Dirty Mouse // Food For Designers’ Dirty Little Mice

Being a web designer and front-end developer,  from time to time I find CSS galleries a good source of inspiration. There’s a new one around that’s looking promising in the form of CSS Artillery. It gets updated often so it’s a handy little bookmark.

Chuck Anderson has recently updated his portfolio with some rocking work. Shame our favourite print (below) is still sold out, but go have a click on his site and his shop NP&CO.

Image copyright of No Pattern | Buy No Pattern tees and posters here

Excellent resource of Communist propaganda posters.

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Lovely branding work from Philippe. For a flash site, it ain’t bad, but the photography too is rather ace.

Images copyright of Philippe Archontakis

Check out the cool shit going on at niuku.net, the personal portfolio of Novemto Komo. If this is a temporary site, we can’t wait to see what the main site is going to be like.

image copyright of Niuku.net 

You’ve probably seen photographs which use delayed shutter speeds before. You’ve probably seen photographs where the photographer has attempted to ‘paint’ a picture onto the photograph. But have you seen them as good as this lot?

Called Lichtfaktor, these guys use a variety of techniques to create fantastic photos, each one its own piece of artwork. Combining both the surrounding environment and their unique skills, the end result is a touch impressive.

Via The Serif | Pics copyright of lichtfaktor

So, you sit down to design a website, poster or whatever. Cup of coffee to your left, mouse in your right hand. You fire up Illustrator, and then right in front of you is a white vastness. You struggle to fill it with anything, but it doesn’t look right. Your initial scribbles aren’t transferring well to the screen. Dejected, your mind starts to fill with doubt. But fear not, for all you need is inspiration, and the internet is full of it.

With the amount of different galleries and showcases for design inspiration on the web growing by the day, we have decided to share our 10 favourite places with you.

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