‘Course Twitter is great for socializing with your design oriented friends (see the bonus below) but sometimes you need more than some random link, bits & pieces. And for that you should check these carefully selected 10 niche social networks for the design community.
Aniboom
Today the Aniboom community includes over 7,000 animators from 72 countries around the world. These independent animators have the same talent, the same passion and the same skill sets as those working in Hollywood
QBN
Design Industry News & Discussion
Creattica
Creattica is a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery. Anyone can submit their work for consideration and voting on items is open to one and all
Colour Lovers
COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
Behance Network
A free platform for the world’s leading creative professionals
Cumputerlove
Computerlove is a unique social platform and source of inspiration for talented creatives. Find inspiration and get fresh, hot design news. Share you work with talented and awarded creative
Brandstack
Brandstack was founded in 2008 as a way to help entrepreneurs get a professional brand for their company without breaking the bank
Illustration Mundo
A place where ILLUSTRATION gets all the Love, show case all the great Illustrators in the world today and make it easier for Designer, Art directors and others to find them.
Design Taxi
Everything the global creative industry needs and wants to know. We call this information the “Design Essentialsâ€
Design Democracy
Design Democracy is a social network for designers by designers to share, collaborate and learn the value, ethics and inspiration of design.
Deviant Art
The classic :]
Bonus
- 50+ Designers on Twitter
- Twitter 85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow
- 30 Top Web Designers On Twitter
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You might want to take a look at http://community.wacom.com – it was built for designers, artists, photographers and more to share work with one another. It has been quietly growing each day with more work and more members. Enjoy.
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Nice list of inspiration resources… thanks.
You may want to check out http://www.pixelelement.com
It has work from the most talented artists around the world.
I know it is well known and probably on everybody’s list, I still use http://www.AIGA.org to stay up on trends, ideas and culture.
Another site that came out just this week and only for Shanghai (China) yet is http://www.CreativeHunt.com
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Thanks so much for including Design Democracy (DD) in this list! Very honored and humbled to be mentioned alongside very well-established communities. I was wondering why we were getting spikes in traffic. :)
I respect and enjoy being a part of *any* creative community so I don’t view DD as a competitor to these sites (although they may not feel the same way). It’s just another venue on the Web for interacting with like-minded people who love design. And best of all, we’re FREE!
Again, many thanks for the inclusion! Follow @inspiredmag at http://twitter.com/inspiredmag and @StandUP4Design at http://twitter.com/standup4design. We like our avatars :)
Where’s the platform for fashion and textile nuts?!
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