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What is one of the best tips to get out of the creative slump? Need to find that extra juice for your Drupal theme?

It may be simple, but I love to use Flickr for my inspiration!

Flickr has millions of photos, and thousands of groups to showcase amazing work.

Vandelay Design has compiled a list of 99 Flickr groups to help get you unstuck, such as:

http://flickr.com/groups/webdesign-inspiration/
http://flickr.com/groups/illustrationnow/
http://flickr.com/groups/psdtuts/
http://flickr.com/groups/photoshop/
http://flickr.com/groups/designtype/
http://flickr.com/groups/yourvector/

Inspired! That's the way we work!

What originally began as one man’s blog showcasing his personal collection of non-profit ads, has in three years developed into a clearinghouse for social marketing campaigns from around the globe. I was first brought to this site through another rad source of socially conscious designers I’ve been affiliated with over the years, the Graphic Alliance.

Last night I attended a talk by Steve Krug (Don't Make me THINK) hosted by the Puget Sound SigCHI group. Krug's talk, a new one, was titled, “Yes, Virginia, there is a perfect web page”

He focused on 2 design conventions that he believes make web pages inherently better. And while both are pretty easy to get right, he believed that designers rarely do.

Normally I couldn't care less about ecommercial megasite redesigns, but Amazon has led quite a few innovations in the past, and I think is worth paying attention to (I have seen the site used as an case study in several usability & design books). Anyway, the page layout has changed very significantly - there is a brief summary of the changes available.

Design is important, and bad design can kill: Here's a gem from the Guardian about the horrible, and I mean horrible new logo for the 2012 Olympics, which was developed at a cost of £400,000:

Here's the story...

I just ran across this on digg: 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers - Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html, javascript, Ajax and widgets that you can use on on your website or blog.