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via Patrick Morgan
Designspiration.
Sometimes I get trapped in this website for hours. It's very similar to pinterest. Once you start, it is very difficult to shut the laptop and go to sleep.
Designspiration is a resource for finding all images related to design. You browse through other users' saves and collections and publish them to your own collection (similar to "pinning"). You can search freely or you can follow specific users whose collections you are particularly drawn to.
The basic trends within this website are: Architecture, Art, Book, Business Cards, Fashion, Illustration, Layout, Logo, Packaging, Poster, Print, Typography.
I found this website a few months back and I revisited it today and found that they have created the "collection" feature to organize your saves into a more user friendly fashion.
I am currently taking a web design course so everytime I visit a website these days I tend to analyze it and critique it. Overall I love this site however, I think what may make it more effective is if they had a larger limit to the number of images on a page. I love pinterest because of its infinity of pins. You NEVER have to click "next page" in order to get to more pins...you just keep scrolling. Designspiration could take note of this.
You do have to request an invite, but I encourage you to request and join! It's so inspiring!
