100 Must Read Design Blogs

by Joshua Johnson on 8th July 2010 with 110 Comments

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.

100 Design Blogs

52 Weeks of UX

A

Abduzeedo

ActiveTuts

Adobe TV

AETuts

A List Apart

Arbent

Astheria

A Way Back

B

Blue Faqs

Brand New

C

Carsonified

CGTuts

Colorburned

Colour Lovers

Creative Fan

D

David Walsh

Design Chat

The Design Cubicle

Design Informer

Designing the News

Design Instruct

Design Mag

DesignMess

Design Reviver

Design Woop

DoctypeTV

DzinePress

E

Elated

Entropia

F

Finch

Freelance Switch

G

Graphic Design Blender

I

iLoveColors

ImpressiveWebs

Information Architects

Insic Designs

Inspiration Feed

Inspired Mag

J

Janko at Warp Speed

L

Layers Magazine

Line 25

Little Box of Ideas

Logo Design Love

M

Media Loot

MyInkBlog

N

NetTuts

O

One Extra Pixel

Outlaw Web Design

P

Pelfusion

Photography Served

Posh CSS

Pro Blog Design

PSDTuts

PSD Vault

Pulchry

PVM Garage

R

ReEncoded

Richworks

The Roxor

S

Share Brain

Sick Designer

Six Revisions

SmashingApps

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Share

Sohtanaka

Splashnology

SpoonGraphics

Spyre Studios

T

Think Design Blog

Thomas Maier

Tripwire Magazine

TutToaster

Tutorialzine

TutWow

Typesett

Typography Served

U

Underworld Magazines

Usable Efficiency

Usability Post

UX Booth

UX Mag

V

Vandelay Design

Vectips

VectorTuts

Vooz

W

W3Avenue

The Web Design Blog

Web Designer Depot

Web Design Dev

Web Design Ledger

Web Designer Notebook

Webitect

We Function

Y

You The Designer

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.

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!

Comments & Discussion

110 Comments

http://www.bluefaqs.com Shawn Ramsey

Thanks for the list and thanks for including Bluefaqs in it! Time to fill up my RSS feed.
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http://inspirationfeed.com inspirationfeed

Thank you for including us!
I retweeted this article ;)
http://www.onextrapixel.com Onextrapixel

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

Cheers!
http://www.designhamper.com designhamper

Great collection friend. Mindblowing & make busy all blogger & designer.
http://www.pulchry.com/pulchryzine Creators of Pulchryzine

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 :)
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http://graphicdesignblender.com Preston D Lee

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.
http://www.gonzoblog.nl Gonzo the Great

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 ..
Allie

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.
http://eugen.it Eugen

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!
http://spyrestudios.com/ Jon Phillips

Hey, thanks a lot for mentioning SpyreStudios, much appreciated :)
http://www.impressivewebs.com Louis

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

Nice List! I would suggest the followings as well~

http://www.webappers.com
http://thedesigninspiration.com
http://www.photoshoplady.com
http://www.smashingshare.com Waheed Akhtar

Thanks for mentioning SmashingShare, really appreciate it.
http://insicdesigns.com insic

Thanks for including insicdesigns in this prestigious list.
http://www.fredrikstai.com Fredrik Stai

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

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

http://www.webdesignerwall.com

Thanks :-)
http://awayback.com Amrinder

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.
http://www.dynamicwp.net Eko Setiawan

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

btw how about Build Internet : http://buildinternet.com/ ?
http://blog.karolzielinski.com Karol Zielinski

Good list, but where is http://en.tspot.pl ?
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http://vandelaydesign.com/ Steven Snell

Thanks for including Vandelay Design, it is an honor.
http://www.danielvazquez.net Daniel

I recommend mine, why not?.
http://www.danielvazquez.net Daniel

http://the-pool.tumblr.com/
http://52weeksofux.com Joshua Brewer

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.
http://uxmag.com Jonathan Anderson

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)
–
http://www.TamaroDesign.com ptamaro

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….

;-)
http://www.TamaroDesign.com ptamaro

Here’s another one of my favorites… http://creativebite.net
http://arbent.net/blog/ Angie Bowen

Thanks so much for including Arbent. I found a few new blog to follow myself :)
http://blog.alexkluge.de Alex

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

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
Safi

Great list but u missed Noupe http://www.noupe.com/ and CSS Tricks
http://css-tricks.com/
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http://www.103graphics.com elmalak

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
http://www.capdigisoft.com CAP Digisoft Solutions

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).
http://www.freelancemachine.com Alex Cooper

Hey now that is a great list!.. Thanks
jj

Great… as if I wasn’t overloaded already… (;_;)
http://ilovecolors.com.ar Elio

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!
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http://www.debaaj.com/vb/f113 اخبار الفنانين

Designs are very impressive

Thank you very much
http://www.allesfreizeit.de joey

great site, travel on the internet through which I ended up here, so I let love greetings there. joey
http://www.acceleratedfreelance.com/ Spokane Website Design

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.
http://smokingdesigners.com evan

You should consider including http://smokingdesigners.com :)
http://www.creativepool.co.uk Andy

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

http://blogs.creativepool.co.uk/
http://www.martymccolgan.com Logo Design Derry

great resource looking forward to reading through these
Dave Walker

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

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

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

David
http://www.thetutorialandreview.com Lee Fuller

Some amazing sites here… And just because we’re talking design blogs, click my name, check out some of the tutorials…
http://www.squidfruit.com/ Squidfruit

My god this post must have taken ages! not sure how you get those sceen shots reduced and look hi resolution? Good work
http://www.apiestudio.co.cc Apie Studio

What great list of sites, i thought you will forget PSD Vault. Kudos bro.
http://www.hotelieronline.com Magdy Elid

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!
http://www.ziggiziggi.com James The Designer

Nice list of sites!It shows what good design can achieve
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http://www.webpixelkonsum.de Ralph

This list is a great and beautiful idea list for me. There a many nice minimalistic websites. I like webdesign with a clear structur.
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http://www.hebegubek.com hebegubele

Thank you for the shares in this blog. I will visit it again.
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http://www.madesignstudios.com Jessica Winter

Great list. Here’s mine: http://museumexhibition.wordpress.com
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http://bestplaceon.net/ David

i love this list, all must see blogs. Thanks :)
http://www.sitepunk.com SitePunk

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

http://bluefaqs.com . I like so much your work, professional and creative
http://www.webdesignexpertz.com web design expertz

nice n superb collection
http://www.logiixx.com/portfolio Small Business Logo Design

Awesome Collection Bro. All sites are very very inspirational and alot to learn from these sites. :)
http://www.therampant.com The Rampant

This is a fantastic collection. I have several of these sites bookmarked already, but I’ll be adding several more tonight.
http://www.viewcreatives.com Ashley

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.
http://museumexhibition.wordpress.com Jessica

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
http://forum.graphicdesignblog.org Graphic Design Forum

now i have loads of graphic resources for my work. great list here. thanks
http://www.ebook-review.org/author/admin/ Efrain Engstrom

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
http://www.rongdhonugraphics.com rongdhonugraphics

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.
http://www.bella-web.co.uk/ Graphic Communication Newcastle

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.
Peter

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They have change bank information from shopping cart.

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http://www.mediaweekjobs.co.uk/ Kerry

The following site does not have a blog as such but it posts the latest news and editorial content within Media. You can visit them here http://www.mediaweekjobs.co.uk/ and you can then click through to the main site.
http://www.exercicesdemusculation.com/abdominaux abdominaux

It seems like your web-site doesn’t load the right way using a LG Optimus T. Are other visitors getting the identical trouble ?
Annabel

Great list ! Thank you :-)

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

These are going to keep me happy for ages with all the ideas and great designs.
http://www.soliddesignconsultancy.com Josh

massive list of some great blogs, thanks for sharing…
http://Techietalkz.com Taylor Ling

Great list of design website! Thanks a lot!
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OHHH! EXCELLENT !

I definitely going to bookmark this page, What a grate list. Thanks a lot.
http://techupdatenews24.com Tech Update News24

Hi Joshua Johnson! This is really awesome which you shown us. We hope you will publish more regularly.
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Dainis Graveris

It pains not to see 1stWebDesigner on this list from even 100 blogs, heh, I guess our more than 1000 articles aren’t enough to get here! :)

But I wanted to still say thank you for great article and big time you spent there!
Dinesh Sanjeewa

great list
http://www.donsabelo.com frank

Impact Color Print is a business leader in handling any type of print projects for marketing needs. Our products are brochures, catalogs, club flyers , postcards, business cards, banners, plastic cards, door hangers etc. Anything you imagine we print! All products are printed on Eco-friendly vegetable based soy inks. Affordability, high quality and fast turnarounds are our area of focus.
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This is an awesome site where we can get awesome all materials. Thank you admin.
Dave

Hey guys..great and comprehensive list!! Lots and lots of nice stuff to go through.
One addition I recently found, a sorta architecture, photography and design blogs…bit a mix but quite simple and cool images..

http://hovercraftdoggy.wordpress.com/
http://offlajn.com Offlajn

I have checked out almost all of them :)
http://rudraksh-gems.com Navratan

Great post!! very informative.
Thank you very much for such a lovely and informative post.
http://www.designova.net Designova

The perfect list of awesome stuffs on web :) cheers
http://www.frinleypaul.com Paul

Really useful design blog links! Thanks again for posting :)
Tony

Thanks a lot for sharing the list of the 100 design blogs that must be read. I know that all of the owners are really working so hard to be included. Congrats.learn illustrator
http://www.orangecrushdesign.co.uk Stephen Cree

This is a great list. I’ve bookmarked this page for future reference. Many thanks…
http://www.decorbox.bg Daniel

Thanks for this comprehensive list. Some of them we read daily but for some we havent even heard before so another sources of inspiration are always walcome.
You can check our blog as well – http://www.decorbox.bg/blog/en
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http://www.ascendtraining.com/ Taylor

So many great design blogs that I have to checkout on this list. And here I thought I knew every big design blog.
http://zoomintoweb.com/ deep som

It was dark when I woke. This is a ray of sunshine.
http://www.kredit-darlehen.ch Kredit

Thanks. Really useful design blog links.