Webmaster 9 » design resources http://www.webmaster9.com Free Webmaster Resources Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:06:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 110 Unusual Places For Designers to Get Design Inspiration http://www.webmaster9.com/2009-06/110-unusual-places-for-designers-to-get-design-inspiration.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2009-06/110-unusual-places-for-designers-to-get-design-inspiration.html#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:04:05 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/?p=17 Inspiration isn’t something that just pops into a designer’s head. Most of the time, we must make an active approach to discover it. This obviously isn’t a new concept, and there are thousands of inspiration websites from CSS galleries to showcase blog posts. These are way overused, though; in order to create a truly successful design, one must find inspiration elsewhere.

The following are 110 Unusual Places For Designers to Get Design Inspiration. If you are getting tired of design, go and get your design inspration.

35+ Horizontal Websites for Your Design Inspiration

Websites that use horizontal scrolling in addition to, or instead of, vertical scrolling are becoming more popular. While this trend isn’t a good idea in every situation, the sites showcased here may give you some ideas or inspiration for using this approach in one of your own projects.

Suie Paparude, Sonido, Eric Ryan Anderson, Hasrimy.com, Peter Pearson, Dean Oakley, Visuall, Tyler Thompson Blog, The Horizontal Way, Jason Love, Luke Larsen, LoveBento, Richard McCoy, Nile Inside, Snohetta, Miguel Perez, Alex Flueras Photography, C’N’C Costume National Blog, Publicidade Viva, The Box Doodle Project, Jan Sochor Photography, WallSwaps, Candace Holloway, Sursly, Exit 10, Lucuma, Nana, Synthetic Infatuation, F Claire Baxter, 180 Degrees, Eolo Perfido Photography, Paolo Boccardi,Graphic Therapy, Blue Vertigo, Work at Play, Faub.org, Gavin Castleton, Swear Words

10 Unusual Places to Get Design Inspiration

Design clearly isn’t new, and before we got into the habit of spending hours in front of a computer screen, the word’s greatest artists found inspiration from an offline world. To create extraordinary design, search in new places besides CSS galleries and showcases. Here are ten unusual places to get started, where one can look to find truly unique inspiration.

25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers

Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.

Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.

Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers.

Some are incredibly practical, some provide information that might be of interest to designers and some just present data that might be interesting to those who design websites all day.

If you know of any good ones that we may have missed, please add them in the comments section below.

41 Sleek Single Page Websites

With the internet moving faster and faster, users wanting more and quicker, some designers try to give the user everything all at one – on one single page. This works very well with portfolios, when you don’t need to leave the page or site to see a full source of portfolio pieces.

With easy scrolling sliders with jQuery and other web technologies, and the ease of mouse scrolling, for me this is a great way of trying to make your site work a different way.

This trend has been around a few years now, and these websites are showing many different ways of exploring the single page design.

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