Useful resources for the designer,
carefully divided into categories
I am an avid collector of useful links, and on this page I share those most relevant to graphic design.
The complete list of all my thousands of bookmarks, sorted by tag, is available on Diigo.
Blogs
Stay updated.
- It’s nice that
- Dieline The best blog about packaging
- Creative Boom
- SearchSystem
- Collateral Magazine From Italy with creativity
- Mr. CUP blog Ex Graphic-Exchange
- People Of Print
- Colossal
- Eye on Design By AIGA
- The Design Blog
- World Brand Design Much more than just a blog
- Artwort
- Design Observer
- Graffica
- Swissmiss Online since 2005
- Booooooom
- Fast Company Design Tech, design and more
- Behance Blog
- DoingCoolStuff Not exactly a blog, but features cool links
- Awwwards Everything about web design
- The Brand Identity
Books
Books on design that I have read and impressed me.
- Marks of Excellence My first book about logo design had a stong impact
- Segni & simboli The basics of writing for Adrian Frutiger
- Fare grafica editoriale Everything about publishing
- Type Tricks A pocket guide about type design, a must have
- Thinking with Type Typography explained by Ellen Lupton
- Logo Design Love A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
- Il Pensiero Laterale by Edward de Bono
- How to use graphic design by Michael Bierut
- Grid System in Graphic Design The masterpiece of Josef Müller-Brockmann
- Logo Archive Shop A wide bookshop about logos and branding
- Slanted Could I buy everything?
- House Industries Lettering Manual Advices for lettering
- Victionary Probably my favorite bookshop about contemporary graphics
- Alexey Brodovitch The king of art director’s
- Frab’s A lovely Italian shop about magazines
- Designing Type Everything to know about every single glyph
- Designing Fonts A manual to design fonts using Glyphs software
- Pentagram Marks Symbols and logotype made by Pentagram
- Sagmeister: Made You Look The iconic book of Stefan Sagmeister
- Il dettaglio in tipografia A must have guide of Jost Hochuli
- IdN Magazine Legendary magazine from Hong Kong
- The Passanger I love this monographic magazine about countries
Design history
Learning the history of graphic design.
- Archives Design Internet Archive related graphic design
- The People Graphic Design Archive
- Aiga Design Archives
- Artvee An amazing archive to download historical paintings and posters
- Design Reviewed
- Design Is History
- IADDB Collection International advertising & design database
- Sitographics
- An Introduction to the history of Graphic Design
- Designculture Interviews to great designers
- Campo Grafico The archive of heroic Italian magazine from 1933 to 1939
- Singapore Graphic Archives
- Lubalin Study Center The work of Herb Lubalin
- Wayback Machine The internet archive, to visit a past version of a website
Logo Design
Website with advices and examples of logo design.
- Logo Histories Get a newsletter focused on history of logo design
- Brand New Tons of comparisons between old and new logos
- Logo Nature A database of logos carefully organized
- BP&O Logos Archive of great logotypes
- Global Brand Database Useful tool to look for already registered logos
- Logobook Black & white logos archive
- Canada Modern Archive of Canadian graphic design
- Design Everywhere A collection of carefully curated works
- The branding style guidelines The best brand manuals to download
- Chromeography Lettering affixed to vintage automobiles
- Brand guidelines examples A collection of manuals on Are.na
- Branding Style Guides Great examples for branding
Typography
Articles and guides about typography.
- The Type Directors Club
- Colophon Foundry Articles and Guides
- Letterform Archive Non profit center for education in graphic design
- Ohno Type School
- TYPEONE Magazine Maybe the best magazine about typography
- Future Fonts Journal posts
- Type Wolf Resources
- Latino Type blog
- Type Network
- Font in use
- BP&O Custom Typefaces Part of a broader brand identity
- Letter Library The type specimens of the world
- Typography Principles By Obys Agency
- Typographica
- Type Room
- Fontstand News
- Type Design Resources Many many resources
- Design Regression Reading-related research
- Friends of Type Great examples of type and lettering
- Just My Type Font pairing
- Practical Typography Many advices about typography and publishing
- Burrowlab Demo It’s just a Beta, but it’s an amazing tool for type customization
Type Foundries
Where to buy great types.
- Monotype
- Font Fabric
- Paratype
- Commercial Type
- Lineto
- F 37
- Zeta Fonts
- Pangram Pangram
- DS Type
- Sharp Type
- Displaay
- Emigre
- Off Type
- Cast
- Production Type
- Type Department
- Optimo
- Grilli Type
- Sharp Type
- House Industries
- Swiss Typefaces
- Type Foundry A wide database about foundries
- I Love Typography
- Klim Type Foundry
- Fonts by Hoefler&Co
- Fontshare Free fonts not from Google Fonts
- Free Faces More free fonts
Illustrator agencies
Where to hire talented illustrators.
Helpful
Mockups, photos, templates… all useful stuff for designers.
- Dexigner Directory A database of design firms, studios, museums and organizations
- You work for them Everything!
- The Noun Project Wide collection of minimalistic icons
- Jessica Hische Help A handy page by Jessica Hische
- David Airey Resources A handy page by David Airey
- Icons8 Free icons
- Ionic More icons
- Hero Icons Yes, more free icons
- Canva Colors Canva explains well how to use colors
- Palletton Colour wheel
- Pigment A useful tool to compare color matches
- Unsplash Free photos stock
- Pexels Free photos stock
- Simple Icons Free SVG icons for popular brands
- Mockup Cloud Premium & Free Mockup Templates
- Mr. Mockup Premium & Free Mockup Templates
- typo/graphic posters An archive focused on typographical and graphical posters
- Huemint Inspirations about colors scheme
- Color Hunt Color palettes
- Cosmos Similar to Pinterest but cooler, give it a try
- Material Design A system of guidelines, components, and tools
- Laws of UX Tips for user interfaces
- Httpster Tons of website inspiration carefully organized
- Pixel Surplus Various free goods
- Pattern Club A gallery of beautiful graphic patterns
- Ls Graphics Mockups
- Freepik Vectors, Photo, Mockups…
- Grafigata risorse Italian blog full of useful resorces
- Public Work Explore 100,000+ copyright-free historic images and illustrations
- Design Hacks Library of tools and learning resources for web design
- Designers Italia How to improve the design of public administration
Friends
Friends I have worked with in the past.
- Constudio Architecture and engineering
- Frizzifrizzi Italian blog about art, design, publishing and more
- Diemmea Customer experience company
- Jona Sbarzaglia Visual designer
Last update: 15/11/2024