More than just a personal website for this Edinburgh, Scotland based graphic designer, this site also offers a wealth of knowledge on design topics.
Great website for free fonts. Offers safe and simple downloads. We dig the fun font names, like "Girls Are Weird" and "Naked Monk" *blush*
This blog by Veer is chock full of amusing entries and entertaining tidbits. Got 5 minutes? Then get the skinny. Updated nearly every day, woo!
Extremely useful blog pertaining to graphic design, freelancing, illustration, advertising and web design. Updated fairly regularly.
Yeah, we do too. We also love this site. ILT manages to stay current while also housing a massive archive of type-related articles.
Catalog of colors with corresponding Hexadecimal values created by Chris Rennison, CSU instructor responsible for getting us excited about CSS.
Another free font site. This one claims to have 1001 fonts. We try to start counting but always lose track laughing at "ale and wenches"
This is the quintessential sarcastic humor website. It's like Jon Stewart, Lewis Black and Rob Gordon from the movie High Fidelity combined.
Nerd humor at its finest. Who knew graphs could be so funny? Also part of the ICHC group.
Funny FAIL pictures and videos from the ICHC creators. Because watching people get owned and pwnd is always a good time.
Definitely a staple in every playlist we listen to while designing. We've even been known to sing "Creep" pretty well on Rockband.
There is no better voice in music. Past or present. This will always be the soundtrack of our lives.
Great for winding down after a long day of surfing the Interwebz... oh and designing too.
Resources
Go Media
The be all, end all of design blogs. We love Go Media. We strive to be like Go Media. We even played them in volleyball once. True story.
Spoon Graphics
Personal project of Chris Spooner, a UK based graphic/web designer. Super sweet Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials. Great last name too.
Dynamic Drive
Great resource for CSS tips, tricks and code. Our menu bar is 1 part Dynamic Drive, 1 part BobKat Design and 3 parts Internet Explorer debugging.
Freelance Switch
Blog. Job board. Book. Forums. Podcasts. Advice. Opinions. News. Articles. Rates Calculator. Client Analyser. All part of the Envato group.
Bittbox
Oklahoma native Jay Hilgert created this fantastic site devoted to high quality freebies, including free Photoshop brushes. You're ok in our book, Jay.
Smashing Magazine
And I quote "We smash you with the information that will make your life easier. Really." Couldn't have said it better myself. Ooh look, freebies!
W3 Schools
The ultimate tutorial site for coding, even if you think code is icky. It could probably tell you how to code a pony to jump out of your screen on the mouseover. Yeah, really.
Inspiration
Post Secret
Every Sunday we wake up, get some coffee and sit down to read through other people's secrets. It has an awkward way of inspiring creativity.
Engrish Funny
Part of the I Can Has Cheezburger family. It's probably the best way to kill 5 minutes at work everyday. Go on, get your daily fix of Asian.
Pundit Kitchen
Another goodie from ICHC. Helps you stay abreast of political issues. And yes, if you also laughed at the word 'abreast' then you're our kind of people.
TV On The Radio
Fuel for the all-nighter. Well, this and probably some Red Bull.
The National
Boxer. Alligator. Genious. Dare I say we've become "nationalists"
CNET
Because inside all of us lurks a hidden geek waiting to come out and read techy product reviews.
The be all, end all of design blogs. We love Go Media. We strive to be like Go Media. We even played them in volleyball once. True story.
Personal project of Chris Spooner, a UK based graphic/web designer. Super sweet Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials. Great last name too.
Great resource for CSS tips, tricks and code. Our menu bar is 1 part Dynamic Drive, 1 part BobKat Design and 3 parts Internet Explorer debugging.
Blog. Job board. Book. Forums. Podcasts. Advice. Opinions. News. Articles. Rates Calculator. Client Analyser. All part of the Envato group.
Oklahoma native Jay Hilgert created this fantastic site devoted to high quality freebies, including free Photoshop brushes. You're ok in our book, Jay.
And I quote "We smash you with the information that will make your life easier. Really." Couldn't have said it better myself. Ooh look, freebies!
The ultimate tutorial site for coding, even if you think code is icky. It could probably tell you how to code a pony to jump out of your screen on the mouseover. Yeah, really.
Inspiration
Every Sunday we wake up, get some coffee and sit down to read through other people's secrets. It has an awkward way of inspiring creativity.
Part of the I Can Has Cheezburger family. It's probably the best way to kill 5 minutes at work everyday. Go on, get your daily fix of Asian.
Another goodie from ICHC. Helps you stay abreast of political issues. And yes, if you also laughed at the word 'abreast' then you're our kind of people.
Fuel for the all-nighter. Well, this and probably some Red Bull.
Boxer. Alligator. Genious. Dare I say we've become "nationalists"
Because inside all of us lurks a hidden geek waiting to come out and read techy product reviews.