Exceptional Dribbble Invite Shots
- By Nataly Birch
- Posted in DESIGN, Showcases
- 13 comments
Dribbble is one of the most famous online designers community. It’s an amazing gallery where people can show screenshots of their recent or upcoming works and share high-quality freebies with others. But Dribbble is not only place where you can show off your skills, it is also a source for inspiration, and a place where you can ask for an opinion or help from professionals in the field. Thus, this community can help you to become a more mature designer.
Since this site is a concentration of serious people not everyone can become a part of it. This is an invite only community, so the only way to get in is to earn a special invitation that can come either from players (invited members) or team.
What To Do To Become a Player?
First of all, prepare several mind-blowing designs or make screenshots of your best of the best previous works. Type of design does not matter. Your samples can be dedicated to website design, graphic design, icons design, typography, illustrations etc.
Secondly, sign up as a prospect and surf for a spare invitation in order to enter into the game. Be prepared, there will be a plenty of people who want to become a Dribbble player so you have to be very quick since invitations tend to go like hotcakes.
But never fear, members give away at least one invitation fairly often so you can bump into it anytime and someday become a proud part of all the action.
So What Should You Look For?
In order to facilitate your search we want to give you an idea of what these Dribbble invite shots tend to look like. With so many talented people involved in the community it should be no surprise that they create really unique and remarkable “invite to give away” shots. Many of them use this opportunity to create something special and show their creativity. Below is a showcase of some of these fantastic designs.
The Invite Shots
Lots of designers use brand colors and logos to draw attention.
2. By Mike
13. By Silviu Stefu
16. By Shota Mickaia
20. By Olga Epikhina
24. By Wes O’Haire
Since the invite is a kind of entrance ticket, many designers go that route.
2. By Jan Luts
13. By Alex Castro
Some designers go more traditional and draw an Dribble invite in an envelope.
Some resort to a simpler way using only typography.
That wraps up this collection of invite shots. Good Luck in finding your ticket to the famous designer’s community!
(rb)
About the Author
Nataly is an internet entrepreneur and an amateur web designer and developer from Sevastopol. She is running blog for web designers and developers where you can find some inspirational and useful stuff. In her spare time she reads books,unlocks the secrets and plays volleyball. Visit her blog or follow her on twitter
Mikael Boutin, 30 March 2012
Can i have an invite please?
konnect, 30 March 2012
I bumped into this website via Google. Very interesting! I will be following. :)
Stéphanie, 30 March 2012
Nice work putting all of those together :)
But as much as I love some of those invite designs, I have to admit that I’m having a problem with the concept of some designers promoting so much their invites giveways like “follow us on facebook, twitter, G+, and and and and do this, and this and send us a portoflio and THEN we might select you”. It has unfortunately for some people become a way to only gain more followers, kind of sad.
me, 30 March 2012
I agree with you 100%! The “exclusive” access is childish and a way to make themselves feel important.
Stéphanie, 02 April 2012
I think you might have misunderstood me here. I’m part of the community and don’t feel particularly important. I think the invites is a great idea to insure a certain quality among the community. Nevertheless, I give my invites to designers I actually know, whose work I love.
I think there’s a point where you don’t know any designers to invite that are not on dribbble, so it makes sense to tell the world you got invites and this article shows some very nices ways to do this. But sometimes the “conditions” to get the invites are pretty hard : follow me on 10 social networks, love me here and here and then you might get one. I even saw a guy who created a design contest to test the potential draftees, asking them to create a “fake logo” to test there skills.
Daniel, 30 March 2012
Thank you for nice collection
36creative, 30 March 2012
Dribbble has definitely become a fun new community to be part of. Not enough time to be active in all the communities.
Jessica, 30 March 2012
These are pretty nice, but the perspective on #23 is driving me crazy!
James, 04 April 2012
Thanks for showing my shot #11 – I had an amazing amount of responses to the call-to-action and viewed some awesome portfolios as a result.
I’m not as active as I’d like to be given the plethora of social sites I’m constantly updating – but what the platform has to offer in terms of critique from your peers / inspiration and a springboard to get noticed is unparalleled.
Play ball,
@Jamesp0p
Jared Erondu, 05 April 2012
This just goes to show how big of a blessing Dribbble is to the design community. Can you imagine a web without it? Dan Cederholm, who I recently interviewed, and the rest of the team are on to something huge.
As for the Dribbble invite shots, amazing collection! I can’t even pick a personally fav!
Ahmad, 08 August 2012
Wow You Manage Mostly Design In Three Colors Pink, Black And White…. Really Appreciative Work
Greg, 10 September 2012
Hi folks! I have 2 dribbble invites. More info here: http://dribbble.com/shots/721257-Dribbble-Invites-Giveaway
Frederik, 13 January 2013
Hi, I am new on dribbble, someone who want to see more from my 3D en 2D artwork.
Please invite.
many thanks