Finding inspiration

Finding beauty and ideas in everyday living.

As a designer, I’m always looking for and finding inspiration in the things around me. From visual beauty to experiences and wonder that’s felt in a song or movie.

Of course, I have my go-to places like Pinterest and Instagram where I can find endless amounts of visual inspiration but at times when that feels overwhelming or too repetitive, I like to go back to experiences I can feel and touch.

Giant coffee books of interior design, styling and fashion. Walking through a homeware store and breathing in the scent of candles or flowers and seeing the details in how everything has been thoughtfully curated and arranged.

Or sitting in a beautiful cafe with a coffee in one hand and the time and space to slowly contemplate ideas that have been brewing away for awhile. Spaces that embody an entire experience are always the best kind of inspiration and creative motivation for me.

For the Spring Collection, I had a saved folder on my phone from months of collecting images of homes, artwork, prints I loved and slowly working out a theme across them of what I was drawn to and exploring why.

From here was a process of sketching, planning layouts then creating and going back to the drawing board again and again until the colours or shapes were just right. The biggest source of inspiration and motivation was my own home and building a collection I could see on my walls, making the spaces I love feel like they were complete.

And of course as life doesn’t stop after you release a collection, so as I continue to find new ideas, I already have tweaks I’d love to make in the future and styles I want to explore. That is the wonderful process of finding beauty and ideas in the every day ordinary (or extraordinary) life all around us.