New ideas don’t come out of nowhere and you constantly need to feed your inspiration from different sources – nature, travel, books or movies. We decided to share with you the best design blogs that we read regularly. We hope you enjoy them and get inspired to create great things too!
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Corporate identity and branding
1. Pioneers
Pioneers blog in three main areas – about corporate identity and logos, website design and packaging. The section on web design collects a lot of news in the field, describes the latest trends and regularly releases a selection of the best websites/fonts/design solutions.
The “About Print Design” section contains many articles about packaging, window display design, there are some examples of industrial design and corporate identity elements. They have also collected a lot of beautiful posters and postcards.
Photo: Mike | Creative Mints
2. KOLORO
On our Koloro blog, we regularly write about everything we’re interested in and have applied to our work. Since our agency specializes in brand creation, we devote the lion’s share of our work to research. When developing a packaging design for a large Ukrainian company, we carried out a detailed analysis of the dairy market, the main information from which we posted in the blog.
We also write a lot of useful material about branding (tips on creating a personality brand already on the site) and about developing corporate identity elements.
3. DESIGNogolik
DESIGNogolik is the perfect place for those who love to read about design. There’s no other way around it – there are over 1300 designs from all over the world! The blog is packed full of ideas from interior design to what’s new in the fashion industry. We learned from them that Darth Vader is often the inspiration for industrial design objects.
4. OTAKOYI
OTAKOYI write humorously and interestingly about corporate identity, branding, and the intricacies of online store business. They are also passionate about web design and share interesting news from the field. The guys also translate infographics and write a lot about color – perception, trending colors, difficulties in choosing a button color for a website, etc.
Photo by: Jonathan Howell
Packaging: from idea to print
5. The Best Packaging
The Best Packaging collects the latest packaging examples and concepts to help designers find inspiration. The blog contains 1,150 articles with striking examples of packaging that can already be found on store shelves. Each article includes a link to the designer or agency that created the packaging. This allows client companies to find the best performers for their ideas.
For your convenience, the articles are organized into convenient product categories: wine, snacks, clothing, perfume, chocolate, etc. One of the most popular categories is milk cartons. In addition, TBP duplicates news on Pinterest, where they have their own channel.
6. What’s the package?
What the pack? publishes articles about branding and packaging, among which there are works by both domestic and foreign designers. Their blog is divided into several categories. “Lynch” contains examples of creative packaging designs – the guys really take the best and do it regularly. The “Special Projects” category has a mini library of the best recommended books on design and branding in general.
The mission of the creators of this media project is “to bring Cyrillic brand design to the Western level of quality and to familiarize the foreign community with the best domestic ideas and teams”.
Author of design: Todd Anderson
Web design
7. Design mania
Design mania is a blog for real web design maniacs. A distinctive feature of the blog is the presence of a lot of free materials for web designer’s work – icons, Photoshop brushes, fonts, etc. Also there you can find useful materials for solving disputable issues with clients, useful services for designers, tips for solving complex problems.
8. Oscar
Oscar ‘s blog is dedicated to current news in the field of web design. Here you can find a lot of useful tips to improve your website’s performance. They recently published a short guide “7 “deadly sins” of Landing page”, where they give examples of typical mistakes of web designers and tell how to avoid them. Also on their page they talk about their personal experience in creating successful websites.
9. Prodesign Block
The guys fromProdesignshare a digest of events from the world of design in Ukraine, select books for designers and talk about different user-friendly tools. They have a lot of lessons and practical tips for UX designers to achieve the most usable website functionality. Among their popular articles are posts about choosing the right laptop for a designer and tips for those who want to become a successful freelancer.
10. Beloweb
Beloweb generously shares with its readers a selection of free icons, photos and templates for websites – a real boon for aspiring web designers. The blog collects many different tools for creating a “friendly” UI-design of a website and has already released their 35th selection of free photos in excellent quality. They also have a whole section of useful information for beginners, from resume design tips to step-by-step descriptions of how to create individual site elements.
Personal blogs about design
On personal blogs, designers share work problems they face and, of course, write about ways to solve them, as well as post the best content from the web. Reading personal blogs helps you find new ideas and allows you to look at a difficult task from a different perspective.
Author of web-design: Virgil Pana
11. Alexei Bychkov
Alexei has been designing for over 10 years and is at ease talking about the intricacies of his work. He is always eager to share his enormous experience with readers and there is really a lot to learn here. The humorous and a bit sarcastic manner of writing creates a pleasant atmosphere in the blog.
12. Olga Romanova
Olga is delighted with calligraphy and fonts – and so are we! Read more about the psychology of font perception in our article. She is a letterer and has dedicated an entire board on Pinterest to this hobby. Olga also makes cartoon illustrations for bank cards – a very interesting hobby. In her free time she travels and shares her impressions about her trips.
Lettering: tobiassaul studio
13. Nastia Manno
Web designer Nastya has another great blog – here she shares useful tools for creating websites and detailed lessons on drawing in Photoshop. On her blog, Nastya also writes reviews of books she’s read, including one of our favorites – “Turn Your Heart and Brain On. How to Build a Successful Creative Business” by Daria Bikbaeva.
We’re always keeping up to date with branding innovations, and reading blogs helps us improve!
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