Inspiration, Tools, Ideas

This collection includes inspiration and research sparks that I may reference in class or lectures. Feel free to add your spark for your creative output. Doesn’t have to be Pintrest pretty or Aesthetic but they all serve a purpose.

I like to keep all system elements as well, as it shows designs in context.

Submit your inspiration for review here.

Photography

Steve McCurry – The Last Roll of Kodachrome

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

YouTube

Statista

Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database

Statista
Education

Prototyping Cars

Car companies have built life-size clay models for almost 100 years, for nearly every car you see on the road. But modeling is an expensive process. Exotic l...

YouTube
Fun

Design Battle

Free online design battles in real time. Same brief, same kit — 15 minutes to create, then vote gold, silver, bronze. Poster, logo, UI, social & album covers. Ranked ELO or solo training.

Design Battle
Design System

Google Material

Material Design 3 - Google's open-source design system, provides comprehensive guidelines, styles, & components to create user-friendly interfaces.

Material Design
Tools

Winamp reimplemented in HTML5 and JavaScript

webamp.org Code
CSS

SNES CSS

SNES.CSS is a css framework inspired in the 90's 16bit videogames, bringing a nostalgin pixel art style

snes-css.sadlative.com Code
CSS

NES CSS

NES.css is a NES-style CSS Framework.

nostalgic-css.github.io Code
Resources

Misprinted Type

Explore a FREEWARE Collection of Grunge Photoshop Brushes, with stains, dirty chunks of texture and grit! Enjoy!

Eduardo Recife
Retro

Download the free Upcycle demo for macOS. Turn your own samples into tempo- and key-locked song starters, then buy a licence to unlock saving, exporting and stem drag to your DAW.

Aria Labs
Secret Sauce

Coldplay Up&Up (Behind The Scenes)

The new Coldplay album, Moon Music, lands Oct 4. Pre-order now https://coldplay.lnk.to/MoonMusic 🌙Behind the scenes of Coldplay's Up&Up video. Watch the fin...

YouTube
Graphic Design

Hatch Show Print

An American Institution and a great example in typography and visual hierarchy.

Hatch Show Print
InDesign

Paragraph Justification Settings (Oldie but a Goodie)

Adobe InDesign
Contrast

Perky Blenders Site

Perky Blenders
Tools

Any City

This website allows you to select a city and then draws every single road on a screen.

Avanka Code
Photography

The passing of time, caught in a single photo | Stephen Wilkes

Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, exploring the space-time continuum within a two-...

Ted Talk
Ted Talk

Billy Graham: Technology, faith and human shortcomings

http://www.ted.com Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil...

Ted Talk