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Your environment sets the mood and tone for you. If you are living in an inspirational environment, you are going to be inspired every day. May be sometimes just playing up with your room can work towards your inspiration.  It’s not about having access to countless resources; it’s about exploiting the resources you have access to.

 Doing the same exact thing every day hinders self-growth.  If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting.  Growth happens when you change things – when you try new things stretch beyond your comfort zone.

Blasting music is a turn off in turn a judicious noise level is the sweet spot for creativity. Ambient noise gets our creative juices flowing unlike silence. In high noise levels, our creative thinking is impaired because we’re overwhelmed struggling to process information efficiently. Whereas extreme quiet sharpens your focus, making it hard for us to think creatively.

An important point to remember when you’re optimizing for creativity is that the process of creative work goes through different stages. When I’m editing a blog post, for instance, I’m less worried about generating creative ideas than I am when I’m brainstorming topics or mapping out the structure of a post.

So optimizing your environment could call for different situations depending on the phase of work—e.g silence is best for concentration?

Research published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology looked at the difference in creativity levels in brightly-lit and dimly-lit environments. The research found that dim lighting helps us to feel less constrained and free to explore and take risks. So when you’re gearing up for a brainstorming session, try turning down the lights before you get started.

Love is the greatest source of inspiration. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet," said Plato. When you enjoy what you do, you like to think about it all the time. Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.

Inventiveness

Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process.

Psychologically speaking, creative personalities are difficult to pin down, largely they're complex, paradoxical and tend to avoid routine. Creativity involves the coming together of a multitude of traits, behaviors and social influences in a single person.

The world is a creative person's oyster they see possibilities everywhere & are constantly taking in information that becomes fodder for creative expression.

Insatiably curious they generally opt to live through intense conversation or solitary mind-wandering, looking at the world around them & want to know why & how, it is the way it is.

Artists are often stereotyped as being loners, Solitude can be the key to producing their best work. You need to get in touch with that inner monologue to be able to express it. To be truly inspired, you must learn to trust your instinct & your creative empathy.

I have a magpie attitude to inspiration seek it from all sorts of sources anything that allows me to think about how culture comes together. I'm always on the lookout by observing people in the street; watching films, reading, thinking about the conversations that I have. I consider the language of gestures people use, or the colours they're wearing. It's about taking all the little everyday things & observing them with a critical eye than building on your mental scrapbook.

We live in a different but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record. However you cannot photograph everything, so I have to select subjects that throw light on the relationship I have with the world.

Creativity is the act of making something from nothing. 

Your art does not have to be between the covers of a book or on a canvas to find an audience. The art is about transcribing emotion. If you keep loose, feel spontaneous and free, so will your art. You’ll find deep satisfaction in sharing a part of yourself.

Shape yourself to shapes...

We live in a three-dimensional world. Every object you see or touch has three dimensions that can be measured into Length, Height & Width. The room where you are placed, your monitor you’re looking at & the clothes you are wearing all are three dimensional. Even you can be described by these three dimensions.

Geometry is the study of the size, shape and position of 2 dimensional & 3 dimensional figures. Everyone uses it daily consciously or unconsciously by exploring the spatial sense and geometric reasoning. Which in every turn is found in art, architecture, engineering, robotics, land surveys, astronomy, sculptures, space, nature, sports, machines, cars & in varied many more things which goes unnoticed.

What do you feel when you see a circle? A square? A triangle? Are you affected the same when seeing an object with soft gentle curves as you are when seeing another object with sharp jagged edges?  Lines & shapes have meaning which make them an important building block in the visual grammar and visual thinking we have at our disposal as designers.

Shapes have an endless variety of characteristics, each communicating different messages. Even if your page is nothing more than paragraphs of text you’re laying down shapes on the page.

Circles have no beginning or end. They represent the eternal whole having free movement. 

Squares and rectangles are stable. They have right angles and represent order, mathematics, rationality, and formality. The majority of text we read is set in rectangles or squares.

Triangles can be stable when sitting on their base or unstable when not. They represent direct tension, action, and aggression.

Spirals are expressions of creativity. They are often found in the natural growth pattern of many organisms and suggest the process of growth and evolution.

Crosses symbolize spirituality and healing. The 4 points of a cross represent self, nature, wisdom, and higher power or being. Crosses suggest transition, balance, faith, unity, temperance, hope, and life.

Curved shapes offer rhythm & movement, happiness, pleasure & generosity. They are seen as more feminine than sharp shapes which offer energy, violence and, anger. Sharp shapes are lively and youthful seen as more masculine.

Shapes can be used to convey depth by varying their size and position within a design. Larger shapes will appear closer and smaller shapes will appear further away. Shapes that are located lower in a design will seem closer and those higher up further away. Overlapping shapes is another way to create a sense of one in front of the other to add depth to your design.

Look around you observe shapes in designs & nature & think about what they make you feel or what they are communicating? Do they enhance or hinder the message of the designs you see?