PRINT COLLECTIONS – GRAPHIC DESIGN INSPIRATION & IDEAS

Coolest Business Card Designs, Part I - Here are the coolest, most innovative business cards that you have ever seen. Here is Part II.

Best of Brochure Design : Cool Brochures - These brochures will give you some artistic inspiration when you feel like you are out of ideas. I hope that you enjoy the

Cool Designs for Flyers and Posters – Some of these flyers have cool textures, shapes, and

some are even 3d-like

Ad Classix - Vintage ads offer a fascinating glimpse of history and represent the archival documents of our consumer driven society. If you own a vintage or show vehicle, a print of its original publicity advertisement is the finishing touch to your investment.

Adobe Kuler - On Adobe Kuler you can browse and share color combinations from other designers.

Ads of the World – Ads of the World is an advertising archive and community showcasing the best and most interesting work worldwide.

ABC Typography - A virtual museum of typography.

Ad Week - Spotlight of the best creative ads. There are also a lot of helpful articles here.

ArtzMania – An art showcase from global designers. Get your creative juices flowing with this one.

AIGA – Visit the AIGA’s graphic designer portfolio showcase.

Album Cover and Album Art – Flickr Collections of album cover designs and album art.

Best Rejected Advertising - A great idea for a site. Best Rejected Advertising was the first book to publish ads that had been rejected by clients on aesthetic, commercial or strategic grounds. This website broadens the original concept by including rejected, banned, spoof and most complained about ads and commercials.

Cary Graphic Arts Collection – Graphic arts library and digital image database.

CD Design – Creative Music (CDs and Albums) artwork and designs.

Cover Boom – See the most beautiful book cover designs.

Daily Input – A new blog about inspiration for graphic designers.

Design Archive Online – Review twentieth century magazine design and photography with biographical profiles of designers. A project of the Rochester Institute of Technology, the image archives have limited access.

Design Snips - A collection of snips of great designs.

DFCKR – DFCKR keeps tabs on designs on Flickr. This includes 28 wonderful inspirational photo pools found on Flickr which could be of some use to those looking for some inspiration including Magazine covers, Book covers, Posters, Typography and Lettering, One Letter (Typography), Vintage Advertisements, Illustrations, Vintage Illustrations, Vintage Christmas Designs and Art, Drawings, Sketches, Moleskine Art, Visual Scavenger Hunt, Art after Art, Pop Art, Graffiti Archeology, Contemporary Arts, Street Art, Retro Records, Retro Kid, T-shirt Revolution, Screen-printing, Post-it Ar, Paper Fetish, Graphic Designm Logos, and Character Design.

DimeStore Packaging – A gallery site featuring vintage dime store packaging.

Form Fifty Five - FormFiftyFive is a independent online archive of inspiring work in graphic design, illustration, photography, architecture, web and product design.

Graphic Arts – The Senate maintains a collection of over 900 historical prints and engravings. This collection contains a rich array of 19th and early 20th century images portraying the events, people, and settings of the U.S. Senate

Graphic Artists’ Guild - Find other graphic artists / designers’ portfolios and get inspiration through others talents.

Graphic Design Archive Online - 20th Century Editorial Online Design Archive.

Hard Format - Need more CD packaging design inspiration, then you cannot afford to miss this site.

Imaginary World – Archive of design packaging including cereal boxes, Food Packaging, Store Displays, Premiums, Newspaper Ads, and much more from 1950s-1970s, etc.

iStockPhoto Design of the Week Spotlight - This a great source of inspiration – they have these great designs listed in different categories for ease of use including Advertisements, Annual Reports, Branding, Campaigns, CDs / DVDs, Covers, Editorial Magazine, POP, Poster, Product Packaging, Self Promotion, Video / Television, and the Web.

Kunst - The print collection contains prints and other art on paper, i.e. drawings, engravings, woodcuts within and relating to the subjects addressed by the Library.

Library of Congress Print Collections – Collections of prints.

Medicine and Madison Avenue – This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or “Madison Avenue,” as the latter is colloquially termed.

NY Public Library – The New York Public Library encompasses a specialized reference collection of over 15,000 volumes on the history of prints and printmakers; artist clipping files; and a collection of close to 200,000 original prints.

Off the Shelf – A Japanese packaging design scrapbook.

Old Ads – Old advertisements from the 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s.

PDF Mag – pdf-mags.com is your infobase for PDF magazines made all over the world.

Pharmaceutical Designs – Beautiful Pharmaceutical designs from the 60s and 70s.

Phirebrush – Phirebrush is an online magazine (art group if you want) that displays user submissions in monthly issues. These submissions showcase visitor submitted artwork, photography, music, desktop wallpapers and writings of various styles. Unlike most art groups and e-zines, we let ANYONE submit, trying to showcase both the famous and beginners, giving everyone a voice and a chance in the spotlight.

Posters American Style – View major posters from the last century. Learn about their design, printing and historical impact on culture. Includes audio. Collection by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Progress PKG – You can find a variety of creative packaging designs in here, from CD packs to metal packaging. A very creative company who aim to be market leaders in the field of creative packaging.

Propoganda Posters – Over 200 political posters from years back.

RBird - A series of professional observations about package design practices within specific product categories.

Swiss Posters – Take a look through The Carnegie Mellon University’s Swiss Poster Collection exhibit.

The Art of Poster – Contains 5000 images and descriptions of posters.

The Die Line – The main source of packaging design inspiration. According to the webmaster Andrew Gibbs, he started theDieLine because as a packaging designer, he needs resources for research and inspiration. But he found none, so he set this site up dedicated to creative packaging design.

Tons of Conert Posters for Inspiration - We all like a little inspiration sometimes, and we all need some sometimes too. I like browsing concert posters or “informational art” as I like to call it. Pretty much anything goes in the world of poster art, so you never know what to expect (which is great) and it’s an area of the art/design world that is very rich on the visual side, not to mention the creative type treatments.

Tribu-Design – More than 900 designers and manufacturers… you can choose your browsing : Timeline, Designers or Manufacturers or go directly to the last added section.

Vintage Packaging Collection on Flickr – Take a look at these vintage packaging images on Flickr.

World of Spectrum - The official world archive for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the largest on-line gaming center on the Internet