10 Image Bookmarking Sites for Visual Inspiration
Looking at images for visual inspiration can spark your creativity and give you ideas on ways to approach your own designs. Image bookmarking sites — which collect and present images from various places around the Web — are excellent places for creatives searching for visual inspiration. Here are a few image bookmarking sites to check out.
1. Image Spark
Image Spark allows its users to upload and collect images. Their Community section features popular images and moodboards bookmarked and created by members of the service.
2. Dropular
Dropular is a niche micro-blogging service that allows its users to save and collect images. Their Interesting section features popular images saved by their users, arranged in a visually stimulating image gallery layout.
3. FFFFOUND!
This web service is one of the most popular image bookmarking sites out there. FFFFOUND! frequently features great design, photography, art, and illustration work.
4. yay!everyday
Though the site owners say that they’re "not an image bookmarking site," it’s because the work that is featured on yay!everyday puts an emphasize on attributing the artist behind the image, which is seldom seen in other image bookmarking sites.
5. Forrst
Forrst is a social site for both designers and developers. Members can post beautiful screenshots (as well as code and links), which can inspire viewers of the site.
6. we heart it
This image bookmarking service allows you to create albums (which are called "hearts"). The "Top tags" sidebar widget is a great way to quickly discover images tagged by particular words and topics of interest.
7. Dribbble
Dribbble is a socially-powered website that allows its members to post previews of their design work. It’s an invite-only website, but anyone can view the posted images.
8. VisualizeUs
This web service is one of the more popular image bookmarking community sites. Its Popular section displays top bookmarked images by its users, which are often artistic in nature.
9. but does it float
This site, managed by Folkert and Atley, features inspiring images in categories such as typography, architecture, collage and drawing.
10. Buamai
Buamai is an image bookmarking site that’s curated by a group of artists, graphic designers, programmers, architects and fashion designers from all over the world.
Author: Jacob Gube
30 Comments (Add yours)
Joshua Johnson
Nov 14 2010
ZooTool is my favorite! It does a lot of other stuff too but it’s great for grabbing images from the web.
gediminas
Nov 15 2010
mine too, it should be in the list.
BMF
Nov 18 2010
Likewise! Blows my mind that Zootool wasn’t listed.
Glazemoo
Nov 14 2010
Wow! This an amazing and very helpful resource for me. I have been looking for this for months..I only knew Visualize.us and Weheartit. Thank you so much for this great list.
Sermus Perez
Nov 07 2012
wow really very helpful and creative image bookmarking site, great features great design, photography, art, and illustration work and interesting also it’s imaging for us.
Luke Jones
Nov 14 2010
Quite surprised ZooTool isn’t on here actually. There are some great choices though.
Can
Nov 14 2010
http://inspire.2ia.pl/ is not on the list, but my favorit site :)
Sergei Tatarinov
Nov 14 2010
eyesoak.com – pretty new, but it aggregates several image bookmarking services into 1 place. The only thing I didn’t like about it was the timing – it updates so very often that it’s almost impossible to keep up with it. Anyway, I try to visit it from time to time, but my all time favorites are still yay and ffffound. :)
Cao
Nov 15 2010
Very nice list! and I like the http://www.piccsy.com/.
Ints
Nov 15 2010
Thanks for this great list!
Atulperx
Nov 15 2010
Hey nice collection again buddy . I am just thinking that home much time you spend in finding awesome quality resources . Just tweeted your blog post .
Jacob Gube
Nov 15 2010
Editorial Team
Thanks for the additional resources, please keep them coming!
jesse
Nov 15 2010
where is pinterest?
Curtis Scott
Nov 15 2010
I just recently came across dribble and I’m amazed at the level of rock star designers they have in their community. These sites are highly engaging and provide a great level of constructive feedback. Bookmarked!
Om Ipit
Nov 15 2010
i love yayeveryday… :)
chriskalani
Nov 19 2010
Thanks! I’m glad :)
Swopper Stuhl
Nov 28 2010
Wow, thanks for sharing this list. Truly very useful list/information! :)
Kevin
Dec 01 2010
can someone please invite me to yayeveryday. This is link to my blog:
http://irrelevantkevin.tumblr.com/
my email: [email removed for privacy]
angelee
Dec 03 2010
Hi Kevin, I just followed you there [iamautocomplete].. see you around Tumblr then…
angelee
Dec 03 2010
Whoo hoo.. I just registered at Image spark, it must be fun creating my moodboard there. Thanks for the list..
cghearn
Dec 03 2010
What about Pinterest?
b4z81
Dec 06 2010
check http://beautyineverything.com/ too
federico
Jan 23 2011
For really interesting images discovery tailored to your taste, there’s http://imggot.com
it’s a super cool community (image bookmarking)
see u around
Nitesh Ahir
May 18 2011
Hey, buddy thanks for providing such a cool and interesting list of Image Bookmarking sites. I am going to create my own profile and upload photos very soon in sites you provides.
Jonas Rhou
Jul 29 2011
Great list,
http://davinong.com for interior, architecture image collection.
Steve
Sep 02 2011
Another one is http://pleeq.com
patrick
Nov 29 2011
No Designspiration? No Zootool? No Pineterest? Also, i think Forrst, and Dribble don’t belong here. Not really image bookmarking sites. More like “Here’s what i made. Now stroke my ego.” Puke.
imgor
Dec 02 2011
check out
http://speakimg.com/
its a image book marking site which gives link for the original image site
like digg and redit.
dont forget to try its zoomgallery
KARTHIKA VARMA
Nov 10 2012
Thank you very much for the post.
It really helped me in my work :)
dali
May 19 2013
http://thegrunch.com
a community for the eccentric, has some nice content too.