Finding inspiration
Finding inspiration can be an exhaustive and fickle thing. Where should we look for inspiration ? There is a wealth of places in this world where we could be able to find inspiration from things like fashion, architecture or even interior design. Try to imagine the moment you open your favorite magazine, website or blog of your favorite blogger. There might be a lot of chances that you are about to find something inspiring during looking at it. In our real world there is a number of buildings or architectural gems not too far from the place you live at. Go through your favorite city and look up at the buildings that surround you on a daily basis and take in their forms or shapes. Most designers when lacking ideas,take a stroll through the city to find ideas. Someone could say that they are copying things but saying that would be at least wrong. It is not about copying ideas from someone else but it’s all about taking inspiration. Obviously someone could say there is a thin line between copying and taking inspiration. Every season of fashion has different trends which are related to different inspirations found in a varied places. Trends in fashion change on a seasonal basis and often reflect designer’s mind at a given time. There might be of course a trend which relies on culture at some point. Taking inspiration from both modern or historical things or fashion might be a great way to infuse new and fresh trends. Fashion and architecture holds a huge variety of potential sources of inspiration. Every project has an aesthetic style out there for every taste. There are people in this world who profess modern design or minimalism. Everyone has different tastes. In my opinion walking on the outskirts around the city also might be a place where we can find some inspiration. There is a thousand of inspirational opportunities and things present in the natural world around us to be inspired by. Birds, buildings, mountains etc. The list could go on forever. When you are lacking inspiration , try taking a stroll through a nearby field or park in your city. Look around at the shape of the world you are surrounded by. I’m sure and I bet you are about to find something you can apply to your vision or project you are working on. Where do you guys find your inspiration ? Why do we lack inspiration ? What is the best way to find your own niche?
video link : http://www.ted.com/talks/isaac_mizrahi_on_fashion_and_creativity
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I get inspired when I'm surrounded with positive emotions. Feeling relaxed or while having fun makes me more likely to get inspired.
I usually get inspired about things that I'm emotionally involved in, that bring me joy and pleasure. Music, movies, animals, computer games, other people, programming, or even such basic things like shapes and colors inspire me to learn more about this world every day.
Sometimes for me it could be even new, colorful shoes I have seen on a display. The color or even structure can be inspiring. It leeds to make something totally different, something new.
There is nothing bad about looking for inspirations.
When I am at the stage of beginning with the project I love to go out for a coffee. I look for a nice cafe in nice neighborhood and I just look around to find something inspiring. it could be uncommon texture, surrounding people, plenty of things that are simply different from what we got used to and what we have in our closest surroundings that can be a trigger for a nice idea.
Here are some Youtube videos somewhat about the topic. I really recommend the "Vsauce" channel.
What is original?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYZKxyNKYPY
Why do we get bored?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwd25JV-jnU&list=UU6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA
Will We Ever Run Out of New Music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAcjV60RnRw&list=UU6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA
But the is one most creative - people.
Listening interesting interlocutor is great experience in discovering new needs.
I like to watch TED speeches, many inspirational people.
Lack of inspiration appears at the moment when we see more that we do.
Why? because there's a thin line between motivation and demotivation to find inspiration
Finding own niche is hard. the is now good answer I think.
I would never say that inspiration is like copying. I would rather call it a tribute, because the source of our inspiration has such a strong effect on us. And even if
our creation is similar or is not purely innovative we still put in a part of ourselves into it, giving it our of special twist and taste.
Of course hobbies can bring us some inspirations so when we have a lot of hobbies we have more then other people inspiration sources.
When we take our projects seriously every next inspiration is the progress and kind of success for us.
Yeah, if anything, people are my inspiration.
In my opinion we often lack of inspiration, because we are busy, tried and in hurry. If we do not have time to stop and calmly observe surrounding World and reflect, we lose our inspiration source. My key is to give enough time to relax and think about the problem then solution will come... However it's not time effective method.
Altough stories of successful people(and it does not always mean rich people, for me truly happy people are successful) which still pursue their dreams are the biggest inspiration to me.
As for me, I really like inspiring films, videos, pictures etc.
Also I really love to follow people I found very interesting for me.. Their success inspires me.
And of course the Internet is a huge source of finding the inspiration.
Here are some links to interesting pages, that I like to use:
http://designspiration.net/
http://www.worldofinspiration.com
Example of inspiring add I like to watch:
http://youtu.be/OsA27ueSODY
Going to google page and pressing CTRL+U can bring you many new, suprsingly easy things to achieve some goal. Google engineers are really good :)
I look for inspiration everywhere. Amind people, amind things, amind book, amind science, amind my life, amind other things and I usually find it there.