20 Recent Bookmarks for Inspiration

Recently I have been bookmarking kinds of links. I have them on delicious.com but I feel that people would get more use out of them if I made a blog post about them. So, here are 20 of the most recent things I have bookmarked under my inspiration folder. Some of these are rounds ups, individual images or flickr pics. The text supplied is a preview of the post, on to the inspiration:

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35 Black Web Designs That Show Us That Once You Go Black, You Never Go Back | Abduzeedo

“It’s been some time since we had our last post on the Web Design series. We’ve been giving you a lot of graphic design inspiration, but its time to get some web awesomeness. Yesterday we had black wallpapers, today it’s all about black layouts.”

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Honda The Power of Dreams | Honda

“Very inspiring videos about what happens at Honda and why its important to not be afraid of failure.”

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Line 25’s Sites of The Week for March 20th 2009

“The Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from OH! Media, Ciplex, Adrian Restantia, Iceberg and Mark Lamb.”

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25 Beautifully Colored Websites – Part 4 | VandelayDesigns

“During the past year or so, I have published 3 collections of colorful websites. Today we’ll take a look at another 25 sites that make exceptional use of color. There is a wide variety of color schemes and design styles represented here, so I hope the work of these designers provides some inspiration for your own work.”

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60+ Awesome Blue Websites

“We are wrapping up our series on colors in web design with the most popular color for websites… blue. Because this is the last in our series we have included a whopping 60+ awesome blue websites. If you can add any to the list, just leave a comment.”

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Greg Anderson on the Behance Network

“Greg Andersons folio on behance which is amazing, stellar and inspiring. Leaves me drooling regardless of how many times I look at it.”

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Purple Haze: 20 Inspirational Purple Websites

“This is the fifth in a series exploring infrequently used colors in web design. Don’t forget to go see our…. ”

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25 Nature-Inspired Website Designs | Vandelay Design Blog

“Inspiration or web design can come from anywhere. An increasing number of websites are including elements from nature in the design. Background images, photos, illustrations… nature can be used a number of different ways in web design. In this post we’ll look at 25 excellent examples.”

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Inspiration – 5 Amazing Graphic Designers/Artists | Think Design

“Time for some more inspiration! This time around, I’m featuring 5 amazing graphic designers. These are all well respected, extremely-talented graphic designers, whose work I find especially inspirational. I’m hoping yall enjoy there work as much as I do! I’m just featuring a couple pieces from each, but I suggest you go to there sites for tons more. You can never get enough inspiration :)

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Minimalism Around the Web: Design Inspiration & WordPress Themes – Tutorial9

“This post showcases minimalist design from around the web, and briefly explains the ideology of minimalism. It is to be used as inspiration for anyone, and as a resource for web designers. ”

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SEED – The Universe in ‘09

“The Universe in ‘09 is a exploration of the content of the print issue at the highest resolution possible. the flash front-end is driven by a content management system that makes content creation and presentation as easy as dragging and dropping. ui09 was the 2nd most visited content on seedmagazine.com in the month it launched, it got picked up by many design and information design blogs, and lit up the crowd on twitter. Except from Fangohr “

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18 Wickedly Creative Brochure Designs | Graphic Fetish

“Stuck in a rut trying to design that brochure that will stand out from the boring norm? Try playing with unique folds, die-cut shapes and eye-opening colors. But don’t get too crazy or you might forget the marketing basics of designing and printing brochures - make sure they’re still portable and not too bulky to keep. Listed below are some really creative ideas for your next brochure project.”

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GE | Plug Into the Smart Grid | Augmented Reality

“See a digital hologram of Smart Grid technology come to life in your hands.”

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David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think

“MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?”

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Nike Search on the Behance Network

“A search that I stumbled across that just happens to showcase amazing work some from Si Scott and others.”

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55 Creative Advertisements Revisited

“There are many new clever advertisements created recently. Here is the list of them that really capture my attention. Apart from the highly detailed photo-manipulation works, I also like the way designers present the concept across to the consumers. I was greatly inspired and hope the same for you. Enjoy!”

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The 20 most creative resumes i’ve seen in a long time. Pure inspiration – FrancescoMugnai.com

“20 Resumes that really make me want to redesign mine, me neighbors and anyone else I come into contact with. Beautiful list of work.”

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23 Inspiring Invitation and Note Card Ideas | Graphic Fetish

“What better time to splurge on creative printed invitations and notecards than on the occasions closest to your heart. Below are some inspiring ideas for invitations and note cards you can use.”

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Magazine Spreads 2000-99

“Here’s what you came for – select magazine page spreads from the publication I work on. Don’t forget, I take photos, too!”

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Washburn Construction Brochure

Brochure I found on flickr which is clean and pratical design all at the same time.

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