Since I spend a lot of my time on design assignments for school, I like to have a place to keep track of the things I'm inspired by. Other designers share their work online in the form of mock ups and project presentations just like I do, so I like to save the ones that I love and the ones that inspire me. Pinterest is my favorite place for this, they have a lot of design inspiration there, but I will also take screenshots of designs I like on other platforms and upload them to my Design board so I keep everything in one place. I will also save tutorials and resources for future reference. In this post, I'm going to show you what I'm inspired by!
Here is a link to my Pinterest, I have a board that's a combination of photography and design inspiration! There are a couple of sub-boards that I created for specific projects, but everything generally gets lumped into my photo boards or one for graphic design.
For my graphic design board specifically (here's a link), I don't have any sub-boards. Everything is lumped in here, whether they be illustration ideas, color palates, layout ideas, or anything else relating to graphic design.
This is an illustration I found when I was looking at inspiration for the Tel Aviv branding project. Here's a link to my Behance page with the full project, but if you've seen it you may know that Tel Aviv has the largest abundance of Bauhaus-designed buildings outside of Germany. Although this poster by Andrea Gallo (@roosterization on Instagram, and this is his Behance page) is advertising an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, this kind of illustration inspired the look I ended up with for my Tel Aviv postcards.
This is a long graphic, but this is a composition layout by designer Danielle Muntyan (this is her website). Something like this would be beneficial for me if I have a project that involves multiple pages. Materials like magazines, annual reports, or catalogs aren't like regular books, there has to be a method to the madness of words and pictures. Graphics like this can help designers decide where to place elements on a page in a way that is legible and pleasing to the eye.
This is what I would call a flat illustration. I can tell that it was created in Adobe Illustrator, so I can figure out what tools they used. The whole illustration is made of basic shapes and the artist, @azureforest with Getty Images, changed the colors to create the illusion of highlights and shadows. I like to look at images like this and break them down to see how it was created.
I also like to save color palates I like for future reference. Sometimes I'll have a specific color in mind when I'm working on a project and it's likely that I saw it on one of these. I can either eye-drop the exact color or try and select something similar myself.
And that's some of my design inspiration! Feel free to poke around my Pinterest boards to see more, thanks for reading!
xx, Hannah