Most designers don’t think all that much of movie posters, and for good reason. The few posters that aren’t Photoshop disasters tend to follow the same dull template – a series of faces placed in front of a full, spacey background. There has been a lot of commentary about the lack of creativity in movie posters recently, and it all seems to boil down to one point: posters are designed to sell, not to stand as creative feats.
In the past few days I’ve had the chance to catch up with web developer and designer, Jacob Gube. Jacob is the founder and chief editor of Six Revisions, a website that publishes practical and useful articles for designers and web developers which reaches over a million visitors each month. Along with working on Six Revisions, Jacob has recently finished writing his first book entitled “MooTools 1.2 Beginners Guide Book.” Thanks to Jacob Gube and Pakt Publishing, AddToDesign will be giving away 3 signed copies of this awesome book.
Being in the creative field, web designers must find constant sources of inspiration to ensure that not only their work is unique but also progresses their skills. However, every so often it can be difficult to figure out where to draw these sources of inspiration and how to use them in current web design trends. One of the greatest things one will ever learn as a designer is to take something totally unrelated to the web and mimic the style, colour, shape, etc. in their work. Hopefully this article provides a few ideas as to what inspiration is, where to get it, and most importantly how to use it.
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