Inspiration

As a designer I pull inspiration from a lot of different places, book covers, patterns, color combinations, fonts, posters, nature, textures, painting, art history, buildings, and on and on... I collect ideas from the internet, take pictures of things that I like, save bits of paper and color swatches, and tear out pictures from magazines. A friend of mine even picks up flyers and fun designs to help inspire me.
For this blog background I took some of my inspiration from a book cover that I found. I loved the colors and also wanted to give my blog a vintage look as well as a bit of whimsy.
Another piece to the puzzle that inspires me and contributes to how I design are photoshop brushes. There are so many available for free on the internet and they help enable my imagination to come to life on the screen. In a future post I will share with you some of my favorite links.
There is inspiration everywhere, you just have to be aware of it.  Where do you get your inspiration from?

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