Do You Doodle?

Some people doodle out of boredom but doodling with a purpose is also a part of the design process (think thumbnail sketches). But whether you're bored or looking for inspiration there are some great doodles at doodlage. On my first visit I came away with tons of ideas. And it's not all doodling with a pen or pencil, there's also digi-doodling -- which is doodling on the computer. I've done that before but didn't know it had a name. Oh, and one of the posts lead me to the Flickr CDoodles Pool where some of the doodling is even done by scratching designs on a CD.

Doodle is a really funny word when you say it over and over again. And in reading doodlage I discovered all sorts of delightful new words and phrases. In addition to the aforementioned digi-doodling and CDoodles, there's advertdoodles, doodle-farmer, sneaker-doodle, animal doodlers (dogs and other pets who doodle), Labradoodles, DoodleEarth, scrapdoodling (that's doodling in scrapbooks), mole-doodle-skin (a moleskin notebook for doodling in), twig-doodles, out-doodles, doodlebuddy, and doodlishious to just name the first dozen I spotted. I'm still exploring the main blog and haven't even branched out to all the cool art, graphic design, and other sites linked throughout. Check it out. It's doodleriffic.