Adam Polselli, of http://www.adampolselli.com writes;

One of the most dif­fi­cult aspects of design­ing is tak­ing that first step: when you know what style you would like to achieve, but you just don’t know where to start. We’ve all been there at one time or another, think­ing to our­selves “what col­ors should I use?”, “what fonts would work best?”, and “what are some ele­ments of the style I want?”

This hap­pens more often than I would like. Espe­cially when it comes to design­ing some­thing for my own use, which due to my per­fec­tion­ist out­look, results in out­put that grows stale quickly. Design­ing for some­one else seems to, for me any­ways, come more nat­ural and ulti­mately means I’ll be more pas­sion­ate about the sub­ject mat­ter in the long run. I some­times refer to this as “des­ig­nat­i­tus”, dis­ease of the designer.

Thank­fully, Adam Polselli real­izes this exists and has gra­ciously donated his design guides, spec sheets to pro­vide inspi­ra­tion. He calls them “Get the Look”:http://www.adampolselli.com/getthelook guides and each con­tains a help­ful sec­tion on font, color and lay­out options. My favorite for the moment is “Vintage”:http://www.adampolselli.com/getthelook/vintage.php , which exudes a 60s-ish flavor.

If you’re suf­fer­ing from “des­ig­nat­i­tus” uti­lize these sheets for inspi­ra­tion. You might shake your­self from this dis­ease and cre­ate some­thing that you’ll enjoy for a life­time. Or, you might not. Who really knows.