20 of the Best Graphic Design Articles, Inspiration & News May 2009

Niki

From design related iPhone games to wireframes to letterpress effects – this roundup is full of great links and resources and inspiration! Hope you enjoy and let us know if you find anything cool that you want to see here!

Planning Your Wireframes

David shows you how to do a hand drawn plan of your wireframes to give you an idea of what the layout of your website will resemble.

We’re not machines, why do we work like ones?

We can’t be working 24/7/365 like machines. We are not freelancers discuss structuring our work schedules like athletes training schedules – working hard in season and taking is easy in the off season.

Press Check

PRESS CHECK is a designer ode to the old-school art of print plate alignment re-imagined as a challenge of speed and accuracy on your iPhone/iPod Touch. Show off your non-digital skills with levels ranging from the beginner 2-color set-ups to the expert 5-color jobs.

50 Creative Business Cards of 50 Graphic Designers

The Design Cubicle has a great roundup of reader submitted business cards of all shapes and sizes.

20 Great (and 20 not so great) Logo Redesigns

Logos express complex ideas and concepts with simplified illustrations and typefaces that communicate distinctively and effectively. They are one of the most difficult aspects of graphic design for this reason. Some logos are incredibly clever and effective while others are poorly made and fail to communicate.

5 Tips For Design Students

A short article that details several tips for design students and those about to graduate and make their way out into the design world.

Design Community Twitter Hours

Designer and Twitter-er Chad Engle (@chadengle) decided to start #DCTH after a chat with some fellow designers. DTCH takes place on Thursday evenings from 6-8:30pm (eastern time) and includes a chat time and a question and answer time.

Finding Inspiration When Starting a New Web Project

The beginning stages of a new web project can often be daunting, especially if there are areas of uncertainty that lie ahead. Believe it or not, this a blessing in disguise! Obstacles in the way of achieving your end result challenge you to be better at what you do. Let’s face it, our jobs would be boring if they were easy! I’m going to show you how to deal with venturing into uncharted territory.

Andy Smith Illustration & Design

Looking for illustration inspiration? Look no further than Andy Smith’s portfolio. It’s chock full of hand drawn typography goodness!

Tutorial 9 Turns 1!

Yay! Tutorial 9 has been cooking up great Photoshop tutorials for a year! A big thanks goes to David Leggett! Keep up the great tutorials!

How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips

Yay! Tutorial 9 has been cooking up great Photoshop tutorials for a year! A big thanks goes to David Leggett! Keep up the great tutorials!

Love Helvetica

All Helvetica all the time – Love Helvetica is (one) of Graham Smith side projects. Check it out for tons of type inspiration.

10 Awesome Free Sans Serif Fonts

Andrew from My Ink Blog has a great round up of free sans serif fonts. Some of then I have not heard of!

How To Build A One Page Portfolio

Chris from Spoon Graphics has an awesome and simple tutorial on how to build a single page portfolio site. Great tutorial for people that need to get their work up quickly.

Twitter Paid $6 or Less for Crowdsourced ‘Birdie’ Graphic

Wired.com has an interesting article about crowsourcing and the famous twitter bird. Crowdsourcing and spec work is always a hot button issue in the design community.

Outlaw Design Blog Podcast

Danny from Outlaw Design Blog has started a new podcast! In this episode Danny discusses how to jump start your freelance career.

Well Medicated

Well Medicated is not a new design blog by any means, but its new to me! With a nice clean design and lots of posts full of design inspiration – definitely a blog worth checking out!

The art of the title sequence

Design inspiration is everywhere – even movies. Check out this great roundup of title sequences and prepare to be inspired by typography in motion!

The Letterpress Effect

Knocked out text or the ‘Letterpress Effect’ has managed to make its way into a range of website designs. Chris from Line25 has gathered up some great designs that feature this effect.

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly of Portfolios

So you think your work is aesthetically pleasing and meets your client’s goals? Then, why not showcase it with a user-friendly portfolio? UX Booth has some great tips and pointers for making your portfolio website the best it can be.

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Andy May 4th

Hey Niki

Thanks for the great links…found an article in this list that I thought I had lost forever as I couldn’t remember the title of it

Keep up the great work!
Andrew Houle May 4th

Thanks for including a post by MyInkBlog on this awesome list :)
nat May 4th

It’s good creative. Thank for archive.
David Leggett May 4th

Thanks Niki :) Nice work with another wonderful roundup.
Serkan May 6th

Thank you. Great archive.
Dario Gutierrez May 6th

Thanks for the links collection.
Patricia May 7th

yay! yay! yay!
Phil May 13th

wow… this is really a cool collection. Great, thank you.

Although I have seen some of them in other locations (e.g. SM) I especially like the wireframe article and the getting inspired when you start a web project article.
Sanchit Thakur May 17th

Very nice posts..
9swords July 16th

Great roundup! Going to grab a coffee and start reading. Thanks!
Hossein February 9th

Thank you. Great archive.