If you’re a designer, there are quite simply certain sites that you must be following – whether to stay on top of design news, keep up on design trends, or just to watch what other designers are doing. Here are 50+ must read design blogs every designer should be following. I’m sure you’ve heard of some of these but hopefully you’ll find some new ones – so read, subscribe, and enjoy!
For more inspiration, see 50 Must Read Resources For Incredible Web Design (sites, tutorials, inspiration, and more).
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Design Shard
Design Shard has only been around for a little over a month, and they are already making waves in the design community.
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Tutorial 9
An extremely fast growing site, Tutorial 9 provides everything you will need to know about Photoshop.
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Design Feedr
Design Feedr is a great resource for inspiration, resources, and design articles.
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Abduzeedo
Abduzeedo is a fantastic place to get tutorials, design updates, and inspiration collections.
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You The Designer
You The Designer is one of the leading websites for information on everything related to graphic and web design.
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Design Flavr
A great place to find some design-related inspiration.
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Spoon Graphics
Blog.SpoonGraphics is an amazing resource for all types of design articles, from tutorials to inspiration posts.
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PSD Tuts
Among the largest of the Photoshop tutorial sites, PSD Tuts won’t let you down when it comes to unique, high quality PS tuts.
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Logo Design Love
A perfect place to get inspired for creating your next logo for your site.
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Vandelay Design
A massive resource of articles on all types of design for all types of designers.
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Design Meltdown
Design Meltdown is a leading resources in design inspiration.
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David Airey
Articles about design written by a designer – simple as that.
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Pro Blog Design
Looking to improve your blog’s design? Check out Pro Blog Design for some helpful hints and tips.
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Smashing Magazine
If you don’t follow SM, you are really missing out. They supply tons of in-depth design articles to meet all your design needs.
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WP Designer
Even though the site hasn’t been updated in a while, simply browse through the archives of WP Designer to get all the info you will need to develop a WordPress theme.
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Blog Perfume
A great site to follow to stay on top of blog design news – from plugins, to new and incredible designs.
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Adii
Adii has become one of the largest forces in the Premium WordPress marketplace – read his blog to see why.
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Elliot Jay Stocks
Elliot Jay Stocks has become one of the most recognized names in web design. His blog publishes high quality articles to keep you updated on the world of design.
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WP Elements
A premium WP theme developer and web designer, WP Elements is a great place to get some design inspiration for your next theme.
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Mark Forrester
A great blog to keep you up to date on the latest in the design world.
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Fuel Your Creativity
FYC has truly taken the blogosphere by force with tons of impressive and thought out design related posts.
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Dzine Blog
A great site that features fantastic designers and useful resources.
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Design M.ag
Design M.ag is a community news source that compiles tons of design related articles into one spot.
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We Function
From freebies to useful resources to inspiration posts, We Function has it all.
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Tracey Grady
With some incredible articles being written in the last weeks, Tracey Grady is quickly establishing herself as a useful design resource site.
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Design Blurb
Design Blurb has resources and freebies galore – what else could you need?
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Designer Side
Designer Side is a place for designers to interact and network with other designers.
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Specky Boy
Specky Boy puts together impressive design focused articles on a regular basis.
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BittBox
BittBox has become a leading source for free Photoshop resources and graphic design articles.
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My Ink Blog
My Ink Blog has been growing quickly due to its intriguing and helpful design articles.
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Just Creative Design
Jacob at JCD has really shown us what designing is all about. Check out his blog to see a varying range of honest and on-topic posts.
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Toxel
A mixture of clever and creative design articles that are sure to inspire.
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Design Reviver
Design Reviver is a great place to find tutorials, freebies, resources, and lots of inspiration.
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Veerle’s Blog
A creative and inspirational blog that covers a multitude of design related topics.
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N Design Studio
A great blog about design with some freebies, icons, WordPress themes, and more.
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Noupe
I’ve become a big fan of Noupe in the past months due both to their regular, high-detail posts, but also their community feed which helps to compile lots of helpful design articles.
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WP Candy
WP Candy is the place to go to get WordPress news, help, feebies, tutorials, and information.
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I Love Typography
No designer is complete without exploring the realms of typography. ILT helps get you there with their insightful and creative articles all about type.
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Veer
Veer is a source for inspiration, freebies, and some unique and interesting design articles.
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Designers Who Blog
A design blog for designers, photographers, writers, and marketers.
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Graphic Design Blog
A blog dedicated to covering topics like graphic design, freelancing, illustration, advertising, and web design.
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Inspiredology
Inspiredology offers a haven of design-related inspirational posts and resources.
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Arbent
A fairly new blog, Arbent is a great place to find tutorials, inspiration, and the best-of in the design world.
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Positive Space Blog
From logos to inspirational website designs, Postive Space has lots of helpful resources and inspiration.
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Crazy Leaf Design
CLD has lots of cool design inspiration posts, best-of’s, and much more!
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All Graphic Design
AGD has lots of inspirational compilations and creative resources for every designer.
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Did I miss your blog? Just let me know and I’ll be glad to check it out and add it to this list.
David Airey
September 1, 2008 at 8:17 am
Hi Brian,
I’m subscribed to most of these, but have indeed been introduced to some new ones. Thanks for that, and for including both of my design blogs! Great stuff.
Jacob Cass
September 1, 2008 at 8:45 am
Thanks for the mention of Just Creative Design… I am subscribed to nearly all of these. Always good to see posts like these though!
graphic art
September 1, 2008 at 9:56 am
I love Vandelay Designs and Smashing Magazine. I am a regular guest of their blogs. I love reading a lot of stuffs there and downloading some of their freebies too.
Alex
September 1, 2008 at 10:19 am
Thanks for including CrazyLeaf Design Blog in such a great list. There are a few design blogs here I didn’t know about. Thanks.
Rachel Goldstein
September 1, 2008 at 10:23 am
Great list. You should also read All Graphic Design Blog.
Brian
September 1, 2008 at 10:30 am
@David – I’m glad you were able to find some new ones, and no problem – keep up your great work!
@Jacob – Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for commenting
@Graphic Art – Much agreed on those points – I visit most of these sites daily because they always have a new article or resource for me to look at.
@Alex – Sure thing, and I hope you found some new sites to follow!
@Rachel – Added for you
Thanks for commenting!
Rachel Goldstein
September 1, 2008 at 10:35 am
Thank you .
Ethan
September 1, 2008 at 10:52 am
Wow great list…
Kinda sad to see my blog is not up there but with only 20 post’s on it I am not surprised
Randa Clay
September 1, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Cool list – many that I need to check out. PSDTuts is definitely one my favorites, along with David Airey’s sites.
Andrew Houle
September 1, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Great list, I’ll have to check out the few I didn’t know about. Thanks for the inclusion!
Angie Bowen
September 1, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Great list, like others I actually found a few news ones. Thanks so much for the inclusion!
David Leggett
September 1, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Thanks for including Tutorial9 in this list Brian
You’ve got a wonderful resource here at Elite By Design as well — almost surprised it’s not included in the list! It’s in mine for sure!
Tracey Grady
September 1, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Every time I come here I learn something new and useful – there are a few sites in this list which are new to me and I can’t wait to go visit them.
Thanks also for my inclusion and your very kind words about my blog – high praise.
Max | Design Shard
September 1, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Thanks for the mention, greatly apreciated, also youve found some i didnt know about so ill be checking them out, awesome stuff, thanks.
Eli
September 1, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Thanks for including my Blog. I’m trying to heat the content up as much as I can
Qbrushes.com
September 1, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I certainly follow more than half the mentioned blogs. great selection.
yugu
September 2, 2008 at 1:10 am
HI Brian!! Thanks for the mentioning DzineBlog , greatly appreciated
Goran Web
September 2, 2008 at 4:54 am
I have visited “Tutorial9″ website before and it’s absolutely great. Thank you for these other useful sites. Will bookmark them.
micah
September 2, 2008 at 8:05 am
Thank you for this post. It will be a great source of inspiration!
John
September 3, 2008 at 3:25 am
Great post! Thanks. But you forgot to include blog.templates.com – another informative design blog I’m subscribed to. Maybe you’ll also enjoy it
Mark
September 3, 2008 at 4:46 am
Great list, you’ve definitely introduced me to some great new reading here. Thanks for the feature. Most honoured.
liam
September 3, 2008 at 8:16 am
Nice stuff man, really impressive collection. Some classics and some new ones. Also – just notices you’re sweet little 9rules logo below, congrats on that!
Erika
September 4, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Nice little collection here. I see that I’ll be adding a couple to the already 400+ feeds I’m subscribed to. Yikes. LOL.
Jennifer
September 10, 2008 at 12:54 am
Great stuff. I’m subscribed to about half of these but there are lots of new ones there. I’m going to pass this list onto my students.
Mimi
November 12, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Visual Culture is another awesome design blog: http://www.oberholtzer-creative.com/visualculture/
Bruno
November 13, 2008 at 11:24 am
Please!
Don’t forget to pul link in ALL images!!!!
Paslanmaz
December 20, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Great blogs
Thanks..
designdesign
January 28, 2009 at 10:55 pm
great links amazing.
mike
April 14, 2009 at 11:36 am
Great post I would love to have you check out our chicago web design studio blog as well.
Dravid
April 19, 2009 at 11:10 pm
good list, Thank You
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April 23, 2009 at 4:03 am
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bbbox
May 3, 2009 at 1:40 pm
nice list Brian, thanks
PelFusion
June 1, 2009 at 3:02 pm
really nice blogs…i know most of them
and one is missing i.e pelfusion.com
Nacipboaria
August 14, 2009 at 5:53 am
Google wave http://www.google.com/profiles/mishkausa01
clickforwebdesign
August 28, 2009 at 6:36 am
would like to suggest http://www.clickforwebdesign.com/webdesign-blog.html for this category
Philippine Global Outsourcing
September 30, 2009 at 2:28 am
love the list! thanks for sharing
Karol
January 19, 2010 at 9:15 am
Really good list. However I would like to recommend one more design blog to this collection: http://en.tspot.pl
canvas paintings
February 17, 2010 at 3:30 pm
cool designs!
TheShadow
April 10, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Thanks for sharing links of these great sites
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Chicago Web Designer
April 21, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Thanks for this. It’s a very good list.