Visual Arts & Design Directory

Behance
Creative portfolio platform showcasing design and artistic work.
Dribbble
Design community showcasing creative work and design inspiration.
Adobe Software Alternatives List
A list of alternatives for Adobe software, including free and open-source options at the top of each category.
My Imaginary Brooklyn
A feed of a wide variety of vintage images (mostly illustrations) with sourced titles, dates, and artist names. Updated almost daily.
Old Book Illustrations
You can smell the dust of old books when you visit the site.
hack design
Offers a curated design course with weekly lessons delivered via email, focusing on practical application of UI/UX concepts for professionals.
Oxford Art Online
The online gateway to Grove Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, providing biographies, thematic essays, and image links for art-historical scholarship.
Europeana
Europe’s digital platform bringing together cultural heritage objects—books, artworks, audiovisual materials—from institutions across the continent, all freely searchable and viewable.
MediaBistro
Careers for Graphic Designers, Copywriters, Social Media Managers, Proofreaders and More.
Brutalist Websites
A curated gallery of websites featuring 'brutalist' design principles, highlighting rugged and unconventional aesthetics. The collection serves as an exploration of a distinct web design movement.
Rewild Yourself
An initiative promoting a deeper connection with nature and ecological well-being,
Dragonfly
A crypto investment firm's visually stunning website.
Same Energy | Visual Search Engine
A visual search engine designed to help users discover and organize a wide array of images.
Educated Guess
digital art education for interdisciplinary designers, offering mentorship, structured curriculum, and practical learning experiences.
Morbid Anatomy
One blog turned a public research library and cabinet of curiosities; a series of exhibitions, books, films. and public events and for a time a stand-alone museum. Explores the intersections of art, medicine, death, and culture through a variety of programs including lectures, exhibitions, classes, and films. It also maintains a dedicated library for research.
BLDGBLOG
Explores ideas and theoretical concepts related to architecture, urban environments, and the future of landscapes.
DesignObserver
critical essays and commentary on design, architecture, and visual culture, as well as the impact of AI on design. It also features a design jobs board.
Veerle's Blog
Personal website of Belgian designer, Veerle, featuring tutorials, insights into design processes, and a curated graphics inspiration stream. It also features "sidenotes", a blog covering science, nature, energy, music, and cycling.
Lines and Colors
A blog running from 2005 to current, covering painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, visual design
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A journal by book cover, and fantasy artist and designer John Coulthart, exploring topic of design and art history
ILLUSTRATION ART
Personal blog of Saturday Evening Post's art critic, David Apatoff, with a wide interest from prehistoric cave paintings to the latest modern art, with a specialty in American Illustration
The Saturday Evening Post
Iconic publication covering American life, culture, and history, famed for cover artist Norman Rockwell and publishing works from Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, J.D. Salinger, and Kurt Vonnegut and continues to publish modern writers.
Pinacotheca Petri Plancii
A personal blog and gallery of paintings by lesser 19th century artists, mainly romantic in tone.
Martin Klasch
Swedish blogger's archive of interesting illustrations such as old movie posters andcomics.
50 Watts
Showcases a curated collection of international illustration and book art. Features works with a literary and surrealist focus. Cited by the Atlantic as an example an example of a "digital muesuem"
Caustic Cover Critic
Critical commentary and extensive discussion on various book covers
We Make Money Not Art
intersection of art and technology, examining how digital tools like AI and new media influence creative expression and the cultural landscape
It's Nice That
London-based digital content platform and media brand that features art, design, and creative work.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Houses one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of American art, serving as a center for the study and appreciation of artistic heritage, features blog and digital exhibits.
Floor796
Impressive, and extensive animated scene incorporating numerous references from popular culture, including memes, video games, movies, television series, anime, and musical artists.
Bruno Simon
Famed portfolio using an impressive game-like web GL experience for by French creative developer Bruno Simon to showcase his work.
Active Theory
An impressive portfolio, interesting in itself, demonstrating avant-garde web projects, and chrome experiment for a "creative digital experience" agency.
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