The Ultimate List of Must-Visit Foreign Design Websites

Many partners who have just come into contact with design are eager to know which "international design websites that designers must have" can be collected in one click. In this case, let's simply recommend a high-quality design website ~ In addition to the three giants of design websites familiar to designers, Pinerest, Behance and Dribbble, this time carefully sorted out 8 top and unique foreign design websites provide rich, comprehensive, high-quality inspiration references, and try to cover different design fields. Let's take a look~

1. Designspiration

Designspiration is a comprehensive design inspiration website with color search function. It presents the same content and waterfall flow as Pinterest. Inspiration covers graphic design, 3D, UI, brand, illustration, packaging, photography, architecture and other aspects.

Designspiration has a detailed and comprehensive functional classification. The website has partitions such as homepage, attention, hot spots, and themes; each inspiration has a description label. After clicking, you can jump directly to the relevant suggestions. The most noteworthy is the color search function of the website, which can select up to 5 colors, making inspiration collection more targeted and the overall search efficiency higher.

2. Artstation

Artstation is the best integrated CG visual art exchange community in the world. It is a display platform for mainstream art works in the game, film and television, entertainment and other industries. At the beginning of this year, Artstation Learning announced that all courses in the station are open and everyone can learn for free forever. This course is taught by top artists from all over the world, including PS, Zbrush, Unreal Engine, Substance painter, Blender and other tool tutorials, as well as teaching of professional knowledge such as color, composition, concept art, character design, etc.

 3. NDC

NDC, also known as the Japan Design Center (NIPPON DESIGN CENTER), is a creative design agency organized by Kenya Hara, a leader in the field of Japanese design, pursuing the design concept of "paying attention to the essence of things and showing them clearly and visually".

The NDC site is a classic Japanese minimalist style, simple and plain, showing the company's design achievements from 1959 to the present, including web design, graphic advertising, picture albums, movies, packaging, packaging, VI, book design and many other aspects. The design level of the works is first-class, and friends who like minimalist design style should not miss it.

4. Notefolio

Notefolio is a comprehensive Korean design exchange website, similar in nature to Behance. There are many excellent works published by Korean designers and artists, including graphic design, 3D, UI, illustration, product/packaging, fashion, art, photography and other fields, as well as many professional designers/illustrators sharing their personal creative experience and mental journey. The overall style of the works is obviously different from that of European and American design websites, which can bring completely different inspiration to people.

5. InspirationGrid

Inspiration Grid is a website inspired by Canadian design and can be accessed without a ladder. Excellent design works in the fields of graphic design, art, photography, illustration, and architecture are updated every day, as well as inspiration recommendation topics on various design themes. This website is full of vitality. All content is carefully selected. There are many high-quality creative works that are eye-catching.

6. Awwwards

Awwwards It is an authoritative platform that focuses on selecting excellent website design works and is known as the "Oscar of the web design industry." It selects a "Site of the Day" website design project every day. Winning the award will be of great help to both the designer's strength and the project brand.

Awwwards It brings together top web design practice cases from all over the world, which can bring creative inspiration to designers in layout design, web color matching, dynamic design, user experience, etc. It is one of the must-see websites for improving design aesthetics and learning web design concepts.

7. PACKAGING OF THE WORLD

Packaging of the World (POTW for short) is a website dedicated to collecting excellent packaging design works. It was established in 2008. Every year, it launches a list of "Best Packaging Design of the Year", which is one of the professional weathervanes of the packaging industry; the top ten packaging designs of the month will also be selected based on the network communication data of the works, which is an effective way to understand the popular styles of packaging design.

Packaging of the World collects packaging design projects from professional advertising agencies, designers and students. In 2008, Since its establishment in 2008, it has accumulated a large number of high-quality packaging design cases. In addition to displaying pictures of packaging works, it will also share design backgrounds and concepts in the form of text. This is a treasure website that can inspire design inspiration and learn packaging design concepts. The site has comprehensive and detailed classifications. Through project image, industry, country, packaging material and design year, you can search for corresponding packaging works, which is very convenient for collecting specific inspiration.

 8. Identity Designed

Identity Designed Northern Ireland Designer is a website focusing on brand design project display. David Airey is responsible for the operation and has accumulated hundreds of excellent brand design examples around the world.

The website displays the project background, design concept and concept of the brand club design in the form of a blog, with a large number of real-life pictures, so that readers can have a complete understanding of the design process and landing effect of a brand. The link to the project design studio will be attached at the beginning of the article. Click to jump to the studio homepage to learn more about excellent brand design projects.