Below you’ll find this weeks design & photography inspiration. Every week I’ll post an article which covers the inspiration I’ve found on different websites. By doing this, I want to influence my creative side and develop it even further. Hopefully it will inspire you too!

1. Creative automotive advertisements

The automotive branch always seem to create nice, funny and original advertisements. The one from Volkswagen and the Darth Vader kid for example. This set of advertisements show different original and creative advertisement designs which will inspire you for sure. (more…)

Recently I saw some people complaining on the Dutch Google Help forums. They were not fond of the newly designed options bar that all Google products are getting worldwide. You know the one with the Account settings dropdown and the product specific options / settings icon.

For me this brings some uniformity to all Google products. To them it was bad and unwanted. What was Google doing with this new design, they didn’t ask for it, etc. etc. What really frustrates me is the fact that people think they own the right to demand the functionality they want, even when they belong to the small percentage of people that don’t like the new design. The majority of people, the logical thinkers, don’t care or understand your design or design intentions.

It’s time for education

People don’t seem to get angry with a new version of Windows. They think: It’s new so it must be better! That raises a question. What’s the difference between the new Windows look and feel and the new Google Docs look and feel? Both are software, only one runs on the web and the other one on your desktop. (more…)

Below you’ll find this weeks design & photography inspiration. Every week I’ll post an article which covers the inspiration I’ve found on different websites. By doing this, I want to influence my creative side and develop it even further. Hopefully it will inspire you too!

1. Best of glowing night photography

These photo’s are all taken between dusk and dawn, night. By using just the right settings these photo take just about enough light to get this glow effect. You really need a top notch camera for this I believe. Truly wonderful. (more…)

It’s funny how you can miss something when looking right at it. Yesterday I had my weekly day at school and we always grab a bite at the local shopping center (Presikhaaf in Arnhem). When walking through the shopping mall I saw a set of photographs printed on Canvas. Women were subject in all of them. When I saw that I thought, wow cool! But didn’t payed a lot of attention to it further.

Today a fellow student, Maarten Kleyne, reminded me of these great set of photo’s again. Turns out the set is far more beautiful than I thought that they were yesterday. The artist, Magdalena Heijting, did a good job with this exposition. You should take a look at her website which features the whole set! I think this certainly inspires some more of you.

Yes it really is! Last week I had a nice vacation. The weather was good, myself and the misses are doing terrific and I finally had some time to get into some creative stuff again. Mostly I went out and photographed a lot of objects. You can find a few here and here. It seems this only happens during a period of free time, like vacation.

How could that be?

Well, the ability to relax after a period of work certainly helps a lot. It seems that being in a relaxed mood helps you find the right source of inspiration. Even the water tap or shower can be inspiring. Don’t believe that? Then you should have a look at your own tap…..looks like a face doesn’t it?

A very fun thing to see was the ability to find inspiration in almost every thing I encountered. From a newly constructed bridge, to a crowded city and the annual Queensday parties in Eindhoven. It seems that when your mind is clear you can do anything you want with it. And that’s cool! Because it gives you the inspiration boost you need once in a while.