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DESIGN LINKS

The 99percent
Because, as Edison said, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, Behances launch of The 99percent isn't about ideas, it's about making ideas happen.

Digital Domain
The State of The Art.

Hello Monday
"Hello Monday is a Flash-revolutionizing, identity-building, talent-cultivating, image-moving, illustration-loving, campaign-developing, fun-sharing, idea-growing boutique 'designery'." Yup. Some kinda site, too.

Freelance Designers
Graphic and Web Designers Directory

Favourite Website Awards
Started by brit Rob Ford in 2000, The FWA is chock full of cutting edge web site designs (think Flash everything), and enjoys site visits in the millions. Rob and Julius Weidemann have also edited The FWA's first book, Guidelines for Online Success.

CSS Tests - Bruno Fassino
This testing site for all types of CSS techniques and technologies, is of great value to web designers and developers. Attention is paid to applying different techniques to the various browsers.

Motionographer
A contributor-based site that seeks to be a source of inspiration for filmmakers, animators and designers through sharing of the best of design, motion graphics and more. Includes audio design, resources, communities, tons of links.

Tom Nikosey
From logos for the Super Bowl to beautiful scripts for Shania Twain and the San Francisco Giants, Tom's got major league skills. See it.

Michael Doret & Alphabet Soup
Typographic design, and 'the art of the letterform".

Gerard Huerta
A spectacular typographic design talent, who's worked for everything from Time-Life magazines to the Super Bowl, I wanted to BE this guy when I grew up as a typographer and designer. An incredible balance of artistic talent and technical wizardry, if you're involved in visual design in any way, just visit his site.

Yukio Miyamoto
Speaking of technical wizardry, any of you using Adobe Illustrator (or any "vector-based" computer drawing program) MUST see Yukio's work to believe it. Out of this world craftsmanship and attention to detail.

RESN Design Studio New Zealand
Just the best of modern web usage. Web standards nazis, avoid this one.

Great visuals, great icons, great ideas. Yellow Icon.

LOOKOM Link List – Visit. Discover.

Designorati – A great designer's site for online, print and more. From breaking news to reviews and tests of new software and processes, this site is a wealth of information. A great visit and reference.

Coudal Partners – Creativity at its best. This shop presents live concert footage, short and experimental film, design competition (photoshop tennis is coming back), MOOM, the Museum Of Online Museums, Depth of Field, Copy goes Here, Jewelboxing, The Show, and on, and on. It's creative, it's experimental, and it showcases great design work. It is completely insane that this stuff is all on one web site. Completely.

Hillman Curtis – Hillman makes short films about designers and other creatives, and his team does great online and motion design.

Design is Kinky – New Design, links, rants ("Vent"), Art, Mugshots, Community, Design Competition.

MOLUV – a great linking site to web, graphic and motion design firms.

You Work For Them – YouWorkForThem sells great design material online. Books, Magazines, Videos, CD-ROMs, T-Shirts, and more... Typefaces, Stock Design, and other tools to help enhance your work.