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newest resource		High Floater Portal site for new sites. A solid collection. High Floater
communities		14 Resources Newstoday Newstoday is a design community resource that posts jobs, broadcasts user submitted sites, and lists very useful resources and tools. Lounge Seventy-Two LOUNGE72 was founded in early 2002 by Kai Heuser and Antonio Vasile in Stuttgart, in the south of Germany as a non-profit online design portal, community and ezine. The aim was to get more involved in the global online design scene and give something back to the community. pixelsurgeon Pixelsurgeon is a digest of the creative, strange and interesting from the internet, relayed to you by our hand-picked team of newsposters. In addition to our newsfeed - updated several times a day, every day - we review movies, games, and music; interview designers, musicians, movie makers, and artists; and host exclusive competitions and online exhibitions of artwork from all over the world. By Designers For Designers BD4D stands for By Designers for Designers. Our mission is to 'create a corporate-free, creative, designers' collective that will encourage and inspire new media designers around the world.' Surfstation Great web site portal, because content is king. Kaliber10000 { The Designers' Lunchbox } Advanced design portal. Tons of great information, specials, news, and a store with fun gear. MoLuv Submit your site, see great sites, love great sites. Lookom The first version of lookom was published 08/02/2002. Since that day lookom.com filters the web and saves websites which are special in at least one sector i.e. flash, graphics... That means that all sites shown on lookom are a little different style boost Styleboost has been about showcasing the most beautiful links on the web. Design is Kinky Design is Kinky was created by Andrew in mid 1998 in a small flat in Sydney, Australia. His main reason for starting it was simply to get involved in the design community that he saw beginning to grow online. Influenced by sites such as Digitalthread, Zeldman.com, Shift and the K10k crew, as a designer Andrew was excited at the potential that the community showed and decided to jump on board and become a part of it. Computerlove Computerlove is the platform where creative talent and business share a professional passion for visual language. Dedicated to the creative industry, this project is totally free for use. Computerlove is built and run by a group of motivated creative individuals, and maintained by a network of international contributors and artists. brdcast. Inspiration and resources. This site is a wonderful collection of resources, submitted sites and ideas. Council C Council C is an online community centered around the website and webzine at councilc.com. We cover a variety of topics related to art, design, and creativity. High Floater Portal site for new sites. A solid collection.
employment		9 Resources Creative Hotlist A tool from Commarts, Creative Hotlist allows users to search for jobs, post jobs and create online portfolios. A quick tool, and useful. Coroflot Coroflot is a career and community site for creative professionals. Coroflot hosts individual creative portfolios, a global design firm directory, and a database of job and project openings. Aquent: Marketing and Creative Services Aquent's Marketing and Creative Services group teams up with designers seeking either full-time employment or a means to get steady freelance projects. A great resource for many agencies looking for designers as well. Blue Plate Minds Blue plate minds represents associates for freelance, freelance-to-hire and direct hire opportunities. It involves a commitment to our clients in the form of innovative recruiting techniques that enable us to locate the hottest creatives in the Greater Philadelphia region. DesignJobs designjobs is an easy-to-use job site created for designers. Employers and agencies from around the UK post their vacancies on the site, knowing that they will reach a targetted audience of talented and creative individuals. The site caters for all design disciplines including graphic design, illustration, web design and product design. The Creative Group The Creative Group focuses on placing freelance professionals in the creative, advertising, marketing, web and public relations fields. HOW Design - Jobs Design job search engine built by HOW magazine. A great resource for searching employment opportunities across the country. Advertising Age \| Careers Advertising Age's online resource for career searched in the field of advertising. Good for creatives, accounts personnel and managers. Adweek's Careercast Adweek magazine's job posting and finding engine. Good for advertising people.
organizations		6 Resources AIGA This is the American Institute of Graphic Artists. A perfect place to connect with other designers, illustrators at interesting events. Membership fees apply. Graphic Artists Guild The closest thing to a union that the design community has available. The books about ethical guidelines is particularly good. It includes pricing ideas, contracts and other great resources. Membership fees apply. The Art Directors Club The ADC is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, the ADC is a self-funding, not-for-profit membership organization that celebrates and inspires creative excellence, connecting creative visual communications professionals from around the world. DMI - Design Management Institute The Design Management Institute (DMI) is an international nonprofit organization that seeks to heighten awareness of design as an essential part of business strategy. Founded in 1975, DMI has become the leading resource and international authority on design management. Membership fees apply. Society for Environmental Graphic Design SEGD is an international non-profit educational organization providing resources for design specialists in the field of environmental graphic design, architecture, and landscape, interior, and industrial design. SEGD members are leading designers of directional and attraction sign systems, destination graphics, identity programs, exhibits, and themed environments. Membership fees apply. NextDesign Leadership Institute NextDesign Leadership Institute and the next design movement were launched in 2002 by GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor as an experiment in innovation acceleration.
podcasts/blogs		9 Resources Media Artist Secrets Media Artist Secrets is dedicated to helping you dramatically advance your creative career - Welcome to The Business of Being Creative. Founded and hosted by the legendary Franklin McMahon. Creative Cow Creative Cow is a virtual rubicon of great design and creative information. The amount of content on the site itself is staggering. The podcast is hosted by Franklin McMahon, and covers everything...3d to video, all aspects of the industry. screenLoaded A blog and podcast dedicated to all things design and technology. They discuss a lot of different topics, and have a great grasp of the current mood of technology and creative usage of it. Rookie Designer A podcast dedicated to helping rookies, newbees and veterans. Plenty of great tips and tricks. A great companion for any budding designer. Quicktips for Designers A video podcast of how-to items for designers. Works off of a screen capture and shows you exactly how to acheive visual effects in major design applications. Design Observer Design Observer was founded in October 2003 by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand & Rick Poynor. DO posts articles on design trends, ideas and whims. Graphic Design Gate GraphicDesignGate is a former links-page that turned into a blog. It’s been online since 1999. And it’s main purpose is to be around since alot of people keeps coming back. Around 2000 people every month visits this page if you are interested. 30 gms Not just the recommended daily dose of Fibre, 30gms is also a new design blog created by London design practice Fibre. 30gms is dedicated to exploring design and visual culture with your odd bit on found type, kerning and poorly placed apostrophes. They’re fastidious those Fibre folk. OneOneNine oneonenine is a graphic design/art zine collaboration involving many talented people that we are lucky enough to call friends of ours. we hope to build upon this foundation of friends and branch out to others interested in contributing to the zine.
portfolios		3 Resources Comm Arts Interactive Annual 2006 Juried collection of interactive works. Judged by some interesting designs and characters. Worth a look, not for the judging site, but the winners. Threadless Threadless is an ongoing tee shirt design competition. Two or three designs are chosen every week from 300+ submissions to be printed and sold the site wit hteh winning designers receiving $500 in cash and prizes. The American Package Museum Exhibit of great old fashioned package design. A perfect resource for retro looks, and to just observe the overall growth and progression of design through the early decades of the 20th century.
productivity		11 Resources Backpackit A fantastic, and somewhat free, service. Backpackit is a very unique and constantly evolving online to-do list. Beats most software to-do lists with easy juggling and contast web access to your tasks. You can even e-mail new to-do items to the list. Highly recommended for the freelancer who bounces around. FREE! Basecamp From the same people who brought you Backpackit...Basecamp! Another perfect freelance administration/project management tool. Also, somewhat free, atleast for a taste. Manage contacts, post project action items, organize outsourcing to other designers and send notices to your clients. Perfect. FREE! Jumsoft: Process 1.2 Process, Jumsoft’s fresh face in the tired throng of outlining applications, is destined to draw a crowd all of its own. Its sublime, user-friendly Aqua interface makes outlining with Mac OS X a treat. But that’s only the start of this all-round wonderful experience. Panic: Transmit Transmit, from Panic, is the smartest, most intuitive and reliable FTP software on the market for OS X. Highly flexible, allowing search and very reliable connections, Transmit is well worth the thirty bucks. IGG Software: iBiz iBiz is an easy to use time-billing and invoicing application. It integrates with iCal and Address Book, offers tax support, easily generates custom invoices and does all data saving behind the scenes for you. This is the most intuitive time-billing application out there. It also has a widget for faster access! OmniGraffle OmniGraffle is a powerful, yet easy to use diagramming and drawing tool. OmniGraffle can help you make amazing graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they're moved, providing stencils full of common symbols for you to drag and drop, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Create flow charts, org charts, network diagrams, family trees, project processes, office layouts - or anything else that can be represented by symbols and lines. OmniOutliner OmniOutliner 3 is an amazingly flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information. Give your creativity a kick start by using an application that's actually designed to help you think. OmniPlan OmniPlan, you can create logical, manageable project plans with Gantt charts, schedules, summaries, milestones, and critical paths. Break down the tasks needed to make your project a success, optimize resources, and streamline budgets. It's project management made painless. iRachet iRatchet is an Invoicing and Billing application. iRatchet provides the features and functionality common to billing and invoicing apps, (tracking hourly and fixed entries, multiple clients/projects, timers, pdf output, emailing of invoices, etc.), it excells in workflow, mileage tracking, web integration and ease-of-use. ConceptDraw: Project ConceptDraw Project is a unique project planning tool designed for efficient planning and tracking of multiple projects. ConceptDraw Project easily shares resources between projects, establish links and organizes a single workspace to successfully plan projects of any size and complexity. crazyegg CrazyEgg is a visual site tracking tool. It shows you where visitors clicked, lists the interaction and shows heatmaps of said clicks. It's a strong tool for visualizing what's working and not working in your site's content and design. And, you can track four pages for free.
forms and tools		5 Resources Niching Your Business Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Use this tool to determine if there is a particular industry or project type that you do the most work on. Your Hourly Rate Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet. A simple tool to help you calculate an appropriate hourly rate for your work. Time, Time, Ticking - Time-Based Estimates A simple calculator to help you estimate time-based jobs more accurately. Aids in calculating the unforseen items, such as revisions, project management and production time. Project Questionnaire An essential tool for interviewing any client about a project. Make sure you read this one. Client Survey Knowing how your clients view your services and abilities can be very helpful. And, it's a useful, easy reminder to your clients that you appreicate their business.