We all need some inspiration to get our creative juices flowing from time to time. Here are some favorite web sites for inspiration from BOLTgroup’s Industrial Designers:

Ubercool – ubercool.com
UnBeige – mediabistro.com/unbeige
Design Corner – designcorner.blinkr.net
Arch Daily – archdaily.comContemporist – contemporist.com
MoCo Loco – mocoloco.com
Cool Hunting – coolhunting.com
Domus – domusweb.it
Gizmodo – gizmodo.com
designboom – designboom.com
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt – cooperhewitt.org/
Product Design Forums – productdesignforums.com
Enchanted Learning – enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexa.shtml

However, there are times when the ideas aren’t flowing, and we need to take a break from staring at the computer screen to find some new sources of inspiration. Here are a few other places our Industrial Designers go for inspiration when they’re working on product design projects.

> Trade and Design Publications, like Innovation, Metropolis, Wired
> Business Publications, like Inc. and Fast Company
> Architecture (scaling of form from one size / context to another)
> Nature (flower petals, crystals, bugs)
> The Apple Store
> Cities with Inspiring Art and Architecture (i.e., Portland or Seattle)
> Art Museums, like the High in Atlanta or the Mint and Bechtler in Charlotte
> Art Galleries