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shockvalue's avatar

Where do you find inspiration?

Asked by shockvalue (5800points) October 28th, 2008

This is partially in regards to graphic design, and fully in regard to life.

what moves you?

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19 Answers

generalspecific's avatar

Music.
And long deep talks with people who I find interesting or who have a unique outlook on life.
And people who have made it through ridiculously hard obstacles and lived to tell about it.
Aaaaand drugs.
:)

PIXEL's avatar

The iMac inspired me to get into graphic designing and computing. No joke! I love my life.

forestGeek's avatar

Trees, plants and nature in general. For design however, walking around downtown looking at old decayed buildings and bricks, pavement, graffiti, filth and litter, always does the trick.

Magnus's avatar

Sofas… My blog is pretty much the only thing I have designed.

jrpowell's avatar

What forestGeek says is pretty much what does it for me too.

delirium's avatar

Gorgeous women.
Seriously.
Not kidding… and exceptional fashion.

generalspecific's avatar

forestgeek is so right, I can’t believe I forgot nature!

Unit134679's avatar

Everything in my life and around me.

Music as well

buster's avatar

Watching skate videos before skating is inspiring. Check out the “Leap of faith” at the end of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KluNiwzdLs

Sueanne_Tremendous's avatar

I am with delirum on this one. I have many, many pieces of art portraying women of all sorts. I can honestly say that every woman I have ever met has some beauty to her. That inspires me.

susanc's avatar

breathing

delirium's avatar

Its the curves, I swear. Its amazing!

Gruz06's avatar

The mall or any public place for that matter. I like watching people.

I also like to take a walk through the park.

wildflower's avatar

For anything visual: Water and natural light. I love being by the sea – or lake, river or stream – but I can get little “look at that!” moments anywhere, and it’s usually do with how sunlight/moonlight and shadow hit something. Oh, and I love watching sunrises, sunsets and clouds!
In general: People! Their appearances, mannerisms, expressions, opinions, feelings…..

augustlan's avatar

The sky. A turbulent sky is endlessly fascinating to me. Like wildflower, I also frequently get a “chill” from sun/shadow, especially at twilight.

eebudee's avatar

blogs. nature. walking down the street. watching interesting people. fashion. changing your disposition. sleeping and dreaming. conversations with people that are different than you. cool books. googling things that come to the top of your head.

BronxLens's avatar

I enjoy derivative work (most is anyway) so I find inspiration in all printer matter: billboards, signs in train platforms, on buses, labels of all sorts, newspaper & magazines. Some of this results in collages, other in scripts for performance art,
etc.

Oh, and like Eric, fear…

- “What has kept you inspired as an artist?
– “A fear of boredom. Just a mortal fear of boredom.”
Eric Fischl (1948—), American painter

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