Inspiration
Information is Beautiful
Lots of visual ideas and inspiration.
Dribble
Dribbble is the leading destination to find & showcase creative work and home to the world's best design professionals.
Dexigner
Delivering design news, competitions, forums and links. Dexigner is a very informative service for designers and artists.
Brand New
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Le Book
International lists of photographers, stylists, model agencies, etc. Anything a photo producer would need.
Akimbo
Canada’s online source for visual art information.
Code and Theory
An NYC based digital agency
PSFK
Live, work and play better. Site on design, technology, trends and innovations
HUSH
A concept-driven design firm that integrates digital technology and physical environments to help clients deliver powerful brand experiences.
The Partners
Creative award-winning London-based agency.
BDA
An agency specializing in branded merchandise.
Applied Arts Magazine
Find out what’s hot on the Canadian design scene. They have awards, and annuals full of inspiration work.
Communication Arts
Print publication offering competitions, forums, feature articles, job bank, graphic design resources and online shopping.
Trend Hunter
Trend Hunter is the world’s largest, most popular collection of cutting edge ideas, fueled by 151,000 insatiably curious people.
Widen + Kennedy
Super famous ad agency working with the most well known brands.
Typewolf
What’s trending in type.
resources
Unsplash
High-quality, beautiful free photos, no catch! Other similar sites are Pexels and Pixabay
Flaticon
Free icons, just credit the designer :)
The Noun Project
A website that aggregates and catalogs symbols that are created and uploaded by graphic designers around the world.
Mockup World
Tons of free and legal, fully layered, easily customizable photo realistic PSD mockups
Ceros
Ceros gives designers and marketers the power to create, publish and analyze interactive and animated content for the web without writing a single line of code.
Wallpapers Wide
Choose from tons of desktop wallpapers
Markup.io
Collect feedback directly on your live website or any image for free.
1001 Fonts | Dafont | Fontpair
Loads of fonts!
Imagine 121
Innovative marketing solutions and global marketing communications with excellent customer service. They can also do custom digital dye cuts and varnish on digital, as well as custom leather note books.
Cenveo
This company has lot of different solutions, but I like to use them for gold foil printing on digital, more cost effective then offset.
Pristine Printing
I like to use these printers for small runs, even though they have good quality offset. I also think the customer service is excellent.
fun
Giphy
Find everything from funny GIFs, unique GIFs or create your own.
TED
Ideas Worth Spreading. From short clips to long videos, there is something for everyone.
Canva
An advanced free online image editor, edit images directly in your browser.
Creative Mornings
A breakfast lecture series for the creative community.
Pechakucha
The art of concise presentations.
Think Dirty App
A project born out of a personal journey to understand the truths in the beauty industry.
The Kit
Canadian interactive online fashion magazine, also available in print
Grazia
My favorite UK weekly magazine, read this to stay informed on the all the latest stories and trends.
Refinery29
Updated daily with news, trends, and shopping deals in fashion, beauty, and entertainment.
Zen Pen
A minimal text editor, made to stay out of the way while you get the words down.
Pixaloop
Create moving photos with this free app. Very simple way to make interesting creative designs for social media.
Adobe Spark
A free online and mobile app for creating social graphics, short videos, and web pages.
Poolside.fm
An online radio station, playing an infinity pool of summer sounds. The website also has a cute MS Dos retro theme.
CodePen
Build, Test, and Discover Front-end Code right in your browser for free.
Adobe Fresco
A free powerful drawing ipad app with the world's largest digital brush collection.
DALL-E
Creates images from text captions.
Imagen
Google’s text to image app