I get quite a lot of emails from design students asking my advise on how they can improve their design skills and also what resources I recommend they check out. So I thought I’d put together a post that can be used as a quick reference for designers of all levels. This is basically a list of useful resources, tools, tutorials, blogs etc that have really helped me in my day-to-day web designing.

I will be adding to this list as and when I come across new interesting stuff.

Typography / Fonts

Fontsquirrel
The League of Moveable Type
Lost Type Co-op
Dafont.com
Typekit
Baconipsum
Free Faces
Haäfe & Haph Ampersands
What The Font
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
8 Faces
Ten By Twenty
Fonts In Use
Weird and Wonderful Typefaces
Google Web Fonts
OSP Foundry
Mid-Century Modern Typefaces
Wood Type Revival
Basics Of Typography
Typonine
Typedia
P.S.type

Patterns / Textures / Icons

Subtle Patterns
Take My Texture
The Noun Project
Naomi Atkinson Products
Social Media Icons
Function Subtle Grunge Brushes
Premium Pixels

HTML / CSS / Code

Less Framework
Copy Paste Character
CSS3.info
CSS Tricks
HTML5 Reset
HTML5 Doctor
Don’t Fear The Internet
1140 CSS Grid
Golden Grid System

Javascript / jQuery Plug-ins

Lettering.js
FitText
BigText
jQuery Backstretch
Isotope
jQuery Masonry
Fout B Gone
Modernizr
Countdown
MediaElement.js
Portamento
Spin.js
Chosen
Fitvids JS
Flexslider

Design Inspiration

Grainedit
Project Thity Three
Center Of Attention
False Arms
Grain & Gram
Fffound
Designspiration
Vintage Audio Cassettes
Things Magazine
Exhibit Poster
Eight:48
Design Swap
Cargo Collective
The Inspiration Grid
Test Pressing

Design Blogs

Design Heroes
Method & Craft
Smashing Magazine
24 Ways
X Height
DesignLi.st
The Design Cubicle
Cognition
A List Apart
Think Vitamin
Unmatched Style
Design Informer
Web Is Love

Galleries

Make Better Websites
Siteinspire
Awwwards
Webcreme
Siiimple
Designshack
The Best Designs
CSS DSGN
One Page Love
Mediaqueri.es
Styleboost
Style Inspiration

Miscellaneous

Make Photoshop Faster
960 Grid System
A Book Apart
Color Lovers
Loads In
Starkers WordPress Theme
Weenudge
Inker Linker
Converticon
Ifttt