reason I assumed you were French mother tongue. Have now read your About page and realised that *ahem* you’re not. Sorry!
kristarella on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Wow, great round-up!
I’ll bookmark it
BTW the two titles called “[something] Point” are showing up as “[Something] Not”. Very odd
Jacob Cass on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Thomas, thanks for the site add.
John, Thanks for bookmarking, along with the other 700.
Ray, Thanks for that add, I think designmeltdown deserves to be added as well
Chad, Thanks for the comment chad, you social media posting king
I will add your site too.
And yes I am a regular over on Creative Curio.
Tristan, Thanks for the link to Image After, I use that site too! I will add it.
Jessica, Your welcome.
David, Your welcome too. Yes they do stand out don’t they!
Tyler, I have added IgniteMotion too
Jesus, Your welcome.
Anglictina, Your welcome.Johno, It will keep you busy for many many days
Jenny, What type of business are you starting?
CSSArtillery, I have added your site. Thanks.
Peter. Your welcome, your site deserves it
DM, Thanks for the point out.
Vivien, Unfortunately Digg users did not digg it as much as StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us
Kristarella, Thanks for the point out.
Thanks to all visitors too!
David Airey on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Thought you’d like to know, the link from Logo Design Love goes to Ads of the World.
Where the images eating too much bandwidth?
David Airey’s last blog post..70 of the best logo design resources
Jacob Cass on Feb 26, 2008 said:
Sorry David you are correct. Something went strangely wrong when I copied this post from Dreamweaver, you will notice all of the title texts are completely muddled up.
Some links also went weird, and words went back to front… ie. Web Designer Wall went to Web Wall Designer. And ‘Showcase Point’ went to ‘Showcase Not’ – No idea what happened, there has never been a problem before. I have fixed it up now.
Yes the images were chewing right into the bandwidth. 3.5mb per visit.
David Airey on Feb 26, 2008 said:
No worries at all. Interesting that you draft your posts in Dreamweaver.
David Airey’s last blog post..70 of the best logo design resources
Jacob Cass on Feb 26, 2008 said:
I find it a lot quicker, especially for adding pictures and you have more control over the layout and more functions as well. For smaller posts I use the Wordpress built in one.
Jim on Feb 26, 2008 said:
I’m truly hurt. You didn’t mention my site (thegraphicmac.com)
And how about CreativeBits.org and Adsoftheworld.com – both excellent resources as well.
Jacob Cass on Feb 27, 2008 said:
Your site seems to be down Jim. Ads of the world was mentioned. I will add CreativeBits.Org – Thanks!
Brian Yerkes on Feb 27, 2008 said:
Jacob / David,
I use Dreamweaver also for most of my posts, if they include several images, special formatting etc. It is much easier and you can also have more control over uploading images and graphics…gives you complete freedom to put images in different directories etc…
I actually use Dreamweaver when editing my entire blog…the style sheets etc. I also find this to be much more efficient.
Brian Yerkes’s last blog post..Logo Design Contests – Good or Bad
Fubiz on Feb 27, 2008 said:
Thanks for the focus!
Steven Snell on Feb 27, 2008 said:
Thanks for mentioning Vandelay Design.
Steven Snell’s last blog post..25 Beautifully Dark Website Designs
Jacob Cass on Feb 27, 2008 said:
I agree with you Brian as well.
Your welcome Steve and Fubiz.
Cássio Lacerda on Feb 27, 2008 said:
More than good for it all!
Thanks.
Pneumatiky on Feb 29, 2008 said:
Nice, very useful
Robot Cartoons on Mar 6, 2008 said:
Sweet! Thanks for the links, I bookmarked this page so hard.
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Mohammad Amin on Mar 9, 2008 said:
great …
thanks
Ryan on Mar 12, 2008 said:
Thanks for the list. thumbs up:)
Dom on Mar 12, 2008 said:
Stumbled, thumbed, used, thanks!http://www.thevirusmustbestopped.com/
Jacob Cass on Mar 12, 2008 said:
You’re all welcome
Zoznam Horoskopy on Mar 14, 2008 said:
Useful list, thankx, by the way good design of your website, your work?
Jacob Cass on Mar 20, 2008 said:
It is a heavily modified theme
free icons on Mar 26, 2008 said:
Very Nices Work,
Can you add my free icons site to your list
http://www.freeiconsdownload.com
Free Icon Download Offers Over 230 High Quality Royalty Free icons Set, Everything is free there and they are all useful.
Thanks
ali Sabet on Mar 27, 2008 said:
hey you forgot http://www.sabet.tv and http://www.mojizu.com
my 2 design networks!! Awesome article.
Jacob Cass on Mar 27, 2008 said:
Thanks Ali Sabet!
Webdesigner on Mar 30, 2008 said:
Thanks a lot! This list is awesome. I found a lot of excellent sites for design inspiration. I became your RSS subscriber.
Richard Laksana on Apr 12, 2009 said:
These list are amazing. Now I just need to bookmark 99 of them
Thanks …
Ecover Actions on Apr 15, 2009 said:
Thanks for the resources! I will definitely get some good use out of these
Andy Eltzroth on Apr 18, 2009 said:
Just posted our new website, thought you might want to check it out.
Matt Clarke on Apr 22, 2009 said:
Thanks for the list, have bookmarked all of the buggers and am looking forward to some interesting reads. Thanks awfully! Matt.
Videolu Dersler on Apr 25, 2009 said:
Great post!
Add Ignitemotion.com to the sites for free video content.
keep it coming!…
Videolu Dersler on Apr 25, 2009 said:
Thanks for the resources! I will definitely get some good use out of these
Alison on Apr 25, 2009 said:
Wow, what a great resource list. I have just started studying graphic design and this list is a massive help and inspiration. I will be very busy over the next few weeks trying to get through them all and sort my favourites out.
Ovi Dogar on Apr 29, 2009 said:
Very nice list!
Keep up the great work!
Ovi Dogar
AbsoluteCovers.com
Claudiu Ludosan, Master of the Luggage on Apr 30, 2009 said:
I was looking for something else and I stumbled upon this article, I know this post is old, but it’s still beeing read isn’t it?
As now I have made my presence known on the internet, I was wondering if you could post my website as well?
My site: http://www.creativeluggage.com
Jacob Cass on Apr 30, 2009 said:
I’ve edited your comment to display your link Claudiu
Claudiu Ludosan, Master of The Luggage on May 1, 2009 said:
Thanks Jacob!
Didier LAHELY on May 11, 2009 said:
Great list of resources : )
Matt Northampton on May 21, 2009 said:
Great blog, so many new sites to check out i’ll be here for days!
sayalee k. on May 25, 2009 said:
thanks for this list………
gr8 help
Seoblog on Jun 3, 2009 said:
This list is awesome. I found a lot of excellent sites for design inspiration. I became your RSS subscriber.Thanks a lot!
Mikie B on Jun 4, 2009 said:
A fantastic list of inspirational and resourceful sites you have there Jacob! Thanks for all the great Links!
krima shah on Jun 11, 2009 said:
its awesome ……..
grt help…. thanks lot
website design in Birmingham on Jun 19, 2009 said:
Thanks for nice list and add one more resource to your list Eagle Web Solutions
petr on Jun 21, 2009 said:
Greate collections. I did’n know about half resourses. Thanks
Chikabebe on Jun 26, 2009 said:
this one rocks! I was googling this awhile ago then i came across to this site
gret job
Rakesh on Jun 28, 2009 said:
i am very much impressed about this just creative design this site is usefull for me a NEW BORN
twh on Jul 2, 2009 said:
hi there, thank you so much for adding these useful websites …… + to favorites
BRB>!
rikim on Jul 3, 2009 said:
Nice collection. Check out my site http://www.vectorportal.com. I am sure it could fit into this collection.
Keep up the good work.
Louis on Jul 8, 2009 said:
I can’t believe DeviantART is missing here!
Surely it’s nothing about webdesign as such, but you should mention it before recommending twitter/myspace crap.
Pliggs on Jul 8, 2009 said:
Hmm…http://www.faqpal.com isn’t listed, it should there with Design Float or in place of.
Cy on Jul 20, 2009 said:
Great list of resources. I would just suggest the lorem ipsum.
Sachin on Jul 21, 2009 said:
wow
great resource stuff. unlimited design elements
keep me posted (new stuff) if possible
thanks a ton
regards
Sachin
Jason on Jul 22, 2009 said:
Great List Jacob!
Cheers,
Jason
Calgary on Jul 29, 2009 said:
I love Computer Arts and Freelance Folder – brilliant resources. I’ll check into the others. Thanks!
graphic design company on Aug 7, 2009 said:
great list. thank you.
BlindAcreMedia on Aug 8, 2009 said:
These are all really helpful sites. I’ve actually visited a handful of these a few times. Others I’ve never heard of and will have to check out!
Madhu on Aug 13, 2009 said:
Awesome post! Well researched:
ooKooDoo on Aug 18, 2009 said:
great list! thanks.
really helpfull.
medyum on Aug 23, 2009 said:
A very good list, and quite a number I’ve never herd of. This should keep me busy for the next few days. Didn’t I see you on Lauren’s blog the other day?
Jacob Cass on Aug 23, 2009 said:
Medyum,
I am sometimes seen over at Lauren’s Creative Curio, yes.
Impec on Sep 11, 2009 said:
Excellent list!! Thanks for collecting all these resources in one place.
Rau on Sep 17, 2009 said:
I found this very useful …thanks!
J A Y S A on Sep 20, 2009 said:
I just found your site and this is insanely cool! I look forward to referencing your site for all our stationery designers.
telefon dinleme on Sep 22, 2009 said:
Thanks for the mentions, Jacob. I’m pleased with how you’ve signposted both my blogs, and how they stand out quite nicely. Blues and reds are always effective at attracting attention. Just ask a news reader.
telefon dinleme
Apartmani on Sep 27, 2009 said:
I’d bookmark this page, cause I need whole day to check out all of them. Great effort admin, good job!
Aaron on Sep 30, 2009 said:
Also check out http://www.topfeuds.com – Its a design site that allows artists to post their work. winners get printed and make money. Its cool
Adrian Lauterstein on Oct 19, 2009 said:
Good job! I look forward to exploring some more of these links later.
printedproof on Oct 21, 2009 said:
Hey man! Wow, great bunch of links here. I think I have been on most of them at one point or another and found them very useful!
Michael Guilfoyle on Nov 2, 2009 said:
Exellent! I will bookmark and refer others. Thank you for this.
medyum on Nov 4, 2009 said:
Thank you very much for everything
Next Day Flyers on Nov 5, 2009 said:
Truly great design resource roundup, best ive seen so far! Just subscribed to your blog and a few blogs in this resource list. Thanks!
medyum on Nov 6, 2009 said:
Great post!
Add Ignitemotion.com to the sites for free video content.
keep it coming!:
medyum on Nov 6, 2009 said:
I can’t believe DeviantART is missing here!
Surely it’s nothing about webdesign as such, but you should mention it before recommending
jay on Jan 31, 2010 said:
A brand new high quality free stock photo site: http://www.rgbstock.com. Check it out!
Savael on Feb 28, 2010 said:
Awesome blogpost. Great help for me here
.
although i allready knew alot
i noticed u had a typo in @ #73.
73- Veerle Blog
One of most beautiful —>blosg<— on the Web, very complete articles and tutorials, in short a must.
Nina on Mar 2, 2010 said:
Great stuff, I too recommend all of them
Thanks for sharing
Day on Mar 3, 2010 said:
Thanks for the long list, it must to have taken quite some time to gather it.
Andrew Ruiz on Mar 5, 2010 said:
Thanks for the help guys, great post.
Andi Cross on Mar 9, 2010 said:
Ooohhh.. I love the site colourlovers.com! But I had forgoten about it until I saw it here on your list! There are some on here I did know about, and more I’ll have to check out! Thanks!
Suchet on Mar 18, 2010 said:
This is a great resource of info. Cheers for all the hard work.
malayalamonline on Apr 1, 2010 said:
Wow, awesome collection. Keep it up
lirik on Apr 8, 2010 said:
thanks for the list..
Cook on Apr 24, 2010 said:
great post…nice compilation
Tom on Apr 29, 2010 said:
Nice collection!
Ralph on May 5, 2010 said:
Great compilation! Nevertheless, I miss some platforms where to test your work, as 12designer.com or 99designs.com… But really good! Already favorited!
So?utma Büyüsü on May 6, 2010 said:
This is a great resource of info. Cheers for all the hard work.
yoomark on May 6, 2010 said:
This is a great resource and Awesome collection..
Antti Toivanen on May 9, 2010 said:
Really nice, great job!
Avery on May 10, 2010 said:
Nice collection!
design logo on May 14, 2010 said:
Nice list but I would also like to ask you to considerhttp://www.csszengarden.com/
I have found some real cool design concepts based on CSS there.
I believe CSS forms an integral part of a design’s skillset.
Amongst others i like spunk united, computer arts and freelanceswitch. Real great sites!
logo designs on May 15, 2010 said:
Nice compilation. You have been bookmarked.
Web Design Toronto on May 18, 2010 said:
Thanks for the list,A very good list, and quite a number I’ve never herd of. This should keep me busy for the next few days
Web 2.0 Design on May 19, 2010 said:
Excellent collection. Many thanks for sharing this useful resource. I especially liked: General Design – Freelance Folder
Web Design – Web Designer Wall
Showcases – CSSMania
Flash & Flex – Mike Chambers
Personal Design Blogs – Elliot Jay Stocks
Web 2.0 – Flickr
Surrey Web Design on May 31, 2010 said:
Wow that’s a really impressive list of sites, should keep me inspired for a while, tons of ones I’d never come across before
Alex Cooper on Jun 26, 2010 said:
Wow! Really Nice List. Thanks.
Sara on Jun 29, 2010 said:
hey,
thanks for an amazing list
i would like to add
http://www.ilovetypography.com
Sara
Vadim on Jul 1, 2010 said:
I poravilsya your directory of interesting blogs. I subscribed to your posts. I will follow the new materials. Thanks to the author.
Tess on Jul 1, 2010 said:
Wow lots of resources there
It’s hard not to be inspired by that much creativity. Thanks for the share.
Teddy Hang Vu on Jul 6, 2010 said:
thanks a lot
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medyum on Jul 9, 2010 said:
Thanks for the mentions, Jacob. I’m pleased with how you’ve signposted both my blogs, and how they stand out quite nicely. Blues and reds are always effective at attracting attention. Just ask a news reader.http://www.medyumniyazi.com Medyum Niyazi Hoca
Smooth Booth on Jul 10, 2010 said:
Nice one, I always check Vandelay, web designer wall and get computer arts magazine, loads on here I didnt know about though. cheers for sharing.
Ken on Jul 15, 2010 said:
A very good list, and quite a number I’ve never herd of. This should keep me busy for the next few days. Didn’t I see you on Lauren’s blog the other day?
Alireza on Jul 15, 2010 said:
Thanks for all important resources
Valador on Jul 20, 2010 said:
Thanks for the long list, it must to have taken quite some time to gather it.