art online

• Google Art Project The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums. Powered by a broad, connected suite of Google technologies, the world’s great works of art and museums are now within reach to an unprecedented global au
• the endless mural AN INTERACTIVE, COLLABORATIVE ART WEBSITE ~ by Joshua Davis Studios and Automata Studios

collecting inspiration

• Zootool Visual Bookmarking
• Design Inspiration a great collection of user submitted content ~ sharing inspiration
• Pinterest Virtual Pinboard
• The Inspiration Stream A wonderful and ever-growing collection of design inspiration by the lovely Veerle Pieters
• GimmeBar collect inspiration in form of text, images, videos and webpages ~ discover more through other people’s collections

colour

• check my colours …a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits. All the tests are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide
• pictaculous Ever wonder what colors to use with an image? — Upload your image – get a color palette!
• colour API Search on Flickr to find color inspiration.

craft of design

• Typeverything collections of typographic pieces
• ZHDK collection an amazing collection of design work, put together by the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich University of the Arts)
• Method & Craft This site will not only be valuable to creative veterans, but also educational to those new to the design field. It’s like looking over the shoulder of your favorite designer.
• site inspire siteInspire is showcase and CSS gallery featuring the best web design today, designed, developed and curated by kulör
• The Icon Handbook a wonderful online companion to the book of the same name by Jon Hicks: online references, downloads and a blog will keep you learning more and more about icon design

design study

• Creattica Creattica is a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery.
• 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.
• Lost World's Fairs
• Web & Patterns collected patterns in webdesign

designer's reading lists

• The Bookshelf by Chris Coyier
• My recommended reading by Simon Collison
• Recommended Reading by Jason Santa Maria

grids in webdesign

• 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.
• Five simple steps to designing grid systems series of articles on grids in webdesign by Mark Boulton
• The Grid System The ultimate resource in grid systems.

typography for the web

• Typedia In a nutshell, Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them.
• 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. So take
• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web A practical guide to web typography by Richard Rutter
• the league of moveabletype A collection of open source fonts
• Typography Timeline timeline of typefaces