For all designers, it’s time to get more design inspirations. Thinking a design from scratch can be a difficult task, I cannot not agree with this. At times, I faced myself with dead brain and couldn’t produce any nice design idea. One solution to this problem is to surf other designers’ works to get inspiration. I’ve compiled a list of good websites that you will love and pack you more with their creative juices.

25 Websites that showcase nice designs and tickle your inspirations

1. Netdiver

My all-time favourite website. Netdiver contains all the finest websites that you probably have never seen them before.

2. Design is kinky

Design is kinky? Yes it is when it’s designed with heart and soul. Do check out how kinky they are now.

3. Artzmania

Nothing beats anything that is for free. Artzmania offers good content on design. It’s worth investing your time on it.

4. CSS Zen Garden

Good CSS resource website that features the entire nice CSS-designed website, be it a novice or an expert. CSS Zen Garden is definitely a beautiful garden for those CSS lovers.

5. Adobe Kuler

If you are something like me, who doesn’t have any color sense. Try adobe kuler community if you need some help on choosing right combination of colors.

6. Colourlovers

Same as above, a community that brings colours to your life.

7. Deviantart

Deviantart may be the largest art community on the internet (as far as I know). Be it a bad art or a good art, you are free to post your arts and prepare to receive comments on deviantart. But one thing for sure, most of the arts are nicely beautifully created. Take a peek.

8. Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is one of my favourite sites for its in-depth information, which sometimes can make you envy and jealous.

9. DigitalThread

Featuring the entire nice designed website.

10. The best designs

The best designs website shows you all websites, with tags, that you will be expecting from them.

11. FWA

The Favourite Website Awards go to all websites that are featured on FWA. Kudos to them. If you are looking for tons of flash goodness, you are at the right place. Dive in now.

12. Best Web Gallery

Not many websites are listed on the site but the websites that are showcased on the Best Web Gallery deserve to be mentioned. Worth a look.

13. Fcukstar

Fcukstar is back again with more updates on nice flashy sites. These websites are the top notch.

14. Strangefruits

Strange fruits? I don’t really know what it means, but I’m certain that you will see some strange websites.

15. Mowsnet Web Awards

Awards are given to websites in term of gold, silver and bronze. I’m not sure about their criteria but it’s worth a look.

16. Website Design Awards

Another Design Awards website

17. Pingmag

Pingmag is a Tokyo Based magazine featuring illustration arts to fashion design.

18. Threadless

Want to have your design on the shirt? Yes you can with Threadless, Threadless offers user to submit their work and vote the works. It’s really more than just a shirt.

19. Before and After Magazine

Before and After Magazine offers tutorials on how to make your design rock. There are couples of free ebooks for downloading, or rather if you have money, you can subscribe their magazine.

20. IconBuffet

Collection of beautiful icons that are available on the web, but not at the cost of nothing. Nevertheless, what we need to see is the beauty of these icons.

21. Logopond

Lazy to think of a web 2.0 logo design? Logopond has an answer for you, it has nice collection of logos for you to inspire and refer.

22. Walk around your neighbourhood

Take a slow stroll with your dog in the evening. Sometimes, while walking, you may find interesting idea along the way.

23. View movies and Posters

I believe everyone has seen a movie and poster, you should take note on why the poster/movie is designed in this manner, how the typeface is used if you need some inspirations. Besides analyzing these, do remember to enjoy the show too!

24. Hit the bookstores/libraries

I always love to go to the bookstore/library whenever I’m free to look at books on designing. The amount of books that are found in a bookstore/library can be a reward for designer; this is what I called instant result to inspiration. You don’t have to search high and low for inspirations on the net. With just a glance across the books, you should be able to tell what the books that you are looking for.

25. Photography

Take as many photos as possible on interesting objects with your trusty camera. You would be shocked to see some of your shots which can be used for your design.

As for now, feed yourself with those creative and nice designed website. Hope that this list will prove useful to you when you need inspirations for design.

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