10 GOOD Websites
Designspiration has to be one of the most commonly used websites for me. I feel its the best way to discover new and inspiration design from around the world. It does have its ups and downs though. It is very hard to find a name of designer on the website, for example after clicking on a design it is very rare to be linked to a designers website, you are instead linked to a random blog with no mention of who its by or how it was done. However, its very easy to understand and so easy to use.
Creative Review has to be the most famous website/ magazine out there for graphic design & photography. For me, the blog is very much indepth with the design it decides to upload and talk about; You get a real guided tour or the design you are witnessing. Creative Review was the magazine that got me interested with the world of graphic design and I am a regular visitor of the online website & blog.
3) LostType
LostType, such a good way to find the best type around. Must be carful though as there are only a certain number of fonts avaible and I have seen them EVERYWHERE. 'Mission Script' has been rinsed so you might end up producing a design that people will instantly recognise.
4) Stumble Upon
Random, yet you can be lucky to find some real nice pieces of work. I haven't really used it that much but if you dont know where to look, take a gamble as there no end to the stuff you can find here. It isn't just graphic design, it uses video and photography too, as well as fine art. Have a look!
5) FFFFound
Ffffounf is a great way to discover new and exciting work and has a good link process meaning you can find work that relates to the design you are looking at, of course all blogs use this technique but I feel this blog does it to a greater level of preciseness. Only 'problem' with this blog is there is A LOT of soft porn which seem to 'get in the way' of your practise.
I am very new to this and I managed to find I wide range of design. I discovered it when looking for branding and identity and I managed to find some truly incredible design. They really focus on design that will wow you, stuff that is slightly more appealing to design you might find on blogs like 'design siration' etc.
7) Pinterest
Again, something I am new too and I have some sort of addiction to it. You can follow your friends and other deisngers around the world on a mission to find new and exciting work. I have many folders ranging from Photography to Packaging and I can't stop adding work to my page.
8) Behance
Behance is another blog/website where individual designers have there own page full of their own work. i am not a member but I know people who are. It has a great filtering system which enables you to find what you want straight away.
Here is a french design studio and its what I consider a good website, its very easy to get around and most importantly the work they produce is incredible! They also have a facebook page which you can find here.
10) Nobrow
I am a big fan of Nobrow as I am a big fan of illustration! the website has beautiful photography and is so easy to get around. It links you to the designers websites who work for them and has a blog which is fun to follow up on.
10 BAD Websites
1) Ask Jeeves
I would say this is a bad website, because, I don't know one person who uses it? It's simple another wannabe google website search engine that doesn't actually appeal to one single person on the whole planet. I guess I am being harsh as to get around the website is a guess straight forward and the site on a whole is conventional but...why do we need it? Google is the better solution, and the more sensible.
Layout, colour, design, font, background, all make me feel a little bit sad. I think its the header which does it for me. This has to be one of the worse websites I have ever laid my eyes on! I think they thought, lets just get the idea on the page and not care about what it looks like. In fact, that is defiantly what they thought.
3) Super Video
Thing is, when you make a website you want to make it appealing, you want people to go on it and straight away real like they are welcome and whatever. You enter this website really feel quite bad! I am starting to realise that website that focus around design always seem to be the best ones!
What the hell do you focus on... this is one hell of a mess. I don't know where to start, I don't know what to do. The links at the top are tiny and anyone who isn't familiar with websites would have no idea what to do. To messy and ineligible. For a website focusing on tourists you have to say, why the hell not get this done properly. I would love to deconstruct this and find the grid because I bet its mental!
5) Sphere
Yet another website that looks like its from 1997, yet another mess on a screen. Thing is is it isn't over the top as in its legible to an extent. Its just extremely ugly. They should so sort it out. The layout is somewhat odd. It looks like it shouldn't look like that, almost like there has been an error with the HTML. Everything looks out of place.
This is hilarious, this website is for a Architect agency who want to DESIGN you house. That must be some sort of joke. You want your website to look something like Imprimerie Du Marais's surly? You want to let the audience know you know what you are doing. The website straight away says to me 'we have no idea what we are doing please go somewhere else'. This is where you can safely say 'You MUST judge a book by its cover'
Considering this is for CHEAP SKATES! I feel this can get away with being crap. The colours are attractive and they have only one thing to care about and that selling skates. I reminds me of the advertisements you get in the back of magazine, all as bad as each other, all trying to grasp the attention of the audience.
8) Valweb
Another website that looks like it was made in the early 90s. The baby blue background with the green and red type is a sight for sore eyes. Notice all of the links on the top right. Such a muddle of information it very difficult to understand and use. It also looks like the layout is very odd.
9) Sip Hawai
I suppose this website is on boarder line acceptable but then again it doesn't work. Too much going on causing the website to be unlegible. I feel like they should be using the whole of the space avaible too.
Well this website I belive is for websites that suck so I am guessing they have made there website suck too! Text is not in anyway legible and the pictures follow so sort of conventional layout and they are all pixelated. This is hard to talk about as its all round bad and you have no idea where the focus might be. Something about Ambulances.
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