Art & Illustration

Documentary and resource about the demoscene, the underground computer art culture that pushes hardware to create real-time audiovisual art.

An iconic piece of playful web art. Shake the worm. (Warning: flashing lights)

Art, design, and visual culture blog featuring contemporary artists and creative work. High-quality curation since 2010.

An immersive WebGL-powered tribute to the 1995 cult film Hackers. Created by David Vidovic, this interactive experience features stunning 3D animations, the iconic soundtrack, and captures the aesthetic of 90s hacker culture and cyberpunk design.

Electric Literature is an active, well-maintained 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary magazine founded in 2009 with recent content published as of February 2026. It exemplifies the directory philosophy: human-curated editorial content, independent nonprofit structure, high-quality literature and cultural criticism, and a mission-driven approach to amplifying storytelling without corporate marketing focus. The site publishes original fiction, poetry, essays, author interviews, and curated reading lists.

Codrops is an actively maintained, independent resource for web creativity and design since 2009. It features human-curated tutorials, design case studies, and a carefully selected gallery (Webzibition) of 2,230+ quality websites. The site embodies the independent web philosophy with genuine focus on creativity and quality over corporate marketing.

Another wealth visualization. 400 billion dollars, one pixel at a time.

Scroll through the universe. From astronaut to observable universe.

Visualizing Jeff Bezos' wealth. Scroll to understand billions.

Modern embroidery patterns and tutorials. Making embroidery cool again.

Philosophy jokes in comic form. Learn philosophy while laughing.

Dark humor comic strips. Beautiful art with twisted punchlines.

Epic fantasy webcomic. Stunning art and wild mythology.

Space opera webcomic. 20+ years of daily updates completed.

Kids fighting ghosts in a small town. Comedy and supernatural mystery.

Gaslamp fantasy adventure. Hugo Award-winning steampunk comic.

Mystery and fantasy webcomic. Gorgeous art and deep worldbuilding.

Long-running slice-of-life webcomic. Indie music scene and AI friends.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Philosophy, science, and dark humor.

Randall Munroe's stick figure comics. Math, science, and language jokes.

A List Apart is a well-maintained, actively published web design and development publication with recent articles (published January 2026). The site maintains high editorial standards, features contributions from recognized industry experts, covers substantive professional topics with depth across design, development, UX, content strategy, and accessibility. It perfectly fits the directory philosophy of human-made, independent web resources with quality content. The publication is backed by Nort

Smashing Magazine is an active, well-maintained independent publication founded in 2006. It's a genuine quality content platform for web professionals covering design, development, and UX—not a corporate marketing site. The site publishes substantive technical articles multiple times per week, maintains an active community with 1,900+ members, and focuses on education and professional development rather than clickbait advertising. It fits the directory philosophy perfectly as human-curated, inde

Railroad photography database. Quality photos sorted by railroad and location.

Curated zine collection. Art zines and independent publications.

Film photography community. Camera reviews, film stocks, and reader submissions.

Sound art project mapping the world. Field recordings reimagined by artists.

Matthew Christopher's photography and writing. Thoughtful documentation of American ruins.

Tom Kirsch's abandoned photography. Decades of documenting decay across America.

SVG files ready for pen plotters. Community-shared designs and patterns.

Makers of AxiDraw pen plotter. Tutorials, projects, and open source drawing machines.

Anders Hoff's generative art and algorithms. Organic simulations and plotter-friendly output.

Creative coder and generative artist. Tools, techniques, and beautiful algorithmic work.

Generative artist and plotter enthusiast. Daily pen plotter output and process documentation.

Plotter art tutorials and experiments. Code, techniques, and beautiful output.

Community hub for pen plotters and drawing machines. Resources, software, and inspiration.

Commodore 64 Scene Database. Complete archive of C64 demos, cracks, and releases.

Portal for the Amiga demoscene. News, releases, and community for classic computing enthusiasts.

Inigo Quilez's demogroup and resource site. Mathematical art, raymarching tutorials, and Shadertoy's creator.

Hungarian demogroup known for stunning 64k intros. Multiple Breakpoint and Assembly winners.

Legendary German demogroup. Created fr-08 (the product), .kkrieger, and countless award-winning productions.

Wiki about 4 kilobyte intros. Techniques for creating impressive demos in impossibly small sizes.

High-quality video captures of demoscene productions. Watch demos without running them natively.

Comprehensive demoscene database. Tracks productions, groups, sceners, and parties worldwide.

The demoscene's primary file archive. Decades of demos, intros, music, and graphics freely downloadable.

Community platform for creative coding sketches. Share and remix Processing/p5.js artwork with source code.

Write p5.js sketches in your browser. The easiest way to start creative coding with JavaScript.

Platform for generative art on Tezos. Unique algorithmic art pieces where each mint creates a one-of-a-kind variation.

Archive of ANSI and ASCII art from the BBS scene. Thousands of artpacks preserved from the 80s and 90s.

Curated classic and contemporary cinema. The gold standard for film preservation and curation.

Curated streaming service and film magazine. Hand-picked cinema from around the world.

Grant Sanderson's math animations. Beautiful visualizations that build genuine understanding.

Beautiful interactive web experiments. Includes Bubbles and an infinitely zoomable Game of Life.

WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet. Beautiful aesthetic, relaxing gameplay.

Collection of free stock photography, video, and illustration websites.

Beautiful free images. High-quality photos contributed by photographers worldwide.

Free stock photos and videos. High quality, no attribution required.

Photography community and marketplace. Discover and license stunning photography.

Photo sharing community since 2004. Billions of photos organized by groups and tags.

Julia Evans' illustrated zines on technical topics. Git, SQL, Linux, and more.

Showcase platform for digital artists. Game art, concept art, and illustration.

Art community since 2000. Traditional and digital art from millions of artists.

NASA's daily astronomy image with expert explanation. Running since 1995, a treasure trove of space imagery.

Image hosting platform built for astrophotographers. Deep sky objects, planets, and equipment details from a passionate community.

3D scan of the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Explore ancient architecture from your browser.

Explore the relative sizes of emoji objects. Scroll through a visual comparison from atoms to galaxies.

Curated short films and videos. Higher quality than YouTube's algorithm.

The demoscene's community hub. Database of demos, intros, and digital art pushing hardware to its limits.

Create and share shader programs in the browser. Mind-bending procedural graphics in real-time.

Social network for creative coders. JavaScript demos in 140 characters or less. Constraint breeds creativity.

Creative technologist. Built Bop Spotter, a device that listens to music in SF and identifies it using Shazam.

Creative code golfing. Write a function to control a 16x16 grid of dots. Minimalist creative coding playground.

Award-winning data visualization. Complex information made accessible through beautiful graphics.

Explore art and history from institutions worldwide. Virtual museum tours and high-resolution artwork.

Infinite canvas of text. Place characters anywhere, see what others have written.

Fictional operating system that never was. Art project, game collection, and absurdist software.

Generate ASCII art from text. Dozens of fonts, preview in real-time.

A page that is its own source code. Brutalist, self-documenting HTML that displays itself.

Photography and technical experiments. Famous post on what unprocessed camera photos actually look like.

Archive of digital art from 1999 to present. Net art, software art, and born-digital works preserved.

Digital comics platform. Thousands of free webcomics to read.

Webcomics and novels platform. Indie creators publishing serially.

Digital comics store. Marvel, DC, indie, and manga.

Free online photo editor that rivals Photoshop. Runs entirely in the browser, supports PSD files.

Web collage of text and images excavated from GeoCities. A memorial to the early web's creative chaos.

Pioneering net art collective. Glitchy, confrontational, and influential since 1995.

Google but for colors. Type a word and get a palette based on image search results.

Fast color scheme generator. Press spacebar to generate, lock colors you like, export anywhere.

Visual bookmarking for creative research. Build collections, discover connections, no algorithms.

Award-winning data visualizations on everything from science to pop culture.

A showcase of websites that embrace raw, unpolished design. Against the homogenization of web aesthetics.