Inspired: How Creative People Think, Work and Find Inspiration

by Kiki Hartmann, Dorte Nielsen

Creative people: what inspires them, how do they think and work, and how do they create an environment where they can easily generate ideas? In this book forty European creatives from many different disciplines—such as art directors, fashion designers, architects, and photographers—are interviewed and their work environment, scrapbooks, notebooks, doodles, and sources of inspiration are photographically documented into a beautiful inspiration book.

Genres: Design

256 pages, Hardcover

First published March 30, 2006

Reviews

[Caitlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. I found it in the bookshop of the Danish Design Centre in Copenhagen and had trouble leaving it there, but ultimately luggage weight won out and Amazon came to my rescue. I find just flipping through it fills me with ideas. The images are beautiful and interesting and I like the interviews too (although there's quite a heavy leaning towards people from advertising - I'd like to see a second volume with a few more people from other creative disciplines - the composers, illustrators, website designers and so on). One of the most interesting things I discovered in this book was how very many of the people interviewed collect stuff. Most of them admit to collecting something, whether it be shoes or scraps of material, or just random things they like the look of. Suddenly my collection of random bits of paper I can't bear to throw away was justified!

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pictures are what make this book, and I thought the interviews were very boring and uninspiring compared to the photos.