Software excitement and inspirations

It's been a while. I get into phases where I'm not very talkative or social, just ask anyone who has ever lived with me how often I hole myself up in my own room and do my own thing completely ignoring other people. It doesn't help that I have been busy applying for jobs with a new found desperation, and reading up on InDesign. Guys! InDesign is a pretty awesome program! It's one of those programs that reading a book on how to use it actually makes me smile with excitement! Not because I'm a computer geek, because I'm not, but because I'm a design geek, and the possibilities it offers are exciting! How did I live so long with just Photoshop? It's an awesome layout program, all the nifty stuff you can do with text and graphics and layers! And you can create multipage files! And save as multipage pdfs! Yay! And if you're a seasoned photoshop user, the interface and the logic is very easy to learn. I actually made a new portfolio and other stuff with it before even reading the book! Back in the very very beginning when I first installed it a couple of months ago, and had only seen a couple of informative tutorials on the web, I made a little portfolio of inspirations for a job application. Sometimes when applying for architecture practices they can ask for the damnedest things. This particular practice had asked for five things that inspire us architecturally. This is what I came up with: > > > > >