Lovely Folks and Other Wonderful Places

Design

• Airbag Industries

  Airbag began as a blog started by Greg Storey in 2002. Since then the writing has become infamous as a blunt voice for the online design community, sprinkled with a healthy dose of satire and cynicism regarding a larger variety of topics.

• AisleOne

  An inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism

• Astheria

  The digital home of Kyle Meyer, a user interface designer at Clockwork Active Media Systems in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Cartoon Brew

  Leading the animation conversation

• Coudal Partners

  Coudal Partners provide a forum for creativity and experimentation in writing, design and commerce and to test new technologies and tools.

• Design Notes

  Committed to making good design accessible to all

• etc.

  Simply Great Webdev links since 2002

• Hard Format

  A little place to celebrate love of brilliant music-related design

• Heavy Backpack

  A showcase of the hot shit, and a space to promote talent in art, design, and moving image

• I Love Typography

  iLT is designed to inspire its readers, to make people more aware of the typography that is around them.

• It's Nice That

  It's Nice That is a daily blog launched in April 2007 by designers Will Hudson and Jez Burrows to locate, collect and share nice things within the creative world.

• Jon Hicks

  Jon Hicks' personal weblog

• Mark Boulton

  Design Thinking. Web Delivery.

• Noscope

  Joen Asmussen's weblog

• pixelspread

  The design studio and weblog of Matt McInerney

• Subtraction

  Khoi Vinh’s Web Site

• Type for You

  A blog about typography

• Under Consideration

  A growing network and enterprise dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts.

• Upstart Blogger

  A weblog helping you succeed, plus some great WordPress theme

• Veer

  Just visit it

• Ventilate

  More cool stuff

Geekery

• BB Links

  I'm an information architect. I love it. Surfing is part of my job.

• Circle Six Design

  The Circle Six Blog is part official blog of Circle Six Design and part personal blog of Brett Terpstra, co-owner of Circle Six. I write mostly for other geeks/designers, but have the goal of sharing things that will actually enrich people's lives and web

• Daring Fireball

  John Gruber raps on Apple

• Factory Joe

  Chris Messina's personal weblog

• Fimoculous

  Rex Sorgatz's weblog about music, popular culture, little bit of everything realy

• Hacking NetFlix

  All about Netflix

• Link Bunnies

  A collaborative weblog, which means it's more than one person's fault, and that it's full of links

• Neatorama

  Neat stuff everyday

• Quipsologies

  An ever-growing cluster of creative morsels found on and off line

• Shorpy

  The 100 year old photo blog

• Signal vs. Noise

  A weblog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more.

• The Raw Feed

  Where technology and culture collide

• Uneasy Silence

  Cool inks and stuff

Lovely Folks

• Chris Glass

  A fella from a small town in southwestern ohio.

• Decision Velocity

  Matt Charon's personal weblog

• Futurosity

  Robert Ellis's personal site and design playground

• Horse Pig Cow

  Tara Hunt's personal weblog

• Intensify

  Rachel, born in 1984 and raised in suburbia, is a student in the city of Chicago. Huzzah!

• Jessica Doyle

  Jessica Doyle's art and personal weblog

• Joshua Blankenship

  Joshua Blankenship's personal weblog

• Justin Blanton

  Justin Blanton currently practices IP law in Silicon Valley and has an unhealthy obsession with coding, photography, Apple, gadgets, artificial intelligence, and all things Internet.

• Playground Blues

  MyNathan Borror's website, an Interactive Art Director for a newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas

Lovely Folks Too

• cameron i/o

  Cameron Hunt's weblog, which he uses to call attention to other places on the internet I think deserve your attention.

• Eli Foner

  Eli Foner's personal weblog

• Kottke

  The home of fine hypertext products

• Kristen Havens

  The personal weblog of Kristen Haven's

• Open Switch

  Ben Gray's personal weblog

• Proof of Purchase

  Documentation of a life by receipt

• Sam Brown

  A Web Designer and Developer from Edinburgh, Scotland who specializes in usability and web standards, is a geek and loves all things technology

• Scott Berkun

  Management and creative thinking

• Yewknee

  Personal website of Michael Eades

Recommendations

• Bug

  Flawed, but one of the under-appreciated movies of 2007

• Midnight Run

  One of the forgotten classics of the 80's

• Mr. Messina's Bookmarks

  Chris Messina's bookmarks

• Orijen Dog Food

  The best dog food in my humble opinion

• Peet's Coffee

  Mmmm, cofffee

• Rule of the Bone

  Russell Banks' wonderfully creative coming of age tale

• The Great Deluge

  Great book on the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina

• The Meat Cookbook

  Mmmm, cooked meat

• The National's Boxer

  A Brooklyn-based indie rock band formed in 1999, by friends from Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Timbuk2 Bags

  Timbuk2 is more than a bag. It’s more than a brand. Timbuk2 is a bond. To its owner, a Timbuk2 bag is a dependable, everyday companion.

• Under the Blacklight

  Rilo Riley's most recent album, flawed in a few ways, but fun nonetheless

• Weeds

  Showtime's Original show about suburbia, and weed

• Willie Nelson's Teatro

  Just a great album