2009 | The Design Grid

December 27th, 2009

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

Coast Paper is a Canadian specialist in the sales, marketing and distribution of fine paper, graphic systems solutions, and industrial products. We employ over 300 employees across Canada from eight locations throughout the country.

23.Dec.2009

EnviroPAK

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

22.Dec.2009

Snook

Tips, tricks & bookmarks on web development. This site is a resource – for myself and the community. It’s also my personal design and code playground, a place to experiment, and therefore, a site that is in a constant state of flux.

21.Dec.2009

IconDock

We are not just about selling stock icons. Icon design is our passion. From time to time, we will release free icons for you to download. Be sure to check our IconBlog for icon releases and updates.

21.Dec.2009

DesignersCouch

Designers’Couch is a new platform for the professional, creative community. Creative Portfolios, Projects, Collaboration and Networking.

21.Dec.2009

Getty Images

We are the leading provider of digital media worldwide, creating and distributing a range of assets – from royalty-free stock photography and editorial images to footage, music and multimedia – that help communicators around the globe tell their stories.

21.Dec.2009

Corbis Images

Premium creative photography and renowned editorial images curated by experts.

21.Dec.2009

Really Right Stuff

Really Right Stuff designs, builds, acquires and sells the very best tripods, ballheads, quick-release clamps, and quick-release plates available anywhere.

21.Dec.2009

Authentic Jobs

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

20.Dec.2009

Miller’s Professional Imaging

Miller’s Professional Imaging has grown to be the largest professional lab organization in the United States. They provide professional prints and press products for professional photographers in all fifty states.

20.Dec.2009

Color Scheme Designer 3

It’s based on the Tetrade – the foursome of colors evenly distributed on the color wheel (by 90 degreees).

20.Dec.2009

House Industries

Known throughout the world as a prolific type foundry, House Industries has made a considerable impact on the world of design. House Industries fonts scream from billboards, wish happy whatever from tens of thousands of greeting cards, serve as the basis for consumer product logos and add elements of style to a wide range of mainstream media.

20.Dec.2009

Type Navigator

The world’s first interactive visual font search system.

19.Dec.2009

Clean CSS

A resource for web designers. CSS Formatter and Optimiser.

19.Dec.2009

Kapitza

Picture fonts and vector illustrations.

19.Dec.2009

HTML Playground

HTML, XHTML, CSS code references and code examples. Select a tag and see use examples and code samples.

19.Dec.2009

Mpix

Mpix has unparalleled quality of products and services in the photographic printing industry. Mpix doesn’t stop with quality, our turnaround is equally as impressive. Almost all orders ship in 24 hours. Most orders in by noon ship the same day.

18.Dec.2009

Design Snack

In simple terms, Design Snack is a socially-powered web design showcase. We’ve taken the CSS/XHTML and Flash web design gallery and broke the mold, providing the users themselves with the power to create what is essentially a great web portfolio and the ultimate inspiration tool.

18.Dec.2009

Fonthead

Over 150 high-quality cool fonts ideal for design and logo work, available for instant download from the Fonthead Design font foundry.

18.Dec.2009

Font Diner

Check out the tastiest selection of fonts on the web. dig in, you’ll love ‘em.

18.Dec.2009

Designers Bookshop

Designers Bookshop will always strive to create quality products, to create the stuff that we as designers really need and are looking for to help us create better results. Our goal is to empower designers work around the world by listening to what they really need.

17.Dec.2009

1KB CSS Grid

Though simple, The 1KB CSS Grid packs the punch of a heavyweight. Nested rows? Piece of cake! A fluid grid rather than a fixed one? No problem!

17.Dec.2009

Grid System Generator

This tool generates grid systems in valid css / xhtml for rapid prototyping, development and production environments. The grid system generators offer the ability to customize the width, no. of columns and margin(s) to allow more flexibility for various designs.

17.Dec.2009

myPantone

With the myPANTONE for iPhone and iPod Touch app you have access to a variety of PANTONE® color libraries and the ability to build color palettes and share them with colleagues and clients.

17.Dec.2009

Fubiz

Since May 2005, the Fubiz site is centered on the subjects of the graphic world, the urban culture, the products tendencies and numerical arts. A baseline Daily off proportions inspiration, a version available in 2 languages with nine galleries, a collaboratif space and new uses.

17.Dec.2009

The Daily Grind

A newspaper-style wordpress theme created by siiimple

16.Dec.2009

Minimalissimo

Minimalissimo is a blog that touches all categories of minimalist design, including art, architecture, graphic design and industrial design.

16.Dec.2009

Minima

A record of applied simplicity.

16.Dec.2009

Minimalsites

A website gallery only for minimalist websites(minimally designed websites). Less is more, doing more with less.

16.Dec.2009

Tasck

The little todo list that could. Of all the online todo lists, TASCK stands out because it allows you to get more done in less clicks thanks to its ease of use, clean minimal design, and fast ajax based interface. The best part: it’s free and ready to go as soon as the page loads up.

15.Dec.2009

wideangled

A blog full of landscape photography inspiration.

15.Dec.2009

Stare At

Web design, graphic designers, digital artists, photographers, resources. Inspiration at it’s best.

15.Dec.2009

Opensource Templates

The original free opensource templates site.

15.Dec.2009

Codecopia

Codecopia leads the way in PSD to XHTML/CSS conversions with pixel-precise, hand-coded solutions that are designed to make your websites flourish.

15.Dec.2009

Daily Drop Cap

The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere.

14.Dec.2009

ONE International

ONE is a campaign and advocacy organisation with more than 2 million members committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

14.Dec.2009

Logofi

Logofi was built to inspire designers and other creative people. Hopefully, we had made your creative juices flow and motivated you to try something different because designing is exploring.

14.Dec.2009

DPI

DPI has a solid background in the design and printing industry with over 20 years of commercial experience. We can cater for most print jobs, whether litho or digital, large or small quantities and are renowned for the high quality of our work combined with a fast turn around.

14.Dec.2009

Logo Design Love

Logo Design Love is a website (and now a book) devoted to logos.

13.Dec.2009

NeueBlanc

NeueBlanc is simply an inspirational/resource blog, dedicated to providing the ocean of creative individuals with daily inspiration. Primarily focused on simplicity, typography, minimalism, Swiss design and photography.

13.Dec.2009

Basic Math WordPress Theme

Clean, well-commented code and rich with microformats, beautifully designed on a comprehensive layout grid, one click color-scheme control, fully formatted widgets, with three custom widgets, distinctive category and tag displays on every page, and a kick-ass custom archive page.

13.Dec.2009

LogoPond

Logopond showcases the best in identity work from around the web.

13.Dec.2009

A Way Back

This is the weblog of Amrinder Sandhu, a freelance web designer from Punjab, India who runs a small design studio.

12.Dec.2009

TypoJungle

TypoJungle is an inspirational resource focused on typography, graphic design, books, exhibitions, minimalism and modernism, updated several times a day.

12.Dec.2009

Fluid Grid

Fluid Grid is a new grid system that works the same way as Blueprint or 960, but with any page width, even fluid layouts. It is based only on CSS.

12.Dec.2009

Slice My Design

You crank out the design and send over the Photoshop files and we’ll take care of the rest. Relax and enjoy our award winning service.

12.Dec.2009

Top Site Tally

Top Site Tally was created to keep a daily record of some of the best websites. With all of the noise that’s out there, we want to be able to sift through all of those websites to find and feature the best on this site.

12.Dec.2009

Please Create a Unique Site

With the interwebs becoming overrun by mirror blogs, regurgitated posts, and mile long inspiration lists, it’s time for everyone to start creating unprecedented content and something unique.

12.Dec.2009

JAM Paper

JAM Paper offers a wide range of envelopes, plastics, paper, folders, bags, portfolios, and boxes to help businesses and individuals look professional, creative, and smart.

12.Dec.2009

Inspired Magazine

Daily graphic design inspiration.

12.Dec.2009

Grid Based Designs

GBD gallery showcases some of the world’s best websites designed with grid-based approach and beautiful web typography.

11.Dec.2009

Jakprints

Jakprints specializes in custom full-color offset printing, apparel printing and sticker production. Our state-of-the-art equipment and an expert staff with over 25 years of collective experience in the printing industry allows us to offer the highest quality products and best service anywhere while still offering the industry’s most competitive prices.

11.Dec.2009

Grain Edit

Grain edit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period.

11.Dec.2009

Squad

Squad is a web-based collaborative code editor. We make it simple to open, edit and share code in real time.

10.Dec.2009

Paperworks

Incredible selection of papers in an array of colors, sizes, textures, and fibers – right at your fingertips. Need the perfect envelope? Want the most elegant invitation? Something unique like translucent vellum – it’s all here!

10.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

Club Card

The source for full colour cards of all sizes, stickers, posters, brochures, temporary tattoos, CD & DVD packaging, Pantone colour stationery, short-run books & calendars, custom print work and graphic design services.

10.Dec.2009

FormFiftyFive

Founded in 2005 by an ever growing group of young designers and vagabonds eager to collect and share the best design work they came across, FormFiftyFive soon became an international showcase of creative work.

10.Dec.2009

DevKick

We hand-pick the best components and resources on the net, pin down their core objectives, label them with relevant categories and present them on this very site. We promote well written, documented, modular and extendable web development components and designs.

10.Dec.2009

Design You Trust

Design You Trust is a daily design blog and community, full of new design trends, news and events, great design portfolios, young design bloods, design articles, photographies, fashion, creative advertisements, architectural inspirations, video design and hand-picked design stuff from all over the globe.

10.Dec.2009

Design is Kinky

Bringing you design and art goodness from Sydney, Australia since 1998!

10.Dec.2009

I Love Typography

The typography and fonts blog. Typographic inspiration, typeface reviews, interviews, and free fonts.

09.Dec.2009

Typographica

Typographica is a review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. Edited by Stephen Coles, also of The FontFeed and The Mid-Century Modernist.

09.Dec.2009

Swissmiss

Swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a ‘swiss designer gone NYC’.

09.Dec.2009

Siiimple

Web design gallery for minimalist, simple websites. whitespace, clarity, simplicity are essential to communicate a well designed message.

09.Dec.2009

un.complicated WordPress Theme

The layout is minimalist, clean, and organized into three 320px columns. This theme, like the previous two themes Miniml Press & Daily Grind, are built on Starkers and implements the The Golden Grid

09.Dec.2009

New York, New York WordPress Theme

New York, New York WordPress Theme is the 4th minimalist wordpress theme created by siiimple.com. It’s creation was inspired by New York Magazine, hence the title.

09.Dec.2009

Nettuts+

Nettuts+ is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.

09.Dec.2009

Use Sprites to Create an Awesomeness-Filled Navigation Menu

A CSS sprite is a technique that involves grouping images to form a single master image, and then selectively displaying only the required sections using CSS attributes (width, height, background-position etc).

09.Dec.2009

Acrobat.com

Convert files to PDF online, store and share files, create and collaborate documents, presentations and tables online, host a online meeting and more.

09.Dec.2009

Adobe Type

Providing stunning, elegant, and beautiful typography since 1985, Adobe Type offers more than 2,200 typefaces.

09.Dec.2009

Green Printer

Green Printer offers a range of treeless and recycled content papers for every type of job and printing service.

08.Dec.2009

Innovative Enterprises Inc.

Sustainable Packaging and Paper Pallets – We design and manufacture sustainable custom packaging and paper pallets for all industries.

08.Dec.2009

Taste of Ink

Reinventing the science of tasteful printing. Providing corporate printing and marketing collateral for companies world wide.

08.Dec.2009

Variable Grid System

The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.

08.Dec.2009

SimpleThemes

Our goal at SimpleThemes is to showcase WordPress themes we find to be simple, minimalistic, or even simply beautiful.

08.Dec.2009

Baseline

Baseline is a framework built around the idea of a “real” baseline grid. Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography.

08.Dec.2009

Swiss Legacy

Swiss Legacy, by the initiative of Art Director Xavier Encinas, is a blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspirational matters.

08.Dec.2009

B&P Typefoundry

B&P Typefoundry is a swiss-based typefoundry founded by Maxime Buechi & Ian Party.

08.Dec.2009

Suitcase Type Foundry

Suitcase Type Foundry is an independent type foundry, founded by Tomas Brousil in 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic. We are specialized in the design and digitization of quality fonts for professional use. Apart from retail type we also produce custom typefaces for corporate use and other specific purposes on commission.

08.Dec.2009

Psdtuts+

Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner.

07.Dec.2009