Fishing spots with references
References help to find inspiration, visualize ideas and test their viability with zero photo shoots, props or location costs.
How to work with references
When to look up. Any time. But it’s better to go through the fishing spots after having a product introduction meeting, to get inspired and find ideas and references for a sketch or a key visual.
Why. To fill your ideas tank, to switch on your inner neuron network and to see new techniques and visualization options.
How often. Once in a week or two. And surely after each kick-off product launch meeting.
Fishing spots
Here are the resources we recommend to subscribe to.
Pinterest – the major resource that covers up most of your needs. If you have never explored Pinterest before, there are a few life hacks:
— do the search in English,
— formulating your request is essential.
Add words photography / food photography / to your search, they help to weed out amateur photos and images from articles about cooking.
To find a situational or atmospheric photo add lifestyle to your search request.
Get an account and pin your ideas onto boards. It’s handy. You can save something you instantly like, but having no relation to your current project, for the future. The most important is that Pinterest will learn your preferences and hence will produce more relevant results.
Instagram accounts
Foodporn
Lifestyle
Our pages
Here are links to the boards we use while working on layouts. One can figure out what refs we search for and what we target at. They are constantly being updated.
Projects
Layout
Inspiring weird digests
Illustrations
If you work for Dodo Brands Design Team and you want to share your link, drop a message to Daria Kochenova on dasha@intuition.team – we’ll add that up.
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