Comments on: Where does your inspiration for design come from?

By: Amy H. (UUG)

Amy H. (UUG) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:42:23 +0000

I am not a graphic designer. I am a teacher, and I can identity with your organizational style. I, too, like to store ideas in a folder. Over the last few months of graduate school, I have learned to save creative websites on my bookmark bar. I would like to learn about jumptags. I am not familiar with these, YET.
I also like the idea you share about the teacher having her students save adjectives or important words on notecards or a spreadsheet. There’s a way to integrate technology!

By: Brooke P (uug)

Brooke P (uug) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:09:33 +0000

My inspirations for graphic design, message design and instructional design come from my childhood experiences. My mom and dad are both school teachers, and I have always wanted to be a teacher. Now I teach first grade. This website is an excellent way to keep ideas organized. I have several scrapbooks myself that I created throughout my highshcool years. I have always loved crafts. I love to incorporate fun hands-on projects for my students to aid their learning in school. I believe making learning memorable is a key factor to learning! This is a great tool which I can use to help organize my ideas. I am glad you have brought this to light for me!
Thanks!

By: Jacob Fields

Jacob Fields — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:40:24 +0000

This Website has been very helpful. It is good to now how other people get there ideas. My inspirations for graphic design, message design and instructional design come from my father. He has always come up with creative ideas for my projects, my Website, and even my two tattoos. One thing I found from this page is that would be very helpful is to start collecting flyers and postcards. Thank you for this interesting blog.

By: Bonnie Wilkes

Bonnie Wilkes — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:04:23 +0000

My inspirations for graphic design, message design and instructional design come from magazines and many of my friends. I’m not very creative in making up new designs, but if someone starts me off then I can run with it and usually make something really cool. This website gives some great ideas and wonderful resources! I think it’s always good to have backup plans and save materials as you go along. This really helps to organize your ideas when you’re finally ready to create something new and it does give you a little start so you’re not starting from scratch. This is exactly what I need to start doing!

By: Jessica Johnson

Jessica Johnson — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:59:21 +0000

This article is a huge help, nto only for those interested in art and design, but everyone else too! Keeping a scrapbook, or a manila folder with different designs is a great idea!! It can definitely be a huge help for students aspiring to be teachers, current teachers, or even just students who are assigned a project in school. My inspiration for design probably comes from seeing other designs and tweeking them to be my own.

By: Brad Davis

Brad Davis — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:41:06 +0000

My inspirations for graphic design, message design and instructional design come from my imagination because when I was little I always use to draw and color alot so I really like this article alot. I also use to have an Etch-A-Sketch when i was young and I was on it all the time. So I am glad you posted this blog.

By: Ali Thomas

Ali Thomas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:10:55 +0000

I think it’s a great idea to keep a personal folder of things that inspire you to be creative. Also, this could be a great tool in the classroom as you mentioned. I think that everything deserves a little bit of creativity, even in a mathematics classroom, where I would use it. Thanks a lot for sharing these images. My creative inspiration comes from my desire to be organized. Anything I ever create is very visually organized. This blog is great!

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:58:05 +0000

My inspiration for design comes from ideas that I have seen others do. I like collaborating different ideas together to make one new idea. I also like for my designs to be organized, but festive. Too much design can make one’s eyes hurt. I like the idea of keeping a folder with different clippings of designs, cartoons, and other artwork. I believe that would be a beneficial idea for a lot of people.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:32:56 +0000

I really like the idea of keeping a scrapbook, if you will, of ideas. It can be difficult to pull inspiration when your creative juices are dry. I was a little confused about how you store them. Did you say that you “paste the headlines in manilla folders” or do you just keep them like a folder? I guess that as long as the clippings are all in one area then the mothod of organization isn’t important. I like this idea a lot. My inspiration for design comes from what my experiences. I might be inspired by a neighbor’s layout of furniture, a friend’s scrapbook, a show on HGTV, etc. I really enjoy the furniture layout. A few years ago, I would rearrange the furniture in my room as often as possible, even if it wasn’t efficient for the space I had. I would be inspired by friends’ rooms and rooms I saw on television. I would mostly say that my inspirations come not from nature or my own mind, but from people.

By: Maddie

Maddie — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:04:51 +0000

This is probably the most helpful website i have been to regarding design and editing. The sources you gave were VERY helpful, i have been looking for a new photo editor, and the other sites were just interesting to look at. I guess to answer your question about what inspires my graphic design or just design in general is from the people around me. Human diversity astounds me, so creating things (aka taking pictures) allows me to capture that beauty, and websites like this help me fine tune the image. So, thanks a lot.