Your wallpaper is a reflection of your mood.

And it affects your productivity.

Sensory response, through vision, can invoke a sense of emotion. Like seeing an advertisement at the subway as we wait for our train to come, those L.E.D’s are silently doing their job of communicating an idea, a concept into our brain’s subconscious. One that would later be recalled as a moment of deja vu; later when we do come into contact with the advertised product, not being able to recall exactly where and how we came to associate the image of happiness with dishwashing liquid.

It’s these similar tactics, that we employ every day — without realising directly of how it has a subtle impact on our mood.

A rough day at work, only to look to your phone screen as it flashes another notification; revealing a photograph of a loved one or a scenic view that brightens your mood, elevates it, through minor sensory response.

A photograph of a sportsman experiencing an adrenaline rush, the current desktop background of my computer at the moment; one of Nigel Sylvester.