General

• AIGA Eye on Design
• Art of the Menu
• Bella Figura

  Beautiful letterpress invitation designs by yours truly and dozens of other designers

• Boxcar Press

  Where everyone on the east coast buys letterpress plates

• Brand New

  Showcasing beautiful logo work, an Under Consideration site

• Briar Press

  Great site for keeping up with Letterpress news and to peruse / post classifieds for buying and selling type and presses

• Design Matters

  Insightful conversations with designers and creatives of all types by Debbie Millman

• Design Milk
• Design Observer
• The Dieline

  Packaging design inspiration

• FastCo Design
• The Great Discontent

  Insanely well done and well curated interviews

• Inker Linker

  A resource I created to help find printers—you can sort based on method, price, location, popularity, and more

• It’s Nice That
• Like Knows Like

  Short documentaries of creatives pursuing passion projects

• Lovely Package
• Paperless Post

  Beautiful greeting cards (including many by me!) for sending online or the old fashioned way

• Swiss Miss

  Tina Roth Eisenberg’s smile-making blog of design and gift-giving inspiration

• TED Talks: Design
• This is Colossal

Type-centric

• Alphabettes

  The power ladies of typography share projects, thoughts, etc.

• Art of the Title

  A behind the scenes look at contemporary movie title design

• Chromeography
• Fonts in Use

  Real fonts spotted in the wild plus articles and commentary by some very nerdy folks

• Glyphs App
• IAMPETH

  The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting

• I Love Typography
• Letterform Archive

  An amazing library of type/lettering/calligraphy related books, posters, and ephemera in San Francisco

• The Lubalin Center
• Ministry of Type
• Nice Web Type
• RoboFont
• Type@Cooper

  Continuing education workshops and full courses in type design, lettering, and calligraphy. Locations in San Francisco and New York

• Type Cooker

  Sets parameters to work with so you have a good starting point to practice drawing type

• Type Directors Club

  Promoting excellence in typography for over 65 years. The TDC offers excellent type related events, educational workshops, and a beautiful annual

• Type Foundry Index
• TypeKit Practice

  Lessons on best typography practices for the web by the team at TypeKit

• Typographica

  Stephen Coles’ outstanding blog of type reviews, books and commentary

Web-centric

• A List Apart

  A wonderful site covering all things relating to the web with well-written articles by the field’s top practitioners

• Awwwards

  Pure web candy

• Codecademy
• Code Pen

  A playground for the front end web—find example design patterns and inspiration for projects

• CSS Tricks

  Chris Coyier’s excellent and extremely helpful site with articles, code snippets, and other goodies.

• Don’t Fear the Internet

  A site I created with Russ Maschmeyer to teach basic HTML and CSS to Non-Web Designers.

• Kirby CMS

  I use Kirby as the content management system for my website. It’s amazing.

• Microformats

  A resource for semantic HTML in general and microformats

• Mozilla Developers Network

  An open community of developers building resources for a better web, regardless of brand, browser or platform. Top online documentation for HTML, CSS, JS, DOM

• Site Inspire

  A showcase of beautiful web and interactive design

• Site Point

  SitePoint is a hub for web developers to share their passion for building incredible Internet things

• Smashing Magazine

  An extensive resource on web design and development

• Treehouse

  An online resource of tutorials for learning to code, build apps, websites, and more

• WordPress Codex

  A massive site full of articles and forums as well as extensive documentation of all Wordpress features that is relatively easy to read and learn from

• Zeldman

  Web Design news and information since 1995

• Website Setup

  A guide for beginners of how to set up a website (not code, just set up) including buying domains, setting up hosting, etc. It's definitely not comprehensive in terms of showing you all of the CMS options out there, but does a good job (if you're a total n00b) getting you started.

Analog

• Leuchtturm Sketchbooks

  my favorite notebooks—I always get blank notebooks that are letter sized or larger

• Blackwing Pencils

  My favorite soft-leaded pencils

• Pilot Parallel Pens

  Calligraphy pens for experimenting with broad-nib designs

• Tombow Brush Pens

  Calligraphy pens for experimenting with brush lettering

• Glass DUX Pencil Sharpener
• Metal DUX Pencil Sharpener

  Honestly, one of my favorite possessions

• Midori Brass Ruler

  A beautiful little brass ruler

Digital

• Shopify

  The CMS / service I use for my online store

• Dropbox

  Dropbox completely changed the way I work and how I organize files

• Kirby CMS

  I use Kirby as the content management system for my website

• Kyle Webster’s Brushes

  The best photoshop brushes around if you want to make digital work with analog appeal

• Glyphs

  The font editor I use when designing typefaces

Life Stuff

• My Favorite Clogs

  In black, of course.

• My Favorite Backpack
• My Favorite Casual Jumpsuits
• Where I spend too much money on clothes
• My Former Favorite Store in Brooklyn

  Bird closed a few years back, but they’ve kept up an archive of their vendors, which I find handy.

• My Favorite Places in Oakland