Inspiration is something that all designers use when coming up with new ideas and designs. Seeing someone else’s perspective, can really get YOUR mind pumping with new ideas and make your overall final product much stronger. I love seeing things in magazines or on billboards and collecting those images to provide me with inspiration as necessary.

Over the holidays, I was staying in Nashville, TN at a Sheraton hotel, and noticed some of their fine promotional products. I of course captured an image to keep around for future inspiration, but I thought I would share it on here. They literally had a designer come in and create everything from their note paper to their door hangers. And these were not your traditional items you see in a normal hotel. These items had style, class, and used the Gestalt principle of similarity to interconnect as a set. This reminds me a lot of the high quality and classy design work I hope to create in the future. Props to these designers!

The final product is always the fun part for a graphic designer. To see all your hard work pay off certainly gives a sense of accomplishment and motivation. To the left, you can see my final products for my business card and letterhead with my new logo. Of course being a designer, I am sure I will want to tweak and change my logo again in the future, but for now, I am quite pleased.