Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering

A range of high-quality resources for Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering are freely available on the web. Start exploring them here:

Design

Coroflot: Connects designers with creative companies in a range of areas. Users are able to create professional portfolios to market themselves.
Design inSite: Aims to inspire designers, contains about 190 descriptions of products, describing the manufactural process behind them, the material used etc.
Design Method Toolkit: A collections of methods to creatively create team-based design ideas.
Dezeen: Online magazine, which covers the areas of architecture and design.
Fundamentals of Design: Open courseware from MIT about the FUNdaMENTALS principles of design.
Product Design Hub: Community for industrial designers to socialise and share their ideas.
Usability.gov: US govermental initiative to support user-centred design. Access a wealth of good information around UX studies and usability studies and much more.

Get a Grip: Learn how to sketch through videos and other interactive tools.
Design Handbook - Engineering Drawing and Sketching: Open courseware from MIT about engineering drawing.
How products are made: Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products. Also includes biographies of a range of inventors.
Instructibles: Collection of videos explaining how to create many things, including 3D printing projects.

Image Google Search: Google allows you to search for images, and there are filters, which makes it possible to exclude images protected under various licenses.
Morguefile: Free images for commercial and non-commercial use.
Pexels: Free images for commercial and non-commercial use. No attribution is necessary.
Pixabay: Royalty free images, which can reused for both commercial and non-commercial projects.
Unsplash: Free collection of high-resolution photos, made available by the photographers.
VADS: The online resource for visual arts. Over 140.000 images freely available to use in learning, teaching, and research in the UK.

The Design Museum: Located in Kensington, focusing on design in all its forms.
Fashion and Textile Museum: Located in Bermondsey, covering local and international developments in textiles.
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising: Examines consumer culture from Victorian age to present.
Museum of Design in Plastics: Museum at the Arts University Bournemouth. They are documenting their collection through text descriptions and photographs, viewable through their website.
The V&A: Claim itself to be "the world's leading museum of art and design".