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. 84 Surreal Photo Manipulations by Leszek Bujnowski

A remarkable set of photo manipulations (by Leszek Bujnowski). Love his style and atmosphere. That dark and mysterious feeling is in every photo! Cool! (more…)

I’ve read an interesting article from +Robert Scoble where he talked about Facebook and Google+. He stated G+ should focus on the interest graph of social media. And I think he’s right on this one.

Like Facebook

Facebook currently uses the social graph. It focuses on the relationship you have or had in real-life and wants you to create a similar one on Facebook. And that’s okay, it seems that I personally use Facebook exactly in this way. I communicate with friends, old college mates, team mates and family. I’ve some more followers over there of course, but I basically communicate with people I know in real-life or have known. I think that’s the power of Facebook. It lets you maintain friendships! (more…)

1. The portfolio of Neil Duerden

So you want to start implementing social media in your company? Okay that’s cool! But do you know why you want that? What’s the advantage for your company? What do you think you’ll get out of social media? It’s wise to ask yourself those questions first. When you know what you want from social media you can get a strategy together more easily.

This post won’t explain how to create that strategy for your company. That’s maybe something for a future post. It does explain what explicitly NOT to do.

Don’t just be the salesman

Just like the heading above states, don’t be a salesman. As much as you like to sell your products in large quantities, it’s not desirable to express that on social media. Remember, you’re communicating with people. Those people will treat you like any other person so it isn’t wise to flood your streams with posts like: “Now Product X is on sale, buy it now” or “Get our new product updates for only €29,-”. (more…)

1. Incredible portfolio from Thai Thanh Tam