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Graphic Design For Everyone: Understand the Building Blocks so You can Do It Yourself

Cath Caldwell

How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, ...

Michael Bierut

The Visual History of Type: A visual survey of 320 typefaces

Paul McNeil

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design

Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne

The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters

Steven Heller, Gail Anderson

Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

Interaction of Color

Josef Albers

Grid systems in graphic design: A visual communication manual

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

Ellen Lupton

Adweek

News, insights and inspiration you need to know in advertising, marketing and media.

Audionotes

Turn your voice recordings, text notes, images, audio files, and YouTube videos into perfect notes.

PrebuiltUI

A growing library of beautifully crafted, customizable components built with Tailwind CSS.

FontBob

The easy font editor for designers, students and beginners.

Integrately

Automate tedious tasks with a single click.

Make

No-code automation and AI agents in one visual-first platform.

Affinity Photo Editing

Advanced photo editing tools.

Scribus

An open source DTP (Desktop Publishing) application for Linux.

Affinity Page Layout

Create complex docs, all in one seamless space.

QuarkXPress

Desktop publishing and page layout software.

Adobe InDesign

The next page in layout design.

Codrops

A destination for web design and development enthusiasts.

DESK Magazine

A design publication written by designers, for designers — by Tobias van Schneider.

Smashing Magazine

Reliable, useful, but most importantly practical articles to web designers and developers.

DIELINE

A creative platform dedicated to serving the global packaging community.

Typeroom

An online platform for the typophile generation.

BP&O Articles

Publication on brand identity design and packaging.

Awwwards Blog

A blog for web designers and developers covering a wide range of topics.

The Design Blog

A carefully curated platform for design and creative inspiration.

WebDesignerDepot

Trusted resource for all things web design, development, and creative inspiration.

Motto Blog

Blog on vision, strategy, culture, and brand and how to apply it.

Identity Designed

Visual branding from around the world.

Design Week

Discover the latest across branding, digital, product, and interiors.

AIGA Eye on Design

The best new work by the world’s most exciting designers.

Adobe Blog

Made by Folk

Conversations with the people behind the design.

Creative Bloq

Where creativity meets technology.

Communication Arts

Exceptional Design, Advertising, Illustration, Photography, Interactive and Typography, since 1959.

Design Observer

Sparking vital conversations about design and its role in shaping culture, commerce, society, and the planet.

Creative Boom

Art and design magazine for the creative industries.

Gemini (Nano Banana)

Unlock multimodal creativity for the next generation of visual apps.

Creative Mornings

The world’s largest face-to-face creative community.

Dezeen

The world's most influential architecture, interior and design magazine.

Berlin Design Conferences

A non-profit association and Design unity to create a shared culture for exchange and collaboration.

Dezeen Events Guide

The leading architecture, interior and design events around the world.

Front and Center

Weekly discussion on branding, design, pop culture, and more.

Design Your Life

Listen in as creatives and visionaries discuss the role design has played in shaping their success.

Future of UX

All about the Future of UX about AI & Future tech.

Honest UX Talks

Honest weekly conversations about careers, challenges, portfolios, mental health, and all things UX.

UX Research Geeks

Interviews with inspiring researchers from all around the world.

UX Soup

The latest on user experience, whether in the car, at home, or on the go.

UX of EdTech

A design studio cultivating learning, creativity, and play.

The UX Level-Up

A dive into the weeds on UX systems, information architecture, human psychology, and simplifying complexity.

Ramblings of a Designer

A weekly podcast where we discuss the latest graphic design news from around the web.

Beyond UX Design

Giving you the tools you need to be a truly effective UX designer.

Product Thinking

Industry leading experts answer your most pressing questions about everything product.

NN/G UX Podcast

A podcast on user experience research, design, strategy, and professions.

Branding Matters

Exclusive interviews with visionaries, game-changers, and industry titans.

Building your Brand

Small business owners to build businesses that you LOVE and feel confident about promoting.

Brand & Banter

Dive deep into the genius behind today’s biggest branding wins.

No BS Agency

Ignore the crap that’s holding you back and discover what it really takes to be the boss.

Brands On Brands

Learn from the world's top personal branding and content marketing experts.

How Brands Are Built

Branding professionals get into the details of what they do and how they do it.

Brand Master Podcast

Helping professional brand-builders and entrepreneurs, to build brands.

Let’s talk branding

Brand-building in the new world of generative AI.

JUST Branding

A podcast dedicated to helping designers and entrepreneurs grow brands.

On Brand

The On Brand podcast helps you tell stronger stories and build better brands.

Logo Geek

Learn from the experiences of successful graphic designers and entrepreneurs around the world.

Being Freelance

How to make it as the owner of your own business by hearing other freelancers share their experience.

Daily Creative

Helping you be brave, focused, and brilliant in your creative work and leadership.

The Futur

A show that explores the interesting overlap between design, marketing, and business.

The Profitable Graphic Designer

A podcast to help graphic designers grow, get more clients, and hit $10k (and beyond) months.

The Creative Condition

An ongoing exploration of human creativity to help you understand and maximise yours.

Creative Pep Talk

Stories and strategies for building a thriving creative practice.

Scratching the Surface

A podcast about design, theory, and creative practice.

Creative Boom

Candid conversations with fellow creatives, packed with fresh insights and expert advice.

The Deeply Graphic Designcast

Bold ideas, behind-the-scenes insights, and real-world advice to inspire designers, artists, and makers.

The Angry Designer

No-Bull Graphic Design Podcast that cuts through industry jargon & nonsense, to help frustrated Graphic Designers survive and thrive.

Design Matters

20 years running podcast on how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives.

Corel PHOTO-PAINT

Professional photo editing at your fingertips.

Gimp

A free image editor for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Maglr

A no-code design platform to create interactive stories, reports, presentations, and more.

Le Chat

Enterprise AI assistant from Mistral AI.

Microsoft Copilot

An AI companion to inform, entertain and inspire.

Meta AI

AI assistant to get things done, create AI-generated images for free, and get answers to any of your questions.

Grok

A free AI assistant to maximize truth and objectivity.

Gemini

Chat to start writing, planning, learning and more with Google AI.

Claude

The AI for problem solvers.

ChatGPT

Chat with an advanced AI to explore ideas, solve problems, and learn faster.

Perplexity

An AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

Frameblox

The ultimate Framer UI kit and design system.

Framify

Design 10x fast in Framer with 1k+ components.

Frameplate

A library of Framer templates, plugins and resources.

Framepad

A flexible UI kit and design system for Framer.

Framer Overrides

Powerful Framer code overrides.

Framestack

Components and code overrides for your Framer websites.

HyperFramer

A curated collection of Framer resources.

Semplice

A WordPress-based portfolio tool and community of the world’s leading designers.

Webflow App Gen

From prompt to production with AI code gen.

Poliigon

High quality 3D assets that support the world’s leading 3D artists.

MJML

Open-source markup language for responsive emails.

Sendible

Social media management tool built for agencies.

Later Influence

Influencer marketing and campaign management.

Dub

Modern affiliate marketing platform.

Taplink

Micro landing page builder for social media bios.

Ubersuggest

Free SEO and keyword research tool by Neil Patel.

Hovercode

Dynamic QR code generator with real-time editing.

BL.INK

Enterprise link management and branded short URLs.

Swipe Pages

Fast AMP landing page builder for conversion-focused marketers.

Animoto

Drag-and-drop video maker for marketing and social media content.

Fontesk

Font Library with tons of free fonts as well as high quality paid fonts.

Subcolor

Subcolor is a tool to generate colors between two colors.

Usability Geek

Practical and useful insights into topics like usability, user experience, interface design and related fields.

Freebies.ByPeople

A professionally curated selection of commercial use resources and tools.

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

Susan Weinschenk

Bottts

Sketch library with robot illustrations to mix and match.

Fractal

Powerful component libraries & styleguides that fit the way you work.

Open Peeps

A hand-drawn illustration library.

Duo

Collection of color combinations to inspire your next design.

UX Kits

UX Kits to plan, brainstorm and communicate ideas.

Justinmind

All-in-one UI and UX design platform to create UI assets, prototypes and simulations.

Stencil

Create beautiful social media graphics on the fly.

Laudable Apps

Independent showcase for beautiful iOS apps.

Tabler Icons

Over 3450 pixel-perfect icons for your web designs.

Elastic UI

Open UI framework from Elastic.

Lottieflow

Downloadable Lottie files that work like magic.

IDEO Blog

The Octopus – A designer's view of the universe.

Pageflows

Explore real-world user flows and design patterns from leading apps and websites.

Colour Contrast Checker

Check the contrast between different colour combinations against WCAG standards.

Color Review

A tool for exploring and finding accessible colors.

Hello, I'm Alexa

Design your design career with San Francisco based Product Designer Alexa.

UX Challenges

Done reading about UX? Start doing it.

Uppbeat

Free music for creators.

Face Generator

Create a unique person with your parameters in one click.

Beautiful Web Type

Guide to only the best open-source typefaces.

Sprig

All-in-one product research platform.

Slantt

Create stunning isometric graphics in minutes.

UI Tips

Learn how to design better UI and make your users happier.

Makeswift

For website builders who are tired of the tradeoffs and are ready to move fast.

Mechanic

Turn your design rules into design tools.

All Hands

25 free device mockups featuring hands of all shades, shapes, and sizes.

Ycode

Visual development platform for designers and agencies.

Build.one

Build with AI, ship enterprise.

Thousand Faces Club

A community to empower creators to make a living out of their passion.

Magic Eraser

Remove unwanted things from images in seconds.

Startup

No-code website builder for startups.

Instagram Sans

Instagrams new global typeface of-the-future via the past.

Depix

An AI-powered online image editing platform.

Journey

A presentation tool that people love to receive.

JPEG Compress

Resize and optimize the images including GIFs, JPEG, PNG, JPG, SVG, and WEBP.

Mockplus

An online collaborative design tool ideal for quickly creating realistic, high-fidelity prototypes and animations.

Freeform

Creative brainstorming and moodboards app by Apple.

SaaSpo

A curated collection of the best SaaS websites on the web.

Branding Guidelines Archive

An archive collecting branding & style guide documents from around the world.

Pixpa

All-in-one portfolio builder to easily showcase, sell and share your work online.

Open Doors

Discover the best entry-level design jobs all in one place.

205TF

A french type foundry bringing together the work of independent typeface designers.

Flyerwrk Mockups

High quality mockups and handcrafted photoshop templates.

Good Stuff No Nonsense

A lovely place for hand drawn vector icons & high quality elements.

Bezi

Design 3D apps and games faster than ever together.

Invideo AI

Create publish-worthy videos on day one.

Viewport UI

UI curated experiences for your inspiration.

Book Cover Archive

An archive of excellent book cover designs.

Frame0

Make hand-drawn style wireframes quickly and easily.

Eraser

AI co-pilot ‍for technical design documents and diagrams.

Freesound

Collaborative database of over 700k creative commons sound samples.

Litur

A color picker for the real world.

Better Studio

Turn regular images of your fashion clothing into studio quality photography.

Public Work

A search engine for public domain content.

Emergent

Create production-ready applications from natural language, no developers required.

Flowstep

Get real UI designs from simple text prompts.

UICONS

Beautiful icons for the era of high-resolution UI.

Decofy

World first shoppable AI home design planner.

AppStruct

Create stunning apps with AI-powered zero coding.

Holo

AI marketing tool helping businesses create ads, social posts and emails fast.

Boring Websites

Underrated profitable websites with simple online business ideas.

Microsoft Copilot

An AI companion to inform, entertain and inspire.

Building your Brand

Small business owners to build businesses that you LOVE and feel confident about promoting.

Sustainable UX Playbook

Resources for sustainable and responsible UX and Design.

PatternCraft

Professional-grade background patterns and gradients.

DIELINE

A creative platform dedicated to serving the global packaging community.

The Visual History of Type: A visual survey of 320 typefaces

Paul McNeil

Logo Modernism

Jens Müller, Julius Wiedemann, R. Roger Remington

Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media

Brittany Hennessy

Reality in Advertising

Rosser Reeves

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

William McDonough, Michael Braungart

Designing Products People Love: How Great Designers Create Successful Products

Scott Hurff

Image Context Engineering: Master Creating Amazing Detailed Images Through Example Stories (Generative AI Mastery)

David Gillette

Qudemo

AI video call agents that feel like your best employee is always available.

Beta

Malt

Everything you need to run your freelance business.

Awwwards Free Fonts

A selection of the best free fonts for designers.

InShot

Powerful all-in-one video editor with professional features.

Lightworks

From first edit to hollywood pro.

Imagen3D

Instantly convert images to 3D models.

Boom

Live presentations and screen recordings that look produced.

Promptsref

Midjourney SREF codes library with prompts and guides.

Font Mojo

Compare and preview fonts easily across hundreds of typefaces.

Storyblocks

A stock media platform for creators.

Lineicons

Handcrafted SVG icons tailored for designers and developers.