A great proportion of my day is spent browsing through the dozens of new items cropping up in my feed reader each day. In one way, it's a useful method to ensure I stay up to date with the latest design trends. But my main reason is to find inspiration . Documenting the articles which hold my attention is as much helpful for me as it is to offer insights into what inspires me from one week to the next. After all, a set of bookmarks stored on my own laptop provides neither visual nor temporal information as to the creative finds I've enjoyed!
Sometimes the tedium of everyday work leaves us feeling dull and somewhat uninspired. I love Chris Coyier's "Quotes on Design" , so during a particularly awkward creative block I fired up Photoshop and used this tutorial to create a typographic wallpaper filled with quotes on design. Like it? Feel free to download, use, modify and share! I've adapted it to fit most screen resolutions, so hopefully you'll find the size to fit your own desktop screen. Download: 800x480 | 1024x640 | 1280x800 | 1680x1050 | 1920x 1200 | 2560x1600