Inspiration blog - by PaperNotes

Looking for home inspiration?

Decor8 might help you on that. Owner Holly gives this oneliner to her blog: "fresh finds for hip spaces". And, it's mostly true ;-)

Scary but creative webcampaign: Pulse

Ok, I'm always amazed by the creative and original ways in which movies are promoted on the web. A while ago I was really impressed by the game-like promo for Saw. And here is another webteam who had a lot of fun creating their site (as I imagine)...

Open the website, click on the movie - enjoy and be inspired :-)

Nice website and art by Trish Grantham

Check this nice creative website & cool art by Trish Grantham.

Ways to stimulate creativity

Came across this article about how to stimulate your own and others' creativity at Creativity for Life (don't mind the ugly page).

One of the ways to cultivate creativity I specificly find quite a good idea:

"Make a set of "trading cards. Cut out images that you love from catalogs, magazines or greeting cards. Focus on images that make you feel full, alive and truly happy. (...) This is a project you can work on a little bit at a time until you have a whole deck of cards that inspire you"

Actually I do this same thing with my own blog, collecting all kinds of things that inspire me. This way I'm building an inspirational database for myself (and others!) to look into when I'm not inspired or forgot all these things...

There are some other interesting tips in the article to get your creativity going. Take the time to read this and you'll see from that you might already pick up other ways of looking at things...

Website inspiration: stimulating youngsters to be aware of their own choices

Look what I came across: an inspiring initiative that educates young people... It definitely has a creative approach!

“Own Your C” is a campaign that seeks to help teens make the connection that their choices define who they are and who they will become. The campaign recognises making individual choices empowers youth to make educated decisions", so Jon tells us on his site.

Not only the truck is cool, also the website shows us how you can create something following a totally different line. The homepage of "Own Your C" shows us a very strange city:

You can discover different parts of this city and discover what's there to do:

Do you like candy machines? This is a way of using them in a diffrent way:

And, if you find this a cool website... you can become a citizen. What you can also do is filling out codes which give you points to use on the website (for getting extra special stuff).

Well, this is definitely an inspiring concept to me. These kind of things bring me a lot of ideas of developing new websites and using new approaches for current ones...

New Mini-paintings by Christian Junghanns

 

Just spotted some new mini's by Christian Junghanns. Check @ the Neopop.de shop.

Have you always wanted to create your own products?

If you've always had the wish to design your own products, but don't dare to take the risk of starting a whole own business of your own... Then you should definitely pay a visit to PingMag's article on Elephant Design (Japanese site, sorry!).

"They gather ideas from consumers online and allow designers to join in later to materialize these ideas into designed objects. In case there are enough online supporters (i.e. potential customers) for a particular design, then it’s put up for sale via manufacturers." so PingMag tells us... An example of this:

Esthex - more cool puppets

Check more @ Esthex.com. "For Kids and Grownups"

How kids use digital media in everyday life

Came across this very interesting research project, focussing on how kids use media in their daily life and how they learn to use these new tools & techniques quickly.

Check out Digital Youth Research, a project administered at Berkley US.

If you're interested in kids or youth as target audience, or any other reason for that matter, you definitely want to digg into this! The publications section is also interesting to have a look at. I certainly gained some ideas already, from just scanning through the website!

A Blue Chicken - online art platform

Walked by this art platform's gallery in Amsterdam on friday and was quite inspired by the work they were showing... Check this: "Crazy Fresh" by BFREE.

And "Breeze" by BFREE. For more, check out their website.