25 Top Design Posts of 2008

Posted by on Jan 6, 2009 in Inspiration, Reference | 8 comments

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We selected this year’s 25 top posts from design related blogs. Each day, more and more, the blogs are becoming great tools for designers as inspiration sources and a new place for learning. Check the list!

Inspiration

Dzine Blog – Beautiful 3D typography designs for inspiration
1

Vectortuts – 50+ High-impact Illustrated Vector Posters
2

Freelance Switch – 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration – Online and Off
3

Typography

Smashing Magazine – Breathtaking Typographic Posters
4

Abduzeedo – 10 Amazing Typography Artists
5

The Design Cube – 10 Common Typography Mistakes
6

Logo Design

Elite by Design – 105 Logo Design Tuts and Resources
7

Vectortuts – 30 Brilliant Vector Logo Designs Deconstructed
8

Snap2objects – Creating a Logo – The Process
9

Freebie

Six Revisions – 40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets
10

Bittbox – Freebie Roundup: 12 Places To Download Free Textures
11

Design Reviver – 350+ Brushes, Textures, and Fonts: Massive Hand Drawn Roundup
12

Package Design

Verlee Blog – Inspiration series: Package Design

13

Tutorial 9 – Phenomenal Packaging Design & Inspiration
14

Dzine Blog – Packaging design inspiration
15

Tutorial – Photoshop

PSDtuts – Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop
16

Abduzeedo – Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop
17

Ebin – How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop?
18

Tutorial – Illustrator

Abduzeedo – Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop
19

Spoon Graphics – Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial
20

Vectortuts – Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout
21

Various

Abduzeedo – 20 Great Photo Manipulations
22

Dzine Blog – 36 Cool Business Cards You Should’ve Seen
23

Spoonded Design – 75 Stunning HDR Images: The Ultimate HDR Collection
24

Snap2objects – Is your website ready for the 5-seconds-attention-span challenge?
25



8 Comments

  1. Drew
    January 6, 2009

    What about TheDieline.com for package design inspiration? Way better than the others.

  2. estefany
    January 7, 2009

    TheDieline is surely a great site for package design, but the post is about the best posts, so these roundups are a good choice to see various itens.

  3. Blinds User
    January 9, 2009

    Lots of good sites here which I will look at when I can. Another great post. Thanks.

  4. Charlie
    January 19, 2009

    They are cool, thanks a lot :)

  5. solexy
    April 14, 2009

    thx, really good post

  6. Mike - Sibelius 6
    July 8, 2009

    I love the telephone design, it is very creative.

  7. Bid 2 Improve
    July 9, 2010

    Great set of posts, thanks for all the useful information

  8. shane
    January 10, 2012

    your awsome thanks again

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