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In all walks of life, inspiration can come in many forms, many sizes and at many times. Often, the best inspiration can come when least expected which is all the more reason to carry the pen and notebook whenever possible!
Though finding that creative idea and having the proverbial light bulb switch on in your head when it comes to designing is no different, there is also a whole host of places on the web to set your creative thoughts loose.
Here we introduce a selection of the terrific websites there are to scour for all sorts of web design inspiration and graphic design inspiration.
Not only do these websites showcase exceptional work to spark off ideas of your own, they're also beautiful sites to view leisurely - many hours can be spent looking through the countless pages of fantastic design!
Creattica is a stylish gallery of superb designs encompassing a wide range of disciplines.
The work showcased on the website is voted for as a means of filtering to ensure that only the very best designs are featured on a site that sees thousands of visitors view the work every single day.
Featuring twenty-nine categories of design inspiration, including logos, brochures, advertising and photography amongst others, Creattica is a clean, easy-to-navigate gallery that should be given plenty of attention.
Devoted entirely to logo design inspiration, Logopond is another gallery presented with a stylish, modern look and accessible navigation.
Providing a featured designer on the home page, you can browse the whole gallery of someone whose style you like in order to see if your inspiration will take similar suit.
The site boasts a forum to seek advice and tips about your own logo designs, whilst the site's gallery itself is split in to categories such as edgy, corporate and modern, for example, so you can look for styles to fit your brief.
CSSMania is, as the name suggests, a gallery to showcase beautiful websites that are set up purely using xhtml and css, with no table use in the layout.
In terms of website galleries, CSSMania is the world leader and features stunning websites that are constantly breaking the mould and alerting you to the latest styles and trends for international web design inspiration.
The site also features an RSS Feed to enable you to easily keep up to date with the designs as they're added.
Like CSSMania, Awwwards is a gallery for websites with a twist; also posing as an awards site whereby a jury of international web designers and developers rate the websites that are submitted to the site.
The home page is much busier than the other sites, but sustains a modern feel with intuitive development for a user experience with substance.
Promoting categories such as 'Sites of the Day' and 'Sites of the Month', there is a wide array of cutting-edge web designs to provide web design inspiration for your next project.
Dedicated to all aspects of logo design and brand identities, Logo Design Love is a site belonging to graphic designer, David Airey. Beyond the site, it is also a highly-acclaimed, printed book and popular in the world of logo design.
Set up as a blog, the site discusses all areas of logos in a huge range of different contexts.
Whilst the other sites listed above provide design inspiration in the form of galleries, Logo Design Love can set your thoughts flowing in a different manner through thought-provoking articles and logos in different environments.
If you’re looking for someone to help get your next project off of the ground, drop me a line for a no-obligation consultation and see how I could help you out.
If you’d like to find inspiration within a book, take a look at Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
