2010 | The Design Grid

December 14th, 2010

HTML5 Beauty

HTML5 Beauty is a gallery of beautiful sites that use HTML5 for markup.

14.Dec.2010

WP Active

Free WordPress themes. nuff said.

14.Dec.2010

We’re the World’s #1 Green hosting provider. The energy used to power our servers and offices is replaced 3 times, making us carbon-reducing. When you host your site with us, your helping the environment at the same time.

10.Dec.2010

Picto Foundry

Specially optimized for iPhone 4 Retina display, iPad, and other great UI elements. With Picto Foundry Pro, you get the full set of 230, handcrafted icons @ 2x the resolution. These icons can also be used on Android, websites, and much more.

03.Dec.2010

WPBeginner

WPBeginner is a perfect guide for WordPress Beginners. Our articles offer a wide variety of WordPress tips, tools, themes, and other WordPress resources.

02.Dec.2010

Carrington

A theme platform for WordPress that includes the Carrington Core, a reactive templating engine that makes it easy to create different visual styles for different site areas and content and Carrington Build, an advanced drag and drop page layout system.

02.Dec.2010

Whiteboard Framework

The Whiteboard framework for WordPress is built to speed up the process of designing and coding a WordPress theme. Whiteboard does so by eliminating the time spent on WordPress’ back-end PHP that is common to all WordPress themes.

02.Dec.2010

Good Fucking Design Advice.

Because sometimes, being your own worst critic is not enough.

02.Dec.2010

Huddle

Huddle the leading file storage, project management & collaboration software. Manage people, projects and information inside and outside your business.

02.Dec.2010

Responsive Web Design

From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Are your designs ready?

26.Nov.2010

Carousel

Carousel is a theme aimed directly at photographers. It’s gallery page design was unashamedly inspired by Bostons Big Picture and Pictory Mag

25.Nov.2010

The Elements of Content Strategy

Content strategy is the web’s hottest new thing. But where did it come from? And why does it matter?

25.Nov.2010

HTML5 for Web Designers

The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.

24.Nov.2010

CSS3 for Web Designers

From advanced selectors to generated content to the triumphant return of web fonts, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to full-blown animations, CSS3 is a universe of creative possibilities.

23.Nov.2010

Smooth

This widget-ready theme is dedicated to writers. Its simplicity, light grey background and large fonts put the content ahead. Nothing useless, just fine typography and a touch of colors.

23.Nov.2010

Work-a-holic

Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators.

22.Nov.2010

Brave Zeenat

A clean Portfolio Theme ideal for photographers, artists and designers to showcase their portfolios.

22.Nov.2010

AutoFocus

A new theme for WordPress designed by Allan Cole for fthrwght.com

21.Nov.2010

jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide

A comprehensive exploration of the popular JavaScript library

19.Nov.2010

Organic Themes

Organic Themes is a complete WordPress solution company offering beautifully designed premium WordPress themes and customization services.

19.Nov.2010

JS Bin

Collaborative JavaScript Debugging

15.Nov.2010

CSSTidy

CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser. It is available as executeable file which can be controlled per command line and as PHP script.

13.Nov.2010

Bespin

The Bespin project is building a web-based code editor using the emerging HTML5 standard. The editor is easily extensible with JavaScript and can be used in your own applications.

13.Nov.2010

Kodingen

Kodingen is an Online Development Environment including Code Editor, Cloud Hosting, Database Administration, Collaboration, Web based access to file-system, Web based ftp & svn integration

13.Nov.2010

Theme Garden

Find quality WordPress themes from a variety of creative theme authors & brands in an ever growing Marketplace. ThemeGarden.com is dedicated to WordPress and the WordPress community.

11.Nov.2010

Press75

Delivering clean and efficient WordPress themes with 100% valid code including key customization and content management opitons. Basically, you get everything you need and absolutely nothing you don’t.

11.Nov.2010

Ascender Fonts

The finest, high quality fonts available for instant download. Brought to you by the font experts at Ascender Corp, you will find a great selection of TrueType fonts and OpenType fonts from licensed type designers and font foundries.

10.Nov.2010

Graph Paper Press

Graph Paper Press specializes in photo, video and multimedia themes for WordPress.

09.Nov.2010

Thesis Theme Framework

The Thesis Theme framework is a premium template system for WordPress that is designed to serve as the rock-solid foundation beneath any kind of website.

09.Nov.2010

PlatformPro

Drag & Drop Theme Framework A revolutionary new way to build websites, faster, easier and better than ever before.

08.Nov.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 and styling for popular plugins.

08.Nov.2010

Custom Contact Form for WordPress

A simple tutorial on how to build a custom contact form for your WordPress site.

08.Nov.2010

WP Photographer Theme

The WP Photographer Theme is an extremely simple yet elegant approach to showcasing your images. It’s the best photography and photo WordPress theme ever.

06.Nov.2010

Standard Theme

The Best Coded WordPress Theme Ever. The Standard Theme is a meticulously crafted and coded personal and professional blogging theme built with industry standards in mind.

06.Nov.2010

WordPress SEO Plugin

WordPress SEO is the most complete SEO plugin that exists. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview that helps you optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and keywords to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options.

05.Nov.2010

Hybrid Core

Hybrid Core is a WordPress theme development framework for creating solid parent themes. It allows theme developers to forget about all the complex functionality and dive straight into coding their themes.

05.Nov.2010

CSS Compressor

Compress CSS code to reduce file size and make your sites load faster for free.

05.Nov.2010

ScriptSrc.net

Tired of hunting down the script tag for the latest version of your Javascript Library of choice? Yeah so are we. So we built this page for you. Bookmark it man!

05.Nov.2010

Html5 Starter Pack

It’s a very basic HTML5 starter pack with a clean & ordered directory structure fit for most projects, a few of the most common files

04.Nov.2010

Hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries

Hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries are empty placeholders for targeting the devices and screen resolutions.

04.Nov.2010

ProCSSor

Advanced CSS Prettifier that lets you format CSS in the exact way you want. It empowers you to turn your CSS into something that is visually more compelling, and with a minimum of effort at that.

04.Nov.2010

The Square Grid

A simple CSS framework for designers and developers, based on 35 equal-width columns. It aims to cut down on development time and help you create beautiful-structured websites.

03.Nov.2010

selectivizr

selectivizr is a JavaScript utility that emulates CSS3 pseudo-classes and attribute selectors in Internet Explorer 6-8. Simply include the script in your pages and selectivizr will do the rest.

03.Nov.2010

Reserves

Reserves is a California based type and product related design brand founded by Mike Jarboe in 2006.

03.Nov.2010

HTML5 Boilerplate

HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.

22.Oct.2010

Instant Blueprint

Instant Blueprint allows you to quickly create a web project framework with valid HTML/XHTML and CSS in only a matter of seconds, allowing you to get your project up and running faster!

22.Oct.2010

Fullscreen Template

Elegant WordPress theme with a full scaling background image slideshow

21.Oct.2010

Spritebaker

A free tool for designers and web developers. It parses your css and returns a copy with all external media “baked” right into it as Base64 encoded datasets. The number of http-requests on your website is decreased significantly.

21.Oct.2010

Turbine

Turbine decreases css development time and web developer headache

21.Oct.2010

.toucan-css-reset

A reset stylesheet. Unlike Meyer’s or YUI’s, it not only removes the default styling of HTML elements, but also rebuilds the new generic rules for the typography, headings, paragraphs, lists, forms, tables etc.

20.Oct.2010

Gridulator

A quick and easy grid calculator for pixel pros (and novices).

20.Oct.2010

nP Grid Generator

Create your own custom site css grid using our online code generator

20.Oct.2010

Learning jQuery

Tips, techniques, and tutorials for the jQuery JavaScript library

19.Oct.2010

CSS Gallery Submit

We submit your website to 200+CSS Galleries in just 24 hours

13.Oct.2010

Gogo Themes

Clean, stylish themes with features oriented for content presentation, ready to make your website stand

13.Oct.2010

LogMeIn Ignition

LogMeIn Ignition gives you direct, one-click remote access to all of your computers without a browser. Just install the App on your iPhone, iPad or Android.

29.Sep.2010

HostPapa

Professional web hosting provider with free domain name for life, unlimited web hosting space and unlimited bandwidth.

22.Sep.2010

Commercial Type

Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, who have collaborated since 2004 on various typeface projects, most notably the award winning Guardian Egyptian.

16.Sep.2010

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

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

Pictograms

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

07.Aug.2010

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

Build Conference

Build is a small, yet perfectly formed, boutique design conference where interesting, talented web practitioners from all over the world come to share ideas, techniques and inspiration.

21.Jul.2010

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

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

Veer

Veer provides elements for design and creativity. A new perspective on rights-managed and royalty-free stock photography, and illustration, as well as typefaces and stylish designer merchandise. Buy and download online.

20.Jul.2010

My Fonts

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

20.Jul.2010

WordPress Coda Clips Collection

Coda has the ability to import and export clips into and out of Coda. We took it upon ourselves to add almost every tag on the very useful WordPress function list to Coda and export them as a group for y’all to use. Just download the zip, extract, double-click the file, and you’re ready to go!

15.Jul.2010

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

Convert Case

Accidentally left the caps lock on and typed something, but can’t be bothered to start again and retype it all?

14.Jul.2010

Paper Wireframes

iPhone Wireframe Prototyping Pad

12.Jul.2010

YourAM

YourAM is an appointment manager that organizes and manages your business appointments automatically.

12.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

Six11Ink

Six11Ink is a copy writing and content strategy agency specializing in writing for effective content for the web and print.

12.Jul.2010

Big Cartel

Big Cartel is where artists set up shop. We provide clothing designers, bands, jewelry makers, crafters, and other artists with their own customizable store to sell their stuff online.

12.Jul.2010

Thurly

Thurly allows you to shorten long URLs in a snap. You can shrink the URL of the site you’re currently visiting with just a click. Open Thurly by pressing the Thurly button in the Safari toolbar and it automatically shortens the URL of the web page you are visiting.

12.Jul.2010

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

TimeTracker for Mac

Simple time tracker for Mac computers. Extended CSV export, project re-ordering, custom filters, standby mode detection, and more.

01.Jul.2010

Firebug Lite

Doing the Firebug way, anywhere. Compatible with all major browsers: IE6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome; same look and feel as Firebug; inspect HTML and modify style in real-time; powerful console logging functions and more.

30.Jun.2010

Firebug

The most popular and powerful web development tool. Inspect HTML and modify style and layout in real-time, use the most advanced JavaScript debugger available for any browser, accurately analyze network usage and performance, and more.

30.Jun.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

TrackRecord

TrackRecord is a Basecamp time tracking application for the Mac. TrackRecord lets you seamlessly post time to Basecamp and edit the time you’ve already posted. All without ever leaving the app.

29.Jun.2010

Dead Simple Monitor

Dead Simple Monitor is a simple url uptime monitor. Every 5 minutes, we check to make sure your site is up and running. We alert you when it’s down, so you’re the first to know.

29.Jun.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

HipChat

HipChat is an instant messaging service designed for companies and teams. Supercharge internal communication with chat rooms and file sharing. Say goodbye to meetings and email. HipChat is a better way to work.

23.Jun.2010

Invoice Dude

Invoice Dude is a free invoicing application that is completely free to use and lets you bill your clients with ease.

04.Jun.2010

Product Shot Pro

ProductShotPro image templates are high resolution, multi-layered smart objects which effortlessly convert your 2D designs into tangible 3D style product shots. They make creating eBook covers and Product box images from your designs as quick as drag & drop.

04.Jun.2010

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

Design Milk

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

03.Jun.2010

Club Mumble

They are the influential artists, photographers, skateboarders, travelers, makers of books and other stuff you can buy, they are the musicians and whatever else and some of them are totally random shits that somehow fit into the picture.

03.Jun.2010

Arkitip

Arkitip is an art magazine that is without comparison. Each issue edition is ‘curated’ like a group gallery show. Artists are given a specific number of pages to create whatever they wish.

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

Parklife Press

We print custom letterpress invitations, announcements, and stationery by hand using a Chandler & Price Old Style platen press and 100% cotton English-made papers.

03.Jun.2010

Pomegranate Letterpress + Design

Pomegranate Letterpress + Design is a boutique print and design studio based in Oakville, Ontario. Our designs offer a casual twist on the classic art of letterpress.

02.Jun.2010

Sunlit Letterpress

We design and print letterpress stationery for life’s special moments, as well as personal and business correspondence.

02.Jun.2010

Mail Chimp

We make it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance.

31.May.2010

Tiny Fluid Grid

The happy & awesome way to build fluid grid based websites.

29.May.2010

Girlfriend

Girlfriend is an American design agency. It was established in 2010 by one redhead and three guys who would rather not be thought of as brunettes.

29.May.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

The Design Buzz

The Design Buzz is a place for creative people to discover and share creative news and articles written by designers and developers.

25.May.2010

Loremify

Loremify is a one-click tool to copy Lorem Ipsum. It lets you wrap in html, specify the amount of text, and copy it to your clipboard—all in one click. It runs as a Dashboard Widget in Mac OS X, and is a mere 270kb download.

21.May.2010

Jump Media Mail

An Email Marketing that is easy to use and easy on the wallet.

18.May.2010

Interface

The ultimate mockup & prototyping tool that runs right on your iPhone. With Interface you can create & preview mockup screens for your iPhone project using native iPhone OS widgets.

18.May.2010

Mee Templates

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

18.May.2010

Adobe Video Bitrate Calculator

This FLV bitrate calculator was developed by Robert Reinhardt to help you determine the optimal bitrate at which to encode your Flash video files.

18.May.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

Rackspace

Cloud computing and cloud hosting powered by Rackspace Cloud computing. Get reliable cloud servers and site hosting using Rackspace Cloud technology, 24/7 support and Live chat.

18.May.2010

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

InMotion Hosting

Top-rated Business Class Web Hosting solutions for Small and Medium Business. VPS Hosting and Dedicated Server solutions available.

05.May.2010

Web Hosting Pad

Quality and affordable shared hosting and web design services from Web Hosting Pad with 24/7 online tech support and full customer satisfaction guarantee.

05.May.2010

User Testing

UserTesting.com lets you “look over the shoulder” of people in your target audience while they use your website. It’s fast, easy, and inexpensive, so you’re more likely to do it.

05.May.2010

Font Fabric

Fontfabric is an independent type foundry. Our goal is to create high-quality fonts which stand in a unique class of their own, and which will serve as a good base for any designer project.

04.May.2010

IE6 Fixer

A tool specifically designed to ease the pain of the ie6 css debugger. It applies a series of basic fixes that are known to conquer many problems and cause as little harm as possible.

04.May.2010

Email on Acid

Generate an instant preview of your email in the most popular email clients! Instant email testing & code analysis.

04.May.2010

Cats Who Code

A website dedicated to those who create and maintain websites : web developers, web designers, webmasters, and so on. Our aim is to make web development easier and funnier by providing high quality resources and useful tutorials to our readers.

04.May.2010

Underworld Magazines

Underworld Magazines is a design blog displaying some of the best design news, resources, and interviews from around the web. On Underworld Magazines you will find a lot of graphic design, webdesign, resources, Inspiration, and much more.

30.Apr.2010

Uni-Form

Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.

29.Apr.2010

48 Hour Print

Full color printing with industry-leading turnaround & exceptional quality, at an affordable price. Over 30 products, including business cards, postcards, brochures, booklets, banners, sell sheets, vinyl banners, labels and stickers, and much more. All of our products are printed within 48 hours of proof approval – guaranteed!

28.Apr.2010

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

Design Swap

Encouraging people to show the ultimate sign of creative respect – letting someone else design on your website. Whether it’s a blog post, banner image, or even a tiny footer doodad, we’ll be inviting creatives to pair up for a Design Swap.

24.Apr.2010

HDcoding.com

Quality and fast WordPress and XHTML coding service. We transform any design into WordPress templates or XHTML pages based on a valid and well-structured code.

24.Apr.2010

The League of Moveable Type

We’re done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.

23.Apr.2010

Font Shop

FontShop is the original independent retailer of digital type. We offer more than 100,000 fonts from dozens of expert-selected foundries, including our house brand: FontFont.

04.Apr.2010

Village

A collection of fonts from various type foundries.

04.Apr.2010

Typofondrie

Founded in 1994, Porchez Typofonderie is an independent digital type foundry in France. This is the first place in the world to buy our typefaces.

04.Apr.2010

Typekit

The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website. Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

04.Apr.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

Graphic-ExchanGE – a selection of graphic projects

01.Apr.2010

Border Radius

CSS border radius generator for lazy people.

01.Apr.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

Helveticons

Royalty-free vector icons, glyphs and symbols based on the Helvetica Bold typeface

30.Mar.2010

Boxcar Press

Boxcar Press specializes in fine letterpress printing, letterpress pre-press, platemaking, and photopolymer supplies. We outfit digital letterpress printers with all they need to create incredible impressions with photopolymer on platen and cylinder letterpresses.

28.Mar.2010

Briar Press

Briar Press is a community of 44,234 printers and artists dedicated to the preservation of letterpress.

28.Mar.2010

British Letterpress

A site to help new and experienced letterpress printers get started. The site includes specific guides to letterpress printing as a hobby and the wonderful presses, or printing machines. For those that know all they need to about printing, there are guides to learning more and selling or disposing of letterpress equipment.

28.Mar.2010

Dependable Letterpress

Dependable Letterpress creates quality printed work with vintage presses and attentive craftsmanship. Business cards, invitations, stationery, wine labels, books, or whatever your one-of-a-kind project, Dependable Letterpress will make it shine.

28.Mar.2010

The Mandate Press

We have a saying: “Everything looks better letterpressed.” It brings an added level of sincerity and authenticity to a design and therefore an added value of sincerity and authenticity to your printed piece.

28.Mar.2010

blackbird letterpress

Specializing in original, fine art printmaking. Offer custom letterpress printing and design, from classic business cards to elegant wedding invitations and small runs of posters/handbills.

28.Mar.2010

Dolce Press

Dolce Press is a design studio and letterpress print shop located in beautiful Central New York. We create just about anything from, letterpress wedding invitations and birth announcements to social stationery and imprintables.

28.Mar.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

The Elements of Typographic Style

This lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating beautiful typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work with typographic designs.

27.Mar.2010

Grid Systems in Graphic Design

From a professional for professionals, here is the definitive word on using grid systems in graphic design.

27.Mar.2010

Unhappy Hipsters

It’s lonely in the modern world.

26.Mar.2010

Strong Password Generator

This tool uses several sources of entropy (random data), such as your browser, window position, timer, mouse, and keyboard. The timing of mouse and keyboard events is also used.

26.Mar.2010

Gridness

A mixture of grid design inspiration.

26.Mar.2010

Typesites

Typesites is a weekly showcase of websites with interesting typographic design. What once started as an idea for yet another generic website gallery evolved into something that gives much more depth than a normal showcase.

25.Mar.2010

Readability

Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.

25.Mar.2010

quietube

Video without the distractions

25.Mar.2010

Blind Text Generator

This handy tool helps you create dummy text for all your layout needs. We are gradually adding new functionality and we welcome your suggestions and feedback.

25.Mar.2010

Devlounge

Devlounge is a site for people working and enjoying the web. We want to be the online magazine for web designers, web publishers, and web workers overall.

24.Mar.2010

HTML-Ipsum

A collection of lorem ipsum snippets in various HTML tags, for your copy-paste convenience. This includes OL and UL lists, which is really handy, as well as some less funky stuff that still might be useful in some situations.

24.Mar.2010

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

Clients From Hell

A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers

24.Mar.2010

Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book

Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning page layout with Adobe InDesign and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. Explore typography and color, and learn more about creating tables and using styles.

22.Mar.2010

The Web Designer’s Idea Book

The Web Designer’s Idea Book includes more than 700 websites arranged thematically, so you can find inspiration for layout, color, style and more.

22.Mar.2010

Fingerprint

“Fingerprint” offers insight into this fusion of the digital and the hand-wrought, with dozens of examples of some of the best work in the industry, including design that includes hand-lettering elements and design that incorporates collage.

22.Mar.2010

Making and Breaking the Grid

Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applies to real-world projects.

22.Mar.2010

Grid

Grid is a highly configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any web-site you wish.

20.Mar.2010

GridControl

A Grid Overlay System for Design Development.

20.Mar.2010

GarageFonts

GarageFonts was established in 1993, primarily as a vehicle to distribute some of the first typeface designs created for Raygun magazine. From the beginning, GarageFonts has been on the cutting edge of new typeface design, helping to change a once tiresome selection of typeface designs into a new world of visual excitement.

20.Mar.2010

Underware

Underware is a (typo)graphic designstudio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces, which are published for retail sale or specially tailor-made.

20.Mar.2010

DSTYPE

DSTYPE specializes in creating custom typefaces including, completely new typefaces for every purposes, improving balance, legibility and fine tunning existent typefaces and/or logotypes.

20.Mar.2010

Lazydogs Typefoundry

Lazydogs Typefoundry is one of the few specialists in today’s type development field. Our growing font collection focuses on high quality and functionality. Bringing the advantages of both digital and manual skills together, we are able to offer a vast variety of solutions to meet individual typographic needs.

20.Mar.2010

MagicPrefs

MagicPrefs is a free menubar and preference pane application for OSX which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse.

19.Mar.2010

Tungle.me

Tungle.me is a personal scheduling page, which lets business people publish availability, accept appointment requests, and plan meetings – making scheduling meetings easy.

19.Mar.2010

HTML5 Gallery

html5 gallery has two primary aims, the first is to showcase sites that use html5, so that we can see how people have interpreted the specification and how they’ve implemented it. The secondary aim is to help people learn about html5 and how it should be used and how to implement it.

18.Mar.2010

Netfirms

Netfirms provides free Web hosting, domain names and registration, web page design tools and email for small business. COM ,ORG, NET Domain Names Registration

18.Mar.2010

FRESH TRÜF

Fresh TRÜF is the blog of TRÜF Creative. This is where we feature inspiring links, write design-related articles and post anything that tickles our fancy as it pertains to the design, branding and development biz.

18.Mar.2010

MOBIFY

Mobify is a free service that makes WordPress, Drupal and other websites mobile-friendly. Supports iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and 5000+ other devices.

13.Mar.2010

WP Coder

WPCoder offers professional, affordable, and high-quality PSD to WordPress, PSD to CSS/XHTML, and CSS/XHTML to WordPress coding.

13.Mar.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

Dropzone

The swiss army knife of drag and drop for the mac.

12.Mar.2010

mnmlist : theme

The mnmlist theme is stripped bare, to the essentials, without any distractions from the content.

11.Mar.2010

Lighting Infinite White

An infinite white background is more than hip and trendy. Clean, professional and flexible, the secret is in the lighting. And while framing the head and shoulders is easy, lighting a full-body shot is much more complex. This segment shows you how to Light Infinite White, on a finite budget and in a limited space.

11.Mar.2010

MAGROUND

MAGROUND is the image agency for high-quality photography of landscape, urban and street photography.

10.Mar.2010

After Photography

“After Photography” examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on mobile phones to the widespread use of image surveillance.

10.Mar.2010

Colosseo Letterpress Poster

What began as a 10-year wedding anniversary to Rome concluded a year later as an artistic endeavor to reimagine the Coliseum with type.

10.Mar.2010

Illustration Toolbox

Illustrated websites, illustrated web design gallery, illustration showcase, articles, tutorials, free vector downloads and resources for illustrators and designers.

09.Mar.2010

Designers Don’t Read

Designers Don’t Read is a love song to graphic design and graphic designers. Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design – but not a designer. He believes in the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid – by clients – to do what he loves. Howe believes that advertising and design must merge, but merge with design in the leadership role.

09.Mar.2010

Juke Box Print

Juke Box Print is Vancouver’s cheapest printing company. Specializing in flyers, brochures, stickers, business cards, letterheads.

09.Mar.2010

Contest Watchers

Contest Watchers is a website for international contests. Contest Watchers chooses the best international contests and promotes them. Contest Watchers is a great opportunity for upcoming artists that are seeking for ways of self-promotion.

08.Mar.2010

fotolia

Buy and sell royalty-free stock photos on Fotolia.com. Affordable royalty-free stock photos, cheap stock images and stock pictures.

08.Mar.2010

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

Design School Confidential

Every great design school in the world is defined, in part, by the work of its students at any given time. The various project challenges given to a class determine the success of a school’s pedagogy, but also the ingenuity of its faculty and students. This book features fifty real-world class assignments from top design programs at universities around the world, and examines the resulting student projects.

08.Mar.2010

PhotoAsia

PhotoAsia is a specialist stock photo library that focuses on the marketing of Asian and Malaysian stock photography. Search more than 4,000,000 royalty-free and rights-managed stock phtoos from over 60 overseas libraries.

08.Mar.2010

AisleOne

An inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism.

07.Mar.2010

PrintHouse Corporation

A London based business-to-business Design and Print company boasting a host of B1 litho and digital print solutions to serve all of your communication needs.

07.Mar.2010

Designing For The Greater Good

This first-ever book of its kind, Designing for the Greater Good, features hundreds of illustrated examples of the best nonprofit and cause-related design worldwide, plus 24 inspiring case studies and insights into great nonprofit branding campaigns.

07.Mar.2010

Dropbox

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There’s no complicated interface to learn. Dropbox works seamlessly with your operating system and automatically makes sure your files are up-to-date. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

07.Mar.2010

Dripbook

Browse Dripbook offers powerful promotional tools to professional visual creatives worldwide.

06.Mar.2010

Media Bakery

Our collection of photography, illustration, footage, audio, and font products serve Creative Professionals who inspire ideas, illustrate concepts and enhance designs in both print and motion. With millions of affordable royalty free and rights managed creative products, our collection is one of the largest in the world.

06.Mar.2010

BigStock

Download royalty free stock photos and vector art from BigStock. Search from over 4,500,000 affordable high quality stock photos and vector illustrations.

06.Mar.2010

House Industries

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.

06.Mar.2010

Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design

Look Both Ways is a collection of fully illustrated essays on the intersection of graphic design, love, life, behavior, rituals, brands, perceptions, music, art, even physics. It is a broad compendium of living and thinking in today’s world of design by one of its most popular personalities.

06.Mar.2010

iPhone Simulator

This is a web browser based simulator for quickly testing your iPhone web applications. This tool has been so far tested and working using Internet Explorer 7, FireFox 2 and Safari 3.

04.Mar.2010

Trakkboard

Trakkboard enables the compilation of reports of different websites without logging in at Google Analytics. You can compare data of different accounts, websites and profiles directly from your desktop with this compact Adobe Air application.

04.Mar.2010

Typography Served

Fresh works from leading creative professionals in Typography

04.Mar.2010

OurType

Fine type from Europe. OurType is managed by three partners: Fred Smeijers, Corina Cotorobi and Rudy Geeraerts.

03.Mar.2010

Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball

When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital. The girl has lost her memory; she is delirious and has no identification, so Selah poses as her boyfriend.

03.Mar.2010

Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840–1900

Explore the world of early experimental photography in this fascinating book of illuminating stereographs, gelatin silver prints and collotypes.

03.Mar.2010

Look at me

Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding (Hardcover)

03.Mar.2010

AIGA Design Archives

Encompassing more than 20,000 selections from special collections and AIGA's annual juried design competitions since 1924, AIGA Design Archives is one of the richest online resources available to those who practice, study and appreciate great design.

03.Mar.2010

grafik magazine

The Magazine for Graphic Designers

03.Mar.2010

Burnt Wood Text Effect

In this photoshop text effect tutorial we’ll be creating a grungy, burnt wood text treatment. We’ll go over some basic blending modes and use some filters and layer styles to create a look that would be perfect for a Hollywood movie poster.

03.Mar.2010

Visual Swirl

Visual Swirl is a community-focused design blog. Our purpose is to create and distribute quality resources, thought provoking articles, breathtaking inspiration and instructional tutorials.

03.Mar.2010

500+ Colours

This page lists over 500 colours by colour name, Hex value, RGB value and Microsoft Access code number. You cannot specify these colours in HTML and CSS by their colour name but you can use their RGB hexadecimal value.

02.Mar.2010

Fresh Books

The fastest way to track time and invoice your clients. Send, track and collect payments quickly. Great for teams, freelancers and service providers.

01.Mar.2010

Are My Sites Up?

SIMPLE Website monitoring. If your website goes down, shouldn’t YOU be the first to know about it? Your clients and/or customers don’t care that a hamster chewed through a network cable somewhere in Northern California. They want their website up.

01.Mar.2010

OIO Publisher

OIOpublisher is an ad manager that focuses on maximising your revenue, saving you time, and keeping you in complete control of your ad space. This php ad management script can be used to sell and serve ads on any website. It can even be used as a WordPress plugin right out of the box!

28.Feb.2010

Making and Breaking the Grid

For designers working in every medium, layout is arguably the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily.

28.Feb.2010

Logo Design Love

There are a lot of books out there that show collections of logos. But David Airey’s “Logo Design Love” is something different: it’s a guide for designers (and clients) who want to understand what this mysterious business is all about.

28.Feb.2010

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book contains 10 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program.

28.Feb.2010

Typotheque

As a type foundry, Typotheque is interested in exploring the idea of contemporariness, creating quality typefaces to reflect our time and serve its needs, contributing our part to the ongoing history of type development.

26.Feb.2010

thirty conversations on design

To celebrate 30 years of inspired work at Little & Company, we’ve collected the thoughts of 30 of the world’s most inspired creative professionals. Architects, designers, authors and leaders of iconic brands.

25.Feb.2010

Tokyo Camera Style

I don’t think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

25.Feb.2010

Type Tips

Type Tips is a growing collection of quick and short tips on web typography, to take your web design to the next level typographically.

25.Feb.2010

Findings

Art, design and photography findings from the web and the world.

25.Feb.2010

Theme Snack

Theme Snack is a premium WordPress theme workshop, focused on bringing high quality themes to creative people. Our products are great looking, powerful and fully featured. Backed up with a complete support service, you can be sure you’ll have the help you need after your purchase.

23.Feb.2010

Ibidesk

Online collaboration workspace where you can manage team projects with document collaboration, task management and file sharing.

23.Feb.2010

Litmus

Testing software for web professionals. Litmus is lightning-fast, reliable and affordable. It’s relied upon by thousands of smart freelancers and switched-on agencies; as well as big companies.

23.Feb.2010

Adobe BrowserLab

Adobe BrowserLab is a browser compatibility service that provides designers exact renderings of their pages on leading browsers.

23.Feb.2010

Browser Shots

Generates screenshots of how websites appear at 800×600 and 1024×768 resolution in six commonly used web browsers.

23.Feb.2010

Mimesis Art Prints

A next generation digital gallery supporting Creative’s to earn a living wage for the beauty they bring to the world, and providing the means for just about everybody to own creative work that inspires them.

18.Feb.2010

David Airey

David is a graphic designer passionate about brand identity. Here’s his portfolio and a wonderful community of 15,000+ designers reading his blog.

18.Feb.2010

Nik Software Inc

A privately-held American company that develops software solutions for the digital-imaging & photography markets. Nik Software has become the recognized leader in digital photographic filters & plug-ins for professionals including U Point technology, Dfine, Viveza, Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, & Nik Sharpener Pro software.

18.Feb.2010

Wacom Intuos4 Wireless

The new Intuos4 Wireless pen tablet with Bluetooth® wireless technology lets you relax in your favorite working position or move about freely up to 33 feet (10 meters) from your computer. Enjoy the freedom of working “unattached” from your Mac or PC and reducing cord clutter.

18.Feb.2010

The Book Cover Archive

The Book Cover Archive, for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design.

17.Feb.2010

Shutterstock

Shutterstock is the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Every day we add thousands of photographs, illustrations, and vectors to our outstanding collection of premium, royalty-free images.

05.Feb.2010

Artistic Photo Canvas

The experts at Artistic Photo Canvas transform digital photos and prints into canvas photo art. Our photo canvas printing process is ideal for digital photo enlargements and art reproduction.

05.Feb.2010

Tera-Byte

Web site design, maintenance, hosting, statistics, and domain registration.

31.Jan.2010

Super Green Hosting

Professional green web hosting with a free domain name for life, unlimited hosting space and unlimited bandwidth.

31.Jan.2010

Midphase

Hosting Services, Inc. aims to provide the absolute best web hosting by focusing on speed, price and reliability.

31.Jan.2010

Just Host

Just Host are dedicated to providing their customers with the most reliable web hosting service possible.Affordable price plans, secure servers, first class 24/7 technical support and a wide range of features make hosting your website with Just Host the obvious choice.

31.Jan.2010

iPage

Small business web hosting offering additional business services such as: domain name registrations, email accounts, web services, FrontPage help, online community resources and various small business solutions.

31.Jan.2010

Fat Cow

31.Jan.2010

Display

Display is a curated collection of important graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera. Browse the collection, purchase an important book or read a noteworthy, feature article.

31.Jan.2010

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

minimalism

A minimized WordPress Theme by genaehr.com

24.Jan.2010

Sparksheet

Sparksheet is a blog that leads by example. We are marketing experts who aim to create compelling content about custom media and unconventional marketing. Aimed at content creators, travel industry professionals, media thinkers and marketers the world over.

24.Jan.2010

BusyLissy

BusyLissy is a super simple project management tool. Work together, organise stuff and keep track of the developments within your projects.

23.Jan.2010

Rattle Ya Dags

Over 100 Kiwis from sports, business, arts and entertainment take part in Rattle Ya Dags. Each speaker is asked to share advice, tips or inspiration based on their own personal experience.

23.Jan.2010

The Lab-Professional Image Works

The Lab-Professional Image Works is a digital imaging and film services photo lab 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

CustomColor

CustomColor has a long standing reputation as one of British Columbia’s finest photographic labs. For over thirty years we having been providing professional quality processing and printing for our clients.

20.Jan.2010

Mpix Pro

Mpix Pro is a print solution for professional photographers.

16.Jan.2010

The Walden Font Co.

We resurrect long forgotten typefaces of historical importance and make them available to you at affordable prices. Our products allow you to re-create the most authentic looking documents for educational, business, and recreational use.

16.Jan.2010

The Classic Font Company

We are a small font foundry providing typefaces of the highest quality in three formats: Postscript Type-1, TrueType and Acorn Outline. The foundry formed in 1988 to provide the Acorn computer with classical designs.

15.Jan.2010

Klim Type Foundry

Kris Sowersby graduated from the Wanganui School of Design in 2003. After brief employment as a graphic designer he started the Klim Type Foundry in 2005, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. His first retail typeface, Feijoa, was released onto the international market in 2007.

14.Jan.2010

JY&A Fonts

JY&A Fonts is dedicated to creating elegant, refined and timeless work for its clients, for both retail customers and custom commissions. We have one of the longest continuous histories of type design in the southern hemisphere.

14.Jan.2010

Font Bros

Over 2 years in the making, Font Bros brings the best in display typography to one spot! Our high quality handpicked collection contains the work of many talented independent font designers from around the globe.

14.Jan.2010

Font Squirrel

Font Squirrel scours the internet in search of FREE, highest-quality, designer-friendly, commercial-use fonts and presents them for easy downloading. We don’t have the most, but we do have the best.

13.Jan.2010

FoxyCart

FoxyCart, SEO Ecommerce, has been built from the ground up by webdesigners, for webdesigners. Easy to integrate. Unbelievably flexible. Full AJAX ecommerce +JSON support. Totally foxy.

13.Jan.2010

Re-nourish

Re-nourish is dedicated to helping the graphic design community grow into a more sustainable industry. Whatever your experience level, you can use our tools and information to expand your knowledge and build a more sustainable practice.

12.Jan.2010

DesignFirms

DesignFirms is a directory of web designers, web developers, logo designers, graphic designers, print professionals and more. Featuring a portfolio showcase, design awards, articles, link exchange and more!

12.Jan.2010

Vistek

Vistek is Canada’s camera store – shop for the top brands of digital slr cameras, camera lenses, digital cameras, hd video camcorders, and camera accessories

12.Jan.2010

The Creative Finder

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

09.Jan.2010

(mt) Media Temple

(mt) Media Temple, Inc. is an industry-leading, privately held, profitable web hosting and software application services company based in California.

07.Jan.2010

W3 Markup

Hand coded pixel-precise PSD conversion to W3C Valid CSS / HTML; CSS / XHTML implementation into skins, themes, CMS, shopping carts and more; “Re-slicing” of existing sites (we can bring your working sites or old code up-to-date making it from scratch).

07.Jan.2010