Inspiration.

I've mentioned my Inspiration Folder a few times now, and I thought I'd expand on it a bit more.

It all started when Alastair Strong came into my university and to talk about his work.

Alastair Strong

He gave us a little insight and exaplantion of his Inspiration Folder, encouraging us to start our own.

I started mine immediately and have found it to be a massive help in so many ways ever since.

It's basically a folder on the desktop of my laptop where I save any photographs/artwork/graphics I love.

I name each image with the artists name, or any information I have. I also divide the images up in year folders, which is a great way to detect trends. Organisation is your friend.

So whenever I need some inspiration, to find a image to reference or to collect images for my next blog post, I head to my Inspiration Folder.

If you haven't already got one, start one right now.

And save anything and everything! Even if you're not sure about it. Your tastes may change and that image you once hated, you may end up loving.

As you know, I have an RSS Reader which is where I save most of the images from. I encourage you to get one of these too. So useful!

Hope my advice helps. There's nothing worse than being stuck for inspirarion.