Can someone recommend a good resource to read /get inspired about designing backgrounds?

Hello, I need to design a background for an animation, it is a static background and so far I have only come up with a gradient. It looks.. ok, but I lack proper design education and would love to get some ideas on what I can read / browse to figure out how to combine various elements such as:

negative space, textures, gradients, shadows, geometric elements as part of background, tiling etc.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 28, 2017 at 02:39AM by myreptilianbrain http://ift.tt/2iABfgy

Redundant clock

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2017 at 07:38PM by OlivierDeCarglass http://ift.tt/2wKhp8C

The new business metrics your customers will love

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2017 at 04:58PM by rb6teen http://ift.tt/2wSS6QZ

Humanscale Manual

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2017 at 12:57PM by based2 http://ift.tt/2xDfBdV

Which industry is in need of UX

Everyone likes creative ideas, like uber, deliveroo, whatever. But what about the more 'boring' industries? They don't get much attention.

The software hospitals use is much worse than software you use to watch movies (Netflix). Many of these businesses are left in the cold, while they could really use it.

So in which industries do you have this? What are the problems of certain industries, which could be solved by UX?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 26, 2017 at 10:12AM by xynaxia http://ift.tt/2wd1kVQ

Three Unstudied Possibility and a New Invention [machine]

https://youtu.be/ayH_NnoXlAk

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 26, 2017 at 08:41AM by heimatlos http://ift.tt/2iyDi4z

Why are there so many knobs in GarageBand? Audio software is ugly and confusing. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 26, 2017 at 09:13AM by megazver http://ift.tt/2gcHdn2