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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.

Carrd

Simple and free one-page website builder for profiles and landing pages.

Hoefler&Co.

Long-lived typefaces marked by high performance and high style.

Freebie Supply

The freshest design resources for Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Shutterstock

High quality stock images, photos, vectors, video and music.

TED Talks

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks.

Yo! Podcast

Spotlights incredible designers, developers, makers and entrepreneurs building their own future.

Noun Project

A diverse and extensive icon collection.

SaaS Pages

A collection of the best landing pages with a focus on copywriting and design.

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp

Pexels

Big collection of free stock photos and videos.

Avataaars

Sketch library with avatar illustrations to mix and match.

Lookback

Remote user interviews with testers from around the world.

Growth Design

Learn how the best companies design and grow products users love.

Iconscout Icons

Discover consistent icon packs for every industry.

JetBrains Mono

A typeface for developers.

Iconset

Organize SVG icons in one place.

Linearity Curve

Fast and intuitive vector design for bold, precise creativity.

Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services

Jon Yablonski

Mural

Digital workspace for visual collaboration.

Octopus.do

Lightning-fast visual sitemap builder.

Moqups

Create and collaborate in real-time on wireframes, mockups, diagrams and prototypes.

Patternico

Free pattern generator for seamless patterns and backgrounds.

Basecamp

All-in-one toolkit for working remotely.

Tuple

A remote pair programming app.

Font in Logo

Search 'n find fonts used by world brands.

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant

Slack Design

Design knowledge from the Slack team.

Steemhunt

Discover cool products and get rewards.

Webdesigner News

A curated collection of the best news for web designers each day.

Lordicon

A growing library full of carefully crafted, high-quality static and animated icons.

Khroma

Discover, search, and save color combos and palettes powered by AI.

Gradient Hunt

A free and open platform for color inspiration.

Roy

A tiny & delightful color picker for designers.

Penpot

Open Source design and prototyping tool for Product teams.

Stark

Connects the tools you and your team already use in a streamlined end-to-end accessibility workflow.

Accessible Brand Colors

A tool that shows you how ADA compliant your colors are in relation to each other.

Designed

A diverse design community and platform of educational tools and mentoring.

Briefbox

Level up your design skills with industry standard practice briefs & short courses.

Checklist Design

A collection of the best design practices.

Case Study Club

Learn how people design digital products.

Designlab

Award-winning online UI/UX bootcamp.

Loops

3D abstract animated shapes perfectly looped.

The Prodcast

A podcast featuring impactful technology & product stories.

Rive

Create and ship beautiful animations to any platform collaboratively.

Iconscout Desktop App

Access over 2.2 million+ icons from your desktop toolbar.

Uncut

Open source typeface catalogue, focusing on contemporary type.

Plasmic

The visual builder for your tech stack.

Psychology of Design

100+ cognitive biases and principles that affect your UX.

CleanShot

The ultimate screen capturing tool.

SVG Gobbler

A browser extension that finds vector content to download.

A11Y Project

A community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.

Huemint

Use machine learning to create unique color schemes for your brand, website or graphic.

Play

Native iOS design tool built for creating mobile products.

Kittl

Create stunning designs with just a few clicks.

OptimizeImages

Convert & compress images up to 90%, webp & AVIF supported.

Google Fonts: pairings

Hand-picked pairings from Google Fonts catalog, open-sourced for everyone to use.

Radix

Unstyled, accessible components for building high quality design systems.

FontBase

A font manager made by designers, for designers. Lightning fast, with beautiful interface, and totally free.

Birdfont

A free font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, OTF and SVG fonts.

Logobook

Discover the worlds finest logos, symbols & trademarks.

Presenting

Animate your screen recordings and create slick presentations.

IFTTT

Quickly and easily automate your favorite apps and devices.

Womp

Easiest, goopiest 3D software of your dreams.

DALL·E

Easily translate your ideas into exceptionally accurate images.

Vectary

No-code, high-quality, real-time 3D experiences for the web.

Stockimg.ai

Generate stock photos, logos, wallpapers, illustrations and more.

Standards

An advanced tool to design and publish brand guidelines.

Format

Showcase your best work with an online portfolio website and run your business like a pro.

Figma to Webflow

Turn your static designs into clean, production-ready Webflow code.

Art Directed

Higher quality, elevated mockups for the new age of design presentations.

Landify

Landing page UI Kit for Figma. Design your LP in minutes, not weeks.

YouPic

A human curation of truly inspirational photos to reflect on your own creativity and technique.

Pattern Club

A curated gallery of patterns, textures and visuals by awesome designers.

LiveSurface

Get real in real time, drag and drop photo-real mockups. (Use Code: TOOOLS10 for 10% off the yearly plan)

Prettyfolio

Discover the best designer and developer portfolios.

Neat

A free tool that generates beautiful gradient animations for your website.

PromptBox

The most beautiful way to organize & paste text.

Generated Photos

Unique, worry-free model photos generated by AI.

Murf

AI voice solution suite.

Ilus AI

Get beautiful, stylistically consistent AI generated illustrations in minutes.

Dorik

Create beautiful websites from just a prompt.

Streamline

All the icons you need, in every style you love.

Daily Branding

Daily dose of branding design.

Match icons with typefaces

A complete guide on how to pair icons and typefaces to create a consistent visual language.

Wannathis Mockups

High quality mockups for digital designers.

Websitevice

Casual website examples for real world design inspiration.

Icon University

Learn the secrets of Streamline’s icon designers, absolutely free.

Celaro

Plan, organize, and track your projects effortlessly.

Spotted in Prod

Discover great iOS apps.

Chronicle

A modern format of storytelling.

Virtuall

Your 3D team’s AI-powered creative OS.

Path to Design

A directory of designers, for designers.

Magic Animator

Animate your Figma designs in seconds with AI.

Vibe3D

Create photorealistic renders in seconds with AI.

Chili3D

Web-based 3D CAD application.

Rork

Build native mobile apps, fast.

Perplexity

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

Corel PHOTO-PAINT

Professional photo editing at your fingertips.

The Deeply Graphic Designcast

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

Brand Master Podcast

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