The Best Graphic Design Articles from 34 Top Design Blogs as Chosen By The Authors Themselves
Posted on 21'08 Apr

I went around to the top graphic design blogs on the net and asked their authors to choose their best or most popular graphic design article that they have ever written and here are the results. I present to you…The Best Ever Graphic Design Articles as chosen by the authors themselves.
They are in no particular order but I have organised them into categories.
- Graphic Design
- Web Design
- Picture Based Posts
- Tutorials
- Other
- Thought Provoking Articles
Graphic Design
- 99 Graphic Design Resources ALL Designers Must Know from us at Just Creative Design
- The Dos and Dont’s of Colour from Inspiration Bit
- Top 50 Graphic Design Blogs from David Airey
- My Top 5 Biggest Freelancing Mistakes from Freelance Folder
- Best Logo Design Resources from Logo Design Love
- 8 Little Design Secrets from Leslie Tane Design
- How Can We Stop The Thieves from Elliot Jay Stocks
- How To Be A Design Superstar from Design Sojourn
Web Design
- The 25 Ways To Improve Your Site in 5 Minutes from Fadtastic
- Applying Hicks Law To Web Design from Alpha Blog Designs
- 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time from Noupe
- 77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer from Vandelay Design
- A Guide To Web Typography from I Love Typography
- Extensible CSS (A Series of articles) from Cameron Moll
- How to use WordPress to build a website with user-generated content from Creative Briefing
- Student Questions: What Should I Study To Become A Web Designer? from Positive Space Blog
Picture Based Posts
- 36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work from Job Mob
- Cool Business Cards from Inspiredology
- 20 Beautiful HDR Pictures from Adubzeedo
- Save The Earth from Mohdrafie
- Coffee Kiss from Design You Trust
- The Kotatsu – A Different Way Way of Thinking About Tables from Core77
Tutorials
- The One Page Graphic Design Portfolio Guide from You The Designer
- Vector Polishing Techniques from WebDesignerWall
- The Ultimate Guide To Designing with Black from Spoon Graphics
- Give Your Resume A Face Life from LifeClever
- Using the Blend tool and Distort Zig Zag Effect in Illustrator from Veerle
- Removing Wrinkles and Keepin’ It Real – How to use the Healing Brush and Patch Tools from Laughing Lion Design
Other
- The Art of Self Branding – from LeaLea Design
- Interview with Poster Designer Jason Munn – Small Stakes from GrainEdit
- Kick Butt Holiday Gifts For Designers from Bad Ass Ideas
- Recent Great Graphic Design Discoveries from Graphic Design Blog
- WordPress as a CMS – Content Management System from Graphic Design Blog.co.uk
Thought Provoking Articles
- 99 Designs: Bullshit 2.0 – from Graphic Push
- What Do You Consider Good Design from Creative Curio
- Poynter’s Eye-Tracking Follies from Andy Rutledge
- You TOO Can become a graphic designer from The Graphic Mac
Best Graphic Design Blogs
Here is the list of all the graphic design blogs who partipated. Thank You!
- Creative Curio
- Graphic Push
- The Graphic Mac
- Andy Rutledge
- Graphic Design Blog
- Bad Ass Ideas
- GrainEdit
- Veerle
- You The Designer
- Spoon Graphics
- LifeClever
- Design You Trust
- Job Mob
- Adubzeedo
- Inspiredology
- Mohdrafie
- Fadtastic
- Alpha Blog Designs
- Noupe
- I Love Typography
- Vandelay Design
- Cameron Moll
- Laughing Lion Design
- Creative Briefing
- Positive Space Blog
- Inspiration Bit
- Logo Design Love
- Design Sojourn
- David Airey
- Freelance Folder
- Elliot Jay Stocks
- LeaLea Design
- Core77
- Leslie Tane Design
- Just Creative Design (Don’t forget us!)
I know there are many many more great blogs out there so please leave a comment with a link to the best blog article you have ever written – it doesn’t have to be related to design.












86 JUST™ Creative Comments
Hey Jacob!
Pretty awesome collection. Chris Spooner made a good choice with his article; I found it extremely informative when he first published it.
SU’d and Dugg!
Armens last blog post..How to: 5 Surefire Tips To Blast Your Way To Blogging Success
Stumbled, Dugg and Floated. Great roundup, nice work compiling this, Jacob.
Jacob Shares last blog post..How To Avoid the Biggest Source of Job Search Pain
Thanks, Jacob for inviting me to participate. There’s tons of great stuff on your list.
Jennifers last blog post..Design Inspiration : Getting Medieval
Really great articles, going to take some time to get through them all – Thanks
Toons last blog post..Holla
Hey Jacob, thanks again for asking me to join in. All the best with it.
David Aireys last blog post..10 tips for writing graphic design briefs
Great list of design article. You really did a good job.
Sarahs last blog post..The Free and Fast Image Rotation Engine – Revolver
added my 21st digg on April 21st, so hopefully #21 will be the lucky one for you to get this article to Digg’s front page ;-)
Thanks for the invite. Lots to read here. Great job, Jacob.
inspirationbits last blog post..PROs And CONs Of Going Solo
wow!!
how am i suppose to work if i need to see all this stuff!!? :)
great great list, ty
Hehey! Thanks Jacob! I’m glad to be featured on the ‘Picture Based Post’.
1 simple message to all designers:
Please DON’T leave your Mac/Pc overnight as it is enough to make 1000 cups of coffee.
Happy Earth Day!
Rafies last blog post..Emoticon :)
STUMBLED!
Fantastic post, thanks for the hard work.
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Geoservs last blog post..Category Count – Final
Woooooooooooooow………….. thanks a lot for that lovely collection.
Hey, Jacob. New reader here from Nashville, Tennessee. Great blog. I check in every couple days here. …Great resource.
Hey. Great list!
Libor Fikrs last blog post..Lilly Hop
Hi Jacob, thanks for making me a part of this list. It’s nice company. :)
Thanks for including me Jacob!
Steven Snells last blog post..Tips for Attracting Local Clients
Hey Jacob, thanks a bunch for putting all this together and for including FreelanceFolder. Now let’s Digg it :)
Jon Phillipss last blog post..Jump-Starting Freelancing Productivity: 9 Reasons Why and 5 Reasons How Working Smarter Works
I love the Noupe 101 CSS tips and resources! MIssed that post! Thanks Jacob, excellent resource
Brian Yerkess last blog post..David Airey: How He Did It – Die Cut Card Mockup
Armen, Jacob, Jennifer, Toon, David, Sarah, Rafie, Steven, Jon, Brian
Thank you and your welcome.
Vivien,
Well 80 diggs hasn’t sent much traffic but we will see how the Digg community likes it. StumbleUpon sent about 5000 visits over night though.
Kaaliss,
Work? who needs that :P
Geoserv, Jeffry, Libor, Lea
Welcome to Just Creative Design, it is always good to have new readers / commentators. Hope you stick around.
Jacob,
Very cool. A lot of these are new to me—it’s gonna take a week to go through them!
I know what I’m doing whenever I need a mental stretch for a while…
Regards,
Kelly
Kellys last blog post..Click Here for Details, Honestly
Thanks for the chance to participate, Jacob. This will be a list to refer back to! Stumbled :)
LaurenMarie – Creative Curios last blog post..Mastering Photoshop Masks: Vector?Masks
I floated, Dugg, and Stumbled the post :) Thanks for the inclusion…
Zinnis last blog post..What Web Designers can Learn from Publication Design
Super collection! Dugg, SU’d…
Desmond Haynes, Jr.s last blog post..The World Of Warcraft Keyboard, If Your Serious About You are Game Play
Great collection, going take me a while to read through them all. But I’m looking forward to it, they seem really useful resources, thanks.
Excellent roundup !
butiful and its realy use full site
Thanks for the invite to participate Jacob.. this is a great idea and I look forward to seeing more of these great posts.
Chad Muellers last blog post..They?re back?Cool Web Characters Part 2
Great list I’ve read a few of these posts and they are awesome
modemloopers last blog post..How To Deal With A Clients Horrible Design Suggestions
Thanks, Jacob for inviting me to participate.
Excellent roundup !
Noura Yehias last blog post..Using CSS to Do Anything: 50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials
Don’t forget :
8 ways to drive a graphic designer mad :
http://groy82.blogspot.com/2007/03/8-ways-to-drive-graphic-designer-mad.html
Nice one and great job Jacob! Thanks for getting me involved.
DTs last blog post..Why Sh*T matters in Design. What?
Well featured list of design article. You really did a good job, including i was willing to find these sort of web design articles.
great list. thanks buddy…
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nice article, i really appricate it
compwrites last blog post..Changing CSS class through PHP
Great post! Thanks for the resource!!
James Kurtz IIIs last blog post..Brand Tags
I really enjoyed the visit of your awesome site here. So much wonderful info and great gathering of wonderful people.
Good stuff mate thanks :)
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This is great, it’s just what I was looking for. I’m always hoping to find great blogs and resources from others in the design field.
I have an art/design blog on which I often release freebies, etc., too. The latest post is: http://www.annstorer.com/2008/12/28/flourish-freebie-ornaments/
I’m a graphic design student at South Dakota State, and I’ve been assigned to create a book cover using only two spot colors. I would like to use a real photo and convert it to a black spot color, and use a bright, light teal, or just another color on top of that but i have no idea how to do that in photoshop or if it even can be done…any help would be AWESOME….(also if you know how to use two spot colors and blending them to create a variety of colors with just the two spot colors that’d be amazing as well) THANKS
I like the guide to designing with black. If you first master black and simultaneous contrast you can move on to color with a stronger creative toolbox to use. :)
Hi,
I’ll come across your website and found it more interesting in Graphic Design. I learn more, thanks for the information you share, i’ll come back often.
Regards,
Dux Marketing
Dugg and stumbled! Awesome collection and post as usual. Thank you.
I think yall work is great, I would like to know if yall needed a extra worker I’m available anytime……………Cierra I’m a Graphic Designer
to be honest this article helped me to get started with community, I didn’t know at first any of these blogs! Thank you for that :)
Thanks for sharing the list. It will surely help many designers out there, especially those who are running short of time and inspiration. I personally found the article “How to use WordPress to build a website” by Creative Briefing very useful.
thanks for info about the best top graphic design blogs and this could be serve as a design inspiration for me.
Thanks for the information you share. I come across your website and found that it is interesting and informative in Graphic Design and it is really helpful to many designers.
WONDERFUL collection of pertinent and highly useful information! I frequent your site; what a valuable resource and means of inspiration! Thanks so much!!
Thanks for the links to these other Graphic Design and Web Design blogs.
What can i say?
It is just awesome!!
hey jacob very good job!
Hey Jacob! Thanks so much for writing some good articles. I read your blog on a constant basis and always walk away with something useful. I wanted to share my blog where I post free high resolution photographs: http://free-images-etc.rb-d.com/. As a graphic designer, I find it extremely useful to have access to some quality photos when I work on projects, and I hope other creatives will get a kick of this site as well. Enjoy!
WONDERFUL ,colection of pertinent and highly useful information! I frequent your site; ! Thanks so much!!
Well featured list of design article. You really did a good job, including i was willing to find these sort of web design articles.
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Thanks for gathering graphic design blogs. Keep sharing useful and amazing topics like these. Love it.
the web designs brief helps setting appropriate expectations about the design exercise for people unaware of the web designs process, people less articulated in visual communication principles.
Your web design must leave a strong impact on its viewers and must clearly portray your business. thanks for info about the best top web design blogs and this could be serve as a design inspiration for me.
Thanks for the list. I’m author of http://en.tspot.pl design blog, maybe it should be joined :)
I just wanted to let you know that the link to Alpha Blog Designs leads to a porn-looking site. Just FYI.
I love this post. I think I’ve read one too many top 30 design blog posts. It’s refreshing for someone to put together such a comprehensive list of actual posts, and then to organize them by topic!? I love it! Thank you, thank you.
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