So i was looking for some nice resources and found some really cool online art and design magazines that provide some very interesting reading while I wasn’t working,
This post isn’t based around web design inperticular and explores other areas of art and design, there are a lot of interesting ideas that can be found once you start looking.
some of them have a few links to other new and exciting websites and blogs, The work found on these sites are very artistic and inspirational and ill certainly be looking further in to some of these, hope you all find it as interesting as I did.
- Computer Arts - Awesome online tutorials as well as an inspirational gallery of work by readers.
- Urban Collective - creative images and design sites worth a look
- Beast the bible of inspiration - Design, typography, art, illustration, photography, mind & matter and all kinds of creative exhausts, published in PDF format but sadly no longer in publication.
- Vitamin - Excellent source of reading just choose which topic you want, some of the categories are CSS, Design, Web Apps
- Booooooom - Cool articles about art, design, music etc also check out there friends list for more cool work.
- Communication Arts - Showcasing some of the best advertising graphic design, check out some of the links on the features dropdown.
- Smashing magazine - Huge amounts of web design information and inspiration.
- CSS Globe - A site dedicated to web standards, and fresh articles contributed by members.
- .net - Tutorials and interviews with professionals for developers and designers.
- Design is kinky - Showcasing some of the most inspiring art and design portfolios.
- Design melt down - Excellent galleries of websites as well as articles covering problems in web design.
- Digital web magazine - Educational articles about aspects of web design such as css, business, and social networking.
- Eye magazine - Intriguing articles about graphic design, check out some of there issues lots of reading and not alot of pictures though jsut click on issues.
- Format - Some very nice work and articles can be found on this site that will defiantly inspire.
- Graphis - Underconstruction but will provide a good source of photographic inspiration i expect.
- Net diver - Design and digital culture some exciting pieces of work.
- Sitepoint - Interesting industry news.
- Surf Station - Interesting art and design news.
- The dezine - Galleries of inspirational work.
- Think Faest! - A parculiar blog with excellent, work check out the categories and blog roll sections.
- My computerlove - More interesting articles to get you thinking.
- Design Diary - art and digital design lounge, check out the links signal part lots of nice sites to be seen.
Reader Recommendations
updated: 11 Aug 2008
- Typesites - Weekly showcases of websites with interesting typography
- I love typography - A vast resource of every thing to do with typography
- Free Design Magazine - created to inform designers about the latest news about design, and also free resources
- Destructed - Art and design PDF magzine
- A list Apart - Explores the design, development, and meaning of web content.
- Graphic Competitions - Graphic design competitions.
Any one knows of any other magazine sites that provide a good source of interesting reading and imagery.
18 Comments
Nice list, I knew of most of these, now it’s time to dig through the ones I haven’t heard of.
Wow, I didn’t know most of these, I have days worth of links to go through now!
Typesites is another good one as is I Love Typography.
Very nice, there are few new sites for me here
@ Andrew - Glad theres some youve not heard of.
@ Angie - Thats good i hope some can provide soom good inspiration and reading material.
@ Peter - Thanks for more resources
@ Janko - Glad to help
There is another Magazine that should be on the list here, which is quite nice to look at:
http://www.freedesignmagazine.com
Keep it up…
I think you forgot graphic competitions,
http://www.graphiccompetitions.com
Great list. Let me know if you would like to include:
http://www.texasdesign.com
Thanks,
Dan
Great collection, loving your blog man, keep it up!
@ Liam - Thanks dude, ive been following your blog, good stuff on there im gunna have to make some brushes, your are pretty awesome.
Nice list. Maybe you’d like to include destructed art and design mag. comes up quarterly as .pdf
http://www.destructed.info
Alistapart.com? wth..?
@ Philipp - Seems like a nice magazine ill add it on, thanks
@ Dude - i didnt want to go for the overly obvious but ill add it to the reader reccomendation list, thanks for the comment
Love the list - always looking for more - thanks!
I really like your post… Keep up the great work!
Ovi Dogar
AbsoluteCovers.com
Интересно и по сути.
nice very nice thank you very much
Thanks you very much. Nice list for me