Inspiration

Found Art Work

I find art work that I manage to find when I’m out and about inspiring, this year I’ve learnt to take inspiration from things I see. This could be sampling colours, explored in my Pantone book ‘Pantone your street’, this is something I want to do more in the future. Taking inspiration from found art work could also be seeing how typefaces work outside, around different environments and letting that be an influence on my work. An example of this can be seen below which is a piece I love, found on a trip in Dublin, I think it works well and the type contrasts the bold and vibrant colours; which stand out against a city backdrop. I love how the bricks of the wall work as a grid, and it reminds me that whats already in place can really have an effect on your work. 

Street Art, Dublin

Blogs

Blogs such as It’s Nice That and Creative Review help influence and inspire me, as I love keeping up to date with what’s happening in the world of design. I think by keeping up to date with what’s happening in the design world around me it will help me develop personally through current inspirations, as well as knowing new designers on the scene to keep a look at their work and possibly build my own creative network.

Editorial magazines 

I look a lot at art magazines and fashion magazines for inspiration, this is because I like the minimalistic clean nature of the designs, personally I am very interested in art direction within the world of print. The main inspiration I had looked to before university life, was very mainstream magazines such as GQ and ID, whereas now due to the resources at LCA; the journals in the library, have allowed me to broaden the content I am seeing.