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One of my old friend/coworker's online resume/portfolio for her consulting company. Nice clean, pretty design.

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A site that has cataloged advertisements and other iconic illustrations from the 1950s. A great resource for inspiration but they retain all rights to the images so you can't use them in your own work without permission.

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a site that creates a color palette based on other sited on the web each day. You can download the palettes for use in Photoshop or Illustrator. A good resource for color insipration as well for any design project.

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A series of articles on how to foster creativity in yourself including helpful tools, how to fix your environment and how to fix your outlook.

www.organizeit.co.uk/...get-creative - Preview

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An awesome blog about design news. Interviews with graphic designers and links to inspiring portfololios as well as some cool generators and graphic toys.

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Amazing portraits painted with light. This takes some serious skill and spacial visualization techniques. I am very impressed.

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I really like the design on this guy's blog... the style switcher (blue sky to tank) is pretty cool too. Very nice!

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A website with free repeating background designs. Very "poppy", bright and colorful patterns (typical Japanese style). The website itself also has a nice Ajaxy interface that's fun to play with. Good resource and design inspiration.

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A site that lets you publish "eMagazines" but which at heart is really a very nice PDF viewer. You can use it to publish any PDF to the web and they have a couple of very nice embeddable widgets to post your creations to other sites. The drawbacks are that you can't download the PDFs and you can't have your mag printed through them.

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Nice collection of sites that are on the forefront of the design trends for the first half of 2008. The big news - glossy, plastic-ish gradients are tired (or was that last year?) and hand-drawn, "real life" textures are in.

www.webdesignerwall.com/...2008-design-trends - Preview

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Examples of CSS tweaks for use with the few standard fonts that are available on everyone's computers to create elegant typography for websites. Interesting uses of letter-spacing and line-height to dress up your limited font choices.

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Innovative ways to promote your "personal brand" in meatspace. A lot of inspiration and clever ideas here.

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Cool implementation of a lifestream using Yahoo Pipes, PHP and Curl.

joetan.org - Preview

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A site with fresh examples of good graphic design and css implemenation. Great for browsing to get some ideas and inspiration.

www.thebestdesigns.com - Preview

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Really nice, attractive and well organized website about common garden plants and how to care for them with an awesome feature that lets you browse plants by the color of their flowers. Great for a beginning gardner like me!

www.plantwire.com - Preview

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Yes, it's safe for work ;). A collection of strangely beautiful slug photographs. The colors are amazing. Good inspiration for color palettes in design projects!

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A collection of nice Ajax libaries you can use for your own sites that is expanded on regularly. Things from heat maps to lightboxes to ratings and graphics among other interesting applications are listed here.

miniajax.com - Preview

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A nicely grouped and annotated list of color resources, tools and inspiration sites targeted for web designers.

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A listing of articles by this graphic design firm, some of which have downloadable PDFs. The ones I've looked at had some interesting stuff and inspiration.

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A design/css inspiration gallery that you can filter by color scheme which is pretty cool. The designs seem heavy on graphics but well done.

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