Different platforms are helpful to explore. It expands the learning horizon and creative mindset. Some of them are: Dribbble, Behance, Abduzeedo, Pinterest, siteInspire, Land-book, Commerce Cream, muzli and Designinspiration. as a designer we have to learn and boost our creativity everyday.
Let me share my proccess of inspiration.
I never use subfolders when I collect inspiration images. For example when I was doing my internship at the most famous branding agency of my area, we had this procedure: Let’s say we have to design a brand Identity for a restaurant. Then the boss asked me to visit pinterest, dribbble, behance etc and search for restaurants logos, typefaces, color palettes… Then I saved all these images in a “Restaurant Inspiration” Folder which we will use for future reference.
Now as a freelancer I find it quite restricting. Almost everyday I collect random images, designs, covers, posters, color palettes, photos or videos and save them in a specific folder. One folder, with no subfolders.
It might have over 3000 thousand images there now.
When I am assigned a project, I browse all these images and many times I get very good inspirations from something theoritically irrelevant. Then I make a seperate folder with the name of the project and copy there what I found interestign and could work.
Then after trial and error I end up to my final inspiration where I base on my final design.
Also I find very useful to have a font manager so I can preview the font with the desired text, before installing it. I don’t like how illustrator does it, but it’s a matter of preference.
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This works for me all the time.
pinterest is my source of inspiration