Look around you and find your texture

The important skill for designers: Looking and learning from everyday things.
When you are trying to find an idea for your design or more particularly for your assignment such as Book cover, Flash project, ... where can you find ideas for this? Do you think you can go to bed, take a sleep and an idea will show up? It is impossible, or if it happens, lucky you , but only for this time, what is about the next time?
As the role of a designer, you certainly have a chance to use a texture for your design in your career. The easiest way is that you go to the internet to find some. However, these textures are made by other people and are used by many people in the world. So they don't have a particular style and they are easy to make viewers feel boring because they have seen them many times before. So you should have your own textures source.
So come back to the topic of this post. How can you find a idea, or texture, for your design. The only way is to go out, look around you, hear the sounds from everything and try to find news things from this. You are often blind with everday things and sometime you don't realize their existence. So the key is that you have to really open your eyes and other senses. Once you have done it, you will probably see many news things that you have never seen before. This time, the best way is to take a photograph or take some notes in your handbook.
I have applied this way recently and I choose the camera to record textures which I have found. Below are some of my pictures. This is not I am showing my skills or some things like that, I just want to share some experience:




I think you should think about that and if it is possible you can apply it in your design career. If you have decided to learn about design, please respect it and put strong efforts on it.