It’s study week, so I can only come out with a short coolness roundup post to fill up the updates. Here are some cool links of inspirations I gathered earlier.

Cool Web Characters

One of a very cool web trend is to have a character representing your services/products. Either it is human character, or animal or anything that does not even exist - it doesn’t matter - as long as they are cute :D. Here is a compilation of some cool web characters around the internet , by Inspiredology: Part 1 and Part 2

Hand drawn websites

And while you were there, you may want to check out the list of some cool hand drawn websites - together with a post from Smashing Magazine about hand drawn trend in web design. Oh I reallly love Biola’s website. In case you are interested, here are some hand drawn fonts available for free download.

Others

Freelance Switch compiled a list of “34 Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off“. Yes, seriously, online and offline.

Mediaups have a list of 64 Ultimate Design Inspiration Resources.

If you really really have nothing else to do, check out this 99 Flickr groups for design inspirations.

You like packaging design? Maybe you’ll like this one - Packaging design Inspiration Part 1 and Part 2

And if you are a fan of album artworks, maybe you want to check out some album artworks inspiration - to fill up you iPod’s coverflow, perhaps.