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Being a designer means constantly finding new inspirations and ideas for your work, because ideas are the key to design.
At the beginning of their career, designers have crazy inspirations and never stop producing great works at a frantic pace.
But as time goes by, the enthusiasm is not the same, so the inspiration and ideas are not as abundant as in the beginning.
Thanks to this article, you will never run out of inspiration or ideas again, because I’m proposing you the best graphic design blogs for inspiration, where to get inspired and find great ideas.
Take your notebooks and record the names of these websites and blogs and go visit them regularly, because they are Ali Baba’s caves where to find the works of the best designers.
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Logo design inspiration websites
Branding packaging & opinion
BP&O is a design inspiration website created by English freelance designer Richard Baird. Richard offers on his blog design information, reviews, and inspiring artworks.
As far as artworks are concerned, the blog features logos, graphic illustrations, architectural works and informative articles.
Brand new
Brand new is a design site maintained by a team of experienced designers who offer a wide range of skills from idea to final product.
They offer their work on their site, you should definitely take a look at their works, they can give you ideas for your next designs.
Their works are of a very inspiring quality and aesthetic.
Logo Design Love
Logo design love is launched in 2008, it is a platform that shares great ideas regarding visual identities.
You will find beautiful logos, and you will be inspired to create attention-grabbing logos.
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Designspiration
Designspiration is in line with the values it advocates. Its interface is minimalist, simple and easy to use.
Once you access the site, you will see the beautiful creations of the artists. I invite you to visit it, you won’t regret it.
Graphic inspiration sites for webdesign
AWWWARDS
Among these graphic design blogs for inspiration, Awwwards is one of the rare that have their own very strict evaluation process and a team of experts to judge the works sent by the designers.
This sorting out of the works before making them available on their site, leaves room for only the cream of the crop of artistic works.
However, because of their strict selection criteria, some good projects are sometimes disqualified because they do not meet their selection criteria.
Best Website Gallery
Best website gallery lists nearly 3000 active websites on the web that all have a captivating design. You will find among this collection, websites for graphic design inspiration, ecommerce sites, showcase sites, landing pages, in short any type of websites.
The goal is to inspire you during your realizations of website project.
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CSS Nectar
CSS nectar waq launched in 2014. It is a portfolio of best websites and developer works submitted to them. No matter what type of website project you want to do, you will find great examples from css nectar that will inspire you.
PANDA
Panda brings together the best tools, technologies, ideas, resources from the design ecosystem. It’s a perfect website to find inspiration for your work.
What’s special about panda is that it keeps you focused on what you’re looking for thanks to its ALL IN ONE PLACE. Instead of being spread out looking for information left and right on the web.
Site Inspire
The name alone explains the type of platform it is. Siteinspire like the previous webdesign inspiration websites, gathers beautiful website creations to inspire beginner web developers and also experienced web developers looking for new ideas.
The Design Inspiration
The Design inspiration is an online resource for design inspiration. It offers websites, typography, illustrations, logos, which serve as both a source of inspiration and a showcase of talent as they explain themselves on their site.
On the site, to help you navigate, they offer a ”Popular” tab where you can find the most popular works on their platforms.
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Admire The Web
Admire the web is a simplistic platform that offers great website designs daily to inspire developers.
Personally, I find their interface unattractive, you may notice that too, but don’t let that discourage you from visiting their site.
It has some very beautiful and inspiring designs that you should definitely check out.
Call To Idea
Calltoidea is a platform developed and maintained by the brainin team. Call to idea offers the most innovative web design projects that serve as inspirations.
It is a useful platform for any web developer.
Webdesign Inspiration
The name is explicit, this site is a gallery of inspiration of webdesigns. You will find on their platform any type of website.
Whether it’s travel sites, real estate, restaurants or even sites designed for the medical field, you will find it, it’s a very rich platform.
The sites which are proposed are chosen with care.
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Inspiration websites for graphic design
Abduzeedo
Abduzeedo created in 2006 by Fabio Sasso, it is much better known as ABDZ. It is a platform that brings together writers who share their knowledge about design, photography and everything related to the user experience.
BEHANCE
I was inspired by some of the works posted on this site to make some of my projects.
Behance is one of the best inspiration websites for graphic design to find inspiration and generate great ideas.
It offers you a system to put forward your projects among the multitudes of projects available on the platform for a few dollars. But without going through this way, the works designed with a lot of creativity and beautiful colors always emerge from the lot to be positioned at the top.
Partfaliaz
Partfaliaz available since 2007 is a website proposed in French and English. It presents the portfolios of illustrators, photographers, graphic designers and motion designers.
It offers an iphone application where you can see the works it publishes.
Collateral
Collateral started as a simple blog and is now one of the most followed art inspiration sites.
It is a source of inspiration for those concerned with art, design and photography.
It was launched in 2010.
DRIBBBLE
In my humble opinion, dribbble is the best inspiration website for graphic design. On this site, you will find all kinds of designs: animations, flyers, themes, UI kits, photographs and many more.
This site is a pool of creativity, art and knowledge bank on design where you will learn a lot.
This platform has a very active community of designers who not only share their work, but also give their opinions on the works published on the platform.
Some agencies recruit designers through dribbble by scanning their portfolio, which forces designers to post quality work.
Fubiz
Fubiz is an inspiration blog where you can find quality works of photography, illustration and architecture. It was founded in 2005 by Romain Collin. The blog is available in French and English, it has a community of several million people.
Inky Illustration
Inky illustration has made it its mission to showcase the works of talented artists from around the world.
Apart from getting inspired by the artistic works offered, you can hire a qualified designer on their platform.
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Art Spire
Art spire is the work of two French designers. It is a platform of graphic inspiration that offers illustrations, animations, and photographic works.
Niice
Niice provides designers with a collection of inspiring images to help them with their work.
They have a very active community that can help you if you have any concerns.
Central Illustration Agency
Central illustration agency presents you beautiful graphic illustrations and motions.
They have been around since 1983, no need to tell you that this platform has a lot of experience and is very well placed to present you quality works.
It is a great online resource, where you can get inspiration for your creations.
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AA13
AA13 is a design blog that promotes the culture of art, design, architecture and photography. It is a resource for design lovers, artists, graphic designers, architects and photographers.
Art Skills
Artskills is a non-commercial blog promoting artistic works. It is founded by AKAM. It is a real gold mine, you will find on the blog competitions that are launched to the artists, resources are proposed, and you will see artistic works in the field of web design, in the field of graphic design of architecture and many other areas.
Curious
Curioos is a platform for the sale of artistic products that was born in 2011 as a graphic art blog. It is a dynamic market where you can find the products of talented artists.
The platform offers works of artists from nearly one hundred countries.
Bonus
The graphic inspiration sites below are a bit special, they don’t offer you artistic works like the sites listed above but they are also very inspiring.
The Great Discontent
The great discontent allows you to learn about the history of great designers through long interviews, short films and informative podcasts.
Here you don’t have access to the artists’ works, but you learn from their experiences, they share their know-how and everything they have learned during their long and rich careers with you.
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A List Apart
Alistapart is a web magazine that offers contents about web design, web development, standards and best practices in web design.
It offers rich and in-depth content where anyone interested in the web design and development ecosystem can learn a lot.
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Conclusion
In conclusion, it’s true that it’s the implementation of ideas that brings a project to life, but it takes good inspiration and quality ideas to make this project an artistic success.
Besides the designer ideas and graphic design blogs for inspiration listed in this article, do you know of any other sites? If so, then share them with us in the comments.
