designers
 

what inspires you?

if you get blocked, how do you break out of it?

my creative juices are tapped... i need a refill!! normally i take a few days AFK, but right now that's not a possibilty and this weekend i can't make it to the art museum. i'm dying to look at some sisley's and van gogh's... ugh!

I have a system..... an unforced system that's workin'....

but I ain't sharin'. Bad mojo.

www.k10k.net

Also when I am in a design mode I seem to find myself watching Fashion shows and crap, and not just for the super models. :helpme

unforced?

no worries about sharin', thats like me sharin' my blistex with strangers. LOL

yup.... can't force it. Trying to push through the wall only leads to stronger walls. :winkwink:

booze and drugs

:glugglug

thats where i'm at...i think i need a day or two to regroup but not possible at all... i've got time restraints.

i realize that sites about design but for the life of me... what the fuck is it's purpose?? way too busy with random stuff. any good sections to check out that you would suggest?

Sometimes this helps:

http://www.thedalmoreusa.com/images/...yearbottle.gif

im on ciclon right now... :winkwink: thanks for the suggestion tho!

open photoshop

that always works for me :thumbsup

Other art always inspires, it's a time process with me usually. Sometimes the design is there all along, you just have to click around until you find it =)

I hate to say it, but shutting down IE (ie. GFY) sometimes does the trick also =)

thats the problem!! phucking photoshop!

I liked the old lady owned sig better

GFY nazi's said it was too big.

if you're designing for yourself it's never a problem. inspiration is everywhere, i study the artwork graphics of everything i pick up, tube of toothpaste, soda can, watch TV ads, look at magazine ads.

problem with designing for others is that most people have a pretty limited view of what a paysite splash and tour should look like so the pressure is there to somehow take the same basic cookie cutter and give it something unique while still giving them what they want.

simple is best, a customer of mine just opened a new site, i asked him if i could see it - he was kinda bashful about it, said it wasn't much to look at - he was right, not much to look at - EXCEPT his exclusive content :Graucho - simple simple design and it will work like a charm.

think quiet has ever been tempted to throw up some garish design full of Matrix Content painted whores?

not on his life.

see pimp in sig.

2 names....

Sorayama
and
Nirasawa

Japanese artists are very disciplined in there art work. There attention to detail is very inspiring. Their work is very complex, especially the Gynoid work by Sorayama. It's their discipline, and how connected they are to their work that inspires me. When I'm stuck I'll open one of their books and just study the detail.

Also Manara is a genius, I think you will like

http://www.milomanara.com/

In the news on the right, it basically updates every day with a bunch of chool sites to check out. Usually the navigations make no sense or the whole sites won't make no sense because they are artfag crap, but they inspire all the same.

mutt... i've already got it in mind to keep it simple ;)

smack... good thinking.

red shoe... cool shit! i've seen him in hustler (or is it penthouse?) before.

ironhorse... manara reminds me of frank miller, my favorite graphic novelist.

thekebie... thanks for pointing that out. i'll look deeper into that site.

i go out looking for badass sites :P

I no longer find inspiration online. I find everything in film motion and special effects.

Mutt get a life dude!

go for a quick drive on the freeway and scream your favorite cd on full length at the top of your lungs.

screaming cures all. go out in a field and scream at god.

this is my medicine for anything, get on the highway and ride.

I recommend:

American Nightmare
Embrace Today

:)

screaming might work... maybe i should just destroy something beautiful.

and i have to agree with jon on this... get a life mutt, matrix content is the best content to use for designs... trust me i know this since i was their designer for 7 months.

I have multiple computer stations in my apt and use them for different things. Multiple for design, one for audio, one for mp3s etc. So its easy for me to break away and go to a total unrelated project or past time.

The one I am at mostly is for designing and GFY.

When I am hurting for inspiration I simply get up and go do something else, totally abandoning the station.

I go outside and play with dog, I go to a music store, go to a rock show at night, I hang with friends, but I dont sit staring at the machine. I try to do something different every few days to keep my life changing...

you gotta get away from it all.

Thats what I try to do.

Do you draw or sculpt? Any OTHER art-related stuff. I go to art museums and art shows, seeing grand works of art always inspires me, and being in this part of the world is easy to find good art displays.

Many designers are just that, designers, not many have other artistic desires, but the ones who do can find themselves building on other techniques and help inspire other things to come out of their work.

Go pick up a guitar, or draw, i like to keep horror movies playing in my DVD while I work, but I mute the sound just so along with my loud music I can have visuals as well. Inspiration comes from within although most feel it comes from without.

:)

yeah i always try and get up to the getty to feel inspired. actually i have some time today where i may just go up there to get some personal time. i've been stuck in front of my laptop 24-7 for the last two weeks and it's gotten to me.

i do draw/doodle (graffitti characters n' such).... been doing it for years, whereever theres a pad and a pen i started scribbling. here's one of the only ones i have scanned, god knows why.

http://www.maxhardcore.com/steve/awaken1.jpg