So I thought I would share some links that I use regularly and I will try to break them out into understand able categories.

Organizational Links Tips and Tricks

www.Lifehacker.com – this is my favorite – it is from the people who are from the gawker franchise but this site is useful. They offer everything from software hacks to stress reducing techniques.

Anyone who is an information worker from writer to designer can use these tips.

www.zenhabits.net
http://www.43folders.com/

Design

www.ffffound.com
www.changethethought.com
www.blog.iso50.com

Free Downloads

www.bittbox.com
www.gomediazine.com
www.vecteezy.com

Design Tutorials

http://psdtuts.com

www.webdesignerwall.com

Textures

http://cgtextures.com/

http://stocktextures.com

Business Philosophy

www.37signals.com/svn

Finding Logo’s
www.brandsoftheworld.com

Fonts

www.dafont.com
www.ilovetypography.com
www.fontstruct.fontshop.com

you can build your own font online with the last service and down load alot of open source fonts as well

Open Source Browsers

www.mozilla.com

Just grab all of their plugin’s – I recommend – Web Developer – you can see all of the CSS that is on a page
Firemarks – this allows you the sync you bookmarks over many computers.

Feel free to comment and leave your great websites! I intend to update this post regulary

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If you do not know Joshua Davis work I think you are in for a great surprise.
He manages to stride the divide between Artist and Corporate designer.
He also creates his art through flash a mix of math and design create unexpected results that are complex and stunning.

you can see more of his work here

The secret is to think like a designer!

Here is Ideo’s five-point model for strategizing by design.

Edward Tufte:

I was unpacking my books last weekend and rediscovered this book. Many of you might have heard of him already – but essentially he is the father of Information Design. I would argue that Information Design is the umbrella under which all design falls under, it distinguishes art from design through the specific process of the communication of information (although of course this argument is not water tight but that is a discussion for another time.)
Much of his work focuses on the relationship between Quantitative information and the text and graphics that are used to inform others about this information, One of the themes of Tufte’s work is the relationship between graphics and Text (for him graphics were bar charts and graphs etc etc but for us they could just as well be layout and color scheme). One of his major tenets is that one should reduce to clarify the message or information, and that in order to be successful in information design both analogue and digital info (or graphics and text if you like) need to support each other (and I am simplifying this ) and that they need to be created with a singular goal – to convey in the information a quickly and clearly as possible.
I recommend anyone checking out this book – if information design theory sounds dry and unappealing – then the many beautiful illustration of successful information design are worth the flip through alone.

This is an article from one of the people at Campaign Monitor (who are leaders as far as Todd (again another person who has helped me understand some of the basics of programming and always has time for my inane questions thanks Todd) our programmer for Brooks Bell is concerned) in the HTML email design and deliverability field. Some really good standard email rules for our clients as well as design ideas (with screenshots aplenty!)

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Make the click worth their time: By Scott Meldrum

“Before making a deeper connection, consumers want to have confidence that their clicking time is worth the effort. HypeCouncil’s founder shows how to make them glad they said yes to your brand.”

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