As a designer you are all too aware that if you stop inputting inspiration into your brain mix there soon comes stagnation. Inspiration is the fuel that keeps you going as a designer. For me, this comes in 2 forms ‘design’ in sense of things I see and websites I view and colour. Colour to me can be just inspiring as seeing a complete design. I’m a hoarder of screen-shots and links for inspiration and with that comes 2 new sites announcements.

In the past on this blog I’ve had sections for inspiration both web designs and colour and also run 2 flickr groups dedicated to web and colour inspiration. I’ve had a slight change now and with the enjoyment and ease of use I’ve got through having a tumblr blog for Espresso I’ve set up 2 more tumblr blogs dedicated to inspiration.

Webspiration

Webspiration is going to be a mixture of showcase sites to go to, screenshots (also on my flickr group webspiration which you can contribute to) all in the lovely form of a tumblr blog. I’m probably going to add a dash of code snippets and techniques in there as links from del.icio.us which I use for all my bookmarking.

Colourspiration

Colourspiration is the colour equal to webspiration. Again, this will have palettes, colour related imagery, techniques even articles and posts from my colourspiration flickr group.

With these 2 news sites also comes a change of colour scheme on this blog. Pink for October is over for another year and I’ve gone to the original colours designed for this blog. As you will see it’s a very similar branding now to Logical Binary (my company) which was the desired effect as this becomes more and more linked to Logical Binary rather than a separate entity.

I’d like to invite you if you’ve not done before to sign up on flickr for webspiration and colourspiration. I plan to be featuring user uploads on the new tumblr blogs along with new content you won’t see in the flickr group. You can subscribe via RSS to both tumblr blogs with these links: colourspiration rss webspiration rss. I’ve got some ideas of how I want to build on both webspiration and colourspiration over the next coming months so expect to see a fair amount of activity going on. I’m also going to be doing weekly or maybe monthly (not decided yet) updates on this blog from both these tunblrs.