ISO50: Graphic Designer Scott Hansen's Blog
[Good Design]

Every time I need to be reminded why I'm majoring in graphic design, I take a look at this guy's stuff. The dude's got the Midas Touch and is by far my biggest source of inspiration.

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M.I.A.'s Homepage (Musician)
[Bad Design]

















M.I.A. is a British/Sri-Lanken hip-hop artist whose website pretty much embodies "terrible design" in the traditional sense. It should be noted, in M.I.A.'s defense, her website is a tongue-in-cheek throwback to the hyperactive anti-design of mid 90's personal homepages. She's actually a traditional artist as well as a musician, so it's very much her "style" to have something like that, as you can see from her music videos, t-shirt designs and if you listen to her music at all.

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PingMag
[Important to me]

PingMag is a Tokyo-based design webzine/bloggy thing available online in both Japanese and English. They always have interesting articles up (pictured: Iranian typography) and it's a vast source of inspiration for me. Check it out, it's pretty awesome.