Not only do we love working in graphic design and web design, but we appreciate quality design and great websites. Here are a few resources that help us do our jobs, provide us with inspiration and benefit the graphic design and web design communities here in Victoria, BC and around the world.

Inspiration

faveup.com This is a community collection of logo, business card, and website designs. Good source of ideas and inspiration.

styleboost.com A collection of great websites. More great ideas and inspiration for the web designer.

Typography

typechart.com A very useful site for dealing with the pesky problem of web compatible fonts.

typetester.org Handy site for comparing web fonts.

Color

colorschemedesigner.com This is a handy color scheme program. It uses Johannes Itten’s color chords in a handy interactive color wheel. It also provides hexadecimal color codes for web design. Fun to play with and great for color inspiration.

kuler.adobe.com Another great color reference. Like the above resource, Kuler provides an interactive color wheel and choices of color chords. There is also a community component that allows you to share your color schemes.

Stock

graphicriver.net Stock photoshop files, textures, vectors, icons and more.

flashden.net Stock Flash elements.

themeforest.net Stock website and wordpress themes.

videohive.net Stock videos.

audiojungle.net Stock audio clips.

Community

Creattica Daily Design and creative news and ideas.

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada Just what the name implies.