Screw Design Portals
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- blackspade0
exactly, ..I was my above post last night;
for me what stood out was"
"It's design for a fast food generation. Of course, we need to look for inspiration in all sorts of places - and design portals can be a good place to start - but it can also make people very, very lazy. It fast becomes the only place they go for inspiration."
Im guilty of this as im sure we all are at times, maybe I need to ban myself from looking at any other designers sites including NT for a while...
"I believe that inspiration and ideas are never on short supply - I think it's a matter of disciplining yourself to see things differently every time... no matter how mundane or familiar the situation might be.
For example... When I moved to New York 1992 I had never ridden a subway. I was in total enlightenment that I got to take this underground rollercoaster (the closest thing comparable to the feeling I had) everyday for $1.25. However over a period of a few months I become like every other New Yorker, half asleep on the train as it merely takes me from point A. to point B. How did something so exciting become so mundane ?
Complacency. I had closed my eyes to seeing this experience like I did for the first time.
So... there are a million little scenarios, movements, forms, paths, and systems at play all around us - I've just gotten really good at seeing things, writing them down, assessing the limitations of the technology I use and trying to recreate them." - Josh Davis