Inspiration

From a talk at Design + Banter in March 2014

Transcript

1. Laura Kalbag @laurakalbag Inspiration
2. “Where do you get your inspiration from?”
3. it’s an odd question
4. What is inspiration?
5. where do you find the little seed of an idea that grows into the creative solution to a problem?
7. Where do you pinch your best ideas from?
9. Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95 Photo: Wolfgang Volz
10. Researching solutions
11. every problem we solve through design is unique
12. similarities
13. when we’re researching solutions through the experience and ideas of others, it’s like being back in art lessons again
15. the answers can’t all come from one place
16. Picasso The Lovers, 1923
17. Evolving resources
18. gaining confidence
19. the way we researched evolved
20. conscious decisions
21. conscious research
22. saving the details
23. the more experience, the greater the osmosis
24. The exceptions
26. I find myself needing to learn again
27. this time around
28. Design as a practice and process stays constant
29. We’ll always be able to apply skills of seeing, solving problems and making decisions
30. We need to be smart about how we learn
31. Ensure we don’t fall back on the work of others when we should be innovating for ourselves
32. Laura Kalbag laurakalbag.com @laurakalbag