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Canīt speak for all my fellow designers out there, but I believe as a designer you have to look constantantly, everywhere.
I do get my inspiration from all sorts of sources, be it technical or stylewise. I look in my wife's magazines. I listen to captains and crew folks to find out what they need and what is missing and then Iīm starting to look around where to find a solution to whatever problem. I look a lot at the car industry and analyse their technology (and actually, I did find out that the car industry might need some inspiration from us....)
Obviously, I do read various yacht magazines like Yacht Design, Boat International and Boote Exclusive, but that is rather obvious, isn't it? The important thing for any design is to keep his eyes open at all time, because theer is a chance of finding something useful around every corner. When I see something that catches my eye I try to keep a record of it (photo, weblink etc), thinking 'wow, that's cool... let's see how I could use that'.
Now I know there are a lot of designers out there that are very busy with client order projects, which are rarely suitable to introduce new technologies are radical ideas. Let's face it, the market is generally spoken rather conservative. On the other hand ( and I am not the only one) I love to work on portfolio projects and conceptual designs whenever time permits, and I find it very exciting to introduce stuff that you won't find in any other yacht design.
The bottom line is: Spread your ideas, either here in the forum or any other design oriented internet forum and do networking.... find people that support your ideas or people that know people... you know the deal.
Hope that did help at least a little bit... by the way... what's that idea you are so keen on introducing?
Best regards,
Christian
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