While we're on the topic of inspiration I want to show you a couple of pics than a reader from Australia sent me. He was in this high end interior design shop in Melbourne, Geoffrey Hatty Applied Arts, which has quite a reputation as I'm told. Anyway he spotted this rather curious white Italian lamp. The base is painted timber - or wood, for my North American readers - and it's a half-dome shape, similar in size but smaller than the base of the iMac G4.
A lot of people - I included - referred to the design as being like a sunflower. Think about if for a minute and see how similar a sunflower and a lamp are. They're different enough but similar enough to make things interesting don't you think?
Now your job is to ponder over whether we got the inspiration from this lamp or whether it's a coincidence. There are no wrong answers... because I'm not telling you!
And besides, the point is that there is inspiration everywhere. Sometimes your mind is ignited by things you see and sometimes it's ignited by things you don't - from the beyond. It can be difficult to determine which exactly has happened on a given occasion, but it's important to remember that ideas come from both places.
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