100 Must Read Design Blogs

Written by , Published On 8th July 2010.
Filed in Inspiration.

In my daily search for design-related content I’ve come across tons of really stellar blogs. Recently I noticed that the list of sites I regularly check in on had far surpassed 100!

I know there’s no shortage of lists like this but I still wanted to share my discoveries with the Design Shack readers. Some of the blogs below are quite famous, others are fairly obscure. Most are specifically about design, others are more for supporting subjects like freelancing or photography. So without further adieu, here’s my list of over 100 must read (or watch for the video sites) design-related websites.

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100 Design Blogs

52 Weeks of UX

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A

Abduzeedo

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ActiveTuts

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Adobe TV

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AETuts

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A List Apart

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Arbent

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Astheria

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A Way Back

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B

Blue Faqs

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Brand New

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C

Carsonified

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CGTuts

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Colorburned

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Colour Lovers

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Creative Fan

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D

David Walsh

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Design Chat

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The Design Cubicle

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Design Informer

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Designing the News

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Design Instruct

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Design Mag

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DesignMess

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Design Reviver

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Design Woop

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DoctypeTV

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DzinePress

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E

Elated

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Entropia

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F

Finch

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Freelance Switch

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G

Graphic Design Blender

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I

iLoveColors

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ImpressiveWebs

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Information Architects

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Insic Designs

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Inspiration Feed

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Inspired Mag

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J

Janko at Warp Speed

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L

Layers Magazine

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Line 25

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Little Box of Ideas

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Logo Design Love

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M

Media Loot

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MyInkBlog

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N

NetTuts

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O

One Extra Pixel

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Outlaw Web Design

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P

Pelfusion

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Photography Served

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Posh CSS

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Pro Blog Design

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PSDTuts

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PSD Vault

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Pulchry

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PVM Garage

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R

ReEncoded

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Richworks

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The Roxor

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S

Share Brain

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Sick Designer

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Six Revisions

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SmashingApps

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Smashing Magazine

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Smashing Share

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Sohtanaka

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Splashnology

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SpoonGraphics

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Spyre Studios

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T

Think Design Blog

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Thomas Maier

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Tripwire Magazine

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TutToaster

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Tutorialzine

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TutWow

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Typesett

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Typography Served

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U

Underworld Magazines

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Usable Efficiency

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Usability Post

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UX Booth

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UX Mag

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V

Vandelay Design

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Vectips

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VectorTuts

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Vooz

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W

W3Avenue

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The Web Design Blog

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Web Designer Depot

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Web Design Dev

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Web Design Ledger

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Web Designer Notebook

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Webitect

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We Function

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Y

You The Designer

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Link Lists

The sites below aren’t quite design blogs so much as sites that simply list links to design blogs. It sounds silly but it’s actually pretty nice to have tons of links aggregated into one place so you can be picky about your reading material for the day.

Becoming Creative

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CSS Globe

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The Design Buzz

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Design-Newz

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The Freelance Feed

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Relpost

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Design Shards

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Conclusion

Leave a comment below and let us know which of the sites above are your favorites and why. If we missed your favorite, leave a link and tell us about it!

Discussion

  1. Shawn Ramsey says:

    Thanks for the list and thanks for including Bluefaqs in it! Time to fill up my RSS feed.

  2. Thank you for including us!
    I retweeted this article ;)

  3. Onextrapixel says:

    Thank you for adding Onextrapixel among this great list of wonderful design blogs!

    Cheers!

  4. designhamper says:

    Great collection friend. Mindblowing & make busy all blogger & designer.

  5. Thanks so much for including us! We have more zines down the pipe coming! Take care and great collection of inspiring creatives in the industry :)

  6. Thanks for including Graphic Design Blender. Truly honored to be included here among so many great blogs.

    Keep up the great work here at Design Shack.

  7. Very nice list, but it’s clear you’ve never seen some Dutch Design blogs, or did you? [All in English]

    http://www.designworkplan.com/
    http://designblog.rietveldacademie.nl/
    http://www.design.nl/
    http://www.gonzoblog.nl
    http://new.typemedia.org/

    Hope they will broaden your view? Cheers & Ciao ..

  8. Allie says:

    Nice collection. Will take a long time to go through. Someone may want to tell Ar-bent-ing that their hire me page isn’t working.

  9. Eugen says:

    Really nice article and btw , you have a error with designm.ag (the picture is from inspiredm.com). Can’t believe I’m the only one that noticed this!

  10. Jon Phillips says:

    Hey, thanks a lot for mentioning SpyreStudios, much appreciated :)

  11. Louis says:

    Thanks for the mention, Josh. Looking at these other beautifully designed blogs, though, just reminds me of how badly my site needs a facelift. :(

  12. Thanks for mentioning SmashingShare, really appreciate it.

  13. insic says:

    Thanks for including insicdesigns in this prestigious list.

  14. Fredrik Stai says:

    To those who prefer quality over quantity, here is a community I cannot recommend enough: http://drawar.com/

  15. Mayank Patel says:

    Excellent list but Web Designer Wall should also be in there!!

    http://www.webdesignerwall.com

    Thanks :-)

  16. Amrinder says:

    Great List! Thanks for mentioning http://awayback.com and http://relpost.com.

    I highly recommend http://relpost.com for web designers who care about quality content.

  17. Eko Setiawan says:

    Amazing list…these lists very useful for me
    Thanks
    :)

    btw how about Build Internet : http://buildinternet.com/ ?

  18. Steven Snell says:

    Thanks for including Vandelay Design, it is an honor.

  19. Daniel says:

    I recommend mine, why not?.

  20. Totally flattered to be included in this list. However, you guys missed one of the most obvious to be included on this list: http://www.drawar.com – amazing stuff over there.

  21. Thanks so much for including us! It’s nice to be in such good company, too.

    Best,

    Jonathan Anderson (@first_day)
    Managing Editor, UX Magazine (@uxmag)

  22. ptamaro says:

    Mega-list, nice work! Thanks for putting it together. I try to get to as much as possible and seen/read many on this list, but there are a lot of them here I haven’t seen before.

    What about http://webexpedition18.com – (just one that comes to mind)? Now that I think of it, there are several that could be added….

    ;-)

  23. ptamaro says:

    Here’s another one of my favorites… http://creativebite.net

  24. Angie Bowen says:

    Thanks so much for including Arbent. I found a few new blog to follow myself :)

  25. Alex says:

    Great effort to accumulate such a huge collection of great design blogs! Thx for sharing.

  26. aurel says:

    this is a fantastic list

    there are few that i would have added, though i think the once that are not included (i guess) are commonly known

    i really liked the “link list” – i find them really helpful – almost like tweeter (personal i use it to get reffered to cool posts)

    two other link agrigators that i would strongly recommend:

    Script & Style
    and
    boag links

    I remember when I started into web design, I desperately needed a list like this

    thanks for sharing

  27. Safi says:

    Great list but u missed Noupe http://www.noupe.com/ and CSS Tricks
    http://css-tricks.com/

  28. elmalak says:

    Well, I think there is almost nothing more to add to this amazing list, which I don’t think I have the time to even visit!

    Here is my list of favorite sites to learn from especially if you’re interested in WordPress like me,
    http://www.elmalak.info/favorite-resources-learning-wordpress/

    Hope that adds a tiny bit to this wonderful resource you got up there.

    elmalak

  29. Nice collection, i think you might have missed so many. Here is the another new join and provides a lot of new stuffs, resources and tutorials and it’s unique from the rest (http://www.webrisorsa.info).

  30. Alex Cooper says:

    Hey now that is a great list!.. Thanks

  31. jj says:

    Great… as if I wasn’t overloaded already… (;_;)

  32. Elio says:

    Thank you very much for including ilovecolors in this fantastic list.
    You did an amazing work. Thank you for putting up this. There goes another afternoon checking new blogs!

  33. Designs are very impressive

    Thank you very much

  34. joey says:

    great site, travel on the internet through which I ended up here, so I let love greetings there. joey

  35. With exception to the A list apart site I’m noticing that most of these designs are less minimalistic then sites used to be. Not that that is a bad thing.

  36. evan says:

    You should consider including http://smokingdesigners.com :)

  37. Andy says:

    You should also add us in here – we’re well worth a look.

    http://blogs.creativepool.co.uk/

  38. great resource looking forward to reading through these

  39. Dave Walker says:

    Nice design blog list; http://www.theimport.co.uk is another great design blog!

  40. Chris Jacobs says:

    Great top 50 design blogs chart website; http://www.design-blogs.co.uk

  41. David says:

    Thanks, some really good sites, I have visited most of them!

    David

  42. Lee Fuller says:

    Some amazing sites here… And just because we’re talking design blogs, click my name, check out some of the tutorials…

  43. Squidfruit says:

    My god this post must have taken ages! not sure how you get those sceen shots reduced and look hi resolution? Good work

  44. Apie Studio says:

    What great list of sites, i thought you will forget PSD Vault. Kudos bro.

  45. Magdy Elid says:

    This is Great! We are always looking for great designers for our 4 and 5 star hotels. Anyone interested in growing their brand should check out our site http://www.hotelieronline.com We can offer a lot to designers, owners, operators and project managers. View our China, Europe and Middle East showrooms online! Thanks again!

  46. Nice list of sites!It shows what good design can achieve

  47. Ralph says:

    This list is a great and beautiful idea list for me. There a many nice minimalistic websites. I like webdesign with a clear structur.

  48. hebegubele says:

    Thank you for the shares in this blog. I will visit it again.

  49. David says:

    i love this list, all must see blogs. Thanks :)

  50. SitePunk says:

    Awesome list, thanks! You can find my young design blog at http://www.sitepunk.com :)

  51. Very good written story. It will be beneficial to anybody who utilizes it, as well as myself. Keep doing what you are doing – can’r wait to read more posts.

  52. SHEITA LILIANA RODRIGUEZ says:

    http://bluefaqs.com . I like so much your work, professional and creative

  53. nice n superb collection

  54. Awesome Collection Bro. All sites are very very inspirational and alot to learn from these sites. :)

  55. The Rampant says:

    This is a fantastic collection. I have several of these sites bookmarked already, but I’ll be adding several more tonight.

  56. Ashley says:

    Wow – only just found this. Probably way too many great sites already in the list but you could post your work onto http://www.viewcreatives.com
    This is a UK creative recruitment site so your work gets in front of people willing to pay for what they like. I’ve picked up some nice freelance graphic design work through it. Good luck everyone.

  57. Jessica says:

    Great inspiration and well put together. Thank you for sharing this. My blog (http://museumexhibition.wordpress.com) is a really baby compared – nevertheless i enjoy it ;) Jess x

  58. now i have loads of graphic resources for my work. great list here. thanks

  59. Hey
    I wasent looking for that but still a great post

    how did you guys found this information??thank you for your article I saw it on Google And I bookmarked it . I’ll share. Please send me updates

    thank you and have a nice day

  60. Relationship is the key to business, if you have a close relationship with your designer then all the better. Not to say that you need to go around for meals with the family; but having a close working relationship will only add value to your finished product.

  61. Thanks for sharing this list, this has been for the time I have had, a great read. Thanks for sharing. These will will bring some great ideas to my work from now on.

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  65. Annabel says:

    Great list ! Thank you :-)

    Here’s another great one to try – http://the-design-ark.com

  66. Amandaf says:

    These are going to keep me happy for ages with all the ideas and great designs.

  67. Josh says:

    massive list of some great blogs, thanks for sharing…

  68. Taylor Ling says:

    Great list of design website! Thanks a lot!

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