Where can I find good inspiration for graphic design?

I've seen deviantart, but that's more about illustrations, and the creative magazines require subscription to see their websites. are there any good spots for just good old fashioned graphic design?

Where can I find good inspiration for graphic design?
it all depends on what your needing it for. I love to get the college magazines and check them out because they have a lot of things or I just go for a road trip and see what I find in a different surrounding than what I'm used to.


hope you find what your looking for =)
Reply:One word:





Nature.
Reply:http://www.linkdup.com





Features the most cutting-edge website design, and you can also look at the portfolio of various graphic designers. web designers, illustrators, photographers and other artists.





http://coroflot.com





You can look through the portfolios of tons of different graphic designers.
Reply:Your head. Sit down, take a break with no mess around you and with a piece of paper and a pencil, just draw what you think. You will get inspiration from there.
Reply:look out the dark window
Reply:Take a walk in the woods, with a sketchbook. Sketch forms large and tiny. Combine them, abstract them,


reverse them...
Reply:you could search for stuff like that on http://images.google.com
Reply:inspiration? do graphic design based on a good friend. about hard times. Joyfull times. find something that you like alot or that you hate and go from there. make everything your muse.
Reply:sit outside for a while with nature and think about what you love about the world. whatever comes to your mind is an idea to be put on paper.. that's what i do.
Reply:What kind of graphic design are you looking for. Graphic design is a career. It would help a great deal if you knew exactly what you were looking for. Try www.gdusa.com





Graphic design - you can look at ANY magazine for graphic design. Look at any ads, layouts, fonts used, how the photo's were used, any special effects added, (like big heads, stretched bodies, etc.) Good luck
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Reply:Find some photos... a random collection.... as many as you like. Jumble them all up and pick two at random. Fuse the concepts of those two images into one abstract idea... and voila... you've got a theme.


If you don't like it... try again... different photos...





If you want random photos then I'd recommend going to http://tinypic.com and just browsing through pictures there... They're as random as you get... just about.








Then again... you might want to toy around with some programs like Apophysis (google it) to see what it produces, and you might be inspired to do something with one of the images it comes up with.
Reply:what i did for inspiration when i was in school for graphic design was i just went to the book store, barns or boarders, and just looked the books for graphic design. it really helped a lot..there are tons of books and also magazines that you can look into, and they have really good ones out there too. you just have to know, you're not copying someone else's work, just taking ideas and making it your own. good luck~!
Reply:http://www.gogibbs.com/
Reply:Here are a few sites you could try:





http://www.k10k.net/ (check the newsfeed)





http://9rules.com/en/browse/design/ -- there are a number of design sites in their network





http://www.designinteract.com/sow/





But I think the best inspiration usually comes from the things that are right around you (e.g. the color of a leaf, a pattern on someone's shirt, textures, etc.). There's no need to limit your inspiration to websites and magazines--it's everywhere.
Reply:Legendaryfrog.com then go to movies and watch all of them trust me you willl come up with something
Reply:It sounds like youw ant to see others work. Don't try to make yours look like other peoples. Were do you think they got their ideas from? Everywere around you is wre you should look. Constantly look at everything and think how can I make a design that relates to what you see.
Reply:check out an alley behind a dunkin donuts
Reply:go to www.ashmith.com





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http://www.myspace.com/ashmith
Reply:look at nature photos
Reply:how about stained glass windows in churches?ive seen remarkable images in various churches that are really works of art.these are not the type where lead soldering keeps the panes in place either
Reply:In your own imagination. Sheesh. How about a parrot fish, using it's beak to open a clam?
Reply:Intend to find inspiration for graphic design, act as though you already have inspiration or that you find it regularly, simply believe it then before you go to sleep each night relax your mind and think about things that could possibly work for the graphic design, you'll be amazed with what you find in eventuality simply from believe and acting as though you regularly get inspiration that you enjoy and intending to get it, not to mention taking the actions aligning yourself with what you want.
Reply:Try your imagination. There is plenty of deviant ideas in that head of yors.
Reply:Find a purpose for your design and then all your creativity will be unleashed.
Reply:think of something weird and go with that
Reply:Become a "Dead Head", you know, the Grateful Dead.....
Reply:As an old timer who used LSD back in the 1970s; I can tell you that a lot of the art we have seen since that time seems to be inspirated from this kind of hallucinogenic experiences. For the younger artists it may be because their parents used it.
Reply:Your Brain
Reply:try a book called American showcase
Reply:Dreams of the insane.