This is where I store and recommend resources on, obviously, art and design, broadly defined. I often forget where these are or that I even knew about them so I put them here. The category is very broadly defined because it includes any resource I value as an artist and writer—anything I use or recommend or wish I used in my creative work, including website design.
Some are inspiring, some curious, and some extremely useful. The choices are entirely idiosyncratic. Inclusion reflects only my interests.
Nothing comprehensive but I hope you discover something new.
Calculators
Golden Ratio Typography (GRT) Calculator A calculator based on a design system that suggests the ideal settings for typography. |
Collections & Shops
 Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Store Wonderfully well designed, accessible site with delightful and amazing objects of all kinds. |  Handmade Maps Illustrated maps by a commercial artwork studio. Fun and fanciful. Includes gallery and a description of the process. Also has a blog on the design process. |
 Laura Jane Designs, Fascinators The fabulous fascinators you saw at The Royal Wedding. |  Online Textile Swatchbook Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. A public museum with 500,000 objects related to the material heritage and stories of Australian culture, history and lifestyle. Includes |
Education
 Core Knowledge A curriculum based on the theory that children learn better when presented a coherent and cumulative progression of knowledge and skills. In order to read, they need to understand spoken language, for example. |
For Supplies
 Artistic Wire A source of wire for knitting and crochet, as well as other things. |  Fancy Flours "Where Bakers Bloom." All things beautiful in sugar crafts — cakes, cookies, and candy. |
 Fire Mountain Gems Comprehensive site for any materials used in jewelry making. |  Rio Grande Jewelry Making Comprehensive site for any materials used in jewelry making. |
 Rishashay (Fine Metal Beads & Findings Member of the Fair Trade Federation. Bali, Indonesia. |  Wire Sculpture, aka Jewelry Making Nicely designed site with a wide range of quality materials. |
Just Useful
 DC Blogs A list of blogs on a wide variety of topics concerning DC. |  Free Printables Maps, grids, luggage tags, templates, paper dolls, forms for everything. Useful stuff. |
 Research Toolbox Links to Research sources. Designed for genealogy but useful for many more kinds of research. |  Wordnik If you love words, join Wordnik, a participatory dictionary. Also an excellent example of simple clean website design. |
My Other Sites
 A Deeper Democracy About making freedom and equality a reality. Writings on democracy informed by sociocracy. |  Sociocracy.info A primary source of information on Sociocracy. |
Typography & Graphic Design
 Abduzeedo: Abducted by Design Super high quality graphic design images. If you love using type, this is the place. Friday Free Fonts. Tuesday Free Textures. |  Free Fonts Not all of them are wonderful but many interesting fonts for use in graphics, though not always the best for text. |
Golden Ratio Typography (GRT) Calculator A calculator based on a design system that suggests the ideal settings for typography. |  Letterheady Another site maintained by the editor of Letters of Note. An archive of notable letterheads. |
 My Fonts There are many excellent sites where you can find a broad selection of fonts but this one is my favorite. It has a wonderful newsletter as well, one on fonts and one on font designers. |  Typoasis http://moorstation.org/typoasis/typoasis1.htm |
 Typography for Lawyers An excellent site on why on typography matters by Matthew Butterick. Aso has a book by the same name. Explains, among many other things why underlining and two spaces between words, even in legal briefs and bylaws, are at least two decades out of date. |  ufonts.com 130,000+ free fonts and clipart. |
Unique Blogs
Letterheady Another site maintained by the editor of Letters of Note. An archive of notable letterheads. |  Letters of Note Correspondence Deserving a Wider Audience. A collection of all forms of written letters, memos, emails, etc., that are fully worth reading, and reading again. |
 Lists of Note Another website by Shaun Usher, editor of Letters of Note, on lists, lists, lists. Funny, reflective, amazing. |  Strange Maps A blog by Frank Jacobs who is fascinated by strange maps—real, fictional, and what-if. |
Wearable Art
 Belle Chapeau Millinery In Sidney. If I were going to wear hats, this is what I would wear. Nothing short of this is worth the closet space. | Laura Jane Designs, Fascinators The fabulous fascinators you saw at The Royal Wedding. |
Website Design
Abduzeedo: Abducted by Design Super high quality graphic design images. If you love using type, this is the place. Friday Free Fonts. Tuesday Free Textures. |  Baymard Web Research Institute A small company that does research on improving usability in website design. |
 Fonts Common to Mac & Windows Systems A matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows systems. Fonts are also shown WYSIWYG. |  FreeSite.com Free Clipart, photos, icons, buttons, graphics, and more. |
Letters of Note Correspondence Deserving a Wider Audience. A collection of all forms of written letters, memos, emails, etc., that are fully worth reading, and reading again. |  Lynx Viewer A viewer that simulates what search engines see so you can improve your SEO. |
Online Textile Swatchbook Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. A public museum with 500,000 objects related to the material heritage and stories of Australian culture, history and lifestyle. Includes | ufonts.com 130,000+ free fonts and clipart. |
 useit.com To prove that content, not design, is what drives readers to your site this is one of the ugliest websites on the web. By Jakob Nielsen, the expert on Usable Information Technology. | Wordnik If you love words, join Wordnik, a participatory dictionary. Also an excellent example of simple clean website design. |