Inspiration, information, advice and entertainment; what more do you want? The following blogs offer all these elements in different measures and combinations, but they do have one thing in common: whether design is your bread and butter or for your eyes only, they are must-reads.
Winner’s Golden Cup

In no particular order, we give you this somewhat subjective shortlist:

Veerle’s Blog
Veerle’s blog is a cheerful and extremely insightful mix of design advice and views, tutorials and interviews. The focus is on CSS and web standards but the content is varied, and Veerle has a way of writing engagingly about anything.
Quite possibly Belgium’s tastiest export ever – after Leffe Dark. veerle.duoh.com
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So many voices have expressed their thoughts on Adobe’s new icons so far and one of the more noticeable one from users is that they all thought it was some temporary place holder art. When I first saw the splash screen and application icon of Adobe Photoshop CS3 my thinking pattern was that Macromedia had its influence in the branding process: the idea of using different colors for each application and the way the splash screen is organized.
Adobe chooses to go with a two-letter mnemonic Read the more »

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On this last day of SXSW Interactive, I decided to attend a panel, Why Typography Sucks. I thought this was one of the best panels of the festival. I am not sure if it is a brit thing, but all of them BROUGHT THEIR A-GAME. The panel was made up of Mark Boulton and Richard Rutter. Read the more »

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