Like most people who have to be cre­at­ive for a liv­ing, I go through troughs and peaks of inspir­a­tion. And some­times the troughs are big­ger than the peaks, with my most recent trough last­ing, well, all summer.

One of the ways I store images and ideas that feed the idea machine, though, is on a big folder on my hard drive, not an ideal solu­tion since I’m not always sit­ting at my desk when I need to be inspired, so I was quite excited to find ImageS­park. Free (for now), ImageS­park allows you to upload and share the inspir­ing images found online and, import­antly, give some credit where it’s due. Fun even for those who don’t have to fil­ter everything they see in life into Pho­toshop, I just love to watch the some­what whim­sical trends and pat­terns that emerge in what I like. Today, poster design. Cur­rently, col­our. Always, birds.