Design (looks)

• Apartment Therapy: Chicago - Designalicious for the home
• Chip Kidd - If you don't know who Chip Kidd is, then you must live in a cave
• Design Sponge - website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney
• Fwis - Book, logo, t-shirt design
• Make Ready - journal featuring news and observations on letterpress, book arts, typography, design, and other delectables

Animal (people)

• Archive.org - internet archive and digital library
• Atomic Archive - info on atomic history and weapons
• Chicago Tattooing Company - tattoo shop
• Mario Desa - tattoo artist
• Digitalville Design Studio - Milwaukee design studio
• Missy Kulik - great comic and craft artist
• No Media Kings - do-it-yourself book publishing and tiny movie making, a free science fiction novel, and a punk rock video game
• Wrestling Entropy - AF's Blog
• Just Seeds - radical art and street art

Mineral (print)

• Briar Press - A letterpress resource: Museum, Classifieds, Directory, and vintage postscript artwork for download
• Echo Zine Distro - Madison based distro
• Guerrilla Press - independent publishing resource
• Hero Camp - Image comic out of TX and NY
• Hot Iron Press - Striking while the Iron is hot
• Jakze - Sarah Beacon's comics and illustration
• King Cat Comics - John Porcellino's amazing comics
• Love, Chicago - Chicago based music, culture, and art zine
• Madison Zine Fest - annual Midwest zine fest
• Microcosm Publishing - Portland based distro
• Paper Mustache - Exploring Chicago's Independent Bookstores
  
  
• Chicago Review Press - Chicago independent publisher
• Independent Publishers Group - book distributor

Vegetable (sounds)

• I Hate Punkrock Records - St. Louis record distro
• Glue & Ramona Records - underground Hip Hop
• the Lawrence Arms - Chicago punk at it's finest
• Falcon - Chicago punk "supergroup"