2008 has not only been an exciting year here at TDC, but around the rest of the design community as well. I have learned so much from reading blogs (more than I had ever imagined), and as a special thanks I present you 50 insightful graphic & web design related post of 2008 organized into 23 well organized categories.
I also asked my readers and friends on Twitter if they would be interested in submitting their favorite or most popular design post from their blog in 2008. Here’s what the 2008 design community had to offer:
Advertising/Advertisements
Blog Design Inspiration
Blogging Resources
Brochure Design Inspiration
Business Card Design Inspiration
- One Stop for the Best 101+ Business Card Inspiration
- Best of Business Stationary, Letterhead & Business Cards
CSS/Web-related & Tutorials
- Top 10 Tutorials for Converting PSDs to HTML/CSS
- 10 Resources for When You Need Help with CSS
- 50 Extremely Useful and Powerful CSS Tools
- 31 Incredible Resources And Inspirations For Designers Like You To Discover The Best Of The Web In November
Colour Related
Design Resources
Flash related
Font/Type related
Freelance Resources
Grid/Layout related
- 40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out of the Box
- 32 Inspirational Examples of Amazing Layout and Typography
Icons & Twitter Tools
- 60 Free Vector Icon Packs for Design Professionals
- 47 Awesome Twitter Tools You Should Be Using
- 181 Free Twitter Buttons, Badges, Widget and Counters to Help You Find Followers
- 75 Best Free Graphics Design Icon Sets
Inspirational Collections
- 101 Awesome Portfolio Sites
- 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration Online & Off
- 60 More Places to Get Design Inspiration
Logo related
- 20 Inspirational Resources for Logos and Logotypes – Get Creative!
- 280+ Best of Best Inspirational Logos
- 50 Amazing Logos
Paperwork/Documentation
Patterns Resources
Typography Inspiration
Typography Resources
Tutorials
- 30+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials : Mastering Your Tools and Options
- 50+ Excellent Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials
Websites Inspirational
- 44 Creative Designs for Inspiration
- 21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands
- 100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design
- 20 elegant & clean websites
- 50 Excellent Designer Portfolio Sites
Web Design Tools/Resources
WordPress Themes
- 50 Free & Premium WordPress Themes you shouldn’t miss
- 60 Best Free WordPress Theme Gallery
- 30 Free High Quality WordPress Themes
40 Blogger Submitted Favorite/Popular Posts of 2008
Below is 40 design-related articles submitted by bloggers from their blog in 2008. Some great resources you may have missed:
- Web Designing is like Cooking!
- How To Use WordPress As A Truly Customized CMS
- 15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have
- Questions and Answers of SEO
- A SEO Christmas
- 10 Features Ubuntu should implement
- 25 Web Apps yet to be Discovered
- Amazon Leaks Adobe CS4 Packaging, Features
- Design Inspiration: Typography Posters
- 20 of the Best Amazing Photoshop Tutorials
- Value Your Design
- 8 Ways We Fail at Failing
- More Typographical Tattoos: Punctuation!
- 20 Free & Open Source Image Galleries for Web Designers
- How To: Using Highlights in Web Design
- How Important is Valid HTML in Web Standards?
- Social Networks Show Users Are Not Designers. And That’s Okay.
- Horribly Photoshoped Squirrels
- Common Mistakes that New Web Designers Make
- We’re Not On Board
- Reading RSS with PHP
- How I kicked whites out of the Forum of Black Journalists without saying a word! (not what you think!)
- 7 Logo Design Galleries You Should Bookmark
- Below the Fold: Why Scrolling Isn’t A Bad Thing
- waitingtohearback
- Before Photoshop There Was AcidDraw
- Design with Swirls and Flourishes
- 25 Ways to Spice Up Blog Post Photos
- Cuteness attack: When design gets cuter than puppies
- Amazing Web Design Tutorials
- Irresistible Websites Part Three: Textures
- Saul Bass and Clarity of Purpose
- 35 Stunning Black and White Logos
- On-line Copyright Infringement: 4 Ways to Remove Stolen Work
- Preparing for the Interview
- How to get a Design Job using Tinned Meat!
- Trend Review: Price Tags (Part 1)
- 30 Tutorials that will teach you Illustrator
- How to Publish Featured Videos in WordPress
- Wicked Pissa Graphic Designer For Hire!
What’s your favorite design post of 2008? What’s on you new year agenda?
A HUGE amount of inspiration right here and a LOT of great articles and posts. I was particularly interested in some of the articles focusing on web design, typography and wordpress customisations.
Thanks again for digging deep and finding some exceptional posts from around the globe!
This looks like my new study course for 2009! I can’t wait to jump into it. Thanks!
there are a couple here I hadnt seen before! Thanks, nice round up!
There is a lot of inspiration. I completely agree. Its great to see the year all summed up into one article. Thanks for taking the time to search for these and post them.
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Great roundup. Like Lyn I’ve now got a reading list for the next couple of days. Thanks for the mention!
Thanks! A lot of work went into putting this together. I appreciate it!
my site is listed twice :D how ace, thank you so much! wooe hehe
great work some great links here
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Thanks for including my 7 Logo Design Galleries You Should Bookmark post!
-Lawrence
Awesome post!
Thanks for including Spoonfed!
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Good work….. Really nice post. Thanks for sharing this post.
Awesome collection of resources… I missed out on this list but I will surely provide some useful posts the next time you compile such a list.. Great work.. keep it up :)
Collection of good links. thanks for your article.
helpful tips for webdesigners & graphic designers
Really a great resource article. Well done!!!
It seems that you have taken out a lot of time to search for all this and put it together. Excellent effort I must say!!!
Awesome post!
Thanks for including Spoonfed!
Thanks for sharing this list. Very valuable collection.
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