Archive for November, 2008
An inspiration a day keeps the boring designs away
As a designer you are all too aware that if you stop inputting inspiration into your brain mix there soon comes stagnation. Inspiration is the fuel that keeps you going as a designer. For me, this comes in 2 forms ‘design’ in sense of things I see and websites I view and colour. Colour to me can be just inspiring as seeing a complete design. I’m a hoarder of screen-shots and links for inspiration and with that comes 2 new sites announcements.
Keeping your spark alive with personal work
This web world can be a hard one to work in, you as a designer can easily loose inspiration after the 10th blue website or 20th drop shadow rounded box and lets not get started on how demoralising the 30th gradient can be. When I started out it was all about personal projects, yes I studied software engineering and art but back then there were no web courses. The only way to learn these new languages was to work on personal projects and experiment – it was a great time when possibilities were explored and inspiration flowed.
