Absolutely loving all the links over at http://www.kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/favorites/webdesign.htm. It seems that some were broken when I tried but all in all another great bookmark resource!

We’ve always been told that you can find the beauty in and draw inspiration from anything. Well here’s one interesting place, Japanese Manhole Covers displays tons of simply beautiful manhole covers. Another resource to draw inspiration from is Speak Up’s Word It. According to them Word It is…

your opportunity to express in as many words, and as many other graphic elements as you need, what best describes each monthly topic. Each month we will choose a specific topic, idea or theme. For example: the first theme was “inspiration.” So you would go home, or do it at work, and find words, images, artwork, whatever that best describes what inspiration means to you. It could be anything: music, cats, chocolate, museum, love, laundry. Anything that reflects what inspiration is to you. You can do whatever you want to it: vectorize it, photoshop it, scan it or build it and then send it to us.

All you webdesigners out there know how hard it is to find a nice free plugin or program that saves .ICO files for your website fave icons. I’ve found a pretty kickass reference for that and seemingly tons others at Telegraphics. There’s literally dozens of resources over there for Photoshop and Illustrator so go for it!

I recently rediscovered these two sites that I used to visit more often and I must say that both are still doing rather well… GFXArtist.com WebMaster Talk

Here are some random portfolio sites I’ve come across…. http://justdesign.org/ ::graphic design http://www.timmarrs.co.uk/ ::illustration http://www.junkdrawer.s5.com/ ::graphic design, illustration, painting http://www.cquit.pt.vu/ ::illustration, sketches http://www.justinkrietemeyer.net/ ::illustration http://www.antigirl.com/ ::photo, collage http://www.subdisc.com/ ::cool site, photo, cool ass layout http://www.peterfunch.com/ ::cool site, interesting nav, photo http://www.jardemar.com/ ::pretty site, photo http://www.systeme-d.com/ ::high-res photo, cant figure out the nav tho http://www.loop-land.co.uk/ ::cool site, illustration http://www.soppcollective.com/default.htm ::flash, illustration, design…very cute http://www.180red.com/ ::retro design, cute simple site http://www.eccentris.com/flash.htm ::pimp site, great photography, boys will like this http://www.16kdesign.com/ ::digital media work of all sorts http://sueleland.com/ ::photography, nice site http://www.notbent.com/notbent.htm ::photography, cool nav http://www.t-michael.com/ ::cool flash site, fashion, photography http://www.deli.naive.it/ingdeli.htm/ ::cute girly illustration http://www.fcukstar.com/ ::get a listing of many sites here ….this is enough 4 now….I’ll keep adding