The List of Lists

Designers of all kinds love three things – lists, freebies and lists of freebies. This post is intended to be  a sampling of the best and the up-to-date, a collection of some of the vast number of design lists out there. It will be continuously updated, so be sure to check in every few days for some more quality additions!

Community/Social Networking

DailyBlogTips – 50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

iDesignStudios – 60+ Essential Feeds for Freelance Web Designers

ImJustCreative – 30+ Ultimate UK Designers and Geeks on Twitter (Part 1)

ImJustCreative – 30+ Ultimate UK Designers and Geeks on Twitter (Part 2)

MyInkyBlog – 10 Cool Tweeple in the Design Community

Tutorial9 – 9 Design Blogs to Follow in 2009

Freebies, Brushes & Vectors

10Steps.SG – 40 High Quality PSD Downloads

AllGraphicDesign.com – Biggest List of Photoshop Freebie Sites

BestDesignOptions.com – 18 Very Useful PSD Templates from deviantArt

CatsWhoCode – 50 Sites to Find Free Stock Images

CSSDynamite – 50 Fantastic Vectors for Web Design

DezignUs – 50 Stunning Free Grunge Vectors

DZineBlog – 45 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

SmashingMagazine – 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes

SmashingMagazine – 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Speckyboy – 36 Must Have Backgrounds & Pattern Resources for All Designers

VectorDiary – 35 Most Useful FREE Vectors to Kick Start 2009

Fonts & Typography

Hongkiat – 70 Wonderful 3D Typography That Truly Inspires

Six Revisions – 20 Websites with Beautiful Typography

Six Revisions – 45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends

Smashing Magazine – 50 Useful Design Tools for Beautiful Web Typography

Smashing Magazine – 40+ Excellent Free Fonts for Professional Design

Speckyboy – 21 Typography & Font Web Apps You Can’t Live Without

Inspiration & Motivation

1stWebDesigner – 46 Sites to Get Inspired and Familiar With Hand Drawing Style

Abduzeedo – 50 Amazing Digital Painting Potraits

CreatticaDaily – 75 Stunning HDR Images

DesignCubicle – 50 Brilliant Design Articles of 2008 in 23 Categories

DesignCubicle – 50+ Totall Rad Ads and Crafty Promos

DZineBlog – 54 Kick-Ass Creative Logos

EliteByDesign – 100 Design Articles to Keep You Motivated (Part 4)

GraphicFetish – 36 Inspiring Corporate Identity Designs

PsdTuts – 40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

PsdTuts – 40 Mind-Blowing Digital Space Paintings

SmashingApps – 33 Exceptional Logo Re-Branding in 2008

SmashingApps – 27 Best Places You Should Visit to Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration

SpoonfedDesign – 50 Impressive Portfolio Designs

VandelayDesign – 25 Outstanding Magazine Style Website Designs

VandelayDesign – 25 Websites with Lighting Effects

YouTheDesigner – 18 Beautiful Brochure Design Samples

Logo Design

JustCreativeDesign – The Ultimate List of the Top Best Logo Design Resources

Tannersite – 45 Rules for Creating a Great Logo Design

SixRevisions – 15 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials Using Illustrator

WebbyArts – 280+ Best of Best Inspirational Logos

Misc. Resources

1stWebDesigner – 57+ Free Image Gallery, Slideshow And Lightbox Solutions

AllFreelance – 26 Things to Do When Business is Slow

ColorBurned – 127 RSS Feeds that All Designers Should Subscribe To

DigitalLabz – 70+ Cheat Sheet Resources for Web Designers

EstheticCore – Everything a Designer Needs

FreelanceFolder – 27 Indispensable Resources for Graphic Designers

InstantShift – 30 Brilliant Web-based Photo Editors

InTheWoods – 15 Greatest Resources for Designers and Developers

Noupe – 15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps for Freelance Web Designers

PositiveSpace – 30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download

SmashingApps – 31 Most Colorful Collection of High Quality Free Texture Packs

SmashingApps – 45 Must-See Incredible Resources

SmashingMagazine – 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets

Speckyboy – Top 84 Photoshop Resource Sites

Speckyboy – 70+ Adobe Fireworks Resources

SteffanAntonas – 100+ Killer WordPress Resources

WebDesignerDepot – 14 Essential Magazines for Graphic Designers

YouTheDesigner – 30 Delightful Graphic Design Books

Tutorials

10Steps.SG – 33 Digital Painting Tutorials

BestPhotoshopTutorials – 70+ Photoshop Tutorials to Improve Your Skills as a Web Designer

Noupe – 60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, etc

Noupe – 80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, etc

PsdTuts – 30 Super-Juicy Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

SmashingMagazine – 53 CSS Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

SmashingMagazine – Best Of Illustrator Tutorials

SmashingMagazine – Best Of Photoshop Tutorials

SpeckyBoy – 33 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Amazing Posters & Ads

VandelayDesign – 11 Tutorials for Business Card Design

VectorTuts – 20 Challenging Illustrator Tutorials on DeviantArt

WebDesignerLedger – 28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects

Web Design

DesignM.ag – 25 jQuery Tutorials for Improved Navigation Menus

DevSnippets – CSS Code Snippets: 15 Wicked Tricks

DWSMG – 20 Ultimate CSS Tutorials

DZineBlog – 27 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials

InstantShift – 26 Ultimate Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

InstantShift – 30 Excellent CSS Based Navigation and Buttons Tutorial

JasonBartholme – 101 CSS Resources to Add to your Toolbelt of Awesomeness

Noupe – 5 Popular CSS Frameworks + Tutorials

Noupe – 30+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps for Web Design

Noupe – Website Backgrounds: 70+ Impressive Trends, How-To’s & Practices

SixRevisions – 40 Useful Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials

SixRevisions – 30 Useful Open Source Apps for Web Designers

SpeckyBoy – 30 Amazingly Creative Social Bookmarking Icon Sets

WordPress/Blogging

Noupe – The Power of WordPress & jQuery: 25+ Useful Plugins & Tutorials

SpeckyBoy – 30 Free, Amazing and Versatile WordPress 2.7 Themes

WPZoom – 50+ Free WordPress Themes for Personal Blogs of High Quality

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