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137 spot-on reader comments to “Top 50+ graphic design blogs”

1. Tara, on November 12th, 2007 said:

   Hi David, Great idea to list all of these in one place, there a lot I visit but some new ones too which is great and will keep me ocupied for hours. Thanks for the inclusion too.

2. Leslie Tane, on November 12th, 2007 said:

   Thanks for the link, David!!! Is it too much of a kiss up to say that I’m always inspired by your blog? You put so much time and thought into what people might want to read, and you always respond to comments.

   You rule!

3. cat, on November 12th, 2007 said:

   Hi David,

   Nice list of blogs (and thanks for including DWB)

   “I’m certain that there are many more excellent graphic design blogs online, and if you’re familiar with any, please do let me know. ”

   A couple of my favourites:

   Speak Up › Design Dialog

   Anything by Von Glitschka
   Art Backwash
   Illustration Class
   The Illustrative Designer

   Stefan G. Bucher’s DAILY MONSTER

   I wish I had more time to share as there are a ton of great design blogs out there. Andy Budd, Andy Rutledge, Creative Bits …

   Checking … I have over 400 blogs listed at DWB in the design category. And a ton in my sidebar.

   Enjoy :-)

4. Jennifer, on November 12th, 2007 said:

   Hi David,

   Thanks a million for the link, much appreciated.

5. Toon, on November 12th, 2007 said:

   Great list David, only other one I can think of I don’t think I spotted was http://disenistica.blogspot.com/ always some interesting work there

6. bmunch, on November 12th, 2007 said:

   I like how you highlight all the headers of these blogs. They are all cool. Wonder if they design it themselves.
   These guys blog about graphic design and if the headers don’t look nice, it doesn’t feels right..

7. David Airey, on November 12th, 2007 said:
   Hi Tara,

   It’s something I’d been meaning to do for a while now, and of course I’d have to give Graphic Design Blog a mention! ;)

   Leslie,

   Not too much of a kiss-up, no no. We’re all partial to a little flattery now and again. ;)

   Cat,

   That’s fantastic, and thanks for taking the time. You think that by mentioning DWB here, that I’d have the intelligence to spend some time in your sidebar. But oh no. That’d be too easy.

   Jennifer,

   You’re very welcome.

   Toon,

   Glad you liked the list, and cheers for dropping in again.

   bmunch,

   Funny you mention the headers. When I was compiling this collection I thought to myself how a header comparison would make an interesting article. Quite a few go for the black and white approach, with very minimal colour.

8. Pedro Serrão, on November 12th, 2007 said:

   Hello David!
   Thanks for the link, and the inclusion in this great 50 blog references.
   Congratulations on your site also! :)

9. Brad K., on November 12th, 2007 said:

   It looks like you got the links and banners swapped for The Serif, for SonSpring and Swiss Legacy.

   I am new here - what do the ‘PR 8′ and ‘PR 3′ relate? It looks a bit like a scale of intensity of focus on design theory (PR 8) to diversity of topics within the design business and design community (PR 3).

10. Romain, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    Good listing.

    Possible to add :

    http://www.notcot.org
    http://www.cpluv.com
    http://www.fubiz.net
    http://www.elmanco.com
    ..

    Thanks.

11. David Airey, on November 12th, 2007 said:
    No worries, Pedro,

    You have a great blog worthy of recognition!

    Brad,

    Great of you to point that out. Not too sure how I messed that up, but it’s sorted now. Cheers buddy.

    Romain,

    Thanks very much for your suggestions.

12. David Airey, on November 12th, 2007 said:
    Oh, and Brad, I’ll update the post now to explain the PR (Google’s Page Rank values).
13. SwissLegacy, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    Many thanks!

14. Richard, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    How do they work out that rating? Does swearing work against you?

15. David Airey, on November 12th, 2007 said:
    Xavier,

    You’re very welcome. Thanks for hosting your excellent blog.

    Richard,

    Swearing does work against you. As does blogging in your dressing gown (which is why my PR isn’t higher).

    In reality though, Google work it out by the number of links that are pointing towards your site, amongst some other things which I don’t know too much about. Check the Wikipedia entry for more info.

16. Dave, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    Great list. I’ll have to go through some of the ones that aren’t all that familiar to me. I’d push my blog, doesyourbusiness.com, but it’s more about branding and design as opposed to strictly graphic design. I enjoy reading your posts…keep it up!

17. Tara Cultis, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    http://www.ntmy.org
    http://www.designiskinky.net

18. Randa Clay, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    Great list David - thanks for including my site. I’m always interested in frequenting other blogs in our niche, so it’s nice to have this list all in one place!

19. Grace Smith, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    David excellent list! Any list with Veerle’s blog is worth a look. It is always great to discover a few sites/blogs i haven’t seen or heard of before.

20. Harris, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    I don’t really blog about design, but I was wondering why my pagerank would go from 2 to 1. My traffic went from 20 a day to over 1000 a day, and I added plenty of new content, and my pagerank went to 1. I don’t have any ads and only a few external links. I also increased my backlinks.

21. Riccardo Giuntoli, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    Hi there, only a three more to include in your long list:

    PAGERANK 7:

    http://orderedlist.com/
    http://www.bartelme.at/

    PAGERANK 6:

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ [simple but great tipography i think]

    Best Regards, Riccardo Giuntoli.

22. Mike Rohde, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    David, I like your list of 50 designer websites and your work — good stuff! :-)

    I’m a designer and art director who has been in the field 17+ years and have been blogging since 2003.

    On my Rohdesign bog, I write about the logo, web, print and icon design I do. I especially enjoy sharing the creative process I follow for each project — which appears similar to how you write posts for each of your logo design projects:

    http://www.rohdesign.com/

    I’m a bit old school in that I start projects with pencil sketch concepts on paper, then move to the Mac for B&W and color work to complete the final design. I also like to share observations from other areas which interest me, like technology, mobile devices and sketching, to keep the blog well rounded.

    Cheers and thanks for the inspiration!

23. David Airey, on November 12th, 2007 said:
    Dave,

    I checked your blog out, and like those others that you link to in your sidebar. Some excellent choices there, and a few of my favourites too. Glad there’s something you enjoy on my site. I appreciate you saying so.

    Tara C,

    Thanks for those recommendations. I’ll take a look.

    Randa,

    You’re very welcome. Your blog is one I’ve been reading for quite some time now. One of my first ever subscriptions.

    Thanks Grace!

    Glad you like.

    Harris,

    No idea why your PR would go down like that. PR is a touchy subject with some bloggers right now, with the whole paid link debate going on. I’m very far from being ‘in the know’.

    Riccardo,

    Thanks for those mentions, which I’ll certainly visit.

    Mike,

    Good of you to stop by, and thanks for the run-down on your own blog.

    I don’t believe that your method of sketching before using a computer is old school. In fact, I think it should be compulsory for design projects. Sketching is the fastest way to churn out ideas, and using a computer can be very restricting.

    I’ll be having a read through some of your articles, and look forward to viewing your sketches. :D

24. Alistair Hall, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    Hey there David, thanks for the mention. Mighty kind of you. Looking forward to joining the big kids at PRs 5 and 4 someday…

    Hugs and kisses from We Made This

25. Mike Rohde, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    David, I would agree that sketching ought to be an integral part of any design project, and that it is freeing and effective for getting good concepts down quickly on paper.

    I find it invaluable for my design practice and always encourage other designers to get good sketchbooks and pencils, so they can make sketching an integral part of their own design processes.

    I too feel going to the computer before sketching ideas very restricting. When I sketch my hand and mind are free to explore any idea whatsoever. Once I step into the digital space, everything goes a bit more rigid, I start thinking too specifically about fonts and other technical details.

    I don’t know what percentage of designers use sketching in their process vs. going right to the computer, but I sense that those designers who sketch first are becoming fewer and farther between. I know that’s quite anecdotal, so I would love to see Speak Up or Design Observer poll designers on whether they sketch before they go digital.

    As for samples of design work with sketches, here are some to check out:

    ProBlogger:
    http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/002351.html

    Red66:
    http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/002158.html

    BOWN
    http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/002143.html

    CGI Interactive
    http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/002070.html

    Liquid Fitness
    http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/000896.html

    Thanks again David!

26. Aaron :: miLienzo.com, on November 12th, 2007 said:

    A great list David, many thanks for listing me and many thanks for taking the time to compile this list. Added to my bookmarks.

27. inspirationbit, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    huh, thanks for the double surprise, David: for listing my blog here and for letting me know that my site’s page rank is 5. Last time I checked it (last month or so) it was 4.

    There many design blogs on your list that I wasn’t familiar with. Bookmarking this post to check those sites. Thanks for putting it together!

28. Scottsdale Web Design, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    Very cool list. Going to spend way too much time checking this out.

29. Darius A Monsef IV, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    Great list David… But I would have been great to have http://www.COLOURlovers.com/blog/ included ;)

    Cheers,
    -D

30. Brian Purkiss, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    You should include the Web Designer Wall.
    It’s a great design blog!

    Thanks for the list!
    I’m gonna check into those!

31. David Airey, on November 13th, 2007 said:
    You’re very welcome, Alistair.

    I enjoy your blog a lot, so keep doing what you’re doing.

    Mike,

    It’d certainly be of interest if one of the bigger design blogs would conduct a poll, like you mention. Good of you to link through to your identity projects, and I thought I’d seen your site before! I checked out the ProBlogger logo when it was first released on Darren’s blog.

    I love the way you present your ideas. Great work.

    Aaron, Vivien,

    Adding your own blogs was my pleasure. ;)

    SWB,

    Glad you like.

    Darius,

    Just took a look at COLOURlovers. Great blog! I’ll have to add that.

    Brian,

    Thanks for the suggestion, although I was trying to restrict the list to graphic design blogs, rather than web design. There’s some overlap, which is expected, but I notice ‘Web Designer Wall’ is running a poll about logo design. I guess you’re right, that it deserves a mention.

    Cheers for that buddy. I’d not actually seen that one before (or if I did I couldn’t remember).

32. Mihaela Lica, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    A very good list, although the ranking according to Google PR bothers me a bit - I cannot really explain why - it’s maybe just because Google PR is not a quality warranty.
    I am familiar with most of these blogs, but of course I have a favorite. Can you guess which one? ;)

33. eshark, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    Wah!.. Some I already knew, but many are new. Will take me hours browsing all of it..
    Thanks David for sharing! Lucky you have only 50.. imagine if you’ve listed 100.. Ha! Ha!

34. David Airey, on November 13th, 2007 said:
    Mig,

    You’re absolutely right about the Google PR. Thing is, I’d thought about using Technorati’s ranking to sort out the list, but that changes on an almost daily basis, and I don’t know how to create an algorithm for such lists.

    I know it’s a touchy subject with the penalties being dished out of late, so I’ve added a little note at the top of the post, telling people not to read too much into the ‘ranking’.

    eshark,

    You’re very welcome, and this list could easily have run into the 100 mark - you can only have so much scrolling for one post though. ;)

35. LaurenMarie - Creative Curio, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    Ah! Yay! I can finally get to this page! That was so weird yesterday that something on this post kept shutting down my browser (well, it is lousy IE 6 after all… go figure it would have issues!).

    Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for the mention, David! I was interested to see the PR of the blogs I read, too. What a great idea to list all these blogs for us! Not to mention I bet it got the attention of some of the authors ;) A List Apart doesn’t count as a blog? I guess it’s more of an emagazine. I bet this list could take off like the W list (don’t know if you saw that one with all the Successful and Outstanding Women Bloggers. I still get notices about people spreading that list around!)

    I have at least heard of most of these you’ve listed and the one I’m definitely going to check out is Graphic Define. Do they cover freelancers too? The business side of design seems to be the thing that people are most hesitant to give advice about; it’s nice to see a blog dedicated to that specific aspect. Thanks again for sharing and for the link, David!!

36. Mike Rohde, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    LaurenMarie, GraphicDefine is an excellent resource run by Dan Schutzsmith. He covers the gamut — business, freelancing, inspiration, and more. I also get good links from Dan’s del.icio.us links from GD, that guy is always out finding the coolest stuff. Dan is a great guy to boot! :-)

37. Karly, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    Wow, the timing of this entry couldn’t be any better for me. I recently launched my own graphic design blog and have been searching through other designer’s blogs for inspiration. You’ve made it very easy for me to figure out where to look first. Thanks!

38. David Airey, on November 13th, 2007 said:
    Lauren,

    For some reason, IE6 couldn’t handle the links in the blog images above, so I had to go through the post, removing those links, making it simply the text alone that you can click. It wasn’t just your browser that crashed when viewing my site, so I really appreciated you letting me know. Quite a lot of visitors are using that version of Internet Explorer.

    As Mike said, Dan at Graphic Define is a great guy indeed, and actually put some business my way. Remember the Miskeeto logo I designed? Dan directed his friend, Robert, to me, and we took it from there.

    Karly,

    Glad to provide you with some inspiration, and best wishes for your new blog. Here’s a tip, instead of showing the text ‘No comments’ when one of your blog posts hasn’t yet received a note, how about changing it to ‘Leave your thoughts’ or ‘What’s your opinion?’. I think it’s more positive.

    Bye for now.

39. Kate Andrews, on November 13th, 2007 said:

    Thanks David! Fab list

40. Morey, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Amazing list (although you’re missing Cpluv and Fubiz). Thanks a lot for sharing.

41. jate, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    http://www.resetblog.com :)

42. darryl ohrt, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Hey David -

    Cool list. Definitely add Notcot and Core77 - and how about UnderConsideration/Quipsologies? A few good ones.

    More importantly, how about some love for Brand Flakes for Breakfast???
    http://www.brandflakesforbreakfast.com

43. LaurenMarie - Creative Curio, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Hi Mike, I saw you are on the writing staff over there too! I looked through a couple of articles and that’s all I needed. I’m subscribed now :) I can identify with so many of the things the authors say!

    David, I’m glad you figured out what was causing the problem. And I meant to say earlier that I appreciate you taking the time to do this! All those screen captures and linking must’ve taken forever!!

44. syed, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Nice list.

45. johno, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Great list, David. Thanks for mentioning iLT. There are quite a number that I’ve never heard of, so I’m off to spend a little time perusing those.

    Also like the idea of a header image article. I love psdtuts.com too. One of my new favourite sites. Well-designed and very high quality tutorials.

46. ses5909, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Awesome list David. There is one that I read that I really like:

    http://ilovetypography.com/

    it’s PR 6 but I think it’s pretty clever!

47. ses5909, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Sorry for the 2nd comment, I JUST read the comment above mine and I didn’t see any mention of it… I must be going blind in my old age!

48. David Airey, on November 14th, 2007 said:
    Thanks Morey,

    I’ve already added cpluv. Thanks for the suggestions.

    Jate,

    Sadly, you’ll now need a Google PageRank of 5 for a guaranteed inclusion, and yours is 4. Cheers though.

    Darryl,

    Thanks for those. I’ve added NOTCOT and Core77 to the list, as well as UnderConsideration’s Quipsologies. Give me a while and you should see your own blog up here.

    Lauren,

    Yeah, it did take a while to capture these screenshots, but it makes it much more interesting than a simple text list in my opinion.

    I’m a big fan of images in blog posts. ;)

    Johno,

    You’re very welcome. Couldn’t have compiled the list without thinking of iLT. I took a look at PSDtuts.com, but oddly there were no posts on show. Perhaps they’re having problems?

    Sara,

    Don’t worry about it. ;)

49. Glenn, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Thanks for the link David! It’s nice to be listed amongst so many amazing sites.

    Glenn
    FFF Team

50. David, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Wow! - great list, just blogged stumbled it - I think my feed subscriber list is going to take a little jump shortly :)

    Thanks for posting

    David

51. grafic7, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    What a list!
    Very very very……………….Exhaustive!!!
    So much to learn from them all. Good compilation David. I just thought if somebody could come up with such a list. And yes! it has arrived just at the right moment.
    grafic7

52. Dave, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Hi David,
    Thanks so much for adding my blog on rare design books + Type specimens ( http://grainedit.com ) to your list. I’m really excited! we’ve only been up a short time, How did you find us?

    Take care and thanks again!
    Dave
    grain edit

53. Daniel Schutzsmith, on November 14th, 2007 said:

    Did someone say I was a great guy?! :) I won’t argue! Seriously though, thank you so much David for including Graphic Define on here. I know the industry has been wondering what has been going on over there since the last issue that was posted in August. Truth is that I am a “one-man-show” so I don’t always have the time to chase down articles, find photography, update the site, etc….but also I have been working on the next iteration of the site, including some handy dandy web apps that I think every designer is going to say “Finally!” to.

    Great list here, good to see some new faces in the online design community as well as some old favorites!

54. Richard Filing, on November 15th, 2007 said:

    Great list - really appreciated - gentle suggestion for a OPML next time please - makes it much easier for visitors to gather the feeds.

55. LaurenMarie - Creative Curio, on November 15th, 2007 said:

    Johno, that PSDtuts website is great! I like how clean and relatively ad-free it is. Is that author Collis, Collis Ta’eed? Of Freelance Switch and formerly of NxE? Ah! Freelance Switch! There’s another one for the list, perhaps, David?

56. FAIRspot, on November 15th, 2007 said:

    Great resource! We have most of these listed on our site… another art blog worth mentioning- FAIRspot.com (www.fairspot.com). Have a look and let me know what you think! Cheers.

57. Charity, on November 15th, 2007 said:

    I love lists like this. Well done David. :) Several of these are regular reads for me, but a great many I had not heard of (or forgot about)! I’m flattered and honored to be included as well. Hard to believe I made it on the same page as blogs like Smashing Magazine, Subtraction and Design View (three of my faves).

    @Lauren - PSDtuts is really cool I agree. I just recently found it. There was a tutorial on creating a Mac style background image. Gee whaddaya know right? ;)

58. Andrew, on November 15th, 2007 said:

    Great list. This is easier then searching with google. Who knows what you get that way.

59. David Airey, on November 15th, 2007 said:
    Glenn,

    A pleasure adding you. No worries.

    David,

    My own feed subscriptions took a jump too. Before researching this list I wasn’t familiar with a lot of the entires.

    grafic,

    Glad I worked towards your timeframe. ;)

    Dave,

    I think I found out about Grain Edit via someone else’s blogroll, but to be honest, I can’t remember! Regardless, more than happy to have you in the list.

    Daniel,

    Don’t mention it! Graphic Define is an excellent resource, and to keep that going as a one-man-show is superb.

    Richard,

    Funny you should mention the OPML. It’s something I meant to do, but wasn’t sure how. I know there are some tutorials around the place, perhaps on Andy Beard’s blog. I’ll have to take a look, but if you know of one, I’d appreciate you letting me know so I can add the file here.

    Lauren,

    Thanks for the suggestion, Freelance Switch seems to be a very popular resource for many graphic designers.

    Fairspot,

    Good luck with your own blog. Looks very professional, and I hope you reach your goals with it. As I list the sites above by Google PageRank, you don’t make the top 50 (because your site is very new). Thanks for stopping by though.

    Charity,

    Adding you was my pleasure, and you deserve it. Keep up the great blogging!

    Andrew,

    Yeah, there are quite a few Google results that don’t fit the bill when searching for ‘graphic design blogs’.

60. Harry Roberts, on November 15th, 2007 said:

    I recommend: http://www.graphic-design-blog.com/

61. david, on November 15th, 2007 said:

    Nice list David,
    I was wondering if you could make available a OPML file for these? (Hope that’s not been suggested yet. I didn’t go through all the comments).

    Thanks

62. david, on November 15th, 2007 said:

    lol, nevermind.. only two posts above mine :)

63. David Airey, on November 15th, 2007 said:
    David,

    I’ll publish an update once I figure that out. ;)

64. Ops, on November 16th, 2007 said:

    Thanks so much for this list :)

65. Kukuh, on November 16th, 2007 said:

    Wow…cool list David,
    Verlee’s Blog still on the top since the first time I knew about her blog about 2 years ago. ;) I wish I’m that smart LOL

66. Paul Enderson, on November 16th, 2007 said:

    Thanks for that! I was astounded (and stoked) to end up with a PR5 in the recent update - and lots of my other sites got great PRs too! In a way it’s a shame I still have no intention of monetising… ;)

67. David Airey, on November 16th, 2007 said:
    Ops, Kukuh, Paul,

    Glad you all like it.

    Paul,

    I’m sure there are some other ways you can leverage the increased traffic. ;)

    Like you, I’m not monetising my site. Instead, it’s a great way to promote my services.

68. Asgeir Hoem, on November 17th, 2007 said:

    Thanks a lot for the mention, David!

    Due to moving, I’m only online once in a while when I’m at the uni, so it’s difficult to keep up with what’s happening. Beautiful list; I’ll bookmark it!

69. ptamaro, on November 17th, 2007 said:

    Thanks David for gathering these up. Whew…

    I feel good that I’ve been to a good 20+ over the years — and many of them on a regular basis… That said, I have a LOT of surfing and reading to do! :-)

70. David Airey, on November 17th, 2007 said:
    Asgeir,

    You’re very welcome. How is the moving going? Not too stressful I hope.

    ptamaro,

    No problem at all, and enjoy the reads.

71. dt, on November 18th, 2007 said:

    Hey David,

    Where’s mine? ;)

    Anyways Core77 is not Graphic design, its Industrial Design. Thought to let you know!

72. Joe, on November 18th, 2007 said:

    Correct me if I am wrong -
    This is not the top 50 graphic design blogs but rather the 50 most seen graphic design blogs?

73. David Airey, on November 18th, 2007 said:
    Hi DT,

    Still no joy with the PR issue I see. :(

    I added Core77 on the request of another, and having took a look around it, for the first time, I thought it had some relevant articles to the graphic design field. Would you agree?

    Joe,

    Every list has to start somewhere, so please do let me know of those better graphic design blogs, I’d be more than happy to include them.

74. Michael Garmahis, on November 18th, 2007 said:

    Congratulations! Your list of graphic design blogs is much more solid than mine, published some time ago. I was a bit busy or a bit lazy :) Anyway it seems to me that I will use your list quite often.

75. David Airey, on November 18th, 2007 said:
    Thanks Michael.

    Quite the colourful avatar you’ve got yourself. Definitely stands out. Nice one.

76. Paul Enderson, on November 18th, 2007 said:

    I’m sure there are some other ways you can leverage the increased traffic

    Always mate, always… ;)

77. dt, on November 19th, 2007 said:

    Hi David,

    Yes, other than a well bruised ego, there does not seem to be any other impact. I am tempted to get it fixed, but by doing do means I cut a large income from my site that is used for server and web design payments.

    Go with google site dies, dont take the PR hit like a man….

78. David Airey, on November 19th, 2007 said:
    DT,

    Do your advertisers all require you to have removed the ‘nofollow’ tag from their links? Perhaps you could still fulfil your contract whilst requesting reconsideration at the same time?

79. hank, on November 20th, 2007 said:

    No way mate, thanks! An honour indeed.

    (I only just noticed today. I’d better do some scrubbing up on the blog!)

80. Jambe, on November 23rd, 2007 said:

    I really enjoy Dan Cederholm’s work at http://simplebits.com/

81. Greg, on December 1st, 2007 said:

    Great list. I love design view a lot.

82. Ed, on December 3rd, 2007 said:

    awesome list, I’m going to bookmark this and come back when i’m looking for some inspiration.

83. Jacob Cass, on December 4th, 2007 said:

    Damn, I have just started a new graphic design (and creativity) blog (self hosted) with a 10 year domain name :) so I’m here for the long run. If you guys are interested check out http://www.justcreativedesign.com - I post about 4-5 times a week.

84. Richard Holt, on December 6th, 2007 said:

    Great list, very useful. I’ve put a lot of these into a Netvibes tab. Netvibes is a great tool for blog reading, check it out at http://www.netvibes.com...

    I just started a blog as part of my new website. I’m still working out what to write in it and ‘finding my voice’ as it were, so at the moment it’s a bit of a mashup of design, branding malarchy, random observations, London life and my own interests, but if anyone is curious, they can find it here: http://www.holster.co.uk/blog and any feedback is greatly appreciated. I’m enjoying getting to grips with it anyway…

    ®

85. Freddy, on December 10th, 2007 said:

    thanks for the list.
    the pr ranking is very flawed though…. i was at PR 6, and got bumped by two points to PR 4 just becuase i have textlink ads on my site. google is playing god!

    cheers
    Freddy

86. David Airey, on December 21st, 2007 said:
    Hank,

    The pleasure was mine, no need to scrub.

    Jambe,

    Simplebits is a great blog, for sure. Would you put it firmly in the graphic design category?

    Greg, Ed,

    Glad you both like, and thanks for commenting. Here’s something I’m wondering about - my domain name was recently stolen, so I had to move my blog. Will you receive a notification to visit my old (stolen) website or has this updated to show http://www.davidairey.co.uk? Any help you can spare would be appreciated.

    Jacob,

    Best of luck with your new blog.

    Richard,

    Glad you like the list, and I appreciate you saying so.

    Freddy,

    You’re spot on about the whole Google PR thing being skewed, and you’re one of the many who deserve more credit.

87. Gabriel Rosca, on January 9th, 2008 said:

    Great list, fantastic blogs. :)

    Gabriel Rosca’s last blog post..DVD Cover - Burn Tool

88. Online Money, on January 16th, 2008 said:

    Nice list of blogs. Thanks and Happy New Year.

89. http://www.melsbrushes.wordpress.com, on February 4th, 2008 said:

    Thanks for this list - i’ll start ploughing my way through them after dinner! I can’t get enough of design blogs at the moment. Veerles and Bittbox i knew about but if the others are as good, then i’ll never get any work done!
    Mel

90. Rahul Max, on February 20th, 2008 said:

    Excellent collection. Bravo!!

91. Jacob Cass, on April 5th, 2008 said:

    I think that Just Creative Design should be added here ;)

    Jacob Cass’s last blog post..2008 Semi-Permanent Design Conference Review

92. David Airey, on April 5th, 2008 said:
    Gabriel, Rahul,

    Thanks very much.

    Jacob,

    Quite a few updates are needed to this post, for sure, and your blog is certainly worthy of inclusion.

93. Web Design Lincolnshire, on April 6th, 2008 said:

    Thanks for the list, nice to find all the relevant content in one place.

    All the best

    Web Design Lincolnshire’s last blog post..8 ways to back up your computer files

94. Brad, on April 20th, 2008 said:

    Nice list, very handy actually. Art Culture is a PR5 btw.

95. Multimediedesigner, on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    Thak you very much for the list.
    Now I sertainly know what to do in the next couple of days :)

96. Mad_Graph1c, on May 13th, 2008 said:

    hi David, a great post, your incredible list of comments is a proof of what i’m saying. I’d like to tell you two sites of interest where i’ve found great resources:

    - Desktop Publishing - in this section http://www.desktoppublishing.com/design.html they have plenty of information, it’s a directory but with useful and selected resources (i think)
    - Design Training - good resources to whom wants to be a designer. Look the graphic section here http://www.design-training.com/graphic-design/

    hope you all find them useful!

97. Kristine, on June 2nd, 2008 said:

    Glad I connected here… this is an awesome resource list, great reading… I’m going to post my favorite 5 on my blog sometime this week.

    Thanks David!

    Kristine
    The Merry Bird…pen, ink and design

98. David Airey, on June 3rd, 2008 said:
    Thanks for the recommendations, and for all the kind comments.

    I’m glad people are still enjoying the list of blogs.

99. cat, on June 4th, 2008 said:

    They sure are. I continue to receive a steady stream of visitors from this post.
    (thanks again David)

    cat’s last blog post…Blogs: Mad About Design

100. Diseñador web, on June 13th, 2008 said:

     Nice collection here is mine PR5:
     http://webdiseno.wordpress.com

101. diseño web, on June 17th, 2008 said:

     Thak you very much for the list.
     nice collection blogs :D

102. jarkinl, on June 18th, 2008 said:

     Nice work!

     Another possible one,

     http://www.ideasonideas.com

103. David Airey, on June 18th, 2008 said:
     jarkini,

     You must’ve missed ideasonideas. It’s already in the list, but thanks for commenting.

104. Crystal, on July 2nd, 2008 said:

     This is an excellent source for graphic design information. I am working on starting a few blogs that aren’t quite up yet, but they will include plenty of good info for design technique and marketing trends. I plan to post a new entry every day… The blogs will be an offshoot from my commercial site: http://www.rowdygroup.com

105. Matt Strange, on July 7th, 2008 said:

     Hi Dave!! you have done some excellent research to this post. good job! excellent collection of sites too.
     I like the categories you have choosen.. my favourites.

     Matt Strange’s last blog post…Beautiful Minimalistic Mac Apple Wallpaper

106. Daniel, on July 8th, 2008 said:

     Hey David, really liked the post you made and the great research that went into to collecting all the sites. Most of them a really good quality and look exceptional. I really liked checking out and few and from what I see they are good and well basically, congratulations on the list. I think the time spent finding them did indeed pay off in the end.

107. David Airey, on July 8th, 2008 said:
     Crystal, Matt, Daniel,

     Glad you found use in this list of design blogs. I’m a regular visitor to many of them, and thought it the least I could do to give a little back.

108. Will Ayers, on July 12th, 2008 said:

     Wow thanks for this great list, there are a lot of great blogs on here.

     Will Ayers’s last blog post…User Experience in Webdesign : Part One – First Impression

109. David, on July 14th, 2008 said:

     What about this one? ;)

     http://septemberindustry.co.uk/

     I’ve heard it’s read by many of the top agencies in London ;)
     My standards are rather high so I tend to post work that is exceptional is quality. Hope you enjoy what you see

     KInd Regards,

     David
     (me)

110. David Airey, on July 16th, 2008 said:
     Great blog, David.

     I’ve just subscribed, and will certainly include September Industry when I have time to update this list.

111. David, on July 16th, 2008 said:

     Thanks ever so much David
     I like what you are doing too.

     -D

112. Deborah Katy, on July 28th, 2008 said:

     Yes, pagerank can help but it´s not the most important thing since it changes even when you change the layout of your blog. Some blogs have great articles and still have pagerank zero.

     Deborah Katy’s last blog post…SUNDAY MEDITATION.

113. Daniel, on July 30th, 2008 said:

     I’d add Boicozine to that list, plus oh-so-humbly put forward Binky the doormat (of particular interest to anyone who enjoys rants about poster design, Ark-building or hearing what I’ve been eating recently).

     Daniel’s last blog post…Portfoliage

114. LaurenMarie - Creative Curio, on July 30th, 2008 said:

     Oh thanks for updating my header image! Your wrist must be doing better :)

     I think some of these blogs that are more influential but have a low PageRank have been knocked by Google for selling ads without the rel=nofollow attached (which is basically selling PR, a Google no-no).

     LaurenMarie - Creative Curio’s last blog post…Enhance Your Designs with the Principle of Balance

115. David Airey, on July 31st, 2008 said:
     Deborah,

     Page Rank isn’t the most important thing. Far from it, I agree.

     Daniel,

     Added you up, and thanks for the suggestion.

     Lauren,

     My hand is a great deal better, thanks. It still throbs from time to time, so I need to take a typing break and elevate it, but I can’t stand sitting around for too long doing nothing. It’ll be a while before I can sketch again, but at least I can make use of one or two right-hand fingers for typing. As for the Google PR, I think you’re spot on about certain sites aquiring penalties.

116. Kristine, on July 31st, 2008 said:

     Thanks for all of this wonderful design inspiration!
     You are Awesome!

117. Brian, on August 1st, 2008 said:

     A fantastic list - most of which I currently read, but a few new ones. I thought I might toss in Elite By Design - PR 5 as of right now. But of course, that is up to your discretion :)

     Brian’s last blog post…8 Resources for Creating Color Schemes

118. jeff hamada, on August 2nd, 2008 said:

     hello! - great list, really appreciate all the hardwork that went into making this a resource that i can use time and time again.

     i started a blog a month ago called Booooooom! it’s growing really fast, about 75,000 hits this month but still too young to have a Google Ranking, hopefully ill have one in the next couple weeks. i am trying to get people excited about fun group projects as well as post items for inspiration. take a look if you have a second!

     cheers
     /jeff

     jeff hamada’s last blog post…56 megapixel camera!

119. David Airey, on August 3rd, 2008 said:
     Kristine, Jeff,

     Glad the resource is of use to you both.

     Brian,

     A worthy addition, and I hope to get around to it shortly. Cheers.

120. Thomas, on August 4th, 2008 said:

     Thanks, lots of this websites are now in my netvibes

121. James, on August 6th, 2008 said:

     Hi David
     Checked this list last year, some excellent new ones added! Check my blog out if you have got time!

     keep up the good work

     james

     James’s last blog post…Re-printing Wim Crouwel’s Vormgevers

122. David Airey, on August 6th, 2008 said:
     Hi James,

     The blog looks great, and thanks very much for the blogroll addition. :)

123. The Floating Frog, on August 28th, 2008 said:

     Nice website David, hope to make the list one day. I’ll subscribe to the feed as I’m feeling peckish

     The Floating Frog’s last blog post…Euell Gibbons Trail

124. adelle, on September 5th, 2008 said:

     Hmmm when did I get added?! I must have missed that :)

     Thanks David! Cheers!

     adelle’s last blog post…Winners of $25 Credit to ThemeForest Announced!

125. Scott Chappell, on September 8th, 2008 said:

     Hi David…great list! I only see one omission…the one I publish! ;-) Notes on Design ( NoD ). I hope after having a look at the site you’ll consider adding us. Thanks for your consideration. Oh, we also publish Notes on Game Dev (NoGD) that focuses on the game development and game art industry. Best, Scott

     Scott Chappell’s last blog post…The New Designer - Part 2 of 8

126. David Airey, on September 8th, 2008 said:
     Adelle,

     It was my pleasure adding Fuel Your Creativity. Excellent blog.

     Scott,

     Thanks very much. NoD looks great. Definitely one to add.

127. bowie style, on September 17th, 2008 said:

     my blog isnt about graphic design - but the work is very graphic in style so could be useful : )

     its called ‘print & pattern’

128. Les K, on September 21st, 2008 said:

     This is a great repository and I appreciate you taking the time to create it.

129. Akira, on September 29th, 2008 said:

     Great list - I wish I had the time to read all of these sites regularly (I do recognize several in there that I admire already)!

     Not to add to the clutter, but can you take a look at our blog and see if it passes?

     Design Kompany
     http://www.designkompany.com/

     Akira’s last blog post…Field report: M’s top A’s in surprise upset

130. Maria, on October 17th, 2008 said:

     Nice summary, saved me a bunch of time. Thanks.

131. Ben Stevens, on October 21st, 2008 said:

     I’d like to introduce my own design blog, Ben Stevens Design (http://benstevensdesign.blogspot.com). I only started blogging last week… so its all still very new! I hope you can find the time to take a look around.

     Thanks!

     Ben Stevens’s last blog post…My other blog

132. joe, on October 24th, 2008 said:

     thanks for having all these blogs under 1 site!!!! great!

133. David Airey, on October 24th, 2008 said:
     Thanks for the continued comments and new design blog recommendations. Much appreciated.
134. Rachel, on October 31st, 2008 said:

     Hi there. Great list. You missed All Graphic Design Blog and All Web Design Resources Blog

     Thanks
     Rachel

135. David Airey, on November 6th, 2008 said:
     You’re right, Rachel.

     Thanks for the reminder, and I’ll include those with the next update (hopefully before too long).

136. Sajesh P, on November 18th, 2008 said:

     Many thanks for the links!

137. Clayton, on November 19th, 2008 said:

     Hi David, thanks for the post, found a lot of great stuff linking from this page.
     We also run the site Australian Edge, which focuses on Australian creativity. Updating with interviews all the time. If anyone knows any aussies doing good work, please get in touch, we are always looking for new features.

     Clayton´s last blog post…Creative studio Pandarosa

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