20 Best Design and Photography Web Sites to Inspire

Some of my favourite design network sites, covering a wide range of design types, from illustration, photography, web site design to architectural and industrial design.  If you love design you'll love these sites!

1. Behance Network - Creative Portfolios, Projects and Collaborations

A free platform for creative professionals that lets you showcase your work, gain exposure, displays your work in a profesionnal way, and help advance your creative career.



http://www.behance.net/

2. FFFound - Image Bookmarking

FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!

http://ffffound.com/

3. Flickr - Photo Upload and Sharing

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world!

http://www.flickr.com/

4. Deviant Art

DeviantArt is a worldwide online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others.

http://www.deviantart.com/

5. Most Inspired

Aggregration of design inspiration!

http://www.mostinspired.com/

6. The Cool Hunter

Sharing today's most happening movements, styles and trends covering genres such as fashion, music, urban living, designer and cultural trends.

http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/

7. JPG Magazine

JPG Magazine is the magazine made by you Its a showcase of brave new photography created from the best work submitted to jpgmagcom.

http://jpgmag.com/

8. The Served

Creative Portfolios, Projects, and Collaborations. A new platform for the creative professional community.  Choose from fashion, industrial design, photography, motion graphics and typography.

http://www.theserved.com/

9. Trend Hunter Magazine

The largest community for Trends, Trend Spotting, Cool Hunting, and Innovation. Fashion Trends, Style, Gadgets, Technology, Pop Culture, Art and more.

http://www.trendhunter.com/

10. NotCot

NOTCOT.org for your ideas + aesthetics + amusement.

http://www.notcot.org/

11. Creattica

Become a member of Creattica and you can submit your designs for fame and glory, as well as rate other people's work and bookmark items for later viewing

http://creattica.com/

12. Design Meltdown

A showcase of awesome web design. What you find here is a collection of hand picked, hand cataloged web sites. The goal is to inspire, challenge and inform you. Enjoy!

http://www.designmeltdown.com/

13. Graphic Exchange

A hand picked selection of graphical projects.

http://www.graphic-exchange.com/

14. Moco Loco

More contemporary design and architecture.

http://mocoloco.com/

15. Computer Love

Cpluv.com is a daily magazine on art, design and creative culture.

http://www.cpluv.com/

16. Its Nice That

It's Nice That is focused on publicising and promoting the very best work from across the creative industry. Since setting up in April 2007, we have remained dedicated to staying up to date with studios and individuals from all over the world, adding to our online archive daily.

http://www.itsnicethat.com/

17. The Best Designs

The Best Designs recognizes the best Flash and CSS web sites from around the world. Websites are categorized by CSS or Flash and also by elements of the design. TBD is usually updated every weekday, with the exception of holidays.

http://www.thebestdesigns.com/

18. Styleboost

Showcasing outstanding websites since 2001.

http://styleboost.com/ 

19. Design Inspiration and Visual Art Inspiration

A visual collection of some of the best talent in Design and Illustration served daily.

http://www.designflavr.com/

20. Design Snips

Snippets of web design.

http://designsnips.com/