Everyone needs a 5 minute break from coming up with award winning, financially successful and creative masterpieces. So sit back and take a look through these time wasting sites for the creative mind!
Everyday for 365 days, a combination of stunning photography and a quotation came together to make this Tumblr.
365 Days Of Tumblr
It seems with every passing moment, technology is being picked up by even younger users. The iPad has many apps now targeted to engage babies. This Tumblr showcases the iPad baby users.
Babies With iPads
There are some apps that should never left an initial brainstorm, let alone be created. This Tumblr showcases some of the worst looking, pointless and copycat apps.
Crap Brapps
I've never been a massive fan of QR codes, so this Tumblr was made for me. I hope you too appreciate a QR code cube game, a QR code on a banana and on a dog litter poster. I even submitted my own entry today - a Guinness pint glass QR code today.
WTF QR Codes
WTF Mobile Web
One of my all time favourite blogs, Little Big Details delivers your daily dose of UI inspiration.
Little Big Details
What's the best way to use all the browser prefixes? What's the best way to make your site pop? Click the link above to find out the answer (the clue is maybe in the title).
Gradients
This one page showcases several classic restart menus with different operating systems over the years. Click the restart button to see everything load in a matching user interface to the chosen restart menu.
The Restart Page
What are the best typefaces of all time? Fontshop have put together a top 100 list that is both subjective and as objective as possible.
It incorporates its own sales figures and various bestseller lists from the past ten years and the users of the nominated typefaces also had input into the selection. The subjective element was provided by an independent jury of international experts. Do you agree with this list?
The 100 Best Typefaces
arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject
The Sketchbook Project success story has been been growing recently. Instead of a library of novels, imagine a library of filled sketchbooks. There is a physical shop and a digital library. Just choose a custom-designed Sketchbook Project sketchbook, fill it up and then mail your sketchbook back and it will be archived in the Brooklyn Art Library and exhibited to the public!
The Sketchbook Project
squaredsuperheroes.reneschiffer.de
An awesome collection of your favourite superheroes as minature pixel based illustrations. Can you work out your Hulk from your Wolverine?
Squared Superheroes
Lake logos have a tendency to be, well, fairly ugly. This project was created to rethink what they could be. Nicole Meyer is designing one logo every day for one Minnesota lake. Apparently it should only take a little over 27 years to hit 'em all!
Branding 10,000 Lakes
What were your favourites from the list above? What sites do you look at for a combination of creative inspiration and time wasting? Feel free to add your favourites in the comments below.
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