Design Inspiration: Ideas for Designers

When you’re inspired, creativity flourishes. So as a designer, finding inspiration is essential Let the successes, lessons learned and stories of others feed that inspiration and approach your graphic design career with a new invigoration. You’ll find not only tips and advice, but also the amazing design work of other professionals. Get inspired and then get to work on your own design project.

Tools for finding creative inspiration

What to Expect When Designing for Letterpress Printing

Simple considerations, often going back to the design process, can help take your project to the next level when it comes time for letterpress printing. Kat Feuerstein, founder of Gilah Press + Design, tells designers what to expect when designing for letterpress printing.
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Ken Carbone: How to Draw

Noted designer Ken Carbone spends one morning a week practicing his figure drawing skills. He gives step-by-step instructions on how he created a beautiful image.
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Photo Playground: Bonus Downloads

3 designers were sent Lomography cameras with one simple mission—to shoot what inspires them.
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Inspiration for Every Day

When illustrator Eric Smith was diagnosed with cancer, he chose to turn his illness into a gift and started the Live Now Project.
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Cooking up Creativity

Are you in a creative rut when it comes to injecting fresh brainstorming tactics or collaborative exercises among your team? Nothing says fresh like taking your team out of the office and into the kitchen.
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Designer Challenge: Illustrate Your Creative Process

The Creative Process Illustrated inspired one designer to record her and draw her own mind map. Let’s see yours.
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Picturing Creativity

When two advertising professors set out to explore creativity in the industry, they ended up with a collection of drawings to inspire the process of any creative thinker. More

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Ideas That Matter: Design Revolution Roadshow

Dive deeper into the Design Revolution Road show and Project H.
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Take a Trip to Recharge Your Creativity

Planning a weekend getaway or a summer vacation? Wherever you’re traveling, make sure your creativity gets rejuvenated along the way with these 6 tips.
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IdeaSelling Excerpt: Present a Powerful Pitch

Creativity guru Sam Harrison offers exercises and tips to help you present your ideas successfully to decision makers. More

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