I am an avid collector of useful links, and on this page I share those most relevant to graphic design.
The complete list of all my thousands of bookmarks, sorted by tags, is available on Raindrop.

Blogs

Stay updated.

• It’s nice that
• Dieline The best blog about packaging
• Creative Boom
• SearchSystem
• Collateral Magazine From Italy with creativity
• Colossal
• The Design Blog
• World Brand Design Much more than just a blog
• Design Observer
• Graffica
• Print Mag
• Swissmiss Online since 2005
• Booooooom
• Fast Company Design Tech, design and more
• Behance Blog
• DoingCoolStuff Not exactly a blog, but features cool links
• Awwwards Everything about web design
• The Brand Identity
• Creative Review
• Mind Sparkle Mag
• Domestika blog
• Trend List Not exactly a blog, but it’s great
• Creative Bloq Creativity & Technology
• The Creative Indipendent Interviews and guides for creative people

Books

Books on design that I have read and impressed me.

• Marks of Excellence My first book about logo design had a strong impact
• Segni & simboli The basics of writing for Adrian Frutiger
• Fare grafica editoriale Everything about publishing
• Type Tricks A pocket guide about type design, a must-have
• Thinking with Type Typography explained by Ellen Lupton
• Logo Design Love A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
• Il Pensiero Laterale by Edward de Bono
• How to use graphic design by Michael Bierut
• Grid System in Graphic Design The masterpiece of Josef Müller-Brockmann
• Logo Archive Shop A wide bookshop about logos and branding
• Slanted Could I buy everything?
• House Industries Lettering Manual Advice for lettering
• Manual of Diacritics How to design the diacritics of different languages
• Victionary Probably my favorite bookshop about contemporary graphics
• Alexey Brodovitch The king of art directors
• Frab’s A lovely Italian shop about magazines
• Designing Type Everything to know about every single glyph
• Designing Fonts A manual to design fonts using Glyphs software
• Pentagram Marks Symbols and logotype made by Pentagram
• Sagmeister: Made You Look The iconic book of Stefan Sagmeister
• Il dettaglio in tipografia A must have guide of Jost Hochuli
• IdN Magazine Legendary magazine from Hong Kong
• The Passanger A magazine with each issue focused on a different country
  

Design history

Learning the history of graphic design.

• Archives Design Internet Archive related to graphic design
• The People Graphic Design Archive
• Aiga Design Archives
• Artvee An amazing archive to download historical paintings and posters
• Design Reviewed
• Design Is History
• IADDB Collection International advertising & design database
• Sitographics
• An Introduction to the history of Graphic Design
• Designculture Interviews to great designers
• Campo Grafico The archive of pioneering Italian magazine published from 1933 to 1939
• Singapore Graphic Archives
• Archivio Grafica Italiana
• Wayback Machine The internet archive, to visit a past version of a website
• Art of the Title Title design from major films since the 1920s.
• Archivio Grafica Italiana Online archive dedicated to the entire Italian graphic design heritage

Logo Design

Website with advices and examples of logo design.

• Logo Histories Get a newsletter focused on history of logo design
• Brand New Tons of comparisons between old and new logos
• Logo Nature A database of logos carefully organized
• BP&O Logos Archive of outstanding logos
• Global Brand Database Useful tool to look for already registered logos
• Logobook Black & white logos archive
• Canada Modern Archive of Canadian graphic design
• Design Everywhere A collection of carefully curated works
• The branding style guidelines The best brand manuals to download
• Chromeography Lettering affixed to vintage automobiles
• Brand guidelines examples A collection of brand guidelines on Are.na
• Branding Style Guides Great examples for branding
• Brand Site Design Collection of guidelines from global brands.
• Logo System A logo library
• Rebrand Gallery  Visual identity inspirations 

Typography

Articles and guides about typography.

• The Type Directors Club
• Colophon Foundry Articles and guides
• Letterform Archive A wide archive for education in type and graphic design
• Ohno Type School
• Type Today Journal
• TYPEONE Magazine Stunning magazine about typography
• Future Fonts Journal posts
• Alphabettes Blog
• Type Wolf Resources
• Type Network
• Hoefler & Co News Great blog about typography
• Font in use
• BP&O Custom Typefaces Part of a broader brand identity
• Letter Library The type specimens of the world
• Typography Principles By Obys Agency
• Type Specimens An archive of modern type specimens
• Typographica
• Kern Type A letter spacing game
• Pratical Typography Useful key rules by Butterick
• Type Room
• The League of Moveable type Culture of type and some good free fonts
• Fontstand News about typefaces, books and foundries
• Type Design Resources Countless resources
• Design Regression Reading-related research
• Friends of Calligraphy Great examples of type and lettering
• Just My Type Font pairing
• Practical Typography Many advices about typography and publishing
• Burrowlab Demo It’s just a Beta, but it’s an amazing tool for type customization
• Space Type Generator A super free tool to generate lettering in 3D space
• Fontpair A website that helps you pair free fonts
• Font Brief A tool to select great fonts by their personality

Type Foundries

Where to get great types.

• Monotype
• Font Fabric
• Paratype
• Commercial Type
• Lineto
• F 37
• Zeta Fonts
• Pangram Pangram
• DS Type
• Sharp Type
• Displaay
• Emigre
• Blaze Type
• Beasts of England
• Off Type
• Cast
• Atipo Pay what you want
• Production Type
• Type Department
• Optimo
• Grilli Type
• MCKL
• Sharp Type
• House Industries
• Latino Type
• Swiss Typefaces
• Type Foundry A wide database about foundries
• I Love Typography
• Klim Type Foundry
• Fonts by Hoefler&Co
• Fontshare Free fonts not from Google Fonts
• UNCUT A good collection of Fonts, most of them are free
• Velvetyne Free sperimental display typefaces
• Font Squirrel Wide collection of free fonts from different designers
• Collletttivo Italian open source foundry
• Best Free Fonts A place which collects many free fonts
• Free Faces Other free fonts from different foundries
• Use & Modify Selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces.
• Awwwards Free Fonts A selection of free or limited weel designed fonts

Illustrator agencies

Where to hire talented illustrators.

• Dutch Uncle
• Handsome Frank
• Magnifico Agency
• JSR Agency
• Folio
• Inkling
• Illustrissimo
• Illozoo
• Central Illustration
• Closer & Closer
• Pocko
• Sinergy Art
• Jacky Winter
• H+ Creative
• Agent Pekka
• Illustration Room
• Everyone Agency
• Illustrationx
  

Motion

Inspiration, tools and templates for motion graphics

• Brands In Motion A directory of motion designers
• Masd Lab AEscripts and working files for AE
• School of Motion
• AEscripts The bible of After Effects
• Jake in motion Tutorials
• Social Media animation A list of tutorials
• Headquarters Scripts and working files for AE
• Size Assets Great motion mockups
• Animography Animated Typefaces for Adobe After Effects
• Motion Graphics & Branding

Ready to use

Mockups, photos, icons…

• You work for them Everything!
• The Noun Project Wide collection of minimalistic icons
• Icons8 Free icons
• Pattern Club A gallery of beautiful graphic patterns
• Brands of the World Vector file of most popular logos
• Unsplash Free photos stock
• Ionic More icons
• Mockup World Many free mockups
• Hero Icons Yes, more free icons
• Isocons Cool icons in isometric views
• Vecteezy Photos, vectors, videos…
• Pexels Free photos stock
• Pixabay Free photos stock
• Public Work Explore 100,000+ copyright-free historic images and illustrations
• Envato Elements You can buy a wide range of assets, templates, photos..
• Simple Icons Free SVG icons for popular brands
• Mockup Cloud Premium & Free Mockup Templates
• Mr. Mockup Premium & Free Mockup Templates
• Pixel Surplus Various free goods
• Ls Graphics Mockups
• Public Work Explore 100,000+ copyright-free historic images and illustrations
• Mockups Design Many free mockup
• Freepik Vectors, Photo, Mockups…
• World in Dots Creates vector dotted maps
• Free textures of Resource Boy Great packs of textures and more

Web tools

Online tools for creating a wide range of effects.

• Schultz Tools Custom made free-to-use browser-based tools
• Ladybug A powerful web tool with tons of effects for static and motion graphics
• Antlii Tools Impressive generative web apps from Ukraine
• Space Type Generator Stunning kinetic type generator
• Effect App A lot of great effects to modify images
• Dither Garden One of the best web tool for dithering
• Tooooools.App Great Black&White Effects
• BDFM Another cool dithering web tool!
• Endless Tools Web tool to craft striking 3D visuals and animations
• SVG Pattern Builder allows to create and download animated SVG patterns
• NEAT Cool tool to design static and animated gradients
• Halftone Maker A powerful free tool to create halftone images
• Grainrad A free website to apply a wide range of cool effects
• Jum Young Lee Tools A living archive of visual experiments
• Particles Simulator Mesmerizing
• SVG DIther Filter Powerful and free
• Colir Curve based gradients
• Pixel Crash Elaborate videos with creative coding and pixel effects
• Spectrolite A desktop app for making colorful risograph prints easily

Helpful

Various useful resources for designers.

• Stefano Sagmeister answers Wise answers about design and life in general
• Dexigner Directory A database of design firms, studios, museums and organizations
• Jessica Hische Help A handy page by Jessica Hische
• Alessandro Segalini resources Many links about graphic design and typography
• David Airey Resources A handy page by David Airey
• Canva Colors Canva explains well how to use colors
• Palletton Colour wheel
• Cosmos Similar to Pinterest but cooler, give it a try!
• Pigment A useful tool to compare color matches
• typo/graphic posters An archive focused on typographical and graphical posters
• Huemint Color scheme inspirations
• Color Hunt Color palettes
• Color review A tool to check contrast between foreground and background colours
• Material Design  A system of guidelines, components, and tools
• Laws of UX Tips for user interfaces
• Landbook Web design inspiration gallery
• The East Asian Graphics Archive Graphic design made by creatives from East Asia
• Httpster Tons of website inspiration carefully organized
• Grafigata risorse Italian blog full of useful resources
• Design Hacks Library of tools and learning resources for web design
• Designers Italia How to improve the design of public administration
• Deck.Gallery Beautifully designed decks, curated
• Craftwork Web and UI example
• Lunabeige FM Music for creatives

Events

The best fairs, festivals and conferences about graphic design.

• OFFF Barcellona Spain
• POV Budapest Hungary
• Inscript Just online, but super
• Graphic Days Torino
• Forward Festival Germany and Austria
• INTL International Scotland
• Galicia Design Week La Coruña, Spain
• Desina Napoli
• Design Bomb Catania
• Design Thinkers Canada
• Seoul Design Festival Korea
• Design in motion Festival Holland
• Eastern Design Conference Slovakia
• Illustri Vicenza
• Blanc Festival Spain
• Birmingham Design Festival UK
• Testo Pitti Immagine Firenze
• Serifalaris Bilbao
• TypeCon Portland, Oregon USA
• European Design Awards Europe
• Digital Design Days Milano & Palermo
• D&AD Festival London
• Bologna Children Book Fair Italy
• Illustrator Festiwal Poland
• Us By Night Belgium
• Bienal de Diseño Bolivia
• Anymotion Festival Brazil
• Type Paris France
• Ad Black Sea Georgia
• LADFEST Peru
• PawChewGo Milano
• Fontstand Conference Berlin
• Typographics New York
• AGI Open World
• Gdynia Design Days Poland
• Brno Bold Czech Republic

Friends

Friends I have worked with in the past.

• Constudio Architecture and engineering
• Diemmea Customer experience company
• Jona Sbarzaglia Visual designer
• Rubio & del Amo Awards winning studio from Spain

Last update: 31/08/2026