Every once in a while I’m asked for advice on creating logos, pricing design, presenting your work, and other design-related topics, so I pieced together this resource as a little extra. I hope it helps.

Design history

AIGA Design Archives
Dating back to 1924

archives.design
Curated by Valery Marier

International Advertising & Design Database
Founded by Het ReclameArsenaal

The People’s Graphic Design Archive
Founded by Louise Sandhaus

Graphic Design History Resources
Compiled by We Made This

Design Reviewed
Matt Lamont’s historical archive

Design Reviewed Matt Lamont

From the Design Reviewed archive

Typography

Fonts Knowledge
By the Google Fonts team

Type Specimens
A Studio Boulton production

Typography principles
By Obys agency

Letterform Archive
Founded by Rob Saunders

Typographica
By Stephen Coles & Caren Litherland

Fonts In Use
By Nick Sherman, Stephen Coles, & Sam Berlow

Free fonts
Some decent display fonts from Pixel Surplus

Fontshare
Free fonts by Indian Type Foundry

I Love Typography (ILT)
The blog by John Boardley

Typography resources
From Jeremiah Shoaf, aka Typewolf

Type Design Resources
From Justin Penner

Type Foundry Directory
By Matthew Smith

Type Foundries Archive
By Marcel Häusler (web archived)

Type Foundry Index
By Mark Johnson & Thomas Drach

British Rail alphabet

British Rail alphabet, 1965

Logo design

The secret language of logos
Something I wrote and narrated for the BBC

Logo design: from concept to presentation
Sagi Haviv’s Domestika course

Logo Histories
Richard Baird’s expanding design archive

LogoBook
A showcase of logos in various categories

Logo Nature
A smaller online catalogue

The Logo Geek Podcast
Hosted by Ian Paget

Logotype masterclass
Taught by Jessica Hische on Skillshare

Canada Modern
Blair Thomson’s archive of Canadian trademarks

What makes a good logo?
A brief post on this site

Logo Design Love
A little side-project, since 2008

Tools for creating ideas
A dated website but with good advice

Logo Package Express
Time-saving Adobe Illustrator plugin

Original Nike logo Davidson

Carolyn Davidson’s original Nike swoosh

Trademarking

Trademark basics
By the United States Patent & Trademark Office | USPTO

Intellectual property: trade marks
By GOV.UK

Trade marks
By IP Australia

Global Brand Database
By the World International Property Organization | WIPO

History of trademarks
On Respect for Trademarks, by WIPO

Bass triangle trademark history

The Bass Ale triangle painted in 1882 by French artist Édouard Manet

Brand strategy

we exist to

From Nomad’s brand strategy blueprint

Brand naming

Naming a business 
By Seth Godin

How to get a name right
By Naresh Ramchandani

Brand New Name
By Jeremy Miller

Flexible brand names
On Logo Design Love

iwantmyname
Helpful for domain searches

Namecheap
Where I buy/store domain names

Online etymology dictionary
History of English words

Onym
Tools and resources for naming things

WIPO global brand database
Search trademarks internationally

takete maluma

Match the words “takete” and “maluma” with the two patterns

Business of design

Business & freelance resources
From AIGA

Working in design
Resources from Canada’s RGD

An insider’s guide to the design presentation
By Michael Johnson

My standard terms
So far so good

Brand guidelines
Collated by Lily Ludford on Are.na

iLovePDF
Handy PDF tools from Marco Grossi

Branding style guides
A huge resource, needs sign-in

Focus groups are worthless
By Erika Hall

Go to a dry cleaner and sit there
Quoting the late Bob Gill

1010 guidelines by Six

1010 guidelines by Six

Design mockups

Helpful tools or objects of obsession?
Great read from Elizabeth Goodspeed

Bendito Mockup
By Al Alimón Studio, Granada

Mr.Mockup
PSDs by Noeeko

Layers Design
Part of supply.family

Pixelbuddha
Mockups and other design resources

Yellow Images
Thousands of object mockups

Lstore Graphics
Various print and digital

Art Directed Mockups
Collections and individual files

The Brand Identity store
By, yep, The Brand Identity

LiveSurface
The Illustrator plugin by Joshua Distler

Envato Elements
By Collis and Cyan Ta’eed, and Jun Rung

Mockup.Maison
Offers city-specific scenes

Freepik
By Alejandro, Pablo, and Joaquin

Darkroom
A smaller selection by Kody and Kai

Mockups-Design.com
Courtesy of Andrew in Poland

Mockup Cloud
Product and scene mockups

Unblast
Various design resources

Layers Design mockup

Mockup via Layers Design

Design pricing

A List Apart pricing strategy for creatives

Illustration via A List Apart

Photos, videos & music

Unsplash
By Mikael & the team

Burst
Powered by Shopify

Pexels
By Bruno & Ingo Joseph, & Daniel Frese

MorgueFile
Founded by Michael Connors

Depositphotos
Free photos & videos

ISO Republic
Various CC0 photos & videos

Library of Congress print catalogue
Check each image for usage rights

freeillustrations.xyz
A lot of illustration work

Nature Stock
Photos & videos, created by Adrian Pelletier

Mixkit
For video projects, by Envato Elements

AShamaluevMusic
Free background music by Aleksandr Shamaluev

Edit Photo
Free in-browser photo editor

Videvo
Free stock video and sound effects

poster paper layers

Photo by Alice Donovan Rouse, on Unsplash

Icons & symbols

The Noun Project
From Sofya Polyakov & Edward Boatman

Icons
Free vector icons from Icons8

Ionicons
A smaller resource courtesy of the Ionic team

Simple Icons
SVG icons/symbols for popular brands

Heroicons
By the makers of Tailwind CSS

Simple Icons

Simple Icons offers free SVG icons for 3,000+ brands

Last updated
October 2024

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David Airey
Visual identity design

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