What if the inspiration source of the collection is exhausted? Inspiration is the support for the creation of collection of works, and also our partner in the future design. Having a continuous flow of inspiration is equivalent to opening a shortcut for design. Inspiration exhaustion is the enemy of design creation. We need to overcome obstacles to find different angles of creation and collect our own inspiration. This process of continuous accumulation and exploration has also troubled some designers. How do they open the way to get inspiration? Let's have a look now.

　　1、Viktor Hertz

Sweden's Viktor Hertz is a graphic artist active in various fields. From the very beginning, a graphic designer transformed into a freelancer. He can't do without his daily high-speed connection work. The constant flow of inspiration is the key to Viktor's rapid updating of his works.

How did Viktor quickly capture the inspiration of the collection as a "rare species" during creation? Now let's take a look at the way Viktor gets inspiration before the birth of his works Portfolio training You need to learn when you create.

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The logo design of Viktor seems simple, but it is actually supported by a lot of inspiration. We take the Olympic logo as an example. This logo was created by Viktor on the train when he got drunk and went home on Friday. At that time, he thought of his understanding of the Olympic logo, and this instant perception of life became the inspiration of Viktor. Many small things we experience in life are the key to inspiration, and also the inspiration points we need for our collection of works.

At the beginning of this year, Viktor came up with a new concept of poster design - "Stock Photo Movie Posters". The design of integrating stock photos into movie posters is the inspiration Viktor found from "people's state".

The inspiration of Viktor's collection of works in the poster on the left comes from everyone's empathy. From "everyone wants to save a cat", this kind of design that understands users' psychology is more likely to resonate. The inspiration of Viktor in the poster on the right comes from the girl's fruit makeup, and the inspiration is based on oranges, which leads Viktor to think that "the girl's face covered by oranges will bring her eternal youth and beauty".

Viktor quickly learned people's needs before design, turned them into inspiration and fully verified and researched them. These inspirations from life perception and people's state are all based. The inspiration of our works collection also needs to be verified repeatedly to establish sufficient basis. We can't paste all the ideas on the works collection as inspiration.

Viktor also turned many of Daylife's puzzles into inspiration. The first picture shows that Viktor was very interested in the World Poetry Day, so he learned its background and story, which inspired him; The second picture shows that Viktor wants to know why "eyes are the fastest muscles in the body". This common sense of life has become his inspiration. The third picture shows that Viktor is very interested in the metaphor of the Rolling Stones' Hang Fire song. He goes deep into the story and social influence behind it, and takes hobbies as inspiration. Viktor searched their details through Wikipedia, and learned about them and generated the inspiration for these three works.

Thinking of inspiration is just a creative framework, and finding the inspiration source of the works collection is the key. The research inspired by Viktor is different from that of the students when they created their works. Viktor is not looking for inspiration for creation. He records every uncertainty in life for in-depth exploration, so that inspiration will come automatically. The way to capture inspiration is not necessarily to look for it, but to accumulate and record it in time.

The collection of works is the essence of our personal works, which requires accumulated inspiration and exploration to fully present our ability. When we see some thought-provoking details of life, we should try our best to understand them. Maybe you will find a new source of inspiration for the collection of works in these things that interest you.

Every perception in life has become the inspiration of Viktor's creation. How can we generate more inspiration in an artistic creation? Next, let's take a look at a designer who specializes in poster design. He can constantly extend his inspiration dimension, which is a very important framework in our collection creation.

　　2、Travis Kane

Travis Kane is an "online celebrity" among artists on ins, with a very large number of fans. Travis started his poster design with a plan set for himself in 2018: 365 poster design works will be produced a year. This allowed him to specialize in poster design gradually.

One year later, Travis completed 264 posters. Although the plan failed, the output of 264 works is not small for a year, and it does not include the creation of other art fields of Travis. You must be curious about how the fountain of inspiration in Travis' head was generated? Let's take a look at this "failed" designer and find the inspiration source of his 264 posters!

These are some of Travis' favorite poster design works among 264 pieces created in a year. Each poster design uses different design elements. Behind these different design elements, Travis tells us that similar inspiration sources can shape new inspiration.

Our collection of works is a collection of each independent small project, and each project will have similar inspiration sources. Let's see how Travis uses similar inspiration sources to make the presentation of works more diversified.

The two posters created by Travis during the road trip are only three days apart. The first one is in the lake tahoe, and the second one is in the big sur of PCH. We can see that Travis has found new inspiration by opening up new horizons through travel. At the same time, we can find out through some of the same design elements that he has found his own "short term inspiration routine" in the creation of recent works - to build new inspiration on the original inspiration.

Inspiration is not always absorbed, and innovation is also key. When the inspiration source of the collection is exhausted, we might as well go out to see the world more and open the creative inspiration in what we see and think.

The poster on the left was created by Travis in his earlier stage, and the poster on the right was created by him after his road trip. This poster is a fast work. It can be seen from the surface that the common point of the two posters is a kind of circulation and rebirth of whirlpool, but the inspiration composition of the two posters is different. The "road travel landscape" used in the poster on the right is integrated with the previous "vortex". The generation of this new inspiration is the deconstruction and reorganization of the original inspiration.

The above two posters were created by Travis and two friends in two days. From these two days on, Travis's style has made a great breakthrough compared with the past, and the inspiration from the exchange and collision with friends has changed his works. When inspiration is difficult to develop, we might as well try to be tolerant and reserved, and listen to others' opinions to guide our own troubles, which will make the creation of the collection of works advance by leaps and bounds.

In Travis' design, we found that inspiration is a kind of renewal: remolding, innovating, and containing the past inspiration. When inspiration dries up, self breakthrough is very important. Inspiration in the same period has many similarities. We should learn to use the original inspiration to create new inspiration.

Travis' fast completed works seem simple and exquisite, but in fact, they conceal the skills of obtaining inspiration from our art study abroad collection! Travis's inspiration to the poster is similar to "20 different ways to wear a T-shirt". This kind of inspiration match can broaden the inspiration dimension of our collection.

　　 Inspired Catch

Catching inspiration is the key preparation for the creation of our collection of works. The thought of opening inspiration is in the people, things and things around us; Timely absorbing and digesting the content of interest is the foreshadowing of inspiration, so that we can perceive inspiration; No matter when and where you get inspiration, you must remember it in time and record it on your mobile phone or notebook; This process will form its own "inspiration template", which will be very helpful for inspiration extraction in future creation.

　　 Inspired Match

The combination and reorganization of inspiration can generate new inspiration. When inspiration is stuck, we should try to jump out of the current state, which can be achieved in many ways: try to contact life and go out to see more, exchange and collide with friends for inspiration; Technically, we can shape new inspiration through similar inspiration sources of works and the deconstruction and reorganization of original inspiration. It is a timely and efficient way to explore your own "short term inspiration routine" on the formed "inspiration template".

　　 Inspired Research

Inspired Research is a process of finding and understanding problems, which is more from immediate life perception. It is important to find inspiration in this process. We need to maintain empathy and fully understand user needs. The most important thing is to accumulate and record the things you are interested in in time. This experience of continuous exploration will bring inspiration to you automatically.

The inspiration source of the works collection is the enemy that appeared in our creation. Let us constantly learn and explore in the process of breaking through ourselves. There are many ways to keep inspiration flowing: browsing the design website, checking and filling the gaps in your own design, traveling, listening to music, reading books... We have a source of inspiration all the time in our life. It depends on whether you can find it and turn it into your own unique inspiration. But the most important thing is that students can find a suitable method for themselves. I hope the three collection methods mentioned today, Catch, Match and Research, will be helpful to you.

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