10+ Sites for webdesign inspiration
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To work with webdesign is to work connected, so there is nothing better than use the Web to find inspiration for new jobs. Find inspiration can serve a designer in two ways:
- Follow Trends: Watching how the world is designing is a must for benchmarking and to keep your clients design-updatd.
- Define Trends: There is also the argument of those who prefer to watch trends in order to avoid them and create a unique image on the market.
Choose your style and let’s go to the list:
Logo Inspiration
Logospire
Logospire has a nice design focused on what it proposes: to be a logo gallery. Big images and a simple navigation menu. You can also send your own logos to the gallery.
URL: www.logospire.com
Creattica
Creattica has many categories for you to see, since business cards to CSS Layouts, but you can also find excelent logos there.
URL: www.creattica.com
Layout Inspiration
Minimal Sites
Minimal Sites is a gallery of websites with a minimalistic design. You can send your own designs for the gallery through an email form or Twitter.
URL: www.minimalsites.com
CSS3 Gallery
A gallery of websites built using CSS3. The site also features links for CSS3 and HTML5 tutorials.
URL: www.css3gallery.net
Wordpress Inspiration
We Love WP
We love WP as well, therefore we couldn’t let this one out of this list. In We Love WP we find a lot of different sites with different designs, all done in Wordpress.
URL: www.welovewp.com
Wordpress Showcase
Wordpress Showcase is the Wordpress official gallery hosted at wordpress.org.
URL: www.wordpress.org/showcase/
Image Inspiration
Inspire me, now!
This is the inspiration log of the designer Szymon Błaszczyk . Full of unusual images, it is a visit worthy of spent hours on it.
URL: http://szymon.tumblr.com/
FFF Found
A web service where users can share their favorite images found on the web.
URL: www.ffffound.com
Abduzeedo
A collective blog focused on inspiration and graphic design tutorials. It has a series called Daily Inspiration, which due to its popularity already has dedicated page.
URL: www.abduzeedo.com
General Inspiration
Smashing Magazine
A digital magazine of webdesign and graphic design. Articles on inspiration, downloads and tutorials are part of this great site.
DesignMag
Another community-based digital magazine for webdesigners and developers. The sute is composed of a blog, a user-submitted news section, a design gallery and a job board.
URL: http://designm.ag/
Yes, Twitter can be an excelent source for inspiration. How? Following other designers and, so, closely following their work. Mashable has prepared a list of designers present on Twitter
85+ Designers on Twitter for you to follow
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