Where to get design inspiration? Our suggestions

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Creative work requires a fresh mind, a creative approach to the subject and familiarity with current trends, but we all know that we are only human and not all of us wake up every day with a million new, brilliant ideas for projects that will shake the world. That is why, especially when working as a designer, it is worth taking a break from everyday life from time to time and doing a little creative reset, recharging your batteries. However, if this does not work, or you simply do not have time because yesterday's projects are overwhelming us, we suggest drawing inspiration from publicly available sources, which we present below.

Let's remember, however, that creative work ≠ reproductive work , so let's keep a reasonable distance from the projects we draw inspiration from and not duplicate them. Apart from the fact that it is not very elegant, it is often on the border of legality, or against the law.


This is the portal that first comes to mind when it comes to graphic inspiration for any materials, whether it is www projects, business cards or even photo editing. Pinterest has a huge database of materials from various areas of life and everyone will certainly find something for themselves there. This portal contains both professional and amateur materials, so it is worth bearing in mind that it is not worth treating everything we find there as an indicator of perfect design.


Dribbble is a portal that, in addition to collecting brilliant projects and materials, brings together creators and creates a community based on designer-employer relations, making it a kind of platform for creative people cambodia telemarketing data looking for new orders to complete. At first glance, you can see that the content on the Dribbble website is top-shelf. That's why I think it's one of the best places to draw inspiration from. Especially since the projects are divided into many categories, from animations, through branding projects, printed materials to web layouts.


This site also stands out for its very high-quality content, but it focuses its materials mainly on www projects. As in the case of the previous item, Awwwards also offers employers to post job advertisements for positions related to www design and their implementation. The portal regularly selects the best projects through user voting, thanks to which we have the most interesting projects collected in one place .

Behance is one of the most popular websites for creative people , which is why it also has a very extensive database of projects. Behance allows for co-creation of projects, which results in the creation of design teams that comprehensively deal with the implementation of projects. Many creators create their own portfolios on this website, which, like its predecessors, also provides job offers. The content of the website is sorted into fields (of which there are many, by the way), tools used to implement the project, colors, location, and schools with which the given artists are associated.

Behance

Envato elements
Envato elements

The database of this portal is incredibly extensive, it has projects in many categories from web projects, through printed elements, fonts, to a database of stock videos and photos. The unique advantage of Envato Elements is the fact that the site offers the possibility of downloading content in many formats (depending on the field). The downside, however, is the fact that downloading materials to a disk is only possible with a paid subscription. I mention it because we can see the entire content for free, and this is completely sufficient for us to draw inspiration.

Envato elements

Youtube
Youtube

Yes, let's not forget about the basic sources of motivation, there are also many creators on YouTube who regularly publish their projects, or collections of projects found on the web, which are intended to inspire recipients. This portal does not impose restrictions on the subject of design, so in addition to inspiration, we can often also easily find guides on how to achieve the presented effects, what tools to use and many others.