SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE// Inspirational Websites

 This collection is of general inspiration websites; places where I go to get ideas of how my next design could look. This is important to the first year because of the design context blog and also a development in personal style.

DESIGN WORK LIFE:
designworklife.com/
Design­work­life is a part of Seamless Creative, a NYC design stu­dio. As they work on new projects they post work they have seen around the internet that they find inspiring, hoping other graphic designers will too.

COSASVISUALES:
cosasvisuales.com/
A Spanish website which posts new and visually interesting posters regularly. They also look at some typography and image based work.

FORM FIFTY FIVE:
formfiftyfive.com/
Form Fifty Five or FFF is another design inspiration resource run by a group of creatives for the benefit of designers like yourself. You can find news and inspiration here. 

FFFFOUND:
ffffound.com/
ffffound is an image bookmarking website where users post creative work they find all over the internet onto the wall for other designers to get inspiration from.

DESIGNSPIRATION:
designspiration.net/
“Designspiration provides a diverse selection
of high quality, user-submitted images
as a means of sharing inspiration.” Pretty much sums up this one.

BEHANCE:
behance.net/
The behance network is a massive collection of user generated content, people working in the creative industries post work here for others to view and appreciate.

BASE:
basedesign.com/
Base is an inspiration resource cataloguing all aspects of design from fashion right through to architecture and of course, graphic design. Warning: it has a surprisingly horrible nav bar. 

ABDUZEEDO:
abduzeedo.com/
Abduzeedo is a huge website full of visual inspiration covering a range of designers, illustrators and photographers. It also showcases tutorials for a variety of design related software.