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The "out-of-nowhere" inspiration phenomenon
One of most common and ordinary thing We do while using computers is working with windows. I mean those perfectly-known windows which You can drag, move, resize, and so on.
One time after I've just opened some window something drew My attention: the window was overlapping on one of the desktop icons - which created an interesting visual effect. I associated it with a CSS-made border, a pretty elegant one :) - and I thought I'd really like to simply recreate that border directly in CSS code (especially because I find it appealing). So I did that and... voilà :) ! I have My fine border which I applied into all <blockquote> elements on one of My websites - so it looks even better (regarding My taste).
As I've mentioned, this type of inspiration arising "out of nowhere" is not a rare occurrence alongside My experience. Another time I've encountered it was when I looked at some photo of sheer curtains. Light, shadow and folds created an abstract composition there, in which My mind saw a very specific picture - like a sign (on top of this article You can see the attached, enhanced fragment of that photo - and My final reproduction). Interestingly, it was visible for Me only with the particular zoom scale. It caught My fancy so much so at least I had to try to render it in Adobe Illustrator (because I was going to make it as a genuine, vector logotype, having in mind its future use). I've succeeded and had My new logo done :) .
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