art links - resources and tutorials/communities and organisations

Area of Design - Showcases established and emerging artists, designers, commercial firms, and non profit groups based in the United States. Features include design resouces, member news, events and exhibitions calendar, featured artists, Spotlight column, American Icons, and a directory.
Crafts Council - the UK's national organisation for the promotion of contemporary crafts.
DesignAddict - portal for Modern and post-modern design lovers.
Drawn - a collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw.
Istanbul Artists' Collective - this is the blog of a large group of artists, we publish pages from our sketchbooks here.
Mojizu - a contemporary character design community.
Smart & U - an online communication portal facilitating the Art community. We feature the daily art news, art related events, on-going shows and provide art related services. We also encourage emerging artists with on-line shows. In addition we have a private art trading module.
StrangeFruits - hand-picked selection of creative, strange and "amazing" websites.