Graphic Design Inspiration
- Claudia Carranza
- Nov 12, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 12
As a designer, you never know when inspiration will strike. Sometimes, ideas spark instantly, but other times, they can take hours or days to develop. When we are inspired, we produce our best work. Inspiration assists us with brainstorming, mapping out new ideas and bringing these new ideas to life. Inspiration assists us with keeping our creativity alive!
Getting new ideas every day is challenging
When this happens, it’s useful to step away from the project for a moment and look at others’ work to find inspiration. Here’s a short list or selection of my favourite websites as sources of inspiration with the best compositions combining typography, graphic elements, and page layout techniques. Start exploring them!
1. Dribbble
This site is a self-promotion and social networking platform for digital designers and creatives. It serves as a design portfolio platform, a jobs and recruiting site and is one of the largest platforms for designers to share their work online.
Dribbble is where designers get inspiration, feedback, community, and jobs worldwide.
*Find me here at www.dribbble.com/c3mDesigns/shots
2. Behance
This site is a platform that allows many people to showcase their portfolios of visual work such as graphic design, fashion, illustration, photography, and more. One of the pros of Behance is that it is extremely easy to use. If you're an artist who's not a "coder", this is the perfect site for you.
Behance is a social media platform owned by Adobe® which aims to showcase creative work.
*Find me here at https://www.behance.net/claudiacarranza2
3. Muzli
One of my favorite place to find design inspiration. Discovering the best web design inspiration, logos, web trends, mobile sites and apps, innovative illustrations, design features, photography projects, and visual art, as well as opinions and articles from design experts across the world.
Muzli is a new-tab Chrome extension that instantly delivers relevant design stories and inspiration.
4. Designspiration
This is the hub for discovering great art, design, architecture, photography, typography and web inspiration. It helps you find inspiration to be creative. This endless source of ideas for designers will keep you in the know and constantly inspired.
Designspiration is a site to discover art, architecture, design, photography and more.
5. Awwwards
This site aims to recognize and promote the best of innovative web design. It recognizes and promotes the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world. Awwwards’ search tool allows you to filter for the exact inspiration you are looking for.
Awwwards is a website competition where developers can submit their artworks.
6. Pinterest
I use this wonderful site to create splendid mood boards and quotes of the day depending on my needs. With these ideas, I can make a board for a project and add multiple images or links to apply for inspiration.
Pinterest is another great site to find design inspiration and spectacular craft tutorials.
7. Visuelle
This site is an online resource showcasing some of the best international design and creative work daily. Its popularity has grown since David Bennett - an experienced creative director with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry - started it in 2007, and has gained a rather large following on Instagram.
Visuelle is an online resource curated by David Bennett.
Let's get offline for fresh air
If you consider that the ideas are not flowing, it might be a good time to step away from the computer and look elsewhere for inspiration (e.g. printed magazines, books, museums, art galleries, libraries, parks, wildlife, walks, etc.). Inspiration can come from anywhere; don’t get discouraged.
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