33 New Design Blogs with Great Content & Resources

A fresh batch of design related blogs & websites to get following

Everyone loves finding new sites with great content, so I’ve made it a little easier. Here is a collection of new websites and blogs with quality content. I’ve chosen these blogs based on the quality of their posts & resources and not the design. At the bottom there is all of the RSS feeds, so you can keep yourself updated with all of the sites featured.

1. Design Shard

From what I can see, this site only went live on July 25th, and it’s already had some popular content. I suggest you check out the 300+ Free Hi-Res Grunge Textures, as it’s my favourite at the moment.

2. My Ink Blog

A very well organized and well focused blog with some brilliant tutorials, links, resources and articles. So far there has been a lot of great posts, and I don’t see any signs of this changing. I was really impressed with the tutorial on Designing with Swirls & Flourishes, really top notch tutorial.  

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Themes: Papercut A Grungy News Theme for WooThemes

See Our latest Grunge Wordpress theme for Themes Giant WooThemes

We were recently contacted by Adii of WooThemes for an exciting new project. Adii and his team, including Magnus Jepson, Mark Forrester and Elliot Jay Stocks, who have recently launched their new site, wanted to bring some grunge to their themes, so got in touch with us and gave us a great project to get our teeth into.  

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32 Examples of Websites with a Brave colour Scheme

Inspire yourself, and maybe become a little braver with your colours

One key element in the design of any website is colour. Here are some great inspirational websites which show that colour can be used in very extraordinary ways.

1. Design Disease

Yeah we’ve all seen blue before, but this is beautiful.

2. Macalicious

The deep purple/blue work so well together.

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The Cutest Freebies: Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration

A SMALL BUT CUTE GIVE AWAY & UPDATE, FREE TWITTER ICONS & CHARACTER

More freebies, yes I know! This time we’ve put together a free Illustration, beautifully made by Pasquale D’Silva, and a couple of Icons which you can use for your twitter status sections of your site. The file is a transparent background PNG, so can easily be imported and scaled into any design.  

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125+ Unconventional Sources of Web Design Inspiration

A collection of my favourite inspirational sources & Styles

As a web designer I’m always looking for ways to get inspired when working on new projects. Usually this means searching the various web design galleries for some inspirational web designs. However, recently I’ve found inspiration from some quite unusual sources. Take a look at this variety of inspirational work, and you might find that it can help motivate and inspire you on your next project.

The basic point of this post is to show you that you don’t have to rely on the CSS Galleries to inspire you, there is a lot of creative work out there in various other mediums that will help get you in a creative mood.

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Creative Domain Names: Some Clever Alternative Methods

WE Look at some alternative ways of getting that domain you wanted

The web’s been around for quite some time if you really think about it, the first domain name Symbolics.com was registered on 15th March 1985, yes, some 23 Years ago! That means that any idea you have for a domain name today has been through someone else mind up to 23 years before you. Part of any brand these days is a good domain name, and if you have the money to spend on a one word domain then by all means go for it.  

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Function Brush Set: 33 Subtle Grunge Textures & Effects

A SET WE CREATED TO USE OURSELVES, BUT YOU CAN HAVE THEM TOO!

We’ve put together a great set of free Grunge & Textured brushes for you to use. The idea with these brushes is that they are to be used to create subtle grunge effects within your designs. We’ve made them from various dirty textures, surfaces and fabrics from images taken ourselves.  

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Free Theme: Outdoorsy Theme Now Available to Download

UNIQUE WORDPRESS THEME NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FREE OF CHARGE

We’re finally ready to present our free wordpress theme to you. The theme is called “outdoorsy” and it’s perfect for the individual who wants something “slightly” different from your usual standard free theme. This theme is very unique, and quite graphics heavy, which we are aware of. But if you are after something unique you sometimes have to expect longer load times.

Update: We’ve reduced the file size dramatically! It’s now 1mb lighter

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Design Resources Pack #1: The Grunge Pack, Brushes, Fonts, Textures etc…

Amazing FREE downloadable resources for your grunge designs

Welcome to the very first edition of our Design Resources Pack, the basic idea behind this is; we collect a load of resources around a certain theme or style and put them together in one place.

Grunge is a style which is often misunderstood. Grunge doesn’t always have to mean really over the top dirty and dark. Today grunge comes in many forms, subtle grunge effects seem to be more common than just completely “grunging” something up. Whether you choose to be subtle, or over-the-top with your Grunge style here are some amazing resources to help you out.  

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Themes: Sketch’d Grunge Style Premium Wordpress Theme Is Now available

UNIQUE GRUNGE WORDPRESS THEME FROM FUNCTION NOW AVAILABLE

We’ve been teasing you with previews for a while, but now the beautiful Sketch’d theme is now available. The theme is available for Download securely via Wordpress-Designers. Price is only $49 for a single licence. The theme is something which was set out to be very unique and striking, with a very rough and sketchy feel to it. I’d say its ideal for a individual who’s looking for that little bit more.

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If I could only Read 10 Blogs: My favourite collection

A list of the top 10 blogs that I visit, not in any particular order

A concept inspired by Jacob Cass’ post over at Just Creative Design. I’ve put together my collection of the top 10 blog’s that I’d read if I could only choose 10. I tend to visit a lot of blogs, but there’s only a few which I will stay regularly updated on, & I’d recommend anyone who’s into Design / Development to follow these sites.  

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Free Icons: Function Icon Set, 128 Completely Free Icons

A Set of 128 Free Icons for you to use in any projects, be sure to share!

We could have gone on making these for ever, but I felt that we had most of the icons that you will find useful made so decided to leave the set at 128 Icons, they are only available in 48×48px. These free icons are exactly that, free! You can use them anywhere, all we ask is that you share these icons by linking to this page.  

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The Journey Begins: Function Design & Development Blog

We're ready to go live, keep your eyes on the rss feed for updates

Well here we are… Finally. We’re going live any second & I’d just like to thank everyone for their kind support & wishes up until now. My confidence and spirits are at a High at the moment, and the feedback on the work so far has been truly inspirational. I’m hoping to pay you back with some of the free resources and content we have lined up for you.  

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Portfolio: Clean & Open Blog design for NoGoodNews Premium Wordpress Theme

A PREMIUM NEWS THEME TO SHOWCASE & COMPLEMENT YOUR CONTENT

As part of our work with Wordpress-Designers we’ve been busy creating some premium themes which will soon be due for release. We’ve worked hard to create some very interesting news/magazine style themes, these theme are really popular these days and I think are a great use of Wordpress, they really do allow you to get the most of the power of Wordpress. One of these theme’s we helped to make was NoGoodNews. Playful name but a seriously useful theme with a lot of clean lines and open space, perfect for a news theme.
 

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