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Inspiration for designing comes in many forms.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a graphic designer working on a logo mock-up for your client’s latest product or an illustration working on a glossy magazine cover. The appropriate kind of inspiration can always aid you in coming up with original and inventive project ideas.

However, getting inspired can be challenging at times. Fortunately, there are numerous excellent sources of design inspiration. 

Here are our top 5 design resources that will inspire you to create a design that resonates with the audience.

1. BOOKS

“I want the design to be extremely serious but also whimsical, modern but also retro, colourful yet not overly so… “

If you’re a designer, you’ve undoubtedly heard something similar before. Here are our top 3 picks that might inspire you to tackle this situation.

• Austin Kleon: Steal Like an artist
• Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art
• Alan Fletcher: The art of looking sideways

2. ART 21 by PBS

The Peabody Award-winning biennial series “Art in the Twenty-First Century” is one of Art21’s many segments devoted solely to contemporary visual art and artists from around the world. 

The audience may witness the artists at work and watch their process as they turn inspiration into art thanks to the film.

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3. Netflix original- Abstract: The Art of Design

When you’re out of inspiration, Just Netflix and chill.

Abstract: The Art of Design, each episode functions as its own mini-documentary, spotlighting designers such as Nike’s Tinker Hatfield. 

The abstract isn’t just about telling stories; it also shows the meaning behind the remarkable objects we see every day—which many of us take for granted—and the decisions that led to them.

Our favourite episodes: “Paula Scher: Graphic Design”, “Christoph Niemann: Illustrator”

4. Helvetica: The documentary

Helvetica makes us think about Helvetica- the font! Doesn’t it?

However, The feature-length documentary Helvetica is about typography, graphic design, and worldwide visual culture.

The film’s true triumph is the way it sharpens your vision and draws links between form and content, as well as between art and life.

A must-watch!

5. Nature

Look around you, what do you see? Don’t be afraid to venture outside away from your computer to get inspired. 

Designers and creative people draw inspiration for their creations and goods from nature. 

Every day, we come into contact with objects whose shape or primary function is influenced by the natural world, from fish-shaped swimsuits to laptops that close like clams.

Nature provides a limitless variety of textures, patterns, and motifs from which to draw inspiration. The moods of interior places are influenced by nature’s properties of light, warmth, tactility, and familiarity with human hands.

The next time you’re low on ideas, pay close attention to nature and the ideas will flow to you naturally.

Stop scrolling, and start exploring!

Your search for inspiration ends here!

It’s time to pick your favourite and enter the multiverse of endless ideas. Everything that you expose your mind to most likely is an inspiration for your next design. There is always a new perspective on things that keeps us going and redefining things.

Don’t hunt for inspiration in locations or people; rather, look around you for simple things that might provide the greatest sources of inspiration.

Writing Credit – Drishti Shah