Visual Culture is a daily design blog that presents a fresh mix of visually inspiring material as it relates to modern day life. Quoting from their own words, the intention behind this blog is to raise awareness of current pressing issues, cultivate discussion, inspire, and inform.

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Tags: Blog, design, visuals, web.

Different from most websites listed here in DsgnxDvlp.com, The Web Hosting Hero is rather commercial-oriented and write tons of low-value affiliate sales copy. Nevertheless, I think the owner of the website did a good job in setting up a remarkable theme that stands out from the rest.

Visit The Web Hosting Hero.

Tags: design, hosting, web, website.

Jon Gerlach is a media design student that runs a portfolio website at Jpgerlach.com/. The website exhibits series of interesting art work and it’s worth visiting for all other designers.

Visit Jon Gerlach.

Tags: CG, design, jon, photoshop, portfolio, website.

Need some Ninja’s magic to transform your initial magic to actual web designs? Have no fear, Slice Ninja is here to help. Slice Ninja is a well developed website that sells web design and coding works. Their business promise is to take your design and turn it into a valid XHTML & CSS webpage within 3 business days.

Visit Slice Ninja online.

Tags: design, website.

Here’s a free web tool for bloggers and webmasters who do not wish to spend hundreds in image editing software: Pixlr.

Pixlr is a free online image editor where you can work on images in your browser. The web tool is built in Flash and you need to have a Flash plug in to get it to work. Basically, the web tool is built for non-professionals who need basic image editing functions. The system, from what I see, is merely a tool for editing web images to be posted on blogs, news-sites, as well as image sites like Flikr, Photobucket etc.

Visit Pixlr online, or start editing images here.

Tags: bloggers, design, graphics, web, Web Tools.

Web Design Ledger is a publication (or blog) written by web designers for web designers. As stated in the About Page, the blog’s primary purpose is to act as a platform for sharing web design related knowledge and resources. They have built tons of informative list-blogpost for web designers and I’m sure every web designers will enjoy their time at Web Design Ledger.

Visit Web Design Ledger.

Tags: design, web, website.

U Creative – yet another web and graphic design gallery.

Tags: design, graphic, web, website.

Logo Design Love was established a year ago by logo lover David Airey. The blog is piece of great work devoted to logos and are read by more than 8,000 subscribers at the time of writing.

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Tags: brand, design, logo, logos, love.

Specky Boy is a blog I found via StumbleUpon. The blog poses a clean design styles and compiled an unbelievably H-U-G-E list of tutorials and guides around the Internet (which explains why it’s so welcomed in media bookmark sites).

For those who’re looking forward to learn some new Photoshop trick but lazy to search, Specky Boy is the place to go.

Tags: Blog, design, fireworks, guides, photoshop, skill, tutorials, wordpress.

It’s the first working Friday of the year (assuming you took a day off on last week), why not grab a few tutorials online and learn something new? Listed below are a good list of five brilliant tutorials in icon designs.

• 10 Tips for Effective Icon Design
• 7 Principles of Effective Icon Design
• How to create a high gloss graduation hat icon
• 10 mistakes in icon design
• Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon

Well then, off you go for the reading! Have a nice weekend~

Tags: create, design, favicon, icon, icons.