A Website You Should Know About

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via Patrick Morgan

 via Good Design Makes Me Happy

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!

A few of my favorite things

I just wanted to mention a few of my favorite blogs that I regularly follow.

I think Diana and I can both agree on our love for A Cup of Jo. It is compiled of Joanna Goddard's (a world famous blogger) inspiration and thoughts from fashion to motherhood to design.

(Joanna and her husband's engagement photos) 

Another one of my favorites is Modern Hepburn, a blog exclusively comprised of pictures. I am a very visual person, therefore I love just letting my mind relax as I admire the beautiful images presented one after another. She posts a variety of subjects: food, hairstyles, photographs, art, typography etc.

(one of the lovely photographs)

My favorite fashion blog has to be Atlantic-Pacific. Blair Eadie posts pictures of herself wearing the most wonderful outfits. She doesn't have much text, but she does mention where all of the clothing and accessories in the pictures may be bought (or something close) which is very helpful! She is a fashion consultant at Tory Burch (of course) but she used to work at Old Navy with Cindy Ann, my previous boss at my internship at Blu Penny, how crazy!

(the best pattern mixing!)

Lastly, Typography Daily is so wonderful for well, typography inspiration! For any design project where I need to get pretty creative with the typography this is the first place I go to rustle up some creativity.

(how creative! see the rest from this post here)