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Sep. 13th, 2010 11:22 pmI did some sketching today. I am not in love with anything yet, but I have an idea I have wanted to play with for a long time that is wiggling around on the periphery. I think I need to get working to see if it comes out, so I may jump to the computer and skip the sketching for a bit to see how it goes.
Can I just say that I love color? I mean I really love it. Big fields of rich, royal blue, glowing oranges, seething reds, shining yellows, sparkling greens. White and monochrome accents, overlays in various opacities, simple shapes just allowing the colors to be colors.
Maybe I have a clearish direction after all. :)
Can I just say that I love color? I mean I really love it. Big fields of rich, royal blue, glowing oranges, seething reds, shining yellows, sparkling greens. White and monochrome accents, overlays in various opacities, simple shapes just allowing the colors to be colors.
Maybe I have a clearish direction after all. :)
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Sep. 13th, 2010 09:01 amI couldn't sleep last night, so I got up and read a bit more about crowdfunding, and sketched ideas for a new site. I have, embarrassingly enough, not updated my site since I graduated from NAU in 2004. That's over 6 years, freelancing full time for more than half that time.
It's become rather silly.
So, anyway, I thought of what I wanted to do vs. what I thought people might want, and I am going to try doing what I think is cute and fun and inventive and enjoyable. Let me back up. Yesterday, I was just in the mood to soak up visual experiences, so I watched "Beautiful Losers" after "Helvetica". It was pretty great. A bunch of people did art, just because they wanted to, and did what they wanted, not what they thought people might like, and they were pretty wildly successful. I loved the work of the guy who did the Pepsi ads, with all the colorful animation. Fantastic stuff. He did that because he likes doing it. Aha!
Redesign, here we come, sketchbook and pencils in one hand, and "Don't Make Me Think" in the other. Wait, I won't do this without a deadline. Sketches by the 17th, digital mockups by the 22nd, something working by the end of the month, full redesign complete by October 15. That gives me enough time to do well and not enough to get bored and forget about it.
The other thing I am going to commit to is taking more photos. I have a great camera. Time to put it to use.
It's become rather silly.
So, anyway, I thought of what I wanted to do vs. what I thought people might want, and I am going to try doing what I think is cute and fun and inventive and enjoyable. Let me back up. Yesterday, I was just in the mood to soak up visual experiences, so I watched "Beautiful Losers" after "Helvetica". It was pretty great. A bunch of people did art, just because they wanted to, and did what they wanted, not what they thought people might like, and they were pretty wildly successful. I loved the work of the guy who did the Pepsi ads, with all the colorful animation. Fantastic stuff. He did that because he likes doing it. Aha!
Redesign, here we come, sketchbook and pencils in one hand, and "Don't Make Me Think" in the other. Wait, I won't do this without a deadline. Sketches by the 17th, digital mockups by the 22nd, something working by the end of the month, full redesign complete by October 15. That gives me enough time to do well and not enough to get bored and forget about it.
The other thing I am going to commit to is taking more photos. I have a great camera. Time to put it to use.
I watched the Helvetica movie this morning. It was very interesting. Most of the designers talked about Helvetica similarly when they were speaking about concrete qualities. It's everywhere, like air. It's ubiquitous, and perfectly legible. It's predictable, and used in a huge variety of contexts. When they started talking about preferences and beauty and choosing the "right" font for a project, they were wildly varied. Helvetica is beautiful and perfect in all contexts; Helvetica is overused, overdone, too pat, too easy, too default, uninteresting and uninspired.
Before watching it, I would almost never have considered Helvetica as a choice in any design project. After watching it, I still lean to the latter perspective, but I'd use it in some contexts. When you want that just-right balance that Myriad and Arial have tried to achieve but missed, Helvetica definitely has it.
Before watching it, I would almost never have considered Helvetica as a choice in any design project. After watching it, I still lean to the latter perspective, but I'd use it in some contexts. When you want that just-right balance that Myriad and Arial have tried to achieve but missed, Helvetica definitely has it.
Some interesting links I came across today:
Live cheaply and do what inspires you
http://www.commarts.com/insights/live-cheaply-what.html
Accepting the lack of control in the process
http://www.designobserver.com/observatory/entry.html?entry=4717
Creative process
http://www.lostgarden.com/2010/08/visualizing-creative-process.html
Live cheaply and do what inspires you
http://www.commarts.com/insights/live-cheaply-what.html
Accepting the lack of control in the process
http://www.designobserver.com/observatory/entry.html?entry=4717
Creative process
http://www.lostgarden.com/2010/08/visualizing-creative-process.html
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Sep. 12th, 2010 11:38 amI am here to talk about design, link to design stuff, share designs I do, and get feedback and other perspectives on all of the above.
Right now I am attempting to customize my shiny new DW account. I really want my icons on the left. I hope I am able to accomplish this.
Right now I am attempting to customize my shiny new DW account. I really want my icons on the left. I hope I am able to accomplish this.
