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
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, 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
By Jessica Hische on Skillshare
Canada Modern
An archive of Canadian trademarks
What makes a good logo?
A few words I wrote
Logo Design Love
A side-project, since 2008
Tools for creating ideas
A dated website with good advice
Logo Package Express
Time-saving Adobe Illustrator plugin
Logggos
By Artiom Dashinsky & Martin Wessely
Wrdmrks
Bespoke wordmark inspiration
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
The Bass Ale triangle painted in 1882 by French artist Édouard Manet
Brand strategy
Branding: In Five and a Half Steps
By Michael Johnson
How strategic use of design can increase brand value
By Wanda Grimsgaard
A blueprint for building brand strategy
By Nomad Studio
Using strategy in logo design
Ian Paget interviews Marty Neumeier
Resource centre for brand strategy
From Stef Hamerlinck
Positioning
By Al Ries & Jack Trout
From Nomad’s brand strategy blueprint
Brand identity design
The Brand Identity
Features, interviews, directory
Brand New
From UnderConsideration
BP&O
By Richard Baird
Visual Journal
Collated by Alessandro Scarpellini
Brand Archive
From 1950s to present
Visuelle
By David Bennett
Minimal Gallery
Collated by Piet Terheyden
Identity Designed
A small side-project since 2010
Curated
Web design inspiration from Craftwork
From Common Curiosity’s identity for The Bond
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
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
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
Lstore Graphics
Various print and digital
Art Directed Mockups
Collections and individual files
The Brand Identity store
From The Brand Identity
LiveSurface
An 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
Mockup via Layers Design
Design pricing
The dark art of pricing
By Jessica Hische
Bill for it
By Eric Karjaluoto
No more day rates
By Mike Reed
How to price your design services
By Chris Do
Pricing strategy for creatives
By Jason Blumer
Illustration via A List Apart
Photos, videos & music
Public Work
Search public domain images
Unsplash
By Mikael & the team
Burst
Powered by Shopify
Lummi
AI stock images & illustrations
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
Ultima
750+ free illustrations
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
Photo by Alice Donovan Rouse, on Unsplash
Icons & symbols
The Noun Project
From Sofya Polyakov & Edward Boatman
Phosphor
By Helena Zhang and Tobias Fried
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 offers free SVG icons for 3,000+ brands
On life
A short lesson in perspective
By the late Linds Redding
Loughrigg Fell, Ambleside, England, by Jonny Gios
Last updated
February 2025
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Logo & brand identity design
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