Inspiration is everywhere. Especially on Reddit.
With 187M monthly users, there’s no shortage of content. So we assembled the best subreddits for graphic design inspiration. If you have a computer and a creative-itch, this is for you.
There’s a treasure-trove of inspiration to be found in these graphic design and art communities. From design tools and guides to illustration-inspiration, there is plenty of user-generated content to keep you creating.
GRAPHIC DESIGN INSPIRATION SUBREDDITS
Design
A grab-bag for all things design. Share projects, find inspiration or highlight clever designs like this.
Art
More focused on user-generated art.
Cool guides
These guides are more like infographics for learning real-life skills.
Comics
Digital comics to keep you chuckling in four panels or less.
Damn that’s interesting
Pics and gifs that make you say, “damn, that’s interesting”.
Data is beautiful
Visualizations of data. You’ll come for the charts but stay for the compositions.
Design porn
Don’t worry, it’s safe for work.
Evil buildings
Ever walk past a building that just looks malicious?
Here, you’ll find buildings that look like rejected concepts for supervillain lairs. Like this Fire Station in Italy.
Graphic_design
Communication with photography, typography and illustration.
Expect to find in-depth discussions about subtle aspects of design like this.
Infographics
All infographics. All the time.
If you wanna get meta with it, here’s an infographic about infographics.
Internet is beautiful [design tools]
Just try not to bookmark these links. Like Music Map, just enter a band and find related artists.
Or search for photos by submitting a sketch and Labs.500px will serve up similar images.
Minimalist_art
Where less is more.
Oddly satisfying
If aesthetically pleasing images had a home, they’d live here.
Photography
The largest photography-related subreddit.
The Lion City II – Majulah from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Web Dev (web design)
More focused on assistance than web design inspiration. But lots of good solutions here, from landing page design inspiration to visualizing flashy functionality.
Web Design
Straddles the line between r/Webdev and R/Design.
Satisfying_gifs
It’s bottled-Zen in gif form.
User experience
Tips and examples for making experiences super clear and hassle-free.
User experience design
Only focused on user experience, as it relates to design, especially on web pages and call to action buttons.
Sorry for spam. People asked me to upload this version. If anyone’s interested, link in comment from r/UXDesign
There are also in-depth guides, like this design exercise that helped a UX designer score a job at Google.
UI design
All about interface design, and how it affects the user experience as a whole.
Design thought
Another UX-related community – but this one hones in on the nitty-gritty processes and fundamentals behind front-facing design.
Tales from designers
Hair-brained schemes and half-baked ideas. Hear all the horror stories from designers and their daily life. Start with a story of placeholder text.
Visualization (data)
Home base for the design of graphs, maps and charts.
Logo design
Creative logos. Unselected designs. Conceptual and spec design work – all are welcome here.
Design inspire
It’s a microcosm of this design blog, basically.
Typography
Letter-heads, rejoice.
Now you have a place to talk leading, kerning and all those other typography terms I can’t keep straight.
Crappy design
See what really missed the mark.
Bad web design
If a website sucks, it belongs here.
Design tools
Get better, faster, or smarter here. Find guides and graphics like this color palette tool.
Or free illustration resources like these:
Photoshop battles
Here, someone submits a photo, and other designers have to photoshop it into other images. Funny, clever and outlandish posts abound.
This PSD battle started with this iconic image.
And people couldn’t help but get creative with it.
Unsolicited redesigns
Just like unsolicited compliments, but users redesign brand identities for companies that never asked for it.
MARKETING SUBREDDITS
Since we’re a marketing agency, we snuck in our favorite marketing subreddits, too. Just some of the sources we use to stay in-the-know with marketing trends.
Marketing
All things marketing, from print to digital.
Start with this huge list of free digital marketing learning resources or free marketing templates.
Advertising
Here, ad creators, copywriters and advertisers alike try to reverse banner blindness.
BigSEO
All about search engine optimization. While not the biggest, this is the most active SEO-related community on Reddit.
Copywriting
Copywriting is just salesmanship in print. r/Copywriting is for all word-nerds with a sales goal. You can even filter posts by types of copy, from technical to direct response and B2B.
Corporate facepalm
Find the biggest flubs made in corporate communications.
Digital marketing
r/Digital Marketing casts a wide net in terms of market topics discussed. Find in-depth discussions of all things digital here.
Google analytics
Whether you’re just starting out with Google Analytics, or trying to debug a specific problem, the users here can help. This post shares free keyword research tools that actually work.
HubSpot
The primary subreddit for HubSpot, an inbound marketing platform. If you’re considering adding HubSpot to your digital marketing tool belt, check out user reviews from actual users.
PR twitter
Similar to “corporate facepalm”, but focused on Twitter disasters.
SEO
Another source for search engine insight. While the not largest community, its users stay up-to-date on the latest algorithm updates.
Social media
A smaller hub for social discussion, tips and sharing strategies.
WordPress
See how people push the boundaries of WordPress to make extremely scrollable, responsive designs.