20 Creative Blogs You Should Be Following

I don’t often write list posts, but this is a topic I feel is very important to success in the web design industry. Since diving into graphic and web design, I’ve always put a very high priority on staying up-to-date with news and resources. It has made me a far more savvy designer, developer and has helped my business grow in ways I could not have imagined. When you’re getting started, it can get overwhelming to see how many sources there are and how huge our community really is. After a while, you start to get comfortable with your “go-to” sources and are more able to weed out the weaker sources.

Here are a list of my favorite and most-trusted sources for articles, tutorials and inspiration:

A List Apart

A List Apart Magazine  explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

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Abduzeedo

Abduzeedo is a collection of visual inspiration and useful tutorials.

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Clients From Hell

A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.

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CSS-Tricks

A Web Design Community curated by Chris Coyier.

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David E. Jackson

One of my favorite photographers, David Jackson creates some of the most inspiring photos you’ll ever come across.

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Engadget

Although not a Design-focused site, being up-to-date on devices, platforms and tech news is also very handy. Engadget is one of my favorite sites for this type of news.

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Freelance Switch

FreelanceSwitch is a community of expert freelancers from around the world.

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Fuel Network

The Fuel Brand Network is a group of sites dedicated to all things related to creative development.

Visit Fuel Your Coding / Fuel Your Creativity / Fuel Your Interface / Subscribe via RSS

Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents is the personal site of designer, writer, and publisher Jeffrey Zeldman.

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Mashable

Founded in 2005, Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture.

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NetTuts+

Nettuts+ is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites.

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PSDTuts+

Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around.

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Seth Godin

The blog of best-selling author Seth Godin. He writes some of the most brilliant words you will ever read.

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Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers.

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Speckyboy

Speckyboy offers insightful tutorials, time-saving techniques, fresh and useful resources and inspirational art, covering web design and development, graphic design, advertising, mobile applications and even, the occasional Lego post.

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Web Design Ledger

The Web Design Ledger is a publication written by web designers for web designers. The primary purpose of this site is to act as a platform for sharing web design related knowledge and resources.

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Web Designer Wall

Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runsN.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery.

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Woork Up

Woork Up is a blog that provides fresh news and useful stuff for webaddict people and internet lovers.

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