Design

Design References

Design and Creativity

The Shape of Design
online version of the book by Frank Chimero
A creative Dose
“Your Booster Shot of Creativity, Productivity, Innovation” by Denise Jacobs
The Great Discontent
“… is a journal of interviews focusing on creativity, risk, and what connects us as artists.” By Ryan and Tina Essmaker
Advice on design and life by Maria Popova
Another excellent post on the 'brain pickings' blog promoting the book "I Used to Be a Design Student: 50 Graphic Designers Then and Now" (Frank Philippin and Billy Kiosoglou) and quoting some insightful thoughts and tips, definitely worth a read :) Make sure to check out the selected quotes towards the end of the post.
Design Principles

To help you along with your design while you are researching, planning and working on your client project - here are a few wonderful pieces from @adactio to read ;)

A question of style
Front end design principles
Design principles

Design Study

Pattern Tap
Pattern Tap is here to satisfy and encourage the inspiration needs of my interface design peers and peeps. We aspire to be the one stop pattern shop for your next inspiration need.
Littlebigdetails
tumblr blog highlighting well designed details, curated by Floris and Andrew of Gidsy.com
Creaticca
Creattica is a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery.
Web and Patterns
collected patterns in webdesign
Lost World`s Fair
a beautiful example of design with latest …

Typography for the Web

The Element of Typographical Style Applied to the Web
A practical guide to web typography by Richard Rutter
I love Typography
This site aims to make the subject more accessible, to bring the study of typography to the masses, if you will. It’s just about impossible to imagine a world without type, but at the same time type’s ubiquity has most of us taking it for granted.
Typedia
In a nutshell, Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them.
Typography Timeline
timeline of typefaces
The league of Movable Type
A collection of open source fonts

Grids in Web Design

Five simple steps to designing grid systems
series of articles on grids in web design by Mark Boulton
The Grid System
The ultimate resource in grid systems.
design by grid
Design By Grid is a resource to promote websites designed with grids, and the tools and techniques used to make websites with grids.

Further Reading

A list Apart
What started as a mailing list in 1997 by Jeffrey Zeldman and Brian M. Platz evolved into one of the most popular and highly regarded online magazines for webdesign and development. It's current design was created by Jason Santa Maria, coded by Eric Meyer and each article is accompanied by an illustration by Kevin Cornell.
It is a masterpiece of design and code and publishes the most insightful and visionary articles on the topics of webdesign.
Designing for the Web
Available both in print and digital format - this is the same book as listed above. Mark Boulton has now also made the entire book available to read online.
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