Food for thought.
As a designer it is important to acknowledge new trends and good design for inspiration and fresh innovative solutions. The design community is comprised of thought leaders and educators that provide free information for everyone to use. Below are my favorite resources, hope they help.


Thought Leadership

Smashing Magazine
Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Their aim is to inform their readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development.

Design you Trust
Design You Trust is a daily design blog and community, full of new design trends, news and events, great design portfolios, young design bloods, design articles, photographies, fashion, creative advertisements, architectural inspirations, video design and hand-picked design stuff from all over the globe.

UXmatters
UXmatters is a Web magazine that delivers compelling content about developing effective user experience (UX) strategies.

Logo Design Love
Logo Design Love is a website (and now a book) devoted to logos. Launched in January 2008, it’s regularly updated with news, features, and opinions from the world of brand identity.
Design Resources

Designers Toolbox
Free Templates to help start any project.

Da Font
Free Fonts for both the Mac and/or PC.

Lorem Ipsum
Generate generic text for composition and layout purposes.

Best Web Gallery
Great examples of web design inspiration.

Cool Homepages
This website isn't designed well, but it presents some good examples.

The Daily Slurp
A daily list of beautiful sites.


Vector Graphics Vecteezy – Free Vector Graphics
Vector4free – Free Vector Graphics
Vector Magic – Convert Bitmap to Vector


Stock Images Image After – Free Images and Textures
IstockPhoto – Cheap stock photos/movies/animations.


Developer Resources Ws Schools – Great Resource for Developers
Go to and Learn() – Flash Examples and Downloads
FFiles – Flash Examples and Downloads