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Categories:
Design resources
Colour
ColorBlender
Color Combo - select and test color combinations.
Colour
Scheme Generator
Colorschemer - website-ready colour schemes.
ColorJack - experiment with colours.
Kuler - Adobe's colour scheme picker.
Directories
Killersites
Directory - web design directory.
Interior
Design Handbook - directory.
Fonts / Typography
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.
The Elements of typographic
style - a guide to web typography.
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.
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.
Graphics / Icons
ClipartDesign - Free vector clipart, ornaments and icons.
Inspiration
LogoPond - logos.
Newsdesigner - a blog about newspaper design.
Illustrators
Images of Delight - children's book Illustrators.
Macintosh 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.
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. NEW
Printers
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...
Recruitment
Zupka - recruitment through personal recommendation.
Software / Technology
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
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.
Web development
Killersites - web design resources.
SiteMaps - tool for mapping pages of a web site.
Web Tools and services
Converters - topics include: measurements, image resolution, file formats, font handling.
Lorem Ipsum - a quick way to create
dummy text.
Base Camp - get
organised, project manage.
Designers
Toolbox - information you think you have but when you want it, you
can never find it.
Box - free online file storage, file sharing, backup data.
StatCounter - free, no ads, invisible statistics counter.
Button Maker - a free and easy way to create buttons.
FreelanceSwitch - calculate your hourly rate.
Need a break ?
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.
Huge
magazine - arts and leisure magazine.
Imagination
at work - an other online drawing site, this one you can invite a
friend.
Virtual
Bubble Wrap
StoreWars - organic
rebellion!
Sites I like!
Tazo Tea
Simple Shoes
Follow
the Rhino
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 very clever! (click on the blue mug on the right).