The Hickensian

16.08.06

Technorati Tags blogs, design, inspiration

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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No.1

Jean said 1052 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.

No.2

yul said 1052 days ago:

Your both blogs are a must ! respect

No.3

Rachel Cunliffe said 1052 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 .

No.4

Stephen said 1052 days ago:

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

No.5

Dave Jeffery said 1052 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.

No.6

Erwin Heiser said 1052 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!

No.7

Matt Ramos said 1052 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.

No.8

Jon Hicks said 1052 days ago:

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

No.9

Mark said 1052 days ago:

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

No.10

Sergio Mora said 1051 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.

No.11

Ron Domingue said 1051 days ago:

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

No.12

Jon Hicks said 1051 days ago:

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

No.13

Chris Griffin said 1051 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!

No.14

Eugenio Grigolon said 1051 days ago:

Just nice! I love it!!

Thank you!!

No.15

Roman said 1051 days ago:

I like watercolor design. Good color scheme

No.16

Dan Mall said 1051 days ago:

DailyType is one of my most recent favs.

No.17

kus said 1051 days ago:

Nice , thanks for the information :)

No.18

CORNETTO said 1044 days ago:

http://www.pingmag.jp

No.19

Ivy said 1042 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.

No.20

jaime said 1040 days ago:

thanks so much for linking to my journal pages!

No.21

Sergio Mora said 1040 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.

No.22

Andrew Faulkner said 1039 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.