I have travelled far and wide (web wise that is)
here are some of my favourite destinations.
Mediumphobic Steven R Gilmore Derek Hess Alex Gross June Ki m
 

Below I have seperated my links in easy to find categories.
I hope you gain as much inspiration from them as I do.

Catalina Estrada

Adhemas
Catalina Estrada
Somme
Tiffany Bozic
Arthur de pins
Dave McKean
Shaun Tan
Illustration Web
Illustrators.co.nz
Illustration.co.nz
Illustration Friday
Illustration Mundo
Amateur Illustrator
Chet Zar
Kelly Smith
The Battery
Audrey Kawasaki
Frank Stockton
Dongyun Lee
Igor Morski
Little Chimp Society (illustration Portal)
Ana Bagayan
Mutt Ink
Pale Horse
Mutt Ink

Vince Frost

Frost Design
Steven R Gilmore
Company
Steven Sagmeister
Aadvark Brigade
Imaginary Moments

Vince Frost

Vince Frost
Paula Scher
Jonathon Barnbrook

Media Design School
FontScape
LinoType
DaFont
Designing with Type
I Love Typography
Post Typography
Magazines
• CMYK Magazine
• Print Magazine
• Computer Arts Magazine
• Wallpaper Magazine
• Communication Arts Magazine
• Graphis Magazine
Juxtapoz Magazine
Indesign Magazine
Creative Pro
Rene and Jannis
• Allessandro Bavari
René & Travis
Mark Holthusen
Keith Carter
Fredrik Ödman
Bizarro
Mattijn
Noli & Provoste
Surland Blueprints

Texture Artists
Texture Archive
Texture Bin
CG Textures
Traffic Signs
Skeleton Reference
Suurland Blueprints
Anatomy References
Army Technology
3D Artists
JPG Mag
Spot Bit
Brush Eezy
Vector Eezy

Media Design School

StockExchange
Veer
Flickr
iStock
Getty Images
Getty Images - Mood Stream
Deviant Art
DreamsTime
Shutter Stock
Nasa Space images
Artbitz
DevListing
• You work for them

Media Design School
The Dieline
Lovely Package
Duffy Partners
Good Creative
Little Fury
ID Branding
Brandever (winelabels)
beach packaging design
Fold Factory
Aloof Design
Mark Ryden

Mark Ryden
David Ho
DaveGraphics
Lori Earley
SmokymonkeyS
DesignForChunks
James Jean
Destroy Rock City
Kimberly Schamber
Joe Sorren
My Pet Skeleton
Happy Pencil
Chetzart
Chapter 3
Ray Caesar
Tiffany Bozic
Dave Kinsey
JimBot

Allessandro Bavari
Nem Design
Dave McKean
Sophie Toulouse
Derek Lea
Derek Bacon
Maggie Taylor
• Allessandro Bavari
Diane Fenster
Tribe Radio
Eyes of Chaos
Tom Arthur Opasinski
Bert Monroy
Computer Arts
Bert Monroy (Photoshop)
Designing with type (Typography)
Just Creative Design (Graphic Design)
Smashing Magazine
Illustration Dan (Illustrator)
Tutorials Garden
Illustrator Tips
Vector Vault
N Design
Tutorial Expert
Photoshop CS Tutorial
InDesign Secrets
InDesign User Group
Acrobat Users
The InDesigner
The ID Users (Pod Casts)
• Premiere Pro Effects
XL5 Design

Cool Web Design
Design is Kinky
XL5 Design
volumeone
codex series
Hillman Curtis
Practising Farm
Habitat 7
Cool Home pages
Media Monks
Twofifty
linkdup
HTML Validator
Cool Stop
Wow Designs
Web Standards
theFWA
The CSS Zen Garden
Smashing Magazine
The Best Designs

Media Design School
• Logo Pond
Kuler (Adobe Colour Community)
Net Diver
Most Inspired
Colour Lovers
Pages Online
Freelance Switch
Just Creative Design
Oddee (oddities of our world)
Skelliewag
Wisdom quotes
Paper cuts
All Graphic Design
1940s Paperback Book Covers
Mudpub
Henri K Drescher
Book Covers
Something Awful (Photoshop Phriday)
Visual Thesaurus
Design-muse
The Design Files
Gig Posters
The Untapped Source
Deezer (Music)
Aesthetic Apparatus (posters)
Intermediate with Gen (Design Blog)
Catalog Tree
Daily Poetics
Motionographer
The Oblique Strategies (creativity pack)
FFFFound
OMG Posters
Graphic-Exchange
Threadless (T-Shirt Design)
ISO50 - Scott Hansen
Post Typography
NotCot
Media Design School
Media Design School
The Makeup School

I have found over time that while many design books look good on the outside
once you get up close and flip through the pages they just aren't worth buying.
Below is a list of books that I have found to be worth the expense.

Stylepedia Stylepedia:
A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits
By Steven Heller & Louise Fili
The Creative Habit The Creative Habit:
Learn it and use it for life
By Twyla Tharp
The Anatomy of Design The Anatomy of Design:
Uncovering the Influences
and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design
By Steven Heller & Mirko Ilic
Make it Bigger Make It Bigger
By Paula Scher
Thinking with Type Thinking with Type:
A Critical Guide for Designers,
Writers, Editors, & Students
By Ellen Lupton
Geometry of design Geometry of Design:
Studies in Proportion
and Composition
By Kimberly Elam
Grid Systems Grid Systems:
Principles of Organizing Type
By Kimberly Elam
A typographic Workbook A Typographic Workbook:
A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry
By Kate Clair
Grid Systems Graphic Design:
The New Basics
By Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips
   
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