Comments on: Inspired Where? http://www.link-creative.com/inspired-where Graphic design and Illustration Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:05:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rick Lecoat http://www.link-creative.com/inspired-where/comment-page-1#comment-2834 Rick Lecoat Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:01:51 +0000 http://www.link-creative.com/?p=1648#comment-2834 One of the things that I enjoy about design is the re-organisation of data that goes into a project. For this reason I often find myself inspired by places or objects that organise huge amounts of information and present it in an accessible, logical, well thought out manner. Airports are a good example, as are places like museums. As for just freeing the creative juices, I find that taking a sketchbook out to a cafe in a busy part of town gives me a much-needed input of random stimuli (clothes, conversations, logos on passing vehicles, billboards, shop windows etc.) that will often send me down a creative route that I may not otherwise have considered. And I find that swimming is a good time to work out logistical problems such as project management, scheduling, or thinking about how I might code a particular part of a web site. Trouble then is the temptation to get out of the pool, either to start implementing my conclusions or to write it down before I forget. One of the things that I enjoy about design is the re-organisation of data that goes into a project. For this reason I often find myself inspired by places or objects that organise huge amounts of information and present it in an accessible, logical, well thought out manner. Airports are a good example, as are places like museums.

As for just freeing the creative juices, I find that taking a sketchbook out to a cafe in a busy part of town gives me a much-needed input of random stimuli (clothes, conversations, logos on passing vehicles, billboards, shop windows etc.) that will often send me down a creative route that I may not otherwise have considered. And I find that swimming is a good time to work out logistical problems such as project management, scheduling, or thinking about how I might code a particular part of a web site.

Trouble then is the temptation to get out of the pool, either to start implementing my conclusions or to write it down before I forget.

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