30 New and Promising Design Blogs You Should Know
Nowadays thousands of blogs are created every day and the question is how to find best and worth reading blogs? Yes we know a lot of famous blogs like SmashingMagazine, Six Revisions, Abduzeedo but new and fresh blogs also writes useful information with the main topic – design.
This article presents 30 new and promising design blogs you should know that are worth checking out. Blogs featured here discuss about web design, Photoshop, WordPress, development, graphic design and much more. We hope that you’ll find a new and useful blog who will help you in your interests. We recommend you to subscribe to liked blog RSS.
We’re planning for the second showcase of new and promising design related blogs, so if you have something to offer please write in comments.
1. Onextrapixel
Onextrapixel, or more commonly known as OXP is a weblog dedicated in delivering useful, comprehensive and innovative information for designers and web developers. OXP is started by two very enthusiastic Singapore web developer and designer.
2. Creativeoverflow
The creator of Creativeoverflow is Jacques van Heerden. Creativeoverflow topic focus on Web Design, Photoshop, Soacial media.
3. WebM.ag
Useful Design blog regularly publishes articles on Design, Development and Blogging topics.
4. Webtint
Webtint is a rather small design blog, focusing on tutorials, resources and inspiration, to try and provide you as a web developer or designer (or both) with ways to make your life easier. Owned and run by Jonathan Simpson, a young (aspiring) web developer from the UK.
5. Orphic pixel
Orphic pixel founder and creator is Mars, a web and a graphic designer, a video editor, blogger and photographer. Orphic pixel sharing useful information related to design.
6. CatsWhoBlog
CatsWhoBlog is created by Jean-Baptiste Jung well-known from CatsWhoCode blog. CatsWhoBlog created to focus on blogging tips and tricks to make money online.
7. The Designed
The Designed is a web design blog that aims to deliver only the best tips and resources from all over the web. This site was created and is maintained by Greg Dougherty, a fan of new media and the internet who just recently graduated with his bachelor’s degree.
8. Design Informer
Design Informer is a web design and graphic design blog. Blog was created Jad Limcaco, a freelance website and graphic designer. Design Informer feature freelance articles, tutorials, freebies, resources, and inspiration posts.
9. Little Box Of Ideas
Little Box Of Ideas is a great blog created by Sneh Roy, a web designer/content developer by day and the creative force behind Little Box Of Ideas by night.
10. Iniwoo
Iniwoo is design blog sharing useful information related to freebies, tutorials and inspiration.
11. Animhut
AnimHut is the creation of M.SriGanesh and is designed to be a resource for Students, Web and graphic designers alike. Blog created to help people get better at Photoshop/Illustrator, other multimedia softwares and to offer some inspiration about design and multimedia trends.
12. TutsAZ
TutsAZ is a site that offers tutorials collected from around the web.
13. AEXT
AEXT was created by Lam Nguyen, a 21 years old web developer writing about a kinds of thing. Blog shares useful information for designers and programmers.
14. Drawingclouds
This blog was made by Adrien de Broglio, 22 years old aspiring designer and Photoshop lover to share Photoshop and design knowledge.
15. Denis Designs
Denis Designs is a design blog created by Tyler Denis. This website was created as a way to help people get better at Photoshop/Illustrator, and to offer some inspiration about design trends.
16. Webitect
While webmasters can come in numerous forms, this blog is for anyone who likes exploring new venues in online. This is united blog of bloggers, web designers, web programmers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, non-freelancers, and everything else in between.
17. Presidia Creative
Presidia Creative is a creative media blog that is dedicated to bringing together the best content from blogs and resources in areas such as art & graphic design, web development, and professional audio.
18. OurTuts
OurTuts.com is an excellent design blog that writes about Photoshop tutorials, design and inspiration.
19. Themeflash
Themeflash is a weblog by M.A. Wajid Khan that provides you practical and useful information for the modern trends of web standards-compliant designers and developers. Themeflash provides news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design criterea in different categories like CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, wordpress themes, graphics, typography, tutorials and much more.
20. AntsMagazine
Antsmagazine focuses on fetching best of news, tips / tricks, tutorials, free stuff etc for web-developers, designers and gamers. They aim to fetch quality over quantity to make life easy for their readers to fuel up their skills and creativity.
21. BestDesignTuts
Bestdesigntuts is a pool of design articles and tutorials where one can find all sorts of design information ranging from graphic deign tips to inspirational designs and resources & freebies for creative professionals.
22. Visionwidget
Visionwidget is a design weblog websites on the Internet. Topics on Visionwidget include Photoshop tutorials and brushes, Web Design, Graphic Design, Tutorials and Learning, Galleries and Showcases, Inspiration, Wordpres and other.
23. TutorialFreakz
TutorialFreakz is a website where you can find all kinds of tutorials about Photoshop, PHP, HTML and more. Also you would be able to find a lot of freebies to download and inspiration articles.
24. DesignDazzling
DesignDazzling is a useful design blog sharing great information for designers and developers.
25. Dzinepress
Dzinepress delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. They try to encourage you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information which they present.
26. PelFusion
PelFusion is a blog about graphic design, tutorials and design freebies.
27. Tutorial Lounge
Tutorial Lounge publish and make roundup tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner.
28. TheRoxor
This is a blog for everyone that is passionate about Illustrator, Photoshop, websites, logo’s and product packages. Actually, it’s a blog for people that are interested in various aspects of design.
29. Smashing Buzz
Smashing BUZZ is a Web Designing/Development/Technology blog that is dedicated to bringing together the best content from blogs and resources in areas such as Web Design, Web Development, Tutorials and much more.
30. Logolitic
Logolitic shares useful information for designers. Great blog for Photoshop/Illustrator enthusiasts.































I also have a design blog at http://www.helikopterdesign.com if you’d like to check it out. Thanks!
You really missed some of the real good ones. Also my blog http://www.thedesignmag.com as well.
Wow, great collection :D Why don’t you add webdesignfan in this collection? I think if you add webdesignfan, its will be got a lot of traffic and backlink :)
Thanks for nice post!
Hey this is nice collection
Hey Tomas! You forgot Three Styles lol.. JK Nice list dude!
@Shane Jeffers you’re right, but I’ll add Three Styles to the next colllection.
It seems to be good design blogs. It’s quite hard to be known when you’re beginning a blog so I think your feature will help them get more traffic. If they are as good as you say it, then they should not stay unknown for a long time. I hope it will be the case for them all!
Nicw post Tomas, but you forgot about designrfix.com. Keep up the good work.
great collection, thanks for the list..
Really promising design how about mine designtorontoweb.ca lol…anyway still working on it..but it has really great design if you’d be interested…
Creativeoverflow looks very nice. Thanks for this great post.