make a big splash then go cost-effective? what do you think?

Meanwhile, for those who are disciplined (or self righteous) enough to actually at least try do work, rather than find reasons for not working written in the stars, MakeUseOf has found five inspirational design concept websites this week (check all five out here) to help you feel all creative and clever.

Attention! If you can draw, 1000 drawings is an initiative that gives you the opportunity to use your sketches and doodles to do good.

Thanks to a general lack of imagination and something called the building code, the average building is pretty boring. Brick. Glass. Cement. Maybe some, ooh, steel. Meh. On any average day in any average place it’s pretty hard to find inspiration from the buildings surrounding us.
Unless you are going to be living in Delft in the Netherlands post-2014 and plan to take the train a lot, that is

Take two typographers and some custom software add a pro driver and you’ve got an amazing new font created for Toyota. Awesome ‘making of’ video.

A premise of effective social media marketing and interaction is that it allows brands / products / initiatives / collectives to identify and build communities around similar interests. For me, this is the real differentiator as social media (blogs, social networks, forums, wikis….) give people an opportunity to respond and for conversations to develop and grow.

The web offers all sorts of cool material to fuel inspiration and encourage the creative process.
Vimeo is full of amazing work from the realms of animation, film making, artistic commentary, and captures of beautiful moments from everyday life. Mashable have created an awesome feature of 12 amazing videos for design inspiration that are a [...]

All quite nice and soothing for the stressed out designer… but most of us are just ordinary human beings who need to, like, eat. Which means we need to earn money. Which means we need to work most days, let alone take an entire year off ‘refreshing’ our design ideas. Which means we need to find our inspiration, design or otherwise, someplace other than an infinity pool in Bali.

Single Function have gathered a list of 15 online background generators it’s a ‘cut out and keep’ post for anyone, not just prof designers.

Are selling tables the godsend of the internet? As opposed to vomiting reams of copy onto a screen, dragging onto nowhere, a thing of the past.