Eric Ellis & Tumblr

I'm a Chicago designer who graduated from Columbia College May 2010. I believe inspiration comes from unexpected places, and therefore it is necessary to look beyond the familiar to bring new ideas to light. This Tumblr allows me to record my discoveries in hopes of providing some nugget of truth or inspiration to the next fellow.

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Sachie Mekw is a Japanese photographer. There is an etherial thread running through her photos that I find very charming.

Posted Apr. 6 – 2012 / 2 Notes / Tagged: inspiration photo

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inaweise:

The 5 x 7 + Chicago series is finished!
5x7 books asked me to collaborate and From Here to There is what happened. They had to reformat to make it work for a giant mountain. Printed on beautiful French Newsprint it folds out to 7x20.

Check out the other books of this series by Debbie Carlos and Sonnenzimmer. And get your copies at 5x7books.com.

Posted Mar. 9 – 2012 / 4 Notes / Tagged: inspiration link

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“Native Detroiter Frank “SugarChile” Robinson! Child musical prodigy in the 1940’s, PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan in the 1960’s—still going strong at 73.”

(Source: youtube.com)

Posted Mar. 5 – 2012 / 1 Notes / Tagged: video music inspiration

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Hilarious coffee.

(Source: youtube.com)

Posted Mar. 2 – 2012 / 1 Notes / Tagged: inspiration

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I want to be a ceramist. I also want to live in Japan.

(Source: vimeo.com)

Posted Feb. 27 – 2012 / 3 Notes / Tagged: Inspiration Video

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I love this series by photographer Jake Stangel.

Jake Stangel Portfolio

Posted Feb. 16 – 2012 / 1 Notes / Tagged: inspiration

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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

Ernest Hemingway

Posted Feb. 10 – 2012 / 1 Notes / Tagged: words inspiration

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Great collection of vintage packaging design, very inspiring as the week’s end draws near.

AIGA Design Archives—Packaging Collection

Posted Jan. 27 – 2012 / 13 Notes / Tagged: inspiration

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Great cover of a great song. Dig those shades man.

Posted Jan. 26 – 2012 / 0 Notes / Tagged: music inspiration

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Rip it up.

Posted Jan. 24 – 2012 / 0 Notes / Tagged: inspiration music

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