People like you – illustrators, photographers, graffiti artists and T-shirt designer – are always on the lookout for anything that can work as a fresh source of inspiration. Of course, sometimes it hits you when you walk down the street and you’re looking at the ice-cream van, and then there are times when reading up on trends, tools and techniques give you the extra push. We’ve put together a top 10 selection of hot creative sources for you.
CreativeBloq
Creative Bloq offers a perfect mix of inspiration and advice for graphic and web designers. In addition, you can inform yourself here about current trends and developments of the scene.
WE AND THE COLOR
Check out this site for great design inspirations, artist features and well done info-graphics as well as fresh fonts available at a discounted rate.
HOW Design
A household name in the industry for anything surrounding news, tips and trends while having a larger focus on the business side of the industry.
Design Instruct
A news and inspiration portal all about digital art with an option to search through 13 categories brimming with trends, tools and technology. You’ll be able to get a few great ‘freebies’ as well (icons etc), just like valuable tips and tricks.
Envato Tuts+
Thousands of how-to tutorials offered by experienced designers and illustrators to assist you in creating designs of all kinds. You’ll also find useful and stimulating guidance on graphics software and manual drawing.
Illustration Age
A fantastic online magazine that is packed with interviews with celebrated and successful designers, glances behind the scenes of the world of design, online tutorials and heaps of inspiration.
From Up North
Genre-crossing illustrations galore, perfectly put together for quick scrolling when time is short. This site really holds something for everyone.
Inspiration Grid
The Inspiration Grid is an online magazine celebrating creative talent and creative stories from around the world. It focuses on illustrators, graphic designers, product designers, web designers and varies nicely between different styles and techniques.
EatSleepDraw
This one’s a really cool tumblr-esque site that you can use to build your own portfolio or just have a gander at submissions and portfolios of other artists. It’s a great site to sift through from a creative inspiration standpoint and also a great resource for professional artists.
Illustration Friday
Fun, free and an amazing way to get those creative juices flowing: each week a topic is put forth and illustrators and designers submit their creations revolving around the topic. Strictly for inspiration purposes, but it’s a great site to get a fresh spark.
Do tell us about other creative sources in the comments – we’re always on the hunt for hot sh!t 
