Nguyen and Block were inspired to launch Framed after realizing that the data models they made to help companies improve user retention were cost-prohibitive for smaller developers.
Just as Mr. Cameron's character seeks God's help, Alex Kendrick said that in 2005 "we were praying for an idea, and I was jogging around the block and was inspired to do a movie inspired by marriage".
The next block, Theros, was inspired by classical Greek themes especially the epic struggle of heroes against monsters.
Devoid as they are of nostalgia, kids won't really appreciate that the mustache included in the new wooden block set PlayShapes was inspired by Sgt. Pepper, nor that the toy has echoes of Alexander Girard, Enzo Mari and midcentury advertising illustrations.
The pants served as the underpinning for a series of lean, almost tuniclike dresses, whose graphic, asymmetrical color blocking, she said, was inspired by the work of Ellsworth Kelly and Kazimir Malevich.
Ms. Mizrachi, who started teaching this month at the Hi-ARTS organization in East Harlem, developed a curriculum built around "The Block," a six-panel piece created by Mr. Bearden in 1971 that was inspired by the block where he lived on Lenox Avenue.
ShapeKit was inspired by building blocks and vintage Colorforms, but its creators don't rely solely on skeumorphism to make ShapeKit engaging.
Ms. Jacobs's vision of the ideal city was inspired by her own block of nearby Hudson Street.
"Geometry is the starting point," says Azagury-Partridge, was was inspired by grade-school building blocks.
We chose Chester Jenkins's submission, which was inspired by children's alphabet blocks.
