101+ Places To Get Design Inspiration
Written by Jacob Cass on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 – 5:43 pm
I have recently noticed a multitude of blogs and websites offering design inspiration and I have decided to collect a list of the best posts and websites out there that really got me inspired.
If you have limited time, I would tell you to check out these picture based posts that load all the images on one page. Inspiration from 2007 and 32 Inspirational graphic design pieces. ShinyBinary and 57Even and UrbanCowboy and DeviantArt are also good choices.
Inspirational Collections
DesignFlavr - A gallery full of hand chosen design. 100% quality.
60 More Places To Get Design Inspiration - A list like this of 60 more websites where you can get design inspiration. All quality.
34 Places To Get Design Inspiration - 34 more websites of where to get design inspiration.
12 Links for Web Design Inspiration - A great list of where to get web design inspiration.
Great Illustrator Designs - A great pictured post of great illustrator designs.
32 Inspirational graphic design pieces - Another great pictured list of great graphic design.
The Best Inspiration from 2007 - A huge collection of awesome graphic design pieces from 2007.
Thinking For A Living - This is an awesome collection of only high quality websites and resources that have been broken down into smaller categories. Not so much visual inspiration but a list of good places where to get it.
Design Inspiration Galleries:
HOWDesign.com Design Inspiration Directory
Design Studios / Artists
Shinybinary - Nik Ainley - Must check this guy out.
57Even - Must check this guy out.
UrbanCowboy - Must check this guy out.
Blogs (Resourceful Articles + Inspiration)
My Many BookMarks
Check Out My Del.icio.us Bookmarks (You will find HEAPS more there).
The Obvious (or not?)
Try Googling ‘Design Inspiration‘. or anything else that tickles your fancy.
Use Digg and their design search
Use StumbleUpon and their design search
DeviantArt - A quick search will find many results.
Have you got any other REALLY good links?
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By AzAkers (3 comments) on Jan 7, 2008 | Reply
Nice collection - I’ve just recently found your blog, but have already found it to be quite helpful/inspiring in it’s own right, but thanks for compiling this as well!!
By Jacob Cass (429 comments) on Jan 7, 2008 | Reply
Thanks it’s always good to hear positive feedback, I will be trying to keep it up throughout the year. Thanks for reading
By Andrew (7 comments) on Jan 30, 2008 | Reply
I would like to bring http://www.designflavr.com to your attention.
Great list here otherwise
By Jacob Cass (429 comments) on Jan 30, 2008 | Reply
Thanks, Andrew I don’t know how that escaped the list. An awesome site
By Duane King (2 comments) on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
Hello and thanks for linking to my site. I wanted to call your attention to another project of mine, Thinking for a Living, a platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education.
By Jacob Cass (429 comments) on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
Hi Duane,
Your welcome… Thanks for the great link, I had a check out of the site, a lot of effort has gone into it I can see. I have added it to the list of inspiration sites. Thanks for the heads up.
Jacob.
By Roberto (1 comments) on Mar 31, 2008 | Reply
I suggest also cssglance.com as gallery.
By Shivanand Sharma (1 comments) on Apr 13, 2008 | Reply
Great list. Bookmarked.
PS (Copyright in the footer is still marked year 2007.)
Shivanand Sharma’s last blog post..Setting up your first site
By Jacob Cass (429 comments) on Apr 13, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for that. I have fixed it up (Just 4 months late)
By Duane King (2 comments) on Jun 25, 2008 | Reply
Hello. I just wanted your viewers to know that Thinking for a Living has relaunched with new features and additional content. Please enjoy!
http://thinkingforaliving.org/
By bmx (3 comments) on Aug 3, 2008 | Reply
bestweb - my favour
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