iStockphoto.com
An idea whose time has come, iStockphoto.com is the fastest-growing royalty-free stock photography collection in the world for good reason — its fresh, diverse images cost only $1 to $15 with no other fees. A Before & After favorite.

Peachpit Press
Home to some of the world’s best-known computer book imprints, including Adobe Press and New Riders. Peachpit also publishes our own Before & After books — Page Design and Graphics for Business!

Pantone
Industry-leading spot-color matching system. PMS color libraries are already on your computer. The new Goe system has almost double the colors, chromatically arranged, and color-picking software, too. Nice.

Adobe
Twenty-two years ago with PageMaker beta 0.8 we were the first desktop publishing studio in the world. We have used Adobe products ever since. Today it’s a suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Flash.

Creativepro.com
A reliable, online resource for news, product reviews, technical help and other information useful to working designers. Two newsletters—one daily, the other weekly—keep you abreast conveniently.

RonandJoe.com
Clip-art like no other, Art Parts are visually funny, slightly bent, and they connect. Unlike generic clip-art, Art Parts are thoughtful little story-tellers. Sign up for free Parts and a hilarious e-newsletter. As Ron and Joe say, Woof!

Chuck Green
A long-time contributor to Before & After, Chuck Green is a master of the creative small project. He hosts the very instructional ideabook.com and is the author of several practical design books, all of which we routinely consult.

FreeColorPrinters.com
We love Xerox printers, especially when they’re free. Ours makes color so vibrant our comps look like the real magazine. Qualify and Xerox will give you a new one for free. Use our ID number 690431 in the referral ID field.

The Font Bureau
Founded in 1989 by Roger Black and David Berlow, The Font Bureau specializes in type for periodicals, and its client list reads like a Who’s Who of publishing. Limited and expensive, with unsurpassed quality, it’s our favorite font house.

Non-design links
It’s not enough just to be beautiful; your design needs to make things happen. That’s where marketing and writing come in.

Seth Godin
Seth is the author of Permission Marketing and nine other bestselling books that have made a big dent in the way people think about marketing in the information age. Concise and very smart, we seek and trust Seth’s advice.

PsychoTactics.com
Get inside your customer’s head. Sean D’Souza has his pen on the pulse of what makes people tick, and his “how-did-I-miss-that?” insights will have you slapping your forehead. Check out his famous Brain Audit.