The superlative resource for designers, web developers, motion graphic artists and photographers.

Printing

EM Letterpress

  • Commercial printing house dedicated to making the art of letterpress printing available as a viable option to designers, stationers, publishers, and all those who value craft.

  • 03.Jun.2010

Spark – Letterpress Love

  • We know letterpress like the back of our ink-stained hands. A handcrafted touch gives any project a unique character, no matter how simple the idea. We work with designers from here, there and everywhere to create custom printed pieces of the highest quality.

  • 03.Jun.2010

Studio on Fire

  • Studio On Fire is a design workspace and letterpress printer in Minneapolis, MN backed by in-house modern letterpress printing capabilities.

  • 03.Jun.2010

Packaging

Great Little Box Company

  • Great Little Box Company prides itself on being at the forefront of our industry, we like to lead, not follow – especially when it comes to our environmental practices. Putting the customer first has been a long tradition at Great Little Box Company. We are flexible, we are adaptable and we are innovative.

  • 28.Jan.2010

EnviroPAK

  • EnviroPAK manufactures custom molded pulp fiber protective packaging, utilizing an environmentally friendly sustainable packaging material.

  • 22.Dec.2009

Instabox

  • Basically, our business is producing small quantities of custom boxes. Our products range from simple slotted cartons to complex, custom die-cut designs. That’s what we’ve built our name on. However, that’s not all Instabox is, or does

  • 10.Dec.2009

Inspiration

Dribble

  • Dribbble is show and tell for designers, developers and other creatives. Share sneak peeks of your work as “shots” – small screenshots of the designs and applications you’re working on.

  • 20.Jul.2010

LetterCult

  • Highlighting artists & designers doing remarkable work with Custom Letters. This group includes type designers, letterers, sign painters, graffiti artists, stone carvers, calligraphers, poster artists, and graphic designers.

  • 27.May.2010

Tools

Pictos

  • Hand Crafted, Infinitely Scalable & Royalty-Free Icons for User Interface Designers. Available as a font or two separate vector icon packs.

  • 24.Aug.2010

Every Time Zone

  • Never warp your brain with Time Zone math again.

  • 24.Aug.2010

Pictograms

  • A set of 140 hand-crafted vector icons for download for graphic designers and design enthusiasts.

  • 07.Aug.2010

Tutorials

Learning jQuery: Fading Menu – Replacing Content

  • The more I learn about jQuery, the more natural it feels. Probably because of how closely tied to CSS it is. From a design perspective, the syntax for jQuery is: “When I do this, make the CSS do this.” – Chris Coyer

  • 26.Apr.2010

Creative Sessions

  • At the beginning of each month we’ll be launching a two-week Session on a creative topic. Sessions will cover everything from digital illustration, to typography, to web design.

  • 24.Apr.2010

GridControl

  • A Grid Overlay System for Design Development.

  • 20.Mar.2010

Blogs

WPCandy

  • WPCandy was created on October 1st, 2007, as a blog on everything about WordPress, from the latest themes and plugins to tutorials and tips. Already on it’s 3rd redesign, WPCandy is one of the top sites about WordPress and still kickin’ ass.

  • 15.Jul.2010

Trent Walton

  • I know a thing or two about HTML, CSS, graphic design, user experience, information architecture, etc., that, when combined with some good old fashioned elbow grease, make for a not so shabby website.

  • 12.Jul.2010

Design Milk

  • Features specific designers and artists, cool internet finds, and innovative design. Primarily focused on minimalism and modernism.

  • 03.Jun.2010

Themes

The Columnist

  • The Columnist is a grid based Wordpress theme. It features a newspaper column layout, neat typographic hierarchy, a tidy grid system and some css3 & jQuery greatness. This theme can be applied to any content type; whether it be a photography portfolio, travel journal, tutorial service, news provider or a blog for your twelve cats, The Columnist theme will do the trick.

  • 14.May.2010

Thematic

  • Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it.

  • 13.Mar.2010

Theme Hybrid

  • Theme Hybrid is all about giving quality themes back to the WordPress community in a way that doesn’t break the bank.

  • 13.Mar.2010

Templates

Less Framework 2

  • A CSS framework for building cross-device layouts. Because everyone writes CSS differently, it only sports a tiny set of features and doesn’t make you change the way you work. Uses CSS3 media-queries to switch between three grids: a five-column one for netbooks and tablets, a two-column one for smartphones, and an eight-column one for laptops and desktops.

  • 07.Aug.2010

Mee Templates

  • Mee Templates is a company specialized in the development of web environments for mobile devices.

  • 18.May.2010

Typogridphy

  • CSS framework constructed to allow web designers and front-end developers to quickly code typographically pleasing grid layouts. Based on the popular 960 Grid System, Typogridphy allows you to create grid layouts which are versatile and great looking. Typogridphy is made of fully validate, semantic and strict xHTML, and validate CSS.

  • 01.Apr.2010

Font Foundries

Hype for Type

  • It’s a hotbed of typographic talent. A type foundry showcasing the best in today’s typographic talent, as well providing a platform for keen eyed creatives to find and buy truly unique, hand-crafted fonts to complement their work.

  • 20.Jul.2010

My Fonts

  • Find, try, buy and download fonts from the world’s largest collection of fonts online.

  • 20.Jul.2010

Type Together

  • TypeTogether is commited to excellence in type design with a focus on editorial use. Additionally, TypeTogether caters tailored type design for corporate use.We invite you to surf our library of retail fonts or contact us to discuss custom type design projects.

  • 23.Jun.2010

Books

HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications

  • Implement the powerful new multimedia and interactive capabilities offered by HTML5, including style control tools, illustration tools, video, audio, and rich media solutions. Reinforce your practical understanding of the new standard with demo applications and tutorials, so that execution is one short step away.

  • 21.Jul.2010

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

  • if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you’ll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.

  • 01.Apr.2010

Trek: David Carson, Recent Werk

  • The latest volume featuring the graphic work of David Carson is full to bursting—nearly 500 pages’ worth—of the color, splashy text and eye-catching design for which he’s been termed “the most famous graphic designer in the world.”

  • 27.Mar.2010

Communities

Caravan

  • Caravan is a house swap and short term sublet listing for commercial creatives and those working in the advertising/media/fashion/art and design industries.

  • 24.Aug.2010

The 99 Percent

  • The 99% provides insights on productivity, organization, and leadership – all designed to help creative people take action and push their ideas forward.

  • 24.Aug.2010

Typedia

  • Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them.

  • 24.Aug.2010

Jobs

Freelance Switch

  • Freelance job listings, freelancers directory, resources and thousands of articles. We are a community of freelance professionals from around the world, spanning all manner of fields.

  • 24.Mar.2010

The Creative Finder

  • The Creative Finder is a platform that businesses can find creative professionals such as photographers, illustrators, designers.

  • 09.Jan.2010

Authentic Jobs

  • Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for web & creative professionals, and the companies seeking to hire them.

  • 20.Dec.2009

Paper

Wausau Paper

  • With more than 110 years of experience, Wausau Paper is a leading producer of fine printing & writing papers, and specialty papers. We focus on delivering innovative products and superior service. Customer satisfaction is our number-one priority.

  • 08.Mar.2010

Sappi

  • Producer of coated woodfree paper which is used in publications such as annual reports, catalogues, brochures and magazines.

  • 27.Dec.2009

Unisource Green

  • The leading marketer and distributor of commercial printing and business imaging papers, graphic arts, packaging systems, facility supplies and equipment in Canada.

  • 24.Dec.2009

Photo Labs

The Lab-Professional Image Works

  • The Lab-Professional Image Works is a digital imaging and film services photolab serving the communications industry and a broad range of business professionals located in Vancouver, Canada.

  • 21.Jan.2010

ABC Photo Color

  • ABC Photocolour is a professional colour lab servicing the professional, consumer and commercial markets. Offering a wide range of products from traditional prints from film to the production of grand format, we possess the ability to meet any of your photographic needs.

  • 20.Jan.2010

gKing Photo

  • Started in the basement of George and Jane King in 1977 gKing has grown to be a preeminent digital and graphic printer with the soul of an old fashioned photo lab where each image is printed with love and care.

  • 20.Jan.2010

Web Hosting

Stackable

  • We built Stackable because we watched web developers struggle with hosting for years. We tried to help, but over time we realized that developers struggle because web hosting isn’t built for the way developers actually work. We built Stackable to change all that.

  • 12.Jul.2010

StableHost

  • We take a different approach to web hosting. We listen to our customers and offer what they need in order to get their website up and running.

  • 29.Jun.2010

GoGrid

  • Windows and Linux Cloud Servers and Cloud Hosting: Build Your Cloud Computing Infrastructure in Minutes with free load balancing and storage.

  • 18.May.2010