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 tag, is available on Diigo.

Blogs

Stay updated.

• It’s nice that
• Dieline The best blog about packaging
• Creative Boom
• SearchSystem
• Collateral Magazine From Italy with creativity
• Mr. CUP blog Ex Graphic-Exchange
• People Of Print
• Colossal
• Eye on Design By AIGA
• The Design Blog
• World Brand Design Much more than just a blog
• Artwort
• Design Observer
• Graffica
• 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

Books

Books on design that I have read and impressed me.

• Marks of Excellence My first book about logo design had a stong 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
• 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 Advices for lettering
• Victionary Probably my favorite bookshop about contemporary graphics
• Alexey Brodovitch The king of art director’s
• 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 I love this monographic magazine about countries
• Grafigata books A very good collection of books about graphics and creativity
  

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 great logotypes
• 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 manuals on Are.na
• Branding Style Guides Great examples for branding

Typography

Articles and guides about typography.

• The Type Directors Club
• Colophon Foundry Articles and Guides
• Letterform Archive Non profit center for education in graphic design
• Ohno Type School
• TYPEONE Magazine Maybe the best magazine about typography
• Future Fonts Journal posts
• Type Wolf Resources
• Latino Type blog
• Type Network
• 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
• Typographica
• Type Room
• Fontstand News
• Type Design Resources Many many resources
• Design Regression Reading-related research
• Friends of Type Great examples of type and lettering
• Just My Type Font pairing
• Practical Typography Many advices about typography and publishing

Type Foundries

Where to buy great types.

• Monotype
• Font Fabric
• Paratype
• Commercial Type
• Lineto
• F 37
• Zeta Fonts
• Pangram Pangram
• DS Type
• Emigre
• Off Type
• Cast
• Grilli Type
• House Industries
• 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

Illustrator agencies

Where to hire talented illustrators.

• Dutch Uncle
• Handsome Frank
• Magnifico Agency
• JSR Agency
• Folio
• Inkling
• Illozoo
• Central Illustration
• Pocko
  

Helpful

Mockups, photos, templates and more useful stuff for designers.

• You work for them Everything!
• The Noun Project Wide collection of minimalistic icons
• Jessica Hische Help A handy page by Jessica Hische
• David Airey Resources A handy page by David Airey
• Font share Free and good fonts
• Icons8 Free icons
• Ionic More icons
• Canva Colors Canva explains well how to use colors
• Palletton Colour wheel
• Pigment A useful tool to compare color matches
• Unsplash Free photos stock
• Pexels Free photos stock
• Simple Icons Free SVG icons for popular brands
• Mockup Cloud Premium & Free Mockup Templates
• Mr. Mockup Premium & Free Mockup Templates
• Hero Icons
• Huemint Inspirations about colors scheme
• Color Hunt Color palettes
• Material Design  A system of guidelines, components, and tools
• Laws of UX Tips for user interfaces
• Httpster Tons of website inspiration carefully organized
• Pixel Surplus Various free goods
• Ls Graphics Mockups
• Freepik Vectors, Photo, Mockups…
• Grafigata risorse

Design history

Learning the history of graphic design.

• Archives Design Internet Archive related 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
• Designculture Interviews to great designers
• Campo Grafico The archive of heroic Italian magazine from 1933 to 1939
• Singapore Graphic Archives
• Lubalin Study Center The work of Herb Lubalin

Friends

Friends I have worked with in the past.

• Constudio Architecture and engineering
• Frizzifrizzi Italian blog about art, design, publishing and more
• Diemmea Customer experience company
• Jona Sbarzaglia Visual designer
  

Last update: 09/05/2024