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100 Must Read Design Blogs
In my daily search for design-related content I’ve come across tons of really stellar blogs. Recently I noticed that the list of sites I regularly check in on had far surpassed 100!
I know there’s no shortage of lists like this but I still wanted to share my discoveries with the Design Shack readers. Some of the blogs below are quite famous, others are fairly obscure. Most are specifically about design, others are more for supporting subjects like freelancing or photography. So without further adieu, here’s my list of over 100 must read (or watch for the video sites) design-related websites.
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100 Design Blogs
52 Weeks of UX
A
Abduzeedo
ActiveTuts
Adobe TV
AETuts
A List Apart
Arbent
Astheria
A Way Back
B
Blue Faqs
Brand New
C
Carsonified
CGTuts
Colorburned
Colour Lovers
Creative Fan
D
David Walsh
Design Chat
The Design Cubicle
Design Informer
Designing the News
Design Instruct
Design Mag
DesignMess
Design Reviver
Design Woop
DoctypeTV
DzinePress
E
Elated
Entropia
F
Finch
Freelance Switch
G
Graphic Design Blender
I
iLoveColors
ImpressiveWebs
Information Architects
Insic Designs
Inspiration Feed
Inspired Mag
J
Janko at Warp Speed
L
Layers Magazine
Line 25
Little Box of Ideas
Logo Design Love
M
Media Loot
MyInkBlog
N
NetTuts
O
One Extra Pixel
Outlaw Web Design
P
Pelfusion
Photography Served
Posh CSS
Pro Blog Design
PSDTuts
PSD Vault
Pulchry
PVM Garage
R
ReEncoded
Richworks
The Roxor
S
Share Brain
Sick Designer
Six Revisions
SmashingApps
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Share
Sohtanaka
Splashnology
SpoonGraphics
Spyre Studios
T
Think Design Blog
Thomas Maier
Tripwire Magazine
TutToaster
Tutorialzine
TutWow
Typesett
Typography Served
U
Underworld Magazines
Usable Efficiency
Usability Post
UX Booth
UX Mag
V
Vandelay Design
Vectips
VectorTuts
Vooz
W
W3Avenue
The Web Design Blog
Web Designer Depot
Web Design Dev
Web Design Ledger
Web Designer Notebook
Webitect
We Function
Y
You The Designer
Link Lists
The sites below aren’t quite design blogs so much as sites that simply list links to design blogs. It sounds silly but it’s actually pretty nice to have tons of links aggregated into one place so you can be picky about your reading material for the day.
Becoming Creative
CSS Globe
The Design Buzz
Design-Newz
The Freelance Feed
Relpost
Design Shards
Conclusion
Leave a comment below and let us know which of the sites above are your favorites and why. If we missed your favorite, leave a link and tell us about it!
Thanks for the list and thanks for including Bluefaqs in it! Time to fill up my RSS feed.
Thank you for including us!
I retweeted this article ;)
Thank you for adding Onextrapixel among this great list of wonderful design blogs!
Cheers!
Great collection friend. Mindblowing & make busy all blogger & designer.
Thanks so much for including us! We have more zines down the pipe coming! Take care and great collection of inspiring creatives in the industry :)
Thanks for including Graphic Design Blender. Truly honored to be included here among so many great blogs.
Keep up the great work here at Design Shack.
Very nice list, but it’s clear you’ve never seen some Dutch Design blogs, or did you? [All in English]
http://www.designworkplan.com/
http://designblog.rietveldacademie.nl/
http://www.design.nl/
http://www.gonzoblog.nl
http://new.typemedia.org/
Hope they will broaden your view? Cheers & Ciao ..
Nice collection. Will take a long time to go through. Someone may want to tell Ar-bent-ing that their hire me page isn’t working.
Really nice article and btw , you have a error with designm.ag (the picture is from inspiredm.com). Can’t believe I’m the only one that noticed this!
Hey, thanks a lot for mentioning SpyreStudios, much appreciated :)
Thanks for the mention, Josh. Looking at these other beautifully designed blogs, though, just reminds me of how badly my site needs a facelift. :(
Nice List! I would suggest the followings as well~
http://www.webappers.com
http://thedesigninspiration.com
http://www.photoshoplady.com
Thanks for mentioning SmashingShare, really appreciate it.
Thanks for including insicdesigns in this prestigious list.
To those who prefer quality over quantity, here is a community I cannot recommend enough: http://drawar.com/
Excellent list but Web Designer Wall should also be in there!!
http://www.webdesignerwall.com
Thanks :-)
Great List! Thanks for mentioning http://awayback.com and http://relpost.com.
I highly recommend http://relpost.com for web designers who care about quality content.
Amazing list…these lists very useful for me
Thanks
:)
btw how about Build Internet : http://buildinternet.com/ ?
Good list, but where is http://en.tspot.pl ?
Thanks for including Vandelay Design, it is an honor.
I recommend mine, why not?.
http://the-pool.tumblr.com/
Totally flattered to be included in this list. However, you guys missed one of the most obvious to be included on this list: http://www.drawar.com – amazing stuff over there.
Thanks so much for including us! It’s nice to be in such good company, too.
Best,
–
Jonathan Anderson (@first_day)
Managing Editor, UX Magazine (@uxmag)
–
Mega-list, nice work! Thanks for putting it together. I try to get to as much as possible and seen/read many on this list, but there are a lot of them here I haven’t seen before.
What about http://webexpedition18.com – (just one that comes to mind)? Now that I think of it, there are several that could be added….
;-)
Here’s another one of my favorites… http://creativebite.net
Thanks so much for including Arbent. I found a few new blog to follow myself :)
Great effort to accumulate such a huge collection of great design blogs! Thx for sharing.
this is a fantastic list
there are few that i would have added, though i think the once that are not included (i guess) are commonly known
i really liked the “link list” – i find them really helpful – almost like tweeter (personal i use it to get reffered to cool posts)
two other link agrigators that i would strongly recommend:
Script & Style
and
boag links
I remember when I started into web design, I desperately needed a list like this
thanks for sharing
Great list but u missed Noupe http://www.noupe.com/ and CSS Tricks
http://css-tricks.com/
Well, I think there is almost nothing more to add to this amazing list, which I don’t think I have the time to even visit!
Here is my list of favorite sites to learn from especially if you’re interested in WordPress like me,
http://www.elmalak.info/favorite-resources-learning-wordpress/
Hope that adds a tiny bit to this wonderful resource you got up there.
elmalak
Nice collection, i think you might have missed so many. Here is the another new join and provides a lot of new stuffs, resources and tutorials and it’s unique from the rest (http://www.webrisorsa.info).
Hey now that is a great list!.. Thanks
Great… as if I wasn’t overloaded already… (;_;)
Thank you very much for including ilovecolors in this fantastic list.
You did an amazing work. Thank you for putting up this. There goes another afternoon checking new blogs!
Designs are very impressive
Thank you very much
great site, travel on the internet through which I ended up here, so I let love greetings there. joey