Graphic Design

Building your portfolio with zero clients & no spec work (freelancefolder​.com)

Designers *first* designs… (nikibrown​.com)

The future of user interfaces (sixrevisions​.com)

Lying vs. simplifying — Ready? Fight! (northtemple​.com)

Ampersands for Haiti (idsgn​.org)

60 Clever and concise design quotes (freelancereview​.net)

Web Design & Blogging

How nth-​​child works (css​-tricks​.com)

Tips for designing unique and attractive blog posts (line25​.com)

The problem with passwords (alistapart​.com)

Applying Mathematics to web design (smashingmagazine​.com)

The three golden rules of site redesigns (sixrevisions​.com)

CSS Killswitch (csskillswitch​.com)

50 Fresh design blogs you should be reading (sixrevisions​.com)

Tutorials & Resources

Lost in space typography in Photoshop (abduzeedo​.com)

How to create a vector rubber stamp effect (burning​.me)

48 After Effects tutorials from the reaches of the Interwebs (ae​.tutsplus​.com)

How to create an informative menu-​​bar with jQuery & CSS (addyosmani​.com)

How to create a simple CSS image rollover effect (aceinfowayindia​.com)

Apps, Social & Other

Best of Appstorm in January (web​.appstorm​.net)

Funny signs (blog​.flickr​.net)

The man who looked into Facebook’s soul (readwriteweb​.com)

Two scenarios (chriscoyier​.net)

How Google failed its user and gave birth to an Internet meme (readwriteweb​.com)