In this article, DesignCrowd designer Crystal Bernia reveals the Top 100 Design Blogs ranked by traffic and categorized by topic.
The world wide web is constantly sprouting new design blogs. Amazingly, some of the biggest websites in the world are now graphic design blogs. For example, the largest graphic design blog (Smashing Magazine) is on of the top 500 websites in the world (see Alexa.com ranking stats). Smashing Magazine gets more traffic than the super popular technology magazine Wired and may soon overtake social media news site Mashable on visitors. But one can also find blogs dedicated to design niches such as logo, website, packaging, typograhic, illustration, photography and print design.
Below are the 100 top design blogs ranked based on Alexa.com traffic statistics and categorized by niche or focus. Naturally, we've excluded our own design blog from this list and filtered out some blogs that we considered poor quality (or ruined by pop-ups and advertising).
Here are the Top 100 Design Blogs by category:
Top 100 Design Blogs
Top 50 Graphic Design Blogs
#1 Smashing magazine
#2 Hongkiat
#3 Abduzeedo
#4 Vandelay Designs
#5 Speckyboy
#6 Designm.ag
#7 Designshack
#8 Tutorial9
#9 Naldz Graphics
#10 One Extra Pixel
#11 Design you Trust
#12 Creative Review
#13 Crazy Leaf
#14 All Graphic Design
#15 Slodive
#16 Designrfix
#17 Inspired Mag
#18 Core77
#19 Best Design Options
#20 Creative Bits
#21 Design Instruct
#22 You the Designer
#23 Under Consideration
#24 Designer Daily
#25 10 steps
#26 Skyje
#27 Dj Designer Labs
#28 Go Media Zine
#29 Blue Blots
#30 Dzine Press
#31 Dexinger
#32 Cheth Studios
#33 Creative Overflow
#34 Acris Design
#35 My Ink Blog
#36 The Design Cubicle
#37 Underworld
#38 Design Freebies
#39 Design Shard
#40 Design Informer
#41 Media Militia
#42 Subtraction
#43 Animhut
#44 Outlaw Design Blog
#45 Little Box of Ideas
#46 Fudge Graphics
#47 Fuel Your Creativity
#48 Well Medicated
#49 The Design Superhero
#50 The Graphic Mac
Top 20 Web Design Blogs
#1 First (1st) Web Designer
#2 Six Revisions
#3 Web Design Ledger
#4 Web Resource Depot
#5 Web Designer Depot
#6 Web Designer Wall
#7 Cats Who Code
#8 Line 25
#9 Blog Oh Blog
#10 Design Reviver
#11 Pelfusion
#12 456 Berea Street
#13 Bitt Box
#14 Pearsonified
#15 Re Encoded
#16 Ourtuts
#17 CSS Beauty
#18 pv.mgarage
#19 Smiley Cat
#20 Web Design Fan
Top 5 Print Design Blogs
For Print Only
Visual Neography
We Made This
Print Mag
Dolce Press
Top 5 Logo Design Blogs
Logo Design Love
Logo Lounge
Brand New
Logo Designer Blog
Fuel Your Branding
Top 5 Packaging Design Blogs
The Dieline
Lovely Package
Packaging of the World
Packaging World
Dzine Packaging Design
Top 5 Typographic Design Blogs
Typophile
I Love Typography
Typographica
Daily Type
Type for You
Top 5 Photographic Design Blogs
Trendland
PDN Photo Of The Day
Fashion Photography Blog
Smashing Tips
All Day I Dream About Photography
Top 5 Illustration Design Blogs
Drawnr
Hire an Illustrator
The Little Chimp Society
Tiny Showcase
Thunder Chunky
Conclusion
Hundreds of designers and enthusiasts write design blogs and in doing so collect and create resources for other graphic, web and logo designers researching or looking for inspiration. These blogs provide a database of creativity and assures that creative blanks are filled quickly with many tools, tips, images and ideas accessible on these blogs. Whether you're searching for ideas, collaborating out of interest or browsing for leisure there is a guaranteed, unlimited supply of design tutorials, round-ups and blogs to keep one content.
One hundred is a long list but when it is full of content that is as creatively stimulating and aesthetically beautiful as this, it is well worth the time taken to view each one. Whatever the topic of design that tickles your fancy, you'll almost certainly find a blog online where someone else fancies it too. A generation that embraces sharing brilliant design on a medium so easy to access should be embraced right back, particularly those who create blogs for others to enjoy, such as those above.
Article by Crystal Bernia
Written by DesignCrowd on Friday, February 11, 2011
DesignCrowd is an online marketplace providing logo, website, print and graphic design services by providing access to freelance graphic designers and design studios around the world.
