Have you been feeling slightly uninspired lately? Possibly a bit confused on where to go next with your creative process? Well, we’re here to set you up with a few publications and tips to help get you going!
Tip 1. Get Messy!
Try push outside your comfort zone!… as David Bowie once said…
“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.” ―
Pressing Matters is a quarterly magazine that is made by printmakers for printmakers. Pressing Matters connects with us artists through creative processes and their passion for print. Within, you'll find creative studio spaces containing all kinds of print technquies. Sketchbooks, drafts, and inky equipment. Pressing Matters is all the encourangement you'll need to allow yourself to be messy. You're an artist, not a perfectionist. You are allowed to experiment, be messy, be creative. Whether you’re new to printmaking or an experienced printmaker yourself you’re bound to unlock something new and exciting with this read.
Tip 2. Absorb Printed Matter
Allow yourself a breather and become slow and considered. When you reach the point of slowness in practice, your mind follows and slows down too. Opening a new creative inspiration offered by the subconscious.
You’d be incredibly surprised as to how much your subconscious mind retains information, pictures, music and words.
PIN–UP is a New York-based magazine focused on architectural entertainment — the meeting point of architecture, art, and design. Showcasing PIN-UP 40 is a beautifully packaged and carefully considered box of 10 issues of architectural entertainment. Through the mass of photography and editorial design you’ll discover a new sense of self. Encouraging retainment of inspiration through a quiet read, falling straight into your subconscious memory - storing all the good inspiring work for later (when you want to create!)
Tip 3. Following Footsteps
Inspiration doesn’t always have to come from your own mind, and there’s really no shame in that! Following footsteps is a great step (literally) into a load of inspiration of which follows! You may find other artists processes intriguing, exciting or even maybe not. (!) When you come across art that makes you want to (re)create or think about the art’s process, and challenge yourself in maybe doing things differently, is exactly when you’re about to achieve something great. It’s all about learning what art you like and don’t like, really, and starting to understand why?
Alphabet is the artists' magazine. They write, they make and record all the nitty gritty processes for us creative followers. Through the pages, the process becomes refreshing yet also an inspiring reality of art-making - which you wouldn't normally see! The magazine is designed to put the artists at the forefront yet also allowing the viewers to become fully immersed with their practice.
Alphabet is a great starting point into unlocking inspiration through following footsteps, it’s a must read!
Written by Jemma Beaven