Colour

• ColorBlender
• Color Combo - select and test color combinations.
• Colour Scheme Generator
• Colorschemer - website-ready colour schemes.
• ColorJack - experiment with colours.
• Kulur - Adobe colour scheme picker.
• Colour Contrast Check tool.
• CSS Color Chart.
• Color Schemer - experiment with various colour schemes
• ColorSuckr - colour schemes from photos.
• 0-255 - a tool to help designers find variations of any colour. New

Designer's tools

• Designers Toolbox - designer's print and online reference resources
• Rethink Design - tools and tips for sustainable design.
• Shirt Mockup - Instantly visualise designs on a T'shirt. New

Directories

• Killersites Directory - web design directory.
• Interior Design Handbook - directory.

E-magazines

• Behance - insights and tips for creatives.
• Treehouse magazine.

Fonts

• Phil's Fonts - find fonts, identify fonts, custom typeface design.
• FontStruct - a free font-building tool by FontShop. Lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes.
• BV Fonts - free and Pay fonts.
• FontDiner - Mac and PC fonts.
• Font Shop
• MVB Fonts - good simple site navigation. Not to be confused with BV fonts.
• MYFonts - over 30,000.
• Typetester - an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.
• Typorganism - interesting things you can do with kinetic typography.
• Fontifier - independent directory of typefaces.
• MiniFonts - pixel fonts for web design.
• DaFonts - free and shareware fonts to download. Has a large collection for Mac and Windows.
• DingbatDepot - source of free dingbat fonts.
• Exlijbris - some excellent free fonts.
• Urban Fonts - similar to DaFont.
• Fontsquirrel - free fonts for commercial use.
• JohnMartz - free fonts. Quality from "perfectly useable and awesome" to "oh my god that's hideous"
• FontTester - CSS Font comparison tool.
• What Font - a great bookmarklet to find out fonts used on a website. New

General design

• D&AD - set creative standards, educate, inspire and promote good design.
• Design for the World - voluntary design for people in need.
• Sorrell Foundation.
• Quotes on Design. New

Graphics / Icons

• ClipartDesign - Free vector clipart, ornaments and icons.
• Vector graphics and Cliart.

Inspiration

• LogoPond - logos.
• Newsdesigner - a blog about newspaper design.
• Power to the Poster
• Communication Arts
• Emprint - books for design enthusiasts
• Book Cover archive.
• Cover Spy - publishing nerds go round New York to find out what people are reading.
• thedieline - package design blog.

Illustrators

• Images of Delight - children's book Illustrators.

Mac related

• Secondhand Macs - sell or find Apple Mac products.

Photography

• iStockphoto - royalty free stock photography.
• Sxc.hu - free stock photos.
• Dreamstime - low cost stock photos.
• Big Stock Photo - royalty-free stock photos.
• PhotoBox - photo prints and online albums.
• EveryStockPhoto - a search engine for Creative Commons photos.
• Fotolia - cheap royalty-free stock photos.
• DesignPacks - free image collections that can be used in web design projects.
• Freerange - stock photographs and textures. New

Print Design

• Before and After - How to design. Some free downloadable pdfs.
• How Magazine - designer's source of information.
• Pantone - colour guides.
• Printernational - tools and information about print design.

Printers/ing

• Lovely as a Tree - find green printers and recycled paper. (UK)
• Briar Press - excellent resources for letterpress printers and enthusiasts.
• Harrington and Squires - letterpress printers and designers. All work done by hand.
• A-Local-Printer- eco-friendly printers for flyers, leaflets, brochures...
• HubCast - global distributed printing.
• Blurb - make your own book.
• Sappi - techinical documents from basic printing process to specific printing problems. New

Productivity Tools/Resources

• Lorem Ipsum - a quick way to create dummy text.
• CalendarsQuick - create printable calendars, some free ones to try out.

Recommended reading

• A List Apart
• Huge magazine - arts and leisure magazine.

Recruitment / Jobs

• Authentic Jobs - jobs for designers and developers.
• Krop - design jobs.
• Zupka - recruitment through personal recommendation.
• Veer Jobs - projects & jobs for designers & developers.
• Freelanceswitch - for those of us who want to make a living out of freelancing this attracts the right type of client.
• FreshWebJobs - set up so you can easily search for web jobs.

Software

• Quark or InDesign ? - the battle between the two desktop publishing giants.
• InDesign Secrets - resources for InDesign.
• Illustrator Techniques - a publication for Adobe Illustrator users.
• JAlbum - free web photo album generator.

Tutorials

• Good Tutorials - a tutorials for Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, CSS, HTML and more.
• Illustrator and Dreamweaver tutorials
• The Learn List - the site lists and rates tutorials.

Typography

• Thinking with Type
• I love Typography
• Elements of Typographic - a guide to web typography.
• We love Typography - a guide to web typography.
• Typedia - is a resource to classify, categorize and connect typefaces.

Web design

• Web Design Practices.
• Web Page Design for Designers - articles, reviews and information.
• Font size testing on your screen.
• CSSType - the site shows you exactly how web fonts will look on your screen - size, colours, height etc and will generate the css for you.
• TypeChart - preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.

Web development

• Killersites - web design resources.
• SiteMaps - tool for mapping pages of a web site.

Web tools

• Converters - topics include: measurements, image resolution, file formats, font handling.
• Fillerati - web designers create dummy text, not in latin. New
• StatCounter - free, no ads, invisible statistics counter.
• Button Maker - a free and easy way to create buttons.
• FreelanceSwitch - calculate your hourly rate.
• Docstoc - business forms and templates.
• You Send It - send and receive files
• Wi-Fi Finder
• Box - free online file storage, file sharing, backup data.
• DropBox - another file sharing and online storage website.
• Astuteo Estimator - Web development project estimator.
• Dropsend - send large files and store files online.
• Sliderocket - create presentations online.

 

Worth knowing

• NO-SPEC - About speculative, or ’spec’ work.
• TradeMarkia - the most complete free search engine for U.S. federally registered trademarks on the Internet.

A bit of fun (or time wasters)

• Soda - can be addictive!
• Orisinal - free web-based simple games.
• Clientcopia - quotes, comments from clients!
• Flrt - public service announcements!
• Don't click.it - !
• Jackson Pollock - bring out the artist in you, just scroll your mouse and click.
• Imagination at work - an other online drawing site, this one you can invite a friend.
• Virtual Bubble Wrap
• StoreWars - organic rebellion!
• Wordle - generating “word clouds” from text.
• Bemboszoo - have fun with type.
• Machine - from SymmetryLab, use different components to create a 'machine'.
• The Fun theory - fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better!
• Playspent - It's payday soon, see how good you are at budgeting. New

Sites I like (fun and interesting)!

• Tracy Chapman
• Tazo Tea
• Coffee at Home - Starbucks again! I like the illustrated graphics.
• Simple Shoes
• Jonathan Yuen - something different, love how the images flow from one to the other.
• Wildcard - move your cursor on the page and see the changes.
• Hema - a bit of fun and clever! (click on the blue mug on the right).
• The Wonder Wall - unusual.

Sites I follow / read

• Jason Santa Maria
• Drawar
• Designer Daily
• Swiss Miss
• 99%
• Design Instruct
• Six Revisions
• 52weeks of UX