If you’re looking for the best design blogs to follow… you’re in the right place.
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I’ve spent the last few days curating this list from my Feedly collection and suggestions from other designers – I’ve certainly come across a few fantastic resources in the process.
If I’ve left any incredible design blogs out of the list you feel should have made the cut, feel free to leave a comment at the end – I’ll review and keep the list as up-to-date as possible!
Let’s start the list with a bit of shameless self-promotion if only to get it out of the way…
Inkbot Design’s Blog – http://inkbotdesign.com/blog – We focus on articles aimed to help young designers, along with a few here and there to help my clients with their own brand.
General Design Blogs
Abduzeedo – http://www.abduzeedo.com/ – A popular blog that covers a range of topics for designers and creatives, primarily as interviews and tutorials.
Creative Bloq – http://www.creativebloq.com/ – “Your daily dose of design tips and inspiration” perfectly sums up the Creative Bloq – be sure to bookmark this one!
AisleOne – http://www.aisleone.net/ – An inspirational resource focused on design, typography, minimalism and modernism.
99Designs Blog – http://99designs.co.uk/designer-blog/ – yeah, we all hate crowdsourcing and it’s unethical approach, but the 99Designs blog can be a regularly engaging read. I’ll give them that.
Swissmiss – http://www.swiss-miss.com/ – clearly Swiss-inspired design blog which features a lot of creative images – be sure to check out their “tiny objects and Pantone chips” series.
The Next Web’s Creative News – http://thenextweb.com/section/creative/ – TNW’s creative section of the blog is a superb resource for all things related to creative people. If you’re interested, they do have other sections worth looking at such as ’tech’, ‘money’ and ‘apps’ in the menu.
Hongkiat – http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/ – Design tips, tutorials and inspiration.
You The Designer – http://www.ucreative.com/design/ – Topic spanning design blog with a bunch of great content to suit almost every designer’s needs.
How Design Blog – http://www.howdesign.com/how-design-blog/ – Covers all the latest design news, trends and visual inspiration to keep you up-to-date.
Graphic Design Blog – http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk/ – Another all-encompassing, yet high-quality blog on everything graphic design related.
Designrfix – http://designrfix.com/ – I find myself here regularly when I come across the ‘design deals’ and freebies, but they have great articles too.
Designer Daily – http://www.designer-daily.com/ – Blogs updated every day, like this one, are perfect for catching all the special design deals.
Shillington Design Blog – http://shillingtondesignblog.com/ – Just a great mix of well-written, informative articles and lovely visuals.
Graphic Mania – http://www.graphicmania.net/ – Design tutorials, vector packs and photography ideas all in one blog.
Company Folders’ Blog – http://www.companyfolders.com/blog/ – A bunch of designer resources and articles like: “14 ways to be the worst person on your graphic design team.”
Form Fifty Five – http://formfiftyfive.com/ – Graphic Design inspiration from around the world.
Graphic Design Junction – http://graphicdesignjunction.com/ – Full of design inspiration, free resources such as vector images/fonts, along with some great tutorials.
Roberto Blake’s Blog – http://robertoblake.com/articles/ – One of only a few designers to embrace video that I’ve come across, I recommend subscribing to his channel.
Creative Roots – http://creativeroots.org/ – A brilliant approach to art and design inspiration from around the world, filtered by countries.
Dexigner – http://www.dexigner.com/ – An online portal for designers, architects, illustrators, engineers, artists, and creatives of all kinds.
HND Graphics – http://www.hndgraphics.co/ – Curated by the Richmond Upon Thames College, this blog provides a lot of information to young designers and students.
Design Juices – http://www.designjuices.co.uk/ – Features a bunch of great articles in general, but what stands out here are the frequent interviews with designers.
UI / UX & Web Design Blogs
Designmodo – http://designmodo.com/ – With a focus on the web and developer related articles, I find Designmodo an excellent resource to learn UI and UX through their tutorials and advice.
Smashing Magazine – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ – Another great resource for learning the basics of web design and development, super helpful for print designers like myself.
Spyre Studios – http://spyrestudios.com/ – A favourite web design and development blog, Spyre Studios offers some intermediate web tutorials amongst general design inspiration and advice.
Vandelay Design – http://www.vandelaydesign.com/blog/ – One of the most popular web design blogs, Vandelay Design, provides a breadth of articles of interest to most designers, both web and print based.
Web Design Ledger – http://webdesignledger.com/ – Continually interesting publication, focusing on many of the technical elements of web design.
Spoon Graphics – http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/ – Maybe better suited in the general design category, but Chris’ blog has some great web-based tutorials.
Boagworld – https://boagworld.com/blog/ – An excellent resource for both web and digital advice from Paul Boag.
Line25 – http://line25.com/ – A place to share web design ideas and inspiration through articles, tutorials and examples of stunning site designs.
Grain Edit – http://grainedit.com/ – A mix of contemporary graphic design inspiration and vintage/retro, illustrative styles to peruse.
Awwwards Blog – http://www.awwwards.com/blog/ – Best known for their web design awards, their design blog deserves just as much credit.
Tuts Plus – http://tutsplus.com/blog – Mostly tutorials, which you’d expect, but their general design articles are great reads as well.
I Can Be Creative – http://www.icanbecreative.com/ – A great resource for design resources, trends and inspiration.
Creative Overflow – http://creativeoverflow.net/ – Does a good job of covering all elements of web design, not just the technical side of things.
Design Follow – http://www.designfollow.com/ – Articles, resources and tutorials in a range of design topics.
Interactive Red’s Blog – https://www.interactivered.com/blog/ – Great blog that focuses on the digital, mobile and interactive side of design.
Digital Telepathy’s Blog – http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/ – Insights and best practices for UX and product design.
1st Web Designer – http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/blog/ – With a community of respected web design professionals, great articles are almost guaranteed!
Web Designer Depot – http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/ – a hugely popular web design blog that seems to cover all the topics well.
UX Magazine – http://uxmag.com/ – Defining and informing the complex world of user experience or UX.
Creative Nerds – http://creativenerds.co.uk/ – Design inspiration, freebies and tutorials.
Branding & Graphic Design Blogs
David Airey’s Blog – http://www.davidairey.com/ – David regularly publishes great articles on a range of topics from Branding advice to architecture, interspersed with informative posts providing incredible advice for other designers based on his experience.
The Design Blog – http://thedsgnblog.com/ – With great attention to detail, the Design Blog always provides a great hub of visual inspiration. Every day there’s a particular type of post, such as “Designer of the Week”, “Friday Freebies” etc. so keep checking in!
The Logo Smith’s Blog – http://imjustcreative.com/blog – I’ve been a longtime fan of Graham’s blog and his writing style – regularly a reliable resource of inspiration, information and educational posts about life as a freelance graphic designer.
Logo Design Love – http://www.logodesignlove.com/ – another superb design blog, and book by the same name from David Airey.
Brand New – http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/ – with opinions on corporate identity design, I’m a huge fan of their before and after rebrand showcases, along with the public voting system.
Branding Served – http://www.brandingserved.com/ – A curated selection of work from the leading creatives on Behance.
Identity Designed – http://identitydesigned.com/ – An excellent showcase of the behind the scenes of branding projects, with a lot of contributions from the designers themselves involved in the work.
BP&O – http://bpando.org/ – Branding, Packaging and the Opinions of graphic designer Richard Baird. I always see a lot of gorgeous work here that hasn’t seemingly been published elsewhere.
Logogeek’s Blog – http://logogeek.uk/logo-design-blog/ – Ian aka “Logogeek” provides an excellent resource of well-written, informative articles for designers, especially those who specialise in logos and branding.
Logo Designer Blog – http://www.logo-designer.co/ – A great blog I only came across recently, with a clear focus on logo design and branding.
Lovely Stationery – http://lovelystationery.com/ – A curated guide to the very best in stationery design.
Visuelle – http://www.visuelle.co.uk/ – Focusing on gorgeous brand identity work from around the world. Just beautiful.
For Print Only – http://www.underconsideration.com/fpo/ – A sub-section of UnderConsideration, For Print Only offers a great selection of printed media.
Richard Baird’s Blog – http://www.richardbaird.co.uk/blog/ – Big fan of Rich’s work, an almost bigger fan of his articles and writing!
Design Taxi – http://designtaxi.com/category/Graphic%20Design – Journaling ideas since 2003, Design Taxi provides inspiration and creativity daily.
Lovely Package – http://lovelypackage.com/ – Curating the very best in packaging design.
Typography
Fonts In Use Blog – http://fontsinuse.com/blog – if you haven’t heard of ‘Fonts In Use’, check them out while your own their blog – it’s a fantastic idea where designers work out the fonts for use in specific projects or images.
I Love Typography – http://ilovetypography.com/ – Fonts, typefaces and all other things typographical!
Type For You – http://www.typeforyou.org/ – A blog on typography, with news, interviews and always beautiful font inspiration.
Type token – http://www.typetoken.net/ – Showcasing and discussing the world of typography, icons and visual language.
Design Inspiration
The Fox Is Black – http://thefoxisblack.com/ – Love the name. Love the logo. Love the blog!
It’s Nice That – http://www.itsnicethat.com/ – “Championing creativity since 2007” is their tagline, so you know they’re established as a design hub.
The Dieline – http://www.thedieline.com/ – My personal, go-to resource for inspiration on developing a brand out across a product or through it’s packaging.
Booooooom – http://www.booooooom.com/ – Hope I got the right amount of “o’s” in this one! Great website for daily, visual inspiration.
Inspiration feed – http://inspirationfeed.com/ – This blog always has a lot of decent lists, money saving deals and resources for designers.
Iain Claridge’s Blog – http://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/ – Serves as a “repository for random morsels of ocular delight” – love it.
The Inspiration Grid – http://theinspirationgrid.com/ – Brings you the best creative stories from around the world.
Good Design Makes Me Happy – http://www.gooddesignmakesmehappy.com/ – Another that should be fairly clear. If you like good design, you’ll love this blog.
We And The Color – http://weandthecolor.com/ – A great blog for daily art and design inspiration.
Design Everywhere’s Tumblr – http://designeverywhere.tumblr.com/ – A visual showcase of carefully selected graphic design work from around the world.
From Up North – http://www.fromupnorth.com/ – They do have an ‘articles’ section if that’s your thing – I appreciate their visual inspiration.
Inspired Mag – http://inspiredm.com/ – A popular blog about design, development and inspiration.
Site Inspire – http://www.siteinspire.com/ – Showing some of the most beautiful websites currently on the go.
Inspiration Hut – http://inspirationhut.net/ – Daily art/design inspiration and downloads.
Design Clever’s Tumblr – http://designclever.tumblr.com/ – a beautiful Tumblog of every design imaginable.
Freelance, Business & Lifestyle
99U – http://99u.com/ – 99U, from Behance, provides some interesting articles on the day-to-day running of business, freelancing and productivity tips. I mean, who doesn’t want to read an article entitled “The Undeniable Benefits of Being Weird?”
Co. Design – http://www.fastcodesign.com/ – Although they pay a lot of attention to the design side of things, I appreciate more wide-ranging articles on everything from geeky gadgets to global interest posts.
Justcreative’s Blog – http://justcreative.com/ – Again, a blog that could probably go in the design section, Jacob provides an excellent resource for young designers looking to get into the business of design.
NuSchool – http://thenuschool.com/home – Some of the absolute best articles providing education for creative professionals. Worth the read!
Creative Review – http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog – The CR blog offers super high-quality posts on a range of topics along with their published magazine.
Freelance Folder – http://freelancefolder.com/blog/ – Actionable insights and advice on all things freelance.
Clients From Hell – http://clientsfromhell.net/ – Think you have a bad customer, think again. Spend a few minutes here for a laugh/cringe.
Paul Jarvis’ Articles – https://pjrvs.com/articles – First of all, love the simplicity of the site. Content wise, excellent insights from Paul Jarvis.
Cameron Moll’s Blog – http://www.cameronmoll.com/ – Cameron covers a bit of everything in his blog, which I love, especially the “miscellaneous banter” as he puts it.
Subtraction – http://www.subtraction.com/ – Great posts from Khoi Vinh on a range of topics, love the minimal layout too.
Stuff and Nonsense – http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog – Their description says all you need to know: “Stuff & nonsense and all that malarkey.”
Ciera Design’s Blog – http://cieradesign.com/blog/ – Ciera’s blog contains a wealth of inspiration, advice and range of topics that will appeal to all freelancers.
Rair’s Blog – http://www.rair.co.uk/blog/ – Lost of interesting articles from industry news to start-up advice and legal matters.
Pinnate Road’s Blog – http://www.pinegateroad.com/blog/ – Kelsey’s blog features a lot of great advice to running a business and freelancing as a designer.
Brent Galloway’s Blog – http://brentgalloway.me/blog – Brent is a US based, freelance designer whose blog offers a great insight into his day to day life.
Jessica Hische’s Thoughts – http://www.jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughts – A lot of personal insights in this blog, along with some great advice and tips for freelancing.
Sacha Greif’s Blog – http://sachagreif.com/ – Sacha is a respected designer, coder and entrepreneur whose blog offers ideas, tips and advice for up and coming designers amongst personal updates and news.
Sievers Creative – https://www.sieverscreative.com/news-and-updates/ – A creative blog about marketing, web design and advertising. Always good advice to be found here.
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