Top 30 Designing Blogs for Inspiration

In this information overloaded era, it is very difficult to search specifically for a single topic and get luckily what you want. Oh! I’m Feeling Lucky, don’t forget to try on google. Here we are presenting the worthy collection of design relevant blogs for inspiration

Veerle’s Blog

Veerle’s blog is a cheerful and extremely insightful mix of design advice and views, tutorials and interviews. The focus is on CSS and web standards but the content is varied, and Veerle has a way of writing engagingly about anything.

Design Dazzling

Design Dazzling is all about Web Design Resources and Techniques for Web Designers. We include Tutorials, CSS Designs, Javascript and JQuery effects, WordPress Plugins, and Web Development tools. Download free icons, Photoshop brushes and tools for web and graphic designers. These all dedicated to people who build websites, graphics and multimedia related work

N.Design Studio

N.Design Studio is the personal site of Nick La, an extravagantly talented, Toronto based designer and illustrator. His site is a well-stocked goodie-bag of software tutorials, freebie graphics and design inspiration.

Dzinepress

In the realm of design, blogging is inevitable. Keeping this in consideration, Dzinepress Network has started Dzinepress – the design blog that encompasses almost every aspect of designing. From Graphic Designing, Web Designing to design mechanics and even Interior Designing, Dzinepress has everything that the world of design has to offer. Dzinepress, using the platform of new media technology, is providing readers the design community an opportunity to discover and re-discover the design world through quality articles, tutorials, how-tos, resources and inspirational material etc.

Designing Mall

A place where you can find latest designing issues, their solutions, new tools, design inspirations, tips and tricks, tutorials, designing software updates, new ideas, things within your imagination and beyond your imaginations

Designzz

Mike Davidson

Mike Davidson is CEO of Newsvine. Somehow he also finds time to run his highly successful personal site. The content is wide-ranging, but could be said to cover communication design in its broadest sense.
Mike was one of the pioneers behind the development of sIFR, which brought rich typography functionality to the web, so his site contains documentation and updates on this project too.

W3Blend

456 Berea street

If web standards, accessibility and usability is your thing, Roger Johansson’s site cannot be rated highly enough. Impressive stuff.

Tutorials Palace

At Tutorials Palace, you will find beginner and advance tutorials of Photo Manipulationn, Illustrations, 3D, Animation, Javascript, JQuery, Photography and many more

Hicksdesign

Jon Hicks is a UK based print + new media designer, and part of the Camino browser graphics team. He posts an excellent and engaging blend of web and graphics related content on his site.

Designs Mag

DesignsMag is a design blog dedicated to bloggers, freelancers, web-developers and designers. Topics focus on web design, graphic design, tutorials and inspirational articles.

I am young and totally obsessed with design trends, developing web-sites using CSS, HTML, xhtml, WordPress and designing at Adobe Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks. At this site I will try to make your life easier as web-developer, designer or freelancer and hopefully we will learn together.

For start I think that should be enough about me! Enjoy articles and leave your thoughts at comments too to help me make this site better!

Bartelme Design

Wolfgang Bartelme is an Austrian designer specialising in top-notch user interface and application icon design. The content of his journal is focussed on interface design, cutting-edge web design and scripts and Mac OS.

Colly.com

Advertised as ‘Simon Collison’s Illogical Waffle’, this site doesn’t entirely live up to its description. It does, however, deliver some rather interesting, as well as entertaining, content. The main focus is on web design, but there are also plenty of articles for anyone interested in design in general – or life in general for that matter.

Design Observer

It is perhaps rather unfair to bundle this site in with the above sites, which are all more or less one-person operations, albeit very accomplished ones. The credits for Design Observer, on the other hand, read like a Who’s Who of some of the most notable design writers from the last decade, with founding contributors including Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand and Rick Poynor.
A must for everyone who wants a regular input of well written articles on all facets of design and creative culture.

Abduzeedo

Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. Of course there are other softwares conteplated like Pixelmator, Fireworks, and web design tutorials.

One of the goals of Abduzeedo is to be an open channel to the design community, encouraging feedback. The Daily Inspiration is a proof of that, everybody can send images that inspired them so we can share with the community

PSD Tuts

I had to list PSDTuts not just because they are Aussie but because they have the best quality tutorials on the net. Period. Keeping up to date with the latest effects and techniques is crucial as you should always be improving your skills and these guys make it a breeze.

Vandelay Design

I do not know how Steve makes time for his quality resourceful posts as well as maintaining his business but he does a very good job of it. He posts mostly about web design resources but his posts vary into social media such as his 50 Designer To Follow On Twitter and also blogging posts such as 101 Ways to Monetize Your Website or Blog.

Creative Curio

I have been reading this blog ever since I started blogging back in November 2007 and still do to this day. Lauren has also put together a handy graphic design glossary aka definitions for words used in the design industry. Her blog has also just recently under gone a new redesign and as her blog title says “Learn, discuss and enjoy the realm of graphic design.”

Tutorial Lounge

Tutorial Lounge [Learn Step by Step]  is a Tutorial Blog site made to house and showcase some of the best tutorials around most famous designing and development tools are Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, After Effect, 3D Max, Maya, Illustrator, Vector, Video Tutorials, Corel Draw, Audio Tutorials, Flex, jQuery, ajax, PHP, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, xHTML, CSS, Typography, Print Media and wallpapers.

I Love Typography

Does this blog even need to be given an intro? You can never know enough about typography as a designer

Designs Collage

Inspiration Bit

InspirationBit is another blog that I have been reading since I started blogging… how I came across it I have no idea though I am sure glad I did. Vivien’s articles on design are usually very discussion worthy and one article of interest (of many) is her 16 best loved fonts in web design post.

Stunning Mesh

David Airey

David Airey’s personal design blog / portfolio site was the first blog that I ever read and still continue to read today. David writes about his personal design projects as well as many other topics. Something that does make this blog stand out is the quality comments that his readers leave on on each article adding value to the subject at hand.

Freelance Switch

Freelance Switch is a multi author blog that focuses on the business side of freelancing. Every article published is of extremely high quality, something that is made sure by their team of brilliant editors. I am just about to have a (paid) guest article published on Freelance Switch too so keep an eye out for that but in the mean time check out their most popular post The 12 Breeds of Client and How To Work With Them.

ProBlogger

Although technically not a design blog, I put this in my top 10 list because a blogger should always be learning new ways of doing things to improve their blog and this site makes that job a breeze. If you are new to blogging this should be your first stop.

Smashing Magazine

I am pretty sure that everyone would have heard of Smashing Magazine by now but if not I suggest you subscribe… They smash you with information to make your life easier… 74 000+ Subscribers can’t be wrong.

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