- Alvin Lustig, Modern Design Pioneer - Dedicated to the life and work of the American designer of books, magazines, interiors, and textiles. (featured in Jan 2006)
- American Package Museum, The - Aims to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th century. Also aims to create a community for interested collectors. (featured in Nov 2003)
- Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design - Researches and presents the history and impact of the Bauhaus school of art, design, and architecture. (featured in Aug 2001)
- Color Contrast & Dimension in News Design - Explains color theory and how it applies to news design through examples and exercises. (featured in Aug 2001)
- COLOURlovers - Search and browse color combinations and palettes, rate and review colors, and connect with other lovers of color. (featured in June 2007)
- Design for Chunks - Exhibition of design schemes for air sickness bags. (featured in May 2003)
- Design Not Found - Usability critique looks at the best and worst examples of contingency design through a series of site snapshots. (featured in Dec 2001)
- Doodles, Drafts & Designs - Exhibit of industrial drawings from the Smithsonian. (featured in Jan 2005)
- Eurobad '74 - An exhibition of Europe's worst interiors of 1974. (featured in June 2004)
- Forgotten Detroit - Documenting the past, present, and future of a few of Detroit's architectural landmarks. Learn about the city's collection of pre-Depression architecture in the form of hotels, theaters, office buildings, and industrial ruins. (featured in Sep 2003)
- Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera - Extensive collection of travel brochures, pamphlets, and timetables from airlines, ships, and more. (featured in Mar 2002)
- History of the Button - Tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to web sites and beyond. (featured in Apr 2007)
- Ikea Hacker - Modifying, hacking, tinkering, and generally doing what they like with the Swedish giant's stuff. (featured in Feb 2007)
- Interior Desecrators - Horrors from the land of shag and other '70s interior design mistakes. (featured in Mar 2001)
- Lafond, Adrian - Showcasing some of the designer's online multimedia applications, web sites, and games. (featured in Feb 2004)
- Leadholder.com - Virtual museum of drafting pencils includes pencil history, vintage ads, and catalogs. (featured in Jan 2004)
- Manhole Sewer Art - Features photographs of manhole covers from around the world. (featured in May 2005)
- media inspiration - Resources to inspire design professionals are gathered here -- covering books, products, web sites, designers, and other works. (featured in Dec 2000)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Unicorn Tapestries - Examines the medieval European tapestry believed to have been designed in Paris and woven in Brussels (then part of the Netherlands) between 1495 and 1505. Explore the iconographic symbol and history through photo galleries, a video, and an illustrated story. (featured in Mar 2003)
- MoCoLoco - Modern contemporary design and architecture. (featured in Dec 2004)
- Patent Room - Illustrations from original patent applications from the 1920s to the 1960s. (featured in Aug 2005)
- People's Design Award - Cast your vote for the best designed objects of all time. Contestants include the paperclip, the wheelie suitcase, and the Stratocaster. From the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. (featured in Oct 2006)
- Pictoplasma - Massive collection of global contemporary character designs, categorized by artist, country, style, and character. (featured in Mar 2003)
- Pirated Sites - Showcases side-by-side comparisons of web sites that are suspected of borrowing, copying, or stealing copyright-protected content, design, or code without permission. (featured in Aug 2002)
- Polar Inertia - Journal of nomadic and popular culture. (featured in Mar 2006)
- Pruned - Blog on landscape architecture and related fields. (featured in Aug 2006)
- Rugs of War - Project and blog investigating the history, iconography, production, and distribution of Afghani rugs depicting war. (featured in Dec 2006)
- Sensory Impact - Reporting on the culture of objects. (featured in June 2004)
- Skateboardgraphics.com - An attempt to catalog every skateboard graphic ever made. (featured in Sep 2001)
- Typorganism - Series of communication experiments exploring computational interactive design and interactive kinetic typography. (featured in June 2002)
- Ukulele Books - Books made from ukulele's that still play. (featured in Feb 2005)
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