The Underdogs of Inspiring Blogs

Like many other young art directors, designers, creative directors and the like, I follow a lot of blogs to help jump start my creativity or simply to see how others are pushing the boundaries in my field.

There of course are the staples of NOTCOT for design & art, Ads Of The World for advertising creative, FWA for digital design, Agency Spy for ad gossip and It’s Nice That for design inspiration. Yet there are quite a few, unsung heros that I follow on a daily basis and wanted to spread the love.

1. Inhabitat: Green Design Blog. The thing I love the most about this blog is it isn’t preachy. It simply showcases some of the coolest green solutions for every area of design. It gets your noodle going in a uniquely green way.

2. The Dieline: Showcase of Packaging. I have always been a strong believer that a true designer can design anything (sans math integration without proper training) be it a website, poster, motion graphics, typeface or a piece of packaging. The thing I love about packaging inspiration is it pushes the boundaries of your thought process in both 2D and 3D.

3. Birds of A Feather: One A Day Picture Blog. I use this blog as a picture a day to keep the block away. Some pictures are good; but, the majority are awesome. Keep this one on the rss feed.

4. Change The Thought: A.D.D. for Designers. This blog is all over the place in an incredibly fantastic way. You get about 3-4 blog posts a day of random awesomeness be it industrial design, photography, motion graphics, screenprinting or a good old advertisement.

5. Thought Bubbles: The View from A Young Copywriter at Mullen. From the Mullen agency that lovingly brought us the brand bowl (in tandem with radian 6) comes the view of a young copywriter at a pretty cool agency. Allison tends to simply blog about the things she loves, all of which has proven to be pretty interesting.

6. Christine Vo: The View from a Young Digital Designer at Wieden + Kennedy. From the digital stuff she makes at W+K to the design stuff she makes on her own. All in all some pretty cool work and interesting pieces of inspiration.

7. Conscience: The View from A Creative Director at the Martin Agency. Although Joe doesn’t post too terribly often, when he does it is always really cool work from the Martin Agency who, as we all know, has recently been winning new business pitch after new business pitch after new business pitch.

All in all a pretty cool group; but, if I’m missing any good ones out there leave a comment or drop me a line on twitter.