Hunting inspiration? What about provocation?
Inspiration Inspiration INSPIRATION! It can be elusive, sometimes mean and many times just blocked! And you start to wonder: where are those infamous muses? And you spend hours trying to catch them, watching with puppy eyes other guy’s work.
And then two feelings fill your heart: despair and the can’t-keep-your-mouth-closed (or jaw dropped) feeling.
The first one, because we think, not in a million years will we craft such beauty; and the second one, well, hypnotized by those design wonders.
Been there?
5 Ways to Burst Your Creativity You Might Not Have Tried.
Every one of us would like to have Leonardo Da Vinci‘s creative mind and come up with fancy innovations with a snap of a finger.
Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.
From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. An alternative, more everyday conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new.
All of us can be as creative.
We just need the discipline, the right approach and techniques to achieve it:
Catch the Beauty
In this post I will show several creativity techniques that I personally have found incredibly useful. I’d like to mention this one first – a pen and a notepad – which I personally call The Beauty catchers.
“It’s my own conviction that we do not get our ideas. They are given to us, bubbling up out of our own subconscious minds as if from some dark and murky ferment. When the conditions are right, it is neither more nor less than the natural condition of things for a writer’s imagination to produce those ideas which constitute the raw material of his fiction.”
Lawrence Block .
30 Free Vector WordPress Icons
In a previous post I offered 30 RSS vector icons. Now to match those little happy icons, I’ve made 30 WordPress Logos to help you brighten up your beloved blog.
To use them open/import it on your vectorial/bitmap editor of choice [Photophop, Illustrator, CorelDraw]
Download 300K in PDF vector Format
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What Graphic Design has to thanks to Fidel Castro.
Back in 1958 Fidel Castro with a modest rebel army gains the power over Cuba.
Despite of his efforts to have an independent line he must conceal with the Russian influence on the new order. The Political posters from those years testifies that.
By 1965, in a time with tense relations with the Soviet Union, the Cubans came with more local flavor styles as a result of their own reality. A period of great artistic expression grows. The talented Cuban artists design cheerful, imaginative and stylish posters of traditional topics as a celebration of the revolution.
Such expressions became immortal like the memorable Che Guevara icon and his dreams about a world revolution.
In the 70′s artist freedom became suffocated as the relationship with the Soviet Union became closer tightening the revolutionary morality.
A brightful and innovate episode of the political poster’s era reached its end.
But its design legacy is still alive.
Let them inspire you.
30 Free Vector RSS Icons
Bored with the good old orange RSS button?
How about a nice little button in 30 color variations and in vector format? Now you will more to choose from. Also working on date buttons and badges.
To use them open/import it on your vectorial/bitmap editor of choice [Photophop, Illustrator, CorelDraw]
**Update 11/1/07**
Check out the second pack of RSS Vector Icons now with 3D translucent look.
**Update 11/2/07**
Added PNG files to the .zip
Download 300K in PDF vector Format PNG.
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