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.
3. PSD Fan
Quickly becoming one of my favourite tutorial sites. The site offers not only tutorials, but resources, which are both of very high quality. Looking at the amount of content it’s hard to remember that it’s only 2 months old. My top pick: Design a Unique Grungy Website Layout, a tutorial on a whole new level of great!
4. Kreativeuse
This site is probably the most useful in terms of keeping up to date. It’s sort of beginning to replace my RSS feeds, I now always check this site first as it’s always got regularly updated web/graphic design news. Launched on the 5th of July it’s quickly become one of my favourite places to browse, and our Icon set was their first ever post. Highly recommended!
5. ShareBrain
Another regularly updated blog, which is brilliant! Especially when you consider how good the content is, I particularly enjoy their interviews. The ones with Jon Phillips & Steven Snell were my favourites. Keep your eye on this blog for sure.
6. Design Blurb
This site was recommended to me by Andrew Houle and after browsing through the content I was impressed. And they even have their own collection of “New Design Blogs,” which was a bit of a bummer as I thought I was onto something which I hadn’t seen before. Anyway, great blog & content, check it out.
7. HongKiat
Now I know for a fact this one is not new, but it’s new to me, so I felt it deserved a feature. It is a brilliant site bringing you the best Tech Design & Blogging related content which I’m very new to. The thing I like most on this site is the wide range of content topics, there’s always something new and different. I really love their 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab-Based Navigation Scripts - Be sure to have a look.
8. Graphic Design Blog
There’s a good number of posts on this blog, and I like each and every one of them. I’m looking forward to seeing more!
9. Observin
I couldn’t include this one for the design alone (as much as I wanted to), fortunately the blog posts & resources that I’ve seen so far made me want to include it for another reason, the content. To see what I mean just have a gander at the free Old News Theme. I predict great things for this blog, its one of my favourites at the moment.
10. Digital Artists Toolbox
I stumbled upon this website through the brilliant 41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photographs post and I’ve been checking back ever since. A wide range of content topics, from resources and freebies, to interviews and amazing collections. One to watch for sure.
11. DesignO’Blog
Niki runs a blog which again has a wide variety of content, although being focused around design and the internet I love blogs like this, she clearly has a great eye for interesting stuff and a good sense of humour, also offers some very useful content. Great blog to follow.
12. Brush King
I’ve always gone for Quality over anything else, which is why I’m really liking Brush King. The collection of Photoshop brushes they’ve got at the moment are truly impressive, it’s clearly being run by someone who can spot quality brushes. My top pick, Flowers First.
13. Script & Style
This new website put together by Chris Coyier which aims to bring you the best user submitted community news. So far so good, I’ve read a lot of interesting stuff which I found via the site. So be sure to give it a good old rummage though.
14. Dev Snippets
I love it when sites like this come along, I’m not really huge on web development, but I realise how useful these are and I like to browse demos of things like this to find things that would be useful for future projects. They’re also running a great contest too.
15. Pattern Tap
Pattern tap is a great idea, its a new site which allows you to find specific collections on certain web elements. I think it makes finding inspiration that little more effective, as usually it’s certain elements that I get stuck for inspiration on, rather than the overall concept.
16. We Are not Freelancers
These guys have got a really nice blog up and running, and its showing no signs of slowing down. The design (although this post is not about the design) is just absolutely amazing, I love every aspect of it. The posts that I’ve read have been very well written and informative, so all in all a welcomed addition to my RSS reader.
17. Design Feedr
Design Feedr is a blog which aims to showcase collections of top quality inspiration and resources. They have a great eye for what looks good and similar tastes to my own. One of my favourite posts of theirs is the Masters of Digital Paintings collection which I really love!
18. Inspiration Up
There’s that word again; Quality. I really like this site because they seem to think a little more than certain CSS galleries about their entries, so overall I’d say there is a better quality of sites on display.
19. The Dieline
Here is another site which I know is not new at all, but I’ve only recently been introduced to the amazing collection of packaging design inspirations that they offer. If you have not yet come across this site, prepare to be amazed.
20. Color Burned
A talented designer sharing various sources of inspiration and freebies. It’s always reassuring to receive resources off a guy who you know, knows what he is talking about. I really love the guy’s work just as much as the posts he shares, so a great experience all round.
21. Booooooom
Probably not the easiest domain name to remember in the world, but thankfully the posts and quality of the work is a lot more memorable, the post on Ian Francis‘ work for example is amazing! The site is based around art, design, photography & culture etc. This is a great site to spend some time exploring.
22. Apps Mania
The basic concept of the site is a gallery of web applications, it has a small ammount of information, ratings and tags. Making it a great place to browse if you’re on the look out, or need some inspiration for, a cool new web app.
23. Doodlage
I can’t remember how I came across this site, but its been in my favourites for a few weeks and I’m really impressed with the postings. Its quite a fun little site, sharing lots of doodles/sketches/drawings and is a great source of inspiration.
24. Vi.sualize
Social Bookmarking for images. It’s that easy. A simple great idea.
25. Coded Preview
For a better way of presenting your design mock-ups you can use Coded Preview, it allows you to modify the settings such as a background image, alignment margins etc. To give you an idea of how this can help, take a look at this example; Single Image compared to Image on Coded Preview. I think its a great idea, probably the best place you could upload your designs for presenting mock-ups.
26. High Resolution Textures
Textures, a vital ingredient in so many forms of design. Textures are becoming more and more popular in web design, so that makes this an ideal website for you to add to your RSS reader. There really are some great textures on display here, and regular updates mean you’ll never be short of textures.
27. Lines and Colours
Another art and design blog. This one again has been around for a long time, since 2005 in fact. But its another of those which is fairly new to me, and I’m hoping will be new to a lot of you guys. A wide range of art is covered and as with all of these blogs I’m posting, the quality of the content is spot on.
28. Beeex
I’ve not strictly been following this site, but it keeps popping up here and there and each time I visit I am impressed, so It’s long overdue but I’ve added it to my RSS reader now. I particularly love their Ultimate Collection of Free Textures on the Web.
29. Skout
A user submitted list of design/web related resources. A wide range of categories, resources and inspirations. One of those sites where you can lose a good couple of hours and not realise.
30. Usability Post
So far the posts on this site have impressed me, the blog talks about aspects of interface design, which means not only the way things look but how they work and how the function. I’m looking forward to reading more here.
31. Knowtebook
Knowtebook brings you the best news about design, ideas, web trends, technology & more. The usefulness of each post cannot be questioned, each and every post I find very useful, so that’s why it had to make the list, this web-based business collaboration tools post is a great example of that.
32. Designm.ag
This latest project by Steven Snell is already off to a great start. A very community focused design blog with community feeds, links, a gallery and of course some amazing posts, this blog really does look set to grow bigger and bigger, and with posts like this: Favorite Design-Related Sites of 21 Designers, its not hard to see why.
33. Fudge Graphics
Since April 2008 Fudge graphics has been making some amazing posts, and I’ve been completely oblivious. It’s strange how sites like this go on with such great content without me realising. This is just another one of those sites that I love, there is a good mix of links, resources, inspirations featured artists, that sort of thing. Good times!
Get the RSS Feeds
If you are using a RSS reader you can easily subscribe to all of the above RSS feeds (where possible) by downloading the .xml file. All you need to do is then import it into your reader. I use netvibes as my reader.
Share your Suggestions
If you know of a design blog that has great content please share it with us. To avoid your post being deleted for spam please only list one link per comment and give a brief description of the site first.
Written by liam on August 18, 2008
Youri said:
Thanks for the mention Liam, much appreciated!
D.A.T. said:
Thanks for the mention and the kind words! Nice list.
My latest post: 15 Unbelievable Photo-realistic Vector Illustrations
ferdinand said:
this is such a great list and I’m flattered to be on it! I’ll definitely check out all the sites and I am sure that I’ll add most if not all to my feed reader.
My latest post: 123fourFive Remix Challenge by beaucoupzero
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Niki Brown said:
Thanks for the link!
there are a few new sites ill have to check out!
Noura Yehia said:
Hi Liam,
Thanks for the mention among these amazing websites.
btw, you wrote wrong name (Script and Style instead of Devsnippets) for the title
thomas said:
Hello Liam,
thx for the mention. Just released a new Braintalk with Duane King from thinkforaliving.org today.
all the best,
thomas
Alex said:
Hey Liam,
also from my side, many thanks for mentioning my site.
Great collection of resources with lots of stuff, which I was not aware of yet.
My latest post: Blog action day!
liam said:
Thanks guys, although the thanks should really be going to you for these great sites. Also important to point out that these aren’t in any particular order
Curvball said:
Nice collection. I’ve seen most of those sites, and subscribe to many of them, however you’ve found some interesting new sites… not sure if my RSS reader likes or dislikes you yet, lol.
My latest post: The price of design
Beeex Happy Team said:
Thanks for the mention Liam
This is a great list! Didn’t know about quite a few of them and we’ll definitely check them out!
My latest post: Ultimate Collection of Free Textures on the Web | Background Patterns | Seamless Tiles | High Resolution
David Airey said:
Excellent round-up, Liam. A lot of new sites to visit there. Thanks.
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Knowtebook.com said:
Moohaa!
CSS Brigit |33 New Design Blogs said:
33 New Design Blogs…
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Andrew Houle said:
Hey Liam, many thanks for the mention. I love the choices, and there are plenty I have to go check out. Looking forward to it!
My latest post: 5 Steps Towards Great Web Design
Max | Design Shard said:
Hi, thanks for the support, this list is awesome i dont know which to check out first, some nice finds, ive not post in a few days but im, workign on a few posts at once, Thanks keep it up.
Max | Design Shard
Jon Phillips said:
This is great! Thanks for putting this list together Liam, there are many blogs I didn’t know about on this list, and it’s always great to discover new sites
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Spinal said:
Wow ! Awesome…Thanks for sharing, I really appreciate.
My latest post: Vidéo | Pub & Experimentation
Doodlage said:
Liam, thank you for the plug (although “Doodlage” is slightly misspelled)!
To all doodlers - send us your masterpieces, we’ll post them!
My latest post: Craig’s List of Sketchbooks
Rick said:
Real nice post Liam. Quite a few to add to my RSS reader.
Thomas said:
Thanks for the mention Liam, I discover lots of them
Dmitry said:
What have we here
Checking out my RSS reader to find my blog being recommended on function. Thanks a lot for the mention Liam! Shall have to add these gems to my reader as well.
My latest post: Using Light, Color and Contrast Effectively in UI Design
BlogDesignStudio said:
awesome list. Each and every website is good in it’s way and I loved all of them … really cool!
My latest post: How to show other Related Posts from the Blogosphere on your Wordpress Blog
neil said:
good resources thanks, i like 11. DesignO Blog - all worth a look
roger said:
great list some great new rss feeds to feed my google news monster!
My latest post: blogactionday.org
Gerasimos said:
Woohoo! What a list! I was going to shut down my computer about a min ago and then i saw this post. Hehe oh well it’s time to update my OPML. Thanx for the list
My latest post: The web developer’s cheat sheet
Jenny said:
those are really great. thanks for sharing them. i am somewhat inspired now. but not totally.
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Grant Friedman said:
Thanks for the mention and the very nice compliment!
My latest post: New Identity for Colorburned.com
AzAkers said:
Excellent list - and I love the screenshot treatment, very nice.
flisterz said:
Thanks, Liam, for mentioning Kreativuse
This is indeed a very useful post!
Skout™ said:
thanks for ’spreading tha luv’ - you rock!
Steve - Eightyone Design said:
Great list - a lot of new great new blogs I have not seen before which will be added to my list!
Thanks
Steve
My latest post: How many Website Design companies??!
jeff said:
really appreciate you mentioning the site!
great list!
cheers
/jeff
My latest post: Sittin on top of the world.
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Victor said:
Thanks for the mention! Glad you enjoy visualizeus
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Creative Fluff Design Blog said:
I would hope that you could include us in your list of creative design blogs.
“Creative Fluff is an eclectic group of young designers, artists, writers, and critics. Some of these individuals hail from esteemed design colleges such as Parsons, The New School for Design, or famous liberal art colleges such as Boston University. It is not only our goal, but our pleasure to bring you the latest, oldest, and most interesting news from all realms of creative art and design”
http://www.creativefluff.com
seosean said:
what about
smashing magazine and noupe?
liam said:
@seosean - While they are 2 great blogs this collection was focused on new design blogs. Smashing Magazine and Noupe I’ve actually known for quite some time. Hope that helps clear that up.
Steven Snell said:
Thanks for the mention and the compliments Liam.
My latest post: 7 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Album Covers
elcodigodebarras said:
Very good list…and what about like sosean said: http://www.smashingmagazine.com AND TOO: http://www.abduzeedo.com, http://www.veerle.duoh.com, http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk, http://www.webdesignerwall.com, http://www.nettuts.com, http://www.dzineblog.com, http://www.youthedesigner.com. THEY ARE ALL IN MY BLOG ROLL
IF YOU GOT A TWICE MINUTES LOOK AROUND; THEY ARE VERY USE FULL ,REALLY !
CONGRATULATIONS YOU GOT A VERY GOOD PLACE.
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Tom Ross said:
Thanks very much for including PSDFAN in this great list. Consider yourself bookmarked
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sesebian said:
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Kyle said:
Thanks for the kind words on observin.com
Plus, great list which has given me great material to read!
My latest post: New Premium Wordpress Theme By WooThemes
Eli said:
Thanks very much for including my blog. I also approve of seeing “The Usability Post” included here, as I think it’s a great new blog as well!
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Qbrushes said:
Obviously a boom in design related blogs these days which is great.
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Web designer said:
nice blog.. you have a lot of information about web design..
God bless..
md said:
The best part of this post? The XML file at the end. I use netvibes too.
Thanks for that! Very cool.
Mark Stevens said:
Oops, you’ve got two number 4s!
Great list. I added all the ones I didn’t already subscribe oo individually… then found the XML list at the end! D’oh. Should have read that first paragraph a little more carefully.
inspirationbit said:
Finally some quality new design blog suggestions. I’m so tired of seeing same old names all the time. Even though, I already knew a handful of blogs on this list, there were many others that I haven’t visited before. Thanks for putting it together. I also like the way you took those screenshots.
Angie Bowen said:
Very nice list, thanks for taking the time to put it together.
I was kind of hoping that Arbenting would be on the list, but we may be a bit to new. We’re about to hit our one month mark next week.
My latest post: Freebie - A Matter of Perspective Wallpaper
Rand said:
This is an awesome list - thanks for the post!
Fubiz said:
Totally fan of this list ! Thanks.
My latest post: Ony Website
jago mabok said:
great collection. how long have you take for it ???
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Karina said:
Great post, thanks!
Feel free to check out my site
http://sherina.blogsome.com
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boogiesbc said:
Mine isn’t on the list and it has a serious amount of visitors. “Design your way” - boogiesbc.ro
sand said:
Awesome and Great resources……
Reklambyrå said:
Good list! Its always refreshing with new quality sites bringing us more design inspiration.
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Kevin Potis said:
A fantastic post. I can only hope to make the list next round. Great work.
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Sander said:
Great list, thanks for compiling.
I want to bring my design blog to your attention, DesignWorkPlan. A blog about typography, visual communication, signage & wayfinding and design. Feel free to take a look around. Thank you in advance.
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