Following part one of this five part series comes twenty more design articles to keep you motivated as school rolls to a start and the social summer comes to an end. I hope you enjoy this post, and be sure to subscribe to the feed to keep up with the next three parts!

Well ladies and gentlemen, it is that time of year again. Kids around the country are packing up their gear and heading off to school for another year of learning and excitement. This marks the end of the “social summer” (summer scientifically ends on Sep. 22). I hope that everyone has a fantastic year - whether you are still in school or are working the desks. Thus I present you with 100 design related articles to help get you motivated these first few days. I’ll be showing 20 articles per day for the next five days - so subscribe and stay tuned!

Today, I’ve collected thirty inspirational blog designs. I attempted to make this inspiration post as diverse as possible, featuring well-known blogs, lesser known blogs, bright blogs, dark blogs, and everything in between. Keep in mind that I am also trying my best to keep designs that have already been featured out of this post. If I missed a cool design that you think should be on this list, drop a comment and let me know!

One sure fire way to lose any respect as a designer is to copy or steal from another site. With so many Web Galleries around these days its easier to find good looking sites to help fuel your inspiration, but unfortunately there are too many people who are using these galleries to steal images, code and layouts from people who spent time creating something unique. It’s one thing to take inspiration from a design, or have similar elements, but these are just too much in my opinion. I don’t want to say too much as I think the examples below speak for themselves.

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Web designers, illustrators, graphic designers or and other creatives have one thing in common these days. They all have a personal portfolio site where they showcase their work. Creatives always love working on their portfolio site since it’s the moment they can be client, designer and art director at the same time.