Inspiration

… valuing the things we have while we have them

Yu–ki Nishimoto, is one of the most famous Indian ink artists in Japan. He has attracted fans from around the world. He uses both aggressive and sensitive strokes in his works to convey both lively and powerful expression. http://yuki-nishimoto.com/en/about.php  

Just as in Zen few words are enough to express the meaning of many hours of meditation, in sumi-e, few marks of black ink painted with a brush on a simple sheet of white paper, can represent the most complex model. One must learn to capture the essence in order to get to the heart …

The Japanese term “sumi” means “black ink”, “e” means “painting”. It indicates one of the art forms in which subjects are painted with black ink in all possible gradations ranging pure black to the lightest shades achievable by dissolving ink in water. However, this does not mean that everything painted in this way deserves to …

From theminimalists.com (starring an amazing documentary: Minimalism: A Documentary )

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Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.  ~Jeffrey Zeldman

Inspiration is everywhere and often in unexpected places. You just have to keep your eyes open.  

“We may conclude from this that the fish-bone arrangement is as much the clue to the construction of a more advanced order of key-borders as it was in the case of simpler examples, and it seems obvious that a great variety of keys can be produced by this very single means. The process of interlocking …

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. ~ Steve Jobs