A dash of inspiration

Since so many times in class the importance of looking at other’s work was mentioned, I thought it only appropriate that in my last post for class, I share a few of my favorites. Obviously, this isn’t a complete list of all the amazing visual ideas and there are numerous real-world books, magazines, posters, artworks and printed materials, but below is a diverse sampling of sites I look to for ideas. In no particular order, are a few of my favorite online design inspirations.

Infographics: http://visual.ly/

Front pages from across the country: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Mindy McAdams is great resource on Flash and online journalism in general.

Online journalism: http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/

Flash (Content is old, but examples are good): http://flashjournalism.com/index.htm

NY Times interactives are always awesome. They even sent a team of graphic designers to Virginia Tech when the shootings happened to do detailed renderings.

Multimedia page: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html

Shooting project: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/20070417_SHOOTING_GRAPHIC.html

Victims project: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20070418_VICTIMS_GRAPHIC.html?scp=2&sq=Virginia%20Tech%20interactive&st=cse

Collection of inspirations, including groupings as diverse as paper art, Flash logos, textures, fantasy art, CSS designed sites and more. DesignDim offers tutorials too. http://www.designdim.com/category/showcase/

Creative Inspirations on Lynda.com. And yes, I watched these long before Professor Motley assigned them; infact, I’m pretty sure I told him about them in September. Anyway, they are great for learning about the industry and getting inspired: http://www.lynda.com/search?q=creative+inspirations&x=0&y=0

While listening to NPR is always educational and the audio reports are a great lesson in multi-layer storytelling without visuals, they also do some nice multimedia: http://www.npr.org/sections/multimedia/