Organizations

THE GRAPHIC ARTISTS GUILD
The Graphic Artists Guild promotes and protects its members and is committed to improving conditions for all graphic designers and the whole industry. They also produce the well known Graphic Artists Guild Handbook.

AIGA
AIGA, the professional association for design is dedicated to protecting and advancing design and its importance to society.

Generally Useful

LOREM IPSUM GENERATOR
This is a pretty famous site within the design community; you can generate dummy text on this site to put into your designs until the real copy is available.

BRANDS OF THE WORLD
This is the ultimate branding library with thousands of the worlds most famous and popular logos. Great for researching corporate identity.

PROOF READERS’ MARKS
A quick reference quite for the most commonly used proof readers’ marks.

ADOBE
Good site to check out once in a while for updates and help regarding software such as Photoshop and illustrator.

Networking & Freelance Work

CRAIGS LIST
Tons of new design jobs and gigs added every day.

GET A FREELANCER
If you are looking for an affordable but professional coder this is the place to go. Freelancers bid on projects you post.

LINKEDIN
Linkedin is a very popular site for professionals and is a valuable networking tool.

KROP
Krop.com has a database of jobs for designers, artists, and developers with an instant and easy to use search feature.

COROFLOT
Coroflot.com is a site where you can promote and host your design portfolio, search for jobs and post to hire some one.

Stock Photography

iSTOCKPHOTO
This stock photography site has incredible photographers and even better prices for illustrations and photos. It has many other benefits such as making money selling your illustrations and photography, networking with other design professionals, promoting your portfolio site, and access to active forums.

CORBIS
Corbis is one of the leading stock photography sites with millions of images online, featuring historical, fine art, business, technology, celebrity, travel, sports and nature photography.

SHUTTER STOCK
Shutter Shock is a subscription based stock photography site with over two million royalty-free stock photos available.

GETTY IMAGES
Getty Images offers a large searchable collection of rights-managed or royalty-free images and films. Getty Images is a great site if you are looking for current event and public figure related photography.

Color & Charts

COLOUR LOVERS
Colour Lovers is a great site with user submitted color palettes.

Portfolio Sites

ALT PIC
Altpic.com is a great portfolio website for artists and designers where many people come searching for the best of the best. It is a great place to showcase your designs and talent.

PORTFOLIOS.COM
Portfolios.com is a portfolio search site where viewers can easily browse through thousands of free artist and designer portfolios.

DEVIANT ART
DeviantART is a large community of artists and designers who share their work with each other via an online portfolio. Many digital artists and illustrator flock to this site and you can even buy prints of your favorite artwork.

Design Magazines

PRINT
PRINT magazine is a very famous bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design.

HOW
HOW Magazine covers many areas of design such as the business aspect, new technologies, up and coming designers and is a place for creative inspiration.

MACLIFE
MacLife.com provides news and analysis of the popular Apple products and also has daily blogs from Mac Life magazine editors and a nice selection of articles to read.

Fonts

DAFONT
Dafont is an easy to use free font site with a large collection of fonts to download. It has been around a while and is updated often with new fonts.

WHAT THE FONT
Ever see a font in use and want to know what it is? WhatTheFont is a great resource for finding such fonts.

FONT SHOP
Font Shop offers great font collections on CD, free fonts, downloadable fonts, typography tips and more.

LINOTYPE
Linotype has a massive collection of the most popular and well known fonts available for download. They also have a font lounge with many interesting font related resources.

Tutorials

LYNDA
Lynda.com is one of the largest video tutorial search engines on the internet providing comprehensive tutorials for both graphic designers and programmers.

PIXEL2LIFE
Pixel2life is a massive tutorial website with tens of thousands of tutorials for Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and more.

W3SCHOOLS
If you need to brush up on your coding skills then this is the place to go. The information is accurate and up to date and is definetly worth taking all the tutorials.

TUTORIAL OUTPOST
Tutorial Outpost has a vast collection of thousands of tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and more.

Photoshop Brushes

BRUSHEEZY
Brusheezy is a very useful site with lots of great sets of free brushes varying in style.

PS BRUSHES
PS Brushes is home to over 500 Photoshop brushes that are all free to download and categorized for easy searching.

GET BRUSHES
Get Brushes has sets of Photoshop brushes made up of various swirls, ornamental designs, and flourishes. flowers, dots, circles, and various other ornamentations.