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Product Design Inspiration

Use this page to help give you a 'jolt' of visual inspiration to help you on your way to innovation.

Links

Search Visual Bookmarking Websites

View 3D CAD Models

Design Classics

The 'rules' of good design

Important Design Websites

Design 'Best Of' Lists

Search Visual Bookmarking Websites

Search these sites directly from this page. Just type what you're looking for straight into the boxes.

Instructables is a fantastic website full of home-made and professional craft, electronics and product design creations.

Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site used to search images online that you can 'pin' to a board for inspiration.

Behance collects and curates collections of design images from users and allows people to share them.

Juxtapost has a useful feature whereby it will give you the colour palette of a particular design.
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View 3D CAD Models

Sometimes it is difficult to get a proper impression about an object simply by looking at a picture. These links will take you to a collection of iconic, classic or simply interesting designs that you can view in 3D directly from this browser. You can read a short introduction and then click a link to take you to a page to find out more if you wish.

Click the image to view GCSE project CAD Models from previous years

Click the image to view 3D CAD models of classic product designs

Design Classics

This is a slideshow with 56 classic designs from throughout the 20th century. Most of them are iconic creations, considered pioneering examples of good design.

You can pause the slideshow at any point or view it full-screen.

Design_Classics

The 'rules' of good design

The 'rules' of good design were written by iconic industrial designer Dieter Rams. They are widely accepted as founding principles of design philosophy and are consulted by product designers regularly.

Dieter Rams' Ten Principles for Good Design (1)

Important Design Websites

These sites are a collection of some of the most popular and content rich sources of inspiration for product and industrial designers. Most are embedded here and so viewable from this window. Some are links but you can also search from this window. All are interesting and well worth a look.

The Design Museum is a charity museum in London and "is the only place in the UK where the design industry, education and the public can come together to change the way people think about themselves and the future".

Quoted from : www.designmuseum.org

Yanko Design

Yanko Design is possibly the No.1 website in the world dedicated to product designers, architects and industrial designers. It is primarily a blog however it is chock-full of really fascinating articles about up-to-date modern and classic design. This should be your starting point and definitely in your list of favourites if you are interested in design.

Inhabitat

Inhabitat is a website dedicated to sustainable design and living. It has an ecological mission to inform people about good practice and is also full of really interesting examples of good design from around the world. Start here if your project has an environmental sustainability focus.

Design Addict

Design Addict is a shopping website dedicated to selling reproductions of classic, iconic and just plain 'good' design. Its focus is on lighting and furniture.