Magazine- Existing

Types of existing design magazines...

Architecture:
World-Newspapers > Architecture & Design

Architect
Magazine offers resources for the architecture professional, including industry news, market intelligence, business and technology solutions, continuing education, a building products database.

Architect's Newspaper
Source of information on the latest projects and commissions, unfolding politics and debate, current events and cultural developments related to architecture.

Architectural Record
Editorial mix of design ideas and trends, building science, business strategies, exploration of key issues, news products and computer-aided practice.

Architecture Plus
Dubai-based leading region's architecture and design magazine.

Architecture Week
Magazine of design and building, with news and features on architecture, construction, digital media, and building culture.

ArchNewsNow
Daily newsletter with architecture, design and construction news stories from around the world.

Arcspace
Architecture and design magazine featureing today's most creative projects as well as the most influential of the past.

Azure
Profiles international designers and architects, reports on major trade fairs in North America and Europe, presents innovative projects, materials, products and ideas.

Blueprint
Premier UK magazine taking a parallel approach to the different design disciplines, reflecting a belief that fashion, product, furniture and architectural design can share ideas.

Canadian Architect
Features articles on current practice, building technology, and social issues affecting architecture.

Contract Magazine
Devoted to commercial interior design and architecture in US.

Design-Build
The only magazine dedicated to charting the continuing expansion of single-source delivery.

Design Build Network
Web site for the design and build industry with information on current architecture and construction projects.

Design Intelligence
Design Futures Council's magazine delivering original research, commentary, industry news, and instructive best practices.

Dwell
Delivers intelligent coverage of modern residential architecture and design by presenting examples of well-designed spaces that integrate the residents and their ideas and values.

Environmental Design & Construction
Magazine devoted to green building industry.

FORM: pioneering design
Bi-monthly architecture and design magazine featuring news from emerging talents in architecture, interior, landscape, furniture, product design and materials.

Frame Magazine
International interior architecture and design magazine focusing on retail, exhibition, leisure, and workplace design.

FX Magazine
Keeps you updated to the latest developments in the industry of workplace designing, architecture and more with latest news and events.

Harvard Design Magazine
Features essays, images, discussions, book reviews, and recent projects.

Hinge Magazine
Architecture and design magazine from Hong Kong with a focus on directed tower design.

icon
UK magazine focusing on the best buildings, interiors, furnishings and fittings.

Interiors and Sources
Magazine dedicated to critical commercial and residential interior design and architecture issues.

Materia
Italy-based international architecture magazine. Presents international projects, essays and the study of the relative standards.

Metropolis Magazine
Examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.

Polar Inertia
Tells the story of the highway, mobile home, fast food chain, suburbanite, truck stop and industrialized landscape. Find short stories, photography, and essays.

Residential Architect
Provides home builders with home building news, home plans, home design ideas, and building product information.

Specifier
Australian magazine featuring global architecture and building news, project reviews, eco products, brochure libraries, architect directory and architect profiles.

Traditional Building
Provides resources for commercial, civic, institutional, and religious building projects.

Volume 5
Art and architecture magazine featuring interviews, profiles, reviews and student works.

Graphics:

World-Newspapers > Art Magazines > Graphic Design A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices. CGIndia Online computer graphics magazine providing information on 3d, Animation, Computer Graphics and Visual Effects (VFX). Cmyk Magazine Showcase of student work in advertising, design, illustration and photography. Communication Arts Magazine featuring the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design. Computer Arts Magazine for digital artists and designers, providing advice on creating digital art and illustrations. Find tutorials, tips and tricks for web design, typography, 3D, animation, motion graphics and multimedia. Design Edge Canada National news and trends magazine and web site for graphic designers, including profiles, features, surveys, and new releases. Design is Kinky Graphic design magazine acting largely as a gallery of artwork. Also includes commentary, interviews, profiles, mug shots. Digital Output (DO) Business magazine for electronic publishers and digital imagers. Features news and articles on digital graphics industry. Digital Web Magazine Online magazine intended for professional web designers. Find articles, tutorials, features, reviews, and classifieds. Eclipse Ezine E-zine for web and graphic designers. Includes templates, designer bulletin, job postings and tips. Eye UK magazine for graphic designers and other professionals in the art and business of visual culture. Graphic Arts Monthly Authoritative magazine covering applied technology for the printing industry. Provides industry news, product reviews, features, events, calendar, and stock information. Graphic Design Basics Features graphic design competitions, news, articles, tips, and resources. Graphic Design USA Business-to-business magazine for professional graphic designers and related creative and production professionals. Graphic Exchange Canadian magazine for professionals in graphic communications and graphic arts. Graphics.com News and reference site for the web and print design community. Features gallery, forums, tips, and software downloads. How Magazine Graphic designer's resource for ideas, techniques, and business advice. .net magazine Delivers practical advice on the full range of topics essential for today's web builders: design, development, marketing, usability and accessibility, e-commerce, information architecture, security, copywriting, advertising and more.

Ipod Apps

There is an enormous range of apps on available for the iPhone and iPad. Below are a but a few of the genres prices etc. of existing games. It is a very lucrative market and creating an app that works well and engages customers can not only increase profits, but it can also help your company to reach out to people across the globe.

Pencils & Packaging

Luxurious design, white, sleek, simple but unique.

Interesting use of materials.

Pencils with a range of designers must haves.

Test tube pencils. Nice idea and will keep pencils neat and tidy.

Simple pouch design. The white pencils and image printed give it style and an identity.

Brown paper packet would work well as part of a range because it is simple.

Stationary

Stationary sets that I found were mainly aimed towards children and teenagers at school. The stationary range that I will produce needs to be more mature appealing to a wider market of both young and professional designers.

Strong brand identity

Simple numbering keeps the pack together.

Ideas like cutting the corners on a sketchbook all add up to a more rounded and considered feel.

This stationary pack contains all the essentials... I just need to re design the packaging to fit with the 'Inspire' identity. 

Ways To Be Inspired

How does one get inspired creatively?

In this article, notable designers share their tips and tricks for getting—and keeping—themselves fresh with creative inspiration.

1. Delve into the history of your craft

To get inspired in your present work, it’s worthwhile to go back and look at the history of your craft. Depending on your particular design field, you might be overlooking hundreds of years of accumulated wisdom simply by neglecting to bone up on your history.

"To get a sense of where our industry is headed, you need to look at where it’s been," says Scotland-based brand identity designer and author David Airey in his book Logo Design Love. "Those who have worked through a lifetime of design have amassed an incredible amount of experience, and I never tire of listening to their stories and anecdotes."

One of the best places to learn about design and art history is Wikipedia. Start by using the site’s search feature to read up on things like "typography", "web design", "grid page layouts", or any other topics that interest you or might provide creative inspiration.

You might discover something new simply by looking back to the past.

2. See what others are doing

"Seeing what already exists out there allows you to build upon and improve your own work," says Australian graphic designer Jacob Cass, whose work you may have seen in magazines such as Layers Magazine and Computer Arts. "For example, I recently worked on a pro bono website design project for Haiti… I’d never done a charity website before so seeing what was already out there allowed me to see what design elements were most important. I could then build upon these foundations and create a website that achieved the goals of the charity I was working for."

Online portfolios sites like Behance, deviantART, Flickr, and Carbonmade offer you a chance to see what your colleagues are up to. Web-based design galleries like LogoPond and Creattica are also websites that you might want to take a look at.

3. Find inspiration on the Web

The Web gives designers a convenient venue for discovering sources of creative inspiration. Design blogger and freelance designer Chris Spooner reveals, "I’m forever stumbling over great artwork from designer portfolios, amazing illustrations and great new ideas being put into practice in website designs. This always springs new ideas to mind for projects, blog articles and tutorials."

Blogs like Abduzeedo, Smashing Magazine, and Yanko Design will give you a consistent stream of inspiration. Be sure to utilize an RSS feed reader like Google Reader, which can bring all of these sites to you in one handy location. Whenever you’re experiencing a creative lull, hit your feeds for a surge of inspiration.

4. Go to the bookstore

"One thing that always gets me inspired is browsing through books in a bookstore. I feel like the level of craft in your average book is a lot higher than the level of craft in an average website. If I see a book with some killer typography and just a nice overall design, I usually can’t wait to get back to the computer to see if I can incorporate some of those ideas into one thing or another," says Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks.

Looking at books in your favorite bookstore is a surefire way to getting creatively inspired. Simply stepping outside your work area for a few hours can present you with a much needed hiatus that enables your creative juices to refresh.

And books, being one of the oldest forms of design, can stimulate your creativity by showing you a myriad of design, art, and typography styles and techniques through their covers and pages. Additionally, skimming books that interest you may allow you to discover some knew information that inspires you creatively.

For freelance web designer Lee Munroe, reading books is a good source of inspiration. "I find myself most creatively inspired when I’m reading a good design book (e.g. Handcrafted CSS, The Design Of Everyday Things)," says Munroe.

5. Follow your favorite designers in social media

Services like Twitter and Facebook allow you to see what your favorite designers are up to at any given moment. By following them, you might uncover some links to inspiring web resources and thoughtful anecdotes for inspiration.

"Currently I find a lot of my inspiration from other people. Rather than browsing galleries for inspiration, I think it’s much more useful to look at people who could inspire you and keep updated with them," says Liam McKay of Function. "This could be as simple as just following them on Twitter. Seeing other people succeed and create cool things gets me inspired, seeing works in progress and projects being built up from nothing is a great motivation for your own work."

Designer and illustrator, Nick La puts it plainly: "Follow creative people on Twitter." To find creatives on Twitter, you can start by subscribing to Twitter lists that auspiciously give you the opportunity to find and follow designers and artists on the ubiquitous social networking site. Visit the site called Listorious—an index of popular Twitter lists, sorted by tags such as design, graphicdesign, typography, and more.

6. Change your surroundings

Things can get stale real fast when you do the same things repeatedly. Getting out of your normal routine can help you find creative inspiration by affording you a chance to break out of the daily grind and see new things.

Angela Rohner, web designer and founder of popular web inspiration gallery, The Best Designs, imparts this thought: "I usually have to take a break away from the computer screen to really get my creativity going. Sometimes I will take a walk – especially during the fall and spring, I love to take a walk outside to clear my mind and get some fresh air."

Design blogger and website designer Steven Snell reveals: "One of my favorite techniques for inspiration is to change my surroundings. If I’ve been online for a long time, which is usually the case, I like to get outside or at least away from the computer for a little while."

"Mixing things up can help to get a fresh perspective," adds Snell.

For Jad Limcaco of Design Informer, engaging on another activity besides your creative work can generate inspiration. "Whether it be going to the gym, playing basketball or chess, or even taking a nap, these are all different activities that help me clear my mind. How does this get me inspired? Well, I find that by getting away, my mind is stimulated and refreshed, and I usually come back with a fresh perspective on things and a ton of new ideas," says Limcaco.

Digital media designer Jan Cavan (Dawghouse Design Studio) suggests why changing your surroundings can be inspirational: "Freelancing makes me feel a bit secluded sometimes so I go out and head to a coffee shop with my laptop and just try to enjoy and draw inspiration from the things going on around me."

7. Work on projects that are inspiring

"I find inspiration from working on projects I’m really excited about. The trick is getting those projects. One thing that’s really helped me is having personal projects that I can’t wait to work on. A lot of the ideas and experiments I try out trickle in to my client work and leads to more ideas and inspiration down the road," says illustrator and web designer,Brad Colbow.

Just realizing what a project will take, the challenges that it may pose, then getting a good sense of what’s about to come—for some— is enough to get you creatively inspired. "When I get all the information I need to know about the project I feel more confident and secure about what I have to do and that really inspires me," says highly sought after Brazilian designer, Fabio Sasso of Abduzeedo.

Find work that challenges your creativity—that begs it to come out—simply by picking projects that are inspiring and fulfilling to you.

Start your hunt for that next challenging and inspirational job by browsing reputable jobs listings that cater to designers such as Coroflot, Design Jobs on the Wall, Krop, and Smashing Jobs.

8. Open up your mind to creative opportunities

"I see creativity as something outside of me that reveals itself at the moment it chooses. If my mind is open, I recognize that element as something that can be applied in a design. I normally begin with a goal," says Francisco Inchauste ofFinch.

"For example, creating a unique navigation look for a certain type of Website. I let that concept stir in the back of my mind for a bit and get away from the computer. I might be reading a magazine, see a nice animation on a TV show, or come across a fantastic color combination on some packaging in the store when inspiration strikes. I try to sketch out a few initial thoughts on paper to capture it. From there the ideas really begin to flow; at the speed of water from a fire hose. I then start playing out those design concepts on the computer," explains Inchauste.

9. Work in a comfortable environment

"One thing I’ve noticed that gets me inspired on a daily basis is my work environment. Working on a laptop, I will almost never design from one place for an entire day. By changing my location regularly, I find that my mind doesn’t hit the dreaded post-lunch slowdown like it does when I’m chained to my office chair. Relocating doesn’t mean you have to work at a coffee shop every day; a simple change of rooms in the house can do a lot. If your work machine is a desktop, one combatant is to rearrange the office space as often as time allows. That being said, keep your desk and direct viewpoint free of trash and unneeded clutter. Your focus needs to be on your screen, not the stack of trash or magazines next to you. Natural sunlight (but not the blinding sort) can help stimulate your mood, as can ambient lighting when you’re working into the night. Just a few irregular daily routines I’ve picked up on over the past year," says Sean Baker of Elysium Burns.

10. Just get something started

When you’re in a creative rut—instead of wallowing in it—why not fire up your favorite design tool and experiment. See what happens when you learn to let go.

"The best thing for me is often to get something started. There’s nothing worse for me than staring at a blank screen hoping something will pop into my head, so sometimes I will just start dropping stuff onto a page hoping to see a couple of things click together. I’ll also often be surfing galleries in the background or looking at textures or stock graphics. Basically, I try to simulate normal designing until all of a sudden something ticks over in my head and I’m no longer simulating but actively designing something," shares designer Collis Ta’eed, Envato’s CEO and founder of top design blogs such as Psdtuts+ and Creattica.

Magazine Websites

Packed full of information. Layout can be quite confusing as there is so much to look at.