Graphic designers, the best sites and ways to find inspiration

Being a graphic designer is really tough, the hardest parts of the job lie in finding inspiration to start a project and in carrying forward the right idea with consistency to complete your project. It often happens that inspiration and ideas run dry; in these cases, the internet and our brain can help us. Thanks to the web, in recent years, finding inspiration has become easier thanks to a huge number of sites and portals offering guides and useful hints for your next project. Knowing the best sites to get inspired is really important, let’s discover them together.

Fonts

The “Typography daily” is definitely the most influential portal in the world of fonts. On this excellent blog, you can find thousands of fonts and typefaces that are published and updated daily. Among the pages, posts, and galleries, you will surely find the right idea for your project and complete your work with a touch of originality and elegance.

“Friends of Types” is the ideal place to get lost in observing images of modern and refined design and fonts. For graphic design enthusiasts, it is a cult place to always find the right idea; often you start by looking at a simple font and end up spending hours browsing posts and various blogs.

Design and graphics

One of the biggest sources of inspiration for graphic designers is the portal “La cuisine du graphist“. Julien Josset’s site is used for discussions, in French, on the latest trends in graphic design, style, and graphics. The content and articles are always very clear and can be useful for all graphic designers and artists to find inspiration, ideas, fonts, and images to continue their work.

Another excellent portal to follow in terms of graphics is “We graphics“. The blog contains a large series of tutorials that explain step by step how to create impactful writings and titles with guaranteed effect. On this graphics blog, you can find inspiration and ideas to proceed with your work, and thanks to the excellent tutorials, it will be even easier to realize complex projects in a short time.

“But does it float” is a portal dedicated to artists. The site deals with fonts, drawing, sculpture, and generally everything related to graphic art. This website is an excellent source of inspiration thanks to the many contents and works that are frequently published.

Finding inspiration within yourself

Sometimes, despite hours spent on the most famous graphic design sites, you can’t find the right inspiration for your work or project. In these cases, you need to look inside yourself and allow some time to rediscover your inspiration. Here are some tips to do it well.

Take a break. Often, too much work blocks us, and although it’s not easy to step away, a break of a few hours, perhaps spent reading or doing sports, could bring great results and give you back the brilliance and spark you had lost.

Take a look around social media. It actually seems like terrible advice, but don’t forget there are Visual Social Networks, for example Pinterest e and Tumblr