Stumble Across

I recently ‘stumbled upon’ a very entertaining site. Coincidentally it’s called www.stumbleupon.com. I found the site to be not only an entertaining pass time on the internet- but a very useful resource when it comes to getting design inspiration. To use it, you simply sign up with your email and check off the different types of topics you ‘re interested in stumbling upon. Topics range from design, advertising, and interior design to women’s issues, celebrities, conspiracies and many more. The thing that I find the most useful is that I have found different sites that I would have never come across by googling a topic.

As I ‘stumbled’ along the site, I found some Photoshop tutorials (http://tiny.cc/fsbh) that I found useful because I don’t know the program very well. One of the Photoshop tutorials showed how to create an image out of text. (http://tiny.cc/1q2sb) I was able to work through the tutorial and create my own image. There was a mistake in one of the steps but because I had been working through the other steps and could not only follow the steps, but understood them, I was able to finish my image on my own. (http://tiny.cc/33q8f and http://tiny.cc/vzvdt)




Another thing I stumbled upon was a video (http://tiny.cc/t72k7) of the making of an advertisement for Canon Pixma Printers. The concept behind the advertisement was paint sculptures that were photographed while vibrating sensors made paint droplets ‘dance’ and intermingle in a beautiful display of colour.

The reason I like this site so much is that it opens up the world of the Internet to me and by selecting all the topics I am more likely to stumble across interesting finds that I normally wouldn’t think of looking for on my own. I realize that in order to inspire my designer mind I have to look beyond a narrow field of vision and venture out to look at various resources.