Eclecticism

I've noticed how being exposed to diverse ideas and mediums, broadens my horizons and helps to both inspire me and guard me against creative stagnation, regardless of my current occupation at the time. As a result, the work I create is very eclectic. Meaning, thefreedictionary.com's definition of eclectic, "[to] employ individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles."

If you aren't already, would encourage you to be more eclectic in your life and work; always looking for elements and concepts from areas unrelated to your own. Who knows? You my find something that sparks that "ah ha" moment to make what you do better.

On a related topic, I've recently added some new blogs to my "Creative Feed" below. Here are a few of them:
http://archidose.blogspot.com
http://www.linesandcolors.com
http://typographica.org

On a slightly unrelated topic:
I've been working on some illustrations for Madwire Media's motion graphics artist, Brian Davey, on a series of online video spots for local publishing company, Group Publishing. Below is the video of the animation that I mentioned in the previous post as well as another video spot we just finished. The idea was for us to communicate the product message effectively using a very simple style and stick figures. As it turns out, the publishing company liked them a lot and will be doing several more fun spots like these.

2011 Madwire Media / 2011 Group Publishing