Need some sites to convey design ideas to your freelancer?
Here’s some great places to start. Just be warned, they can become deep, deep rabbit holes!
- Dafont – tons of great free fonts
- Colour Lovers – a million color palettes, plus patterns and shapes
- Awwwwards -Web design inspiration
- Web Design Inspiration
- SiteInspire
- Smashing Magazine – articles on various aspects of design, plus lots of great visual samples
- Communication Arts Magazine
- Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Google Images and other search engines- Pop in some keywords and see what sort of art or website is already available. E.G. “thriller book cover,” “cozy mystery website design,” or “murder mystery Door County author.”
See what the competition is doing, then one-up them!