16/08/06

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New Design Blogs

With the exception of NetDiver, I don’t go to CSS/’cool website’ showcases for ideas – I’ve discovered a raft of great design blogs that are providing me with a fresh source of inspiration.

Here are my current favourites:

  • Happy Mundane -celebrating good design in the ordinary and everyday. Hits the spot everytime.
  • Waterhalo – A sketchbook based journal. I wish I could find time to do something like this!
  • design*sponge & MocoLoco – biased towards furnishings. Great for colour and shape ideas especially.
  • notcot.org – this probably doesn’t count as a blog, more of showcase (hah!) of well designed products. Don’t bother with the bizarre RSS feed, I have this saved as my homepage to check it regularly.

Plus, from the comments, there’s another gem! A big thanks to Rachel for Prints & Pattern, and awesome supply of colour, shape/pattern ideas. Also, Dan Malls link for Daily Type. Yum!, my iPhoto scrapbook is bulging!!

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#1

Jean said 786 days ago:

Honored to have NOTCOT.org included in your list – have been reading your site longer than i’ve been running mine! As for the NOTCOT.org RSS – the whole project has been an ongoing live work-in-progress/experiment – so the RSS feed went a bit nuts as we’ve been changing the backend. Its on the list of to do’s! Also if you’d like to play with contributing to .org – drop me an email for the secret code.

#2

yul said 786 days ago:

Your both blogs are a must ! respect

#3

Rachel Cunliffe said 786 days ago:

Fascinating – I basically only go back time and time again to Netdiver as well. Lately, I too have been getting hooked on design blogs like design*sponge, waterhalo, print and pattern and outblush .

#4

Stephen said 786 days ago:

These are all great, especially the last one. Thanks for sharing!

#5

Dave Jeffery said 786 days ago:

Great, I love finding out where people get their inspiration from. Thanks to Rachel Cunliffe for pointing out print and pattern, there’s some great stuff on there.

#6

Erwin Heiser said 786 days ago:

Netdiver here too, it’s great. Did not know about the notcot.org link that’s a keeper. Thanks for pointing that out!

#7

Matt Ramos said 786 days ago:

Great links, thanks a lot for posting them.

I check out the webcream RSS feed all the time. I’ve always found great things there.

#8

Jon Hicks said 785 days ago:

Hi Jean! Glad to hear the feed is on the list, it would be great to have a working feed!

#9

Mark said 785 days ago:

Great links Jon, I particularly like the NOTCOT one. Some great design inspiration.

#10

Sergio Mora said 785 days ago:

Just awesome blogs… Thanks, you have saved me a lot of time in searching interesting things in the web. I always got to go to local libraries (here in Paries it is not difficult to find one) to get real inspiration, and not just Photoshop effectism.

#11

Ron Domingue said 785 days ago:

Thanks for sharing I’m trying to do find some good illustration inspiration blogs as well.

#12

Jon Hicks said 785 days ago:

Hi Ron, try out drawn.ca, thats a good place to discover good illustration blogs!

#13

Chris Griffin said 785 days ago:

I’ve known about netdiver for quite some time, and the last time I took a look at it I didn’t really appreciate it and somewhat forgot about it. Ignorant young designer I was (maybe still am).

But I took another look after reading this blog entry, and I want to punish myself by slamming my head against the keyboard repeatedly for overlooking this wonderful website dripping with designer talent and inspiration.

Definitely a breath of fresh air from the other galleries that I’ve grown sick of from the staleness and stagnation.

Thanks for the links!

#14

Eugenio Grigolon said 785 days ago:

Just nice! I love it!!

Thank you!!

#15

Roman said 785 days ago:

I like watercolor design. Good color scheme

#16

Dan Mall said 785 days ago:

DailyType is one of my most recent favs.

#17

kus said 784 days ago:

Nice , thanks for the information :)

#18

CORNETTO said 778 days ago:

http://www.pingmag.jp

#19

Ivy said 775 days ago:

So you don’t visit any of the many multiple css galleries out there for inspiration? I thought you would have atleast one in your list.

#20

jaime said 774 days ago:

thanks so much for linking to my journal pages!

#21

Sergio Mora said 773 days ago:

I see you have modified the layout of your blog! Tell us a little bit about that, and why have you decided to insert the search field in the middle of the right column. I really like the bottom image of the trees and the rainbows-logo.

#22

Andrew Faulkner said 773 days ago:

I really enjoy Andy Rutledge’s blog (http://www.andyrutledge.com/), especially his design redux series. A lot of the author’s over at fad also have some great talent.

#23

Glen Richardson said 772 days ago:

Thanks Jon, these links are very useful. I’ll pass them onto our senior designer.

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