Art & Illustration

Demoscene - The Art of Coding

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

Staggering Beauty

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

Colossal

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

Hackers (1995) - Animated Experience

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

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

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.

1 Pixel Wealth

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

The Size of Space

Scroll through the universe. From astronaut to observable universe.

Pixel Wealth

Visualizing Jeff Bezos' wealth. Scroll to understand billions.

Sublime Stitching

Modern embroidery patterns and tutorials. Making embroidery cool again.

Existential Comics

Philosophy jokes in comic form. Learn philosophy while laughing.

Perry Bible Fellowship

Dark humor comic strips. Beautiful art with twisted punchlines.

Kill Six Billion Demons

Epic fantasy webcomic. Stunning art and wild mythology.

Schlock Mercenary

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

Paranatural

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

Girl Genius

Gaslamp fantasy adventure. Hugo Award-winning steampunk comic.

Gunnerkrigg Court

Mystery and fantasy webcomic. Gorgeous art and deep worldbuilding.

Questionable Content

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

SMBC

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

xkcd

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

A List Apart

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

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

RailPictures.net

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

Poketo Zines

Curated zine collection. Art zines and independent publications.

35mmc

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

Cities and Memory

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

Abandoned America

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

Opacity

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

Plotter Files

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

Evil Mad Scientist

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

Inconvergent

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

Matt DesLauriers

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

Rev Dan Catt

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

Generative Hut

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

DrawingBots.net

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

CSDb

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

We Are Back

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

RGBA

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

Conspiracy

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

Farbrausch

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

in4k

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

Capped.tv

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

Demozoo

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

scene.org

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

OpenProcessing

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

p5.js Web Editor

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

fxhash

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

16colors

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

The Criterion Collection

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

MUBI

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

3Blue1Brown

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

oimo.io

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

Tiny Planet Messenger

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

Awesome Stock Resources

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

Unsplash

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

Pexels

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

500px

Photography community and marketplace. Discover and license stunning photography.

Flickr

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

Wizard Zines

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

ArtStation

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

DeviantArt

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

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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

AstroBin

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

Inside the Great Pyramid

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

Emoji to Scale

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

Vimeo Staff Picks

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

Pouet.net

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

Shadertoy

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

Dwitter

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

Riley Walz

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

tixy.land

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

Information is Beautiful

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

Google Arts & Culture

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

Your World of Text

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

Windows 93

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

Text to ASCII Art

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

Naked HTML Quine

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

Maucryz

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

Rhizome ArtBase

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

Webtoon

Digital comics platform. Thousands of free webcomics to read.

Tapas

Webcomics and novels platform. Indie creators publishing serially.

Comixology

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

Photopea

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

Cameron's World

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

JODI

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

Picular

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

Coolors

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

Are.na

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

Information is Beautiful

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

Brutalist Websites

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