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sure do! love it. in each apartment through college i dedicated a whole wall to inspirational bits, either over my bed or my desk.

As a visual artist, my inspiration wall in my last place was the two walls around my worktable and the three available sides of the fridge too.

I keep a huge file of clippings for this purpose as well and rotate items on a regular basis (about every 2 weeks) to keep the inspiration fresh

I keep an inspiration binder and a folder of pictures on my computer. Maybe someday I'll have the right place for a whole wall!

I know how you feel Christie! I am living in a place we are trying to be very gentle with, because we plan to sell soon. As soon as I get a house, inspiration wall is the first thing I am putting up!

This was in a magazine before. I have the page ripped out and filed in an inspirational binder.

It's good to hear that a visual artist has inspiration walls, tahitianpearl! I'm going back to school for graphic design and plan on making 2 more french memo boards and buying another hanging folder filing system for all the classes ahead of me.

I haven't heard of the idea of inspiration walls outside of apartment therapy for home decor - but I can see from above that others use it for art. Is the idea to gather a bunch of images on a topic, with the belief that having the pictures around will help you be more creative on the topic? How is the inspiration wall pictured different than a collection of "pictures I like"?
Perhaps I need an inspiration wall of inspiration walls :-)

What is that particular wall supposed to be inspiring? I see a lot of chicks and a couple of houses.

Too busy and distracting.

i know a lot of people with inspiration walls. i am just getting started on mine.

Depends on whether it's inspiring or just stuff. I do think collecting a small collage to "work on" in your head can be productive and look at, I'm not sure a lot of people don't just get stuck in that frame. Like, want, someday, more stuff I love but don't have yet.. etcetera. Do you take things down when you've achieved or expressed them, or are you just dreaming? Is this any different than accumulating material items you think enhance the quality of your life, until you reckon you just haven't been able to let things go and move on?

I'm sure it works for some people the way it's suggested, I just concern myself with the popularization of a notion, of how to be artsier or whatever, and the cluttering of yet another surface with a visual manifestation of somedays that never come... ok, bottom line, people have tricks they play on themselves and I'm no different. This idea would be an enormous waste of time for me. I like to sift through a box of my collected papers once in a while, but I keep less and less stuff in it. I just wouldn't want to see it every day.