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A designer lives from inspiration, these sources of inspiration can and do vary wildly, everyday observations, altered perspectives (try lying on your back under a tree), culture shock, being drunk or otherwise mildly altered *g*, being sober?, too much coffee!!!!!, tidying your desk, sorting files on your computer, meditation and so on and so on, all valid and often used inspirational sources that find their way into a designers daily work routine. Speaking personally I find a blank white page (or Photoshop document) one of the most intimidating and least inspirational objects possible, and to this end I often find myself “surfing” aimlessly – I guess its about filling my mind with so much input until I reach an extreme point where an automatic “brain emptying process” takes place, as this point is reached I can then begin to work on the “job” at hand. In this post I thought I would offer a random selection of some of the inspirational input sources I have found – this will be done by going to my “KEWL SHIT” bookmarks folder and with my eyes closed clicking on a link,  so without further ado…

random inspiration input 01:

PLASTIC and PLUSH

wierd and wonderful vinyl toys are always a good starting point to fill your mind with useless stuff that the world doesn´t need… Plastic and Plush manage to fill their blog with some of the strangest variations this genre has to offer, the Amanda bathtub duck certainly fits this category…

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random inspiration input 02:

The Sarniematic 6 Cheddarometer

Nothing like a tasty cheese sandwich to get the inspirational juices flowing! The Sarniematic 6 is the ultimate cheese sandwich optimisation tool, using higher math and quantum physics to calculate the perfect ratios of cheese to bread and optional extras for a truly transcendental cheese sarnie experience, my newest creation has a cross dressing alert (nothing to do with the input 01) but what the hell still looks awfully tasty…

random inspiration input 03:

Phil Corbett Illustrations

Phil Corbetts work has a kind of Happy Tree Friends on Acid feel to it, Cute – no not really, Funny – hell yeah, check his page out yourselves…

random inspiration input 04:

Gilamon

These guys kick graphic ass, grimey hardboiled characters populate nasty dark worlds. Check out the Gilamon Blog for the newest stuff…

random inspiration input 05:

Mr WANY

Spraying has always been a passion of mine and we actually found this guy after illdividual (who incidentally is one of if not my greatest source of inspiration) took a photo of one of his pieces in Wiesbaden – just around the corner from where we live, Mr Wanys works are simply put incredible and because I like to keep it simple I will refrain from waffling on and on and just urge you to get over there and check his stuff…

random inspiration input 06:

A.Word.A.Day

I actually go here every day cos I like words, words are cool. I have copied today´s word here because if you read this post tomorrow or at some other time in the future it will be a different word. When I saw steerage I automatically thought of ownage, it turned out to be quite mundane but I can´t be held responsible for that…

steerage

(STEER-ij)

noun: The part of a ship offered to those traveling at the cheapest rate.

From the fact that originally this section was located near the rudder of the ship.

“The seats in steerage are too small and close together, and spending nine hours in one is a dreadful way for a big guy to start a vacation.”
Christopher Elliott; Don’t Always Rely On Awards Miles; The Sacramento Bee (California); Aug 17, 2008.

UPDATE…

A Word A Day for today because this is what will probably hapeen to me if I don´t stop getting inspired and get on with my work…

keelhaul

(KEEL-hawl)

verb tr.: 1. To haul under the keel of a ship. 2. To rebuke sharply.

From Dutch kielhalen, from kiel (keel) + halen (to haul). In the olden times this form of punishment was inflicted in the Dutch and British navies. The punished sailor was tied to a rope looped under the ship and thrown in the water. Then he was dragged along the bottom of the ship to the other side. The result was either severe injuries from brushing against the barnacles on the ship’s bottom or death from drowning. Thankfully, in modern times keelhauling is performed only metaphorically.

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end of random inspiration therapy session.

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wanna know more about the author...  countzeero - the self proclaimed EvilGenius™ behind OWN INDUSTRIES. Pixel Penetration and Code Cruelty are but two of his deadly skills. In his free time he likes to run too many blogs and twitter incessantly...

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