Did you ever have a favorite childhood story? Ever needed to create a palette and lacked the inspiration? While at working searching for Wizard of Oz fans, I came across this entry on Colour Lovers about the color palette behind the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz printed in 1900."The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was an innovative book not least because of the twenty four full colour plates and myriad monochromatic illustrations in which the colour changed according to the location in the story (Kansas = grey, Emerald City = green and so on). With the illustrative vignettes often encroaching on the text area, the type was cleverly printed over the top of the coloured images" (BiblioOdyssey). (BiblioOdyssey is another great blog about illustrations in general)
It just shows that inspiration can come from anywhere. An illustration from 1900 can still be relevant to what you design today.
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