New Sources for Inspiration: 5 Sites to Get Your Creative Juices Flowin
As a graphic artist, I’m always looking for ways to be creatively inspired. When I’m scouring the web looking for inspiration, I sometimes encounter things created by other designers that I know I could never pull off. One might think this would leave an artist discouraged. For me, the exact opposite is true. The inspiration that comes from studying mind-blowing design is priceless.  I look at things beyond my reach and feel a strong desire to reach further, do more, and learn techniques I’ve never used.
In the last few weeks as I’ve been recovering from surgery, I’ve occasionally found myself looking for new inspiration. I’ve found some great sites that I thought I’d share here on the blog. In no particular order:
www.motionographer.com – A great site for motion graphic artists to find inspiration. Amazing stuff here!
www.behance.net – This site features all sorts of creative inspiration from users all over the globe. It appears to be a great way to get connected too.
www.graphic-exchange.com – An amazing collection of inspiring designs.
www.redgiantpeople.com – The parent site of this site sells After Effects plugins but there’s lots of cool stuff here to check out-especially in the Guru section.
www.theinspirationroom.com – Several categories of inspiration to choose from. You’ll lose hours here.
So how about you? Where do you go for creative inspiration?
John said,
Wrote on May 19, 2010 @ 12:29 pm
http://www.flickr.com – It’s an online photo album where anyone can view your photos, design work, videos, etc. I really like going to for inspiration… depending on what kind of project I’m working on. It’s just a great place to find references and ideas.
http://www.bittbox.com – Just a cool design site that I like. There are some great inspirational links on there if you dig around a little.
http://www.google.com – Google Images is one of the best places to go for inspiration due to the massive amount of search results you can get in a matter of seconds. Sure, there is a ton of junk designs but it’s also a great place to find really good inspiration.
osborn4 said,
Wrote on May 20, 2010 @ 2:31 pm
In flicker, there is a group, http://www.flickr.com/groups/worshipgraphics/pool/, specifically designed to share worship style graphics.
Dorothy Okray said,
Wrote on June 23, 2010 @ 12:04 pm
CHURCH PowerPoint offers every week professionally designed images for worship, basd on the lectionary. See http://www.churchpowerpoint.com .