Part of being creative in business, is to surround yourself with creatives, or brain food. Rising social network, Pinterest, offers just that. You can follow boards on just about anything from general waste to infographics, jewellery or graphic design inspiration.
We’re going to focus on the last one. Design, images and personalised content is important to your business, and even more important for your social channels. Here are 10 Pinterest boards that will fill your head with creative ideas and offer some design inspiration.
If you’re looking for web design tips for your website, our Small Web Design Tips That Make a Big Difference article cover this very subject. But also keep in mind, once you’ve got your inspiration, think about what your website says about you and your business. Finally, if you plan to sell products on your website, why not keep in mind what the best high-street retailers do – and copy them! Our Web Design: Just Copy the Highstreet blog, outlines a range of points to consider when designing your website!
1. Brandon Lesley – Graphic Design and Typography
Packed full of design inspiration, with pins from Behance, Dribble, Flickr and more, Brandon brings together best of creative art, graphic design and fresh typography design, 3D styling and ingenious product packaging all into one place.
Follow the board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/oomingmak22/graphic-design-and-typography/
2. Carolina Beiertz – Graphic Design
If you’re looking for creative inspiration, you’ve come to the right place. Carolina’s board is packed full of colourful, inspiring and wholly impressive pieces. From 3D paper crafts to flat design typography.
Follow the board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/carolinabeiertz/graphic-design/
3. Sean Booth – Graphic Design
Clever, vibrant and inspiring. Sean Booths’ graphic design board encapsulates the best of in-your-face imagery, clever advertising and 3D brilliance to offer up a truly creative board to fuel your ideas.
Follow the board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/seanboothy/graphic-design/
4. Daniel Abrahams – App UI/UX
Beautiful design can come in small packages. 4 inch display packages, to be precise. This App UI/UX board by Daniel Abrahams showcases the best of app design, including flat and material design. Some the beautifully simple to the complex and staggering, this board will give you app inspiration and general design inspiration for upscaling.
Follow this board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/danabrahams/app-ui-ux/
5. Mike Jones – Logolicious
Logos don’t have to exclusively be inspiration for other logos. They can in fact inspire a whole host of ideas for designs, prints, patterns, articles or more. Mike Jones’ logolicious board is packed full of artsy logos, clever typography and impressive designs.
Follow this board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/jerrythepunkrat/logolicious/
6. Thiago Hapner – Print Design
Thiago Hapner’s Print Design board is the perfect blend of quirky advertising, graphic minimalism and print excellence, tied together in one place, for your viewing pleasure. With pins from Dribble, Behance, Flickr and more, Thiago’s pins are almost always in high quality, and look great!
Follow this board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/hapner/print-design/
7. David Brainer-Banker – Typefaces
Whether it is for a little typography you’re planning, inspiration for a new business font, or just for general design inspiration – David Brainer-Banker’s Typefaces board is perfect, with a whole array or typefaces with different styles, settings and influences.
Follow this board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/typography/typefaces/
8. Joel NG – Ampersand
A bit of a quirky one – this ampersand board by Joel Ng takes a fresh look on the standard typography Pinterest boards, and focuses exclusively on the ampersand (&). This allows for a lot of scope with regards to shape, style, texture and layout, offering some really intricate and inspiring pieces of ampersand art.
Follow this board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/jocundist/ampersand/
9. Emma Ates – Minimalist Art
Sometimes less is more, and this is definitely true with minimalist art, and especially Emma Ates’ Minimalist Art Pinterest board. If you like to take a stripped back approach to design, then surrounding yourself with minimalist art is definitely the best way to get your creative juices flowing.
Follow this board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/mindfulrupaarts/minimalist-art/
10. Adam Lewis – Digital Art
Digital art by Adam Lewis does exactly what it says on the tin. A wide collection of digital art, spanning a vast array of styles and hazy designs.
Follow this board here:
http://www.pinterest.com/madebyadmix/digital-art/
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