I have been keeping a visual diary for many years, using the pintrest app, I ritually add interesting images, designs and ideas every day on my commute to work.
Using it as a scrapbook or moodboard, I organise the web articles, images and other influences I see into logically named boards. This takes up 0 space, is always available and is totally free.
I currently have a total of 5,967 pins at the time of writing, this number will grow by about 10 each day, an example of some of the titles of the boards are
- Pinball art
- Old style book covers
- Video Games
- Concept art
- William morris
- Icons
- David Hockney
- Film Posters
- Vintage cartoons
- Pirates
- Dragons
- Children’s Illustrations
- Mad Magazine
- Comic book art
- Album covers
- Web Design
- T shirt designs
- email confirmations
- Robots
- Logos
- Illustration reference
And many, many more.
I would say by looking at the list I’m focused on the popularity and style of images, images that are used to sell or promote things such as films, clothing etc. I want my influences to be popular, a little different but still with a mass commercial appeal.
I seem to tick off many subjects and genre. I don’t just stick to one type or era. I have researched robots as a term but not exclusively, I seem to be equally interested in pirates or dragons. These all have a “cool” factor in the world of the visual creative fields such as comic book, film and video games. If i had to summarise as a genre it would be pop culture.
This would suggest to me it is that kind of community I would be looking to communicate with.
