30 New and Promising Design Blogs You Should Know

Written by Tomas Laurinavičius on Saturday, November 14th in Blogging / 36 Comments

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

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

Creativeoverflow

The creator of Creativeoverflow is Jacques van Heerden. Creativeoverflow topic focus on Web Design, Photoshop, Soacial media.

3. WebM.ag

WebM.ag

Useful Design blog regularly publishes articles on Design, Development and Blogging topics.

4. Webtint

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

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.com

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

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

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

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

Iniwoo is design blog sharing useful information related to freebies, tutorials and inspiration.

11. Animhut

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

TutsAZ is a site that offers tutorials collected from around the web.

13. AEXT

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

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

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

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

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

OurTuts.com is an excellent design blog that writes about Photoshop tutorials, design and inspiration.

19. Themeflash

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

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

Best Design Tuts

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

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

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

DesignDazzling is a useful design blog sharing great information for designers and developers.

25. Dzinepress

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

PelFusion is a blog about graphic design, tutorials and design freebies.

27. Tutorial Lounge

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

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

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

Logolitic shares useful information for designers. Great blog for Photoshop/Illustrator enthusiasts.

Written by Tomas Laurinavičius

Tomas is a young blogger from Lithuania. He's interested in webdesign, photoshop and wordpress. Follow Tomas on Twitter @tomaslau.

36 Responses to “30 New and Promising Design Blogs You Should Know”

  1. James J Martin IV 16 November 2009 at 01:35 Permalink

    I also have a design blog at http://www.helikopterdesign.com if you’d like to check it out. Thanks!

  2. Thomson 16 November 2009 at 05:08 Permalink

    You really missed some of the real good ones. Also my blog http://www.thedesignmag.com as well.

  3. Toan Nguyen Minh 16 November 2009 at 08:42 Permalink

    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!

  4. Abhijit Shirsath 16 November 2009 at 11:16 Permalink

    Hey this is nice collection

  5. Shane Jeffers 16 November 2009 at 17:42 Permalink

    Hey Tomas! You forgot Three Styles lol.. JK Nice list dude!

  6. Tomas Laurinavičius 16 November 2009 at 17:48 Permalink

    @Shane Jeffers you’re right, but I’ll add Three Styles to the next colllection.

  7. designvore 16 November 2009 at 21:00 Permalink

    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!

  8. Tony 17 November 2009 at 04:21 Permalink

    Nicw post Tomas, but you forgot about designrfix.com. Keep up the good work.

  9. joyoge bookmark 26 November 2009 at 19:12 Permalink

    great collection, thanks for the list..

  10. Canada Web Design 29 November 2009 at 08:00 Permalink

    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…

  11. hoW mUCh 25 January 2010 at 20:50 Permalink

    Creativeoverflow looks very nice. Thanks for this great post.


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