I often find a lot of inspiration from work I see while scrolling social media. Saving art or images that inspire you allows you to build a library of resources to draw from whenever you’re working on a project.

在滾動社交媒體時，我經常從工作中發現很多靈感。 保存可以激發您靈感的藝術品或圖像，使您可以構建資源庫，以便在進行任何項目時都可以借鑒。

By gradually collecting references, you have an easy place to turn to whenever creative block strikes or you need to pull from particular trends.

通過逐漸收集參考，您可以輕松地找到創意突破或需要擺脫特定趨勢的地方。

第一步：尋找靈感 (Step One: Find Inspiration)

First, you need to find pieces that inspire you. These can be anything, such as other artists’ work, images, and color palettes. A lot of my inspiration comes from social media websites I already search through naturally in my downtime.

首先，您需要找到啟發您的作品。 這些可以是任何東西，例如其他藝術家的作品，圖像和調色板。 我的很多靈感來自我已經在停機期間自然搜索的社交媒體網站。

Instagram (Instagram)

Plenty of artists share their work on Instagram. I find it’s a great place to discover trends of other design work people are currently working on.

很多藝術家在Instagram上分享他們的作品。 我發現這是發現人們當前正在從事的其他設計工作趨勢的好地方。

Reddit (Reddit)

Reddit offers several different specialized subreddits, and people often share their work for critique or discuss different resources/trends.

Reddit提供了幾種不同的專業子Reddit ，人們經常分享他們的評論工作或討論不同的資源/趨勢。

Pinterest (Pinterest)

Pinterest is meant for saving images on pinboards. You can follow other boards as well as curate your own. The home feed recommends pins similar to pins you have previously saved.

Pinterest旨在將圖像保存在固定板上。 您可以關注其他委員會，也可以自己策劃。 家庭供稿建議的引腳與您之前保存的引腳類似。

ArtStation (ArtStation)

A lot of artists post their portfolios on ArtStation. As a 3D artist, I like to save individual works or portfolios of artists I enjoy for referring to later. I save concept art to base models off of later, and other 3D work to inspire my own.

許多藝術家在ArtStation上發布他們的作品集 。 作為3D藝術家，我喜歡保存個人作品或我喜歡的藝術家作品集，以供日后參考。 我將概念圖保存為以后的模型基礎，而其他3D工作則啟發了我自己。

Unsplash (Unsplash)

Unsplash is my go-to website for free photos. The photography is free for commercial use and can also be modified. You can easily end up searching for one photo and end up saving several interesting images in one session.

Unsplash是我的免費照片訪問網站。 攝影是免費的商業用途，也可以修改。 您可以輕松地最終搜索一張照片，并最終在一個會話中保存幾張有趣的圖像。

第二步：建立靈感庫 (Step Two: Build Inspiration Banks)

Once you’ve found what inspires you, you need an easy place to store it all! Organizing everything into one or two places allows you to easily find everything that you’ve collected in creative launching pads.

找到激發您靈感的東西后，您需要一個輕松的地方來存放所有東西！ 將所有內容整理到一個或兩個位置，可以輕松找到在創意發射臺中收集的所有內容。

Pinterest (Pinterest)

As I mentioned earlier, Pinterest allows you to create pinboards. These can be public or private, and you can divide boards into sub-categories. Pinterest is great for saving work already on Pinterest, as well as Instagram posts. Videos saved will play on the page.

如前所述，Pinterest允許您創建記事板。 這些可以是公共的也可以是私人的，您可以將板子劃分為幾個子類。 Pinterest非常適合保存已經保存在Pinterest上的工作以及Instagram帖子。 保存的視頻將在頁面上播放。

Because of the social aspect of Pinterest, it is a great place to create boards of your work for others to share. For example, I created a Society6 board that is a combination of my works as well as other artists’ work I’ve curated.

由于Pinterest具有社交性，因此是創建您的工作板供他人共享的好地方。 例如，我創建了一個Society6董事會，將我的作品以及我策劃的其他藝術家的作品結合在一起。

Niice.co (Niice.co)

Niice is designed for creating mood boards that you can work on independently, or collaborate on and share with clients. A benefit of Niice is that more media types can be embedded into the board so they can be viewed with in the page. For example, interactive 3D models from Sketchfab (a 3D model sharing website) can be embedded directly into the mood board.

Niice旨在創建情緒板，您可以獨立工作，也可以與客戶進行協作并共享。 Niice的一個好處是，可以將更多的媒體類型嵌入到面板中，以便可以在頁面中查看它們。 例如，來自Sketchfab (3D模型共享網站)的交互式3D模型可以直接嵌入到情緒板中。

The Niice Chrome extension is easy to use with the drag and drop feature for images and can remain up at the bottom of the webpage throughout your browsing session. I use it most when I am searching through Unsplash as I can easily save multiple images without ever leaving the webpage. The image is automatically saved with a link back to the webpage to easily refer back to it later.

Niice Chrome擴展程序易于使用，具有拖放功能，可用于圖像，并且在整個瀏覽過程中都可以保持在網頁底部。 我在搜索Unsplash時最常使用它，因為我可以輕松保存多張圖像，而無需離開網頁。 該圖像會自動保存，并帶有指向該網頁的鏈接，以便以后輕松參考。

第三步：獲得啟發 (Step Three: Get Inspired)

When starting a specific project, or looking to spark new ideas, you can refer to your growing inspiration bank to spark new ideas! Deana McDonagh and Ian Storer discovered that mood boards can be used “as an instrument to inspire lateral thinking.” Lateral thinking, a way of solving a problem by thinking about it in a different and original way and not using traditional or expected methods, is often tied to creativity and thinking creatively. Because mood boards are often a combination of seemingly disconnected imagery, you avoid a linear thought process, encouraging you to “think outside the box.”

當開始一個特定的項目，或希望激發新的想法時，您可以參考不斷增長的靈感庫來激發新的想法！ Deana McDonagh和Ian Storer發現，情緒板可以“用作激發橫向思考的工具”。 橫向思維是通過以不同的原始方式思考問題而不使用傳統或預期的方法來解決問題的方法，通常與創造力和創造性思維聯系在一起。 由于情緒板通常是看似脫節的圖像的組合，因此避免了線性思考過程，鼓勵您“跳出框框思考”。

Mood boards are useful because they don’t just help initiate creativity, but allow you to expand your creativity.

情緒板非常有用，因為它們不僅有助于啟動創造力，而且還可以擴展您的創造力。

Designers’ creative expression and experimentation during the mood board creation allows them to dive deeper into themes or concepts, providing a wealth of information for designers to pull inspiration from. Lastly, through the use of mood boards, designers may be able to communicate visually and effectively, what is a web of seemingly unconnected ideas, difficult to express verbally with similar impacts. In essence, the mood board serves to engage designers in deeper creative thinking. — Charles Freeman, Sara Marcketti, Elena Karpova

在情緒板創建過程中，設計師的創造性表達和實驗使他們能夠更深入地研究主題或概念，從而為設計師提供了豐富的信息，以從中汲取靈感。 最后，通過使用情緒板，設計師可以視覺和有效地進行交流，這是一個看似無關的想法的網絡，很難用口頭表達產生類似的影響。 本質上，情緒板用于使設計師參與更深入的創造性思維。 — 查爾斯·弗里曼，薩拉·馬凱蒂，埃琳娜·卡波娃

Building an inspiration bank can encourage you to think even more creatively than without one.

建立靈感庫可以鼓勵您比沒有思考時更具創造性的思考。

You can gradually build up various inspiration banks to pull from during social media scrolling. You can create boards for general purposes or specific projects. Take advantage of the media you consume daily and store it away to inspire your next project!

您可以逐步建立各種靈感庫，以在滾動社交媒體時從中汲取靈感。 您可以創建用于一般目的或特定項目的板。 利用您日常消耗的媒體并將其存儲起來，激發您的下一個項目！