It has taken me almost an entire year to compile, but I have finally created a followup entry to the original “30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download” Article. The original was the most popular article I have ever posted on this blog receiving well over 500,000 unique views – fueled by twitter referrals and stumble upon. I believe that this collection is even better than the first so please enjoy these links from some of the web’s most well respected authors.
Free eBooks & Manifestos
Get a Design Job! – AIGA & IDSA
Taking Your Talent to the Web – Jeffery Zeldman
279 Days to Overnight Success – Chris Guillebeau
The Vignelli Cannon – Massimo Vignelli
The Bootstrapper’s Bible – Seth Godin
Testify: How Remarkable Organizations are Creating Customer Evangelists – Ben McConnell & Jackie Huba
The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design – Stephen Hay
A Call to Arms: Twelve Proclamations of a Win Without Pitching Agency
Ten Tests of Your Positioning
Presentations
Icon Design – Jon Hicks
Design Control – Khoi Vinh
Writing Maintainable CSS – Natalie Downe
Improving Interface Design – Garrett Dimon
Close Your Browser: Finding Inspiration In The Offline World & I Care Because You Do – Elliot Jay Stocks
Pixel Pushing a Guide to Icon Design – Jon Hicks
Interaction Design for Web Designers – Eris Stassi & Jina Bolton
Wireframes for the Wicked – Nick Finck
The Importance of Beauty in Absolutely Everything – Elliot Jay Stocks
Resource Sheets & PDF Magazines
Typography Keyboard Layout – Smashing Magazine
Font Magazine
Online Graph Paper Collections (Dot, Cross, Grid, Perspective)
Copyright Explained: I May Copy It Right? (2nd in list) – Smashing Magazine
Tutorials & Brand Books
How to Write a WordPress Plugin – DevLounge
Creative Solutions PDF Tutorials
Skype Brand Book
Illustrator CS4 How-To Guide – Von. R. Glitschka
Web Typography
Better CSS Font Stacks – Nathan Ford
Add Windows Vista Fonts to Your Stylesheets – Christian Montoya
SxSW Typography Panel
Web Typography Sucks SxSW 2007
i want look at this articles .. thx..
It would be nice to add Googles SEO starter guide
Thanks for sharing! 😀
wow, a great resource.
thanks for the list
Great list. A couple were apps and not real PDF’s. But over all fantastic collection.
@CSS Gallery,
Each of the featured resources should have an associated PDF version. It may take a little bit of looking to spot, but I wanted to make sure the authors got the credit they deserve by linking to their page rather than the pdf itself.
Thanks for putting together these lists – it really helps save time for those of us that don’t know where to find important information and best-practices guides.
i was skeptical, but nope, they are good items here
Brilliant post! thanks for sharing.
find more wonderful pdf magazines on pdf-mags.com…
thank you!
Yes! a resource that every web designer should keep safe. Whether you are doing custom web designing or web designing in general these resources are of great help.
There was a little typo on Improving Interface Design &ndash Garrett Dimon with the mdash… great resource though!
W-O-W is all i have to say. too much knowledge to swallow at one time. Gonna have fun going thru these all.
Nice share will have a look at them.
Thanks!
I remember when you posted the old list and it helped me a lot as I was new to these subjects but really willing to learn.
I have to admit those ebooks are still one of my first references and I’m really grateful to you and to the authors.
keep up the good work!
Some very useful articles. Thanks for sharing!
Omg what a great list! Think I’ll print some of them and drop them next to my bed 😀 !
Great List, thanks for all the good info! I’ve only looked through a couple so far but this will keep me busy for a while.
Awesome! Great resources all in one place. Shazam!
Nice resource, thanks.
Haha awesome collection,thanks a lot!!
Great followup. I’m actually using a few of the documents from AIGA that were on your first post. This makes my reading list MUCH larger, though.
Excellent collection.Nice article and good source of web designing. Gives me some ideas on ways to improve my own design.Thanks for shareing it.
Great collection… thanks so much.