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It's February in the Northern Hemisphere and that means that we are in mostly gray days. At least, that's what it feels like in Virginia. When it's gray outside I have to look for inspiration inside. Here are some of my favorite color and design web sites. I hope you find some that you enjoy.

For color inspiration, you can't beat ColourLovers, it's a large web community with libraries full of color and texture palettes. They have a great blog with several posts daily.
Wear Palettes is a blog that posts celebrity fashion and color palettes from fashion photography.

If you want to create your own color palettes, Big Huge Labs is a good online tool. Upload your photos and BHL creates the palette for you. Another is Pictaculous, which, I think I like a little better.
I haven't tried any of these but here are a few more:

• Kuler
• Colorschemer
• Colorcombos
• Colorsuckr
• Color Scheme Designer

I also love photography sites for inspiration. Here are a few of those:

• London Nature Daily - I wish I could take photography from this person
• The Nature Conservancy blog has a nature photo of the week 
• Zagreb Daily Photo by a Croatian photographer
• WebEcoist isn't a pure photography site but once past the messages, the photos are incredible

Finally, here are some design inspiration sites

• NOTCOT.ORG
• Design You Trust
• Design Sponge
• Toxel

I hope you enjoyed the tour and found a site or two that you will check on in the future. Are there other sites that you recommend for color or design inspiration?

Join us in the forum and add your favorite color and design inspiration sites.

 

Vicki Welsh
Three Creative Studios

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