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- zedvox
pretty interesting.
what do you do as a designer to keep up with the game?
and i do not mean crappy design trends like drips and deers.
What do you read? observe? think?
to keep yourself inspired and keep a watch on consumer trends and wants?
- -leah-0
GODDAMIT! whats wrong with deers already?!?!?!?
they are pretty!!!
- versa0
travel as much as possible, study history and art movements, walk teh university in town, keep skateboarding
- brandelec0
sit on the toilet and read comic books (at the same time)
- e-pill0
i read comic books of spider-man and transformers
- zedvox0
travel and reading do that to me.
i've found my best concepts have come out of reading lit and philosophy.while we are at whats a good book to read ( besides spider man comics :) )
- DutchBoy0
looking at other work, architecture, products, tallking to people, looking at people, knowing people..
THEN:
evaluate. (very important)
find out what mess entered your head and filter it to get closer to the essence of what you create.
- DutchBoy0
although comic books are nice, i never really found a solid link to design (as in applied design for people..)..
- DutchBoy0
unless you lay-out comic books ofcourse..
- JazX0
magazines and this place
ohh and consulting with the almighty zedvox
- sireal0
Drip are fine!!!! know your sh*t first... A lot of Good graphic designers and artists I know have come from a graffiti background, so get fact right...futura 2000, deph, kinsey the list goes on... If looks good and does the job what the prob?
- blackspade0
Words from Josua Davis...
"I believe that inspiration and ideas are never on short supply - I think it's a matter of disciplining yourself to see things differently every time... no matter how mundane or familiar the situation might be.
For example... When I moved to New York 1992 I had never ridden a subway. I was in total enlightenment that I got to take this underground rollercoaster (the closest thing comparable to the feeling I had) everyday for $1.25. However over a period of a few months I become like every other New Yorker, half asleep on the train as it merely takes me from point A. to point B. How did something so exciting become so mundane ?
Complacency. I had closed my eyes to seeing this experience like I did for the first time.
So... there are a million little scenarios, movements, forms, paths, and systems at play all around us - I've just gotten really good at seeing things, writing them down, assessing the limitations of the technology I use and trying to recreate them."
- zedvox0
aaah...
never was the religious kind JazX.almighty to me have always been moments like good conversations with a friend , the feeling you get when you cook a wonderful meal , the lil things you knw.....
gawd i sound ghey.
- e-pill0
i never thought of riding the MTA as a roller coster...thats inspiration to design a new line!
ok time to jet a co-werker is quiting today so drinks it is
- RIZ0
Great response Blackspade - I agree - complacency can be one of the hugest creative-killers, but it also gives one an opportunity to have amazing realisations, which may not have come about unless you had become almost mundanely comfortable in a situation.
- blackspade0
yea its exactly how i feel
u need to constantly be aware of your surroundings
the art of looking sideways
- rasko40
I used to do freelance for WGSN, which is basically the biggest online trend bible for the industry (so they say), I used to make t-shirt designs and they would suggest colour schemes, then when I would submit stuff they would totally fuck shit up and make it all look shite.. I chose not to work for them cos I could see how sappy it was of any kind of scene, raped of creativity for whatever some dumb fuck thought was the \next thing'.
These people predominately didn't know what the fuck they were on about ( in my exp) .. low paid lameness.
- rasko40
thats http://www.wgsn.com in case you cared...
no offence to who I dealt with btw! I just dont agree :)
- DutchBoy0
omg, rasko? not kidding?
Worth Global Style Network?
I heard so many bad shit about them..
- DutchBoy0
many = much..
- RIZ0
damn that book was a good read! This brings me back to my main idea for my final project at design school - CAMOUFLAGE. It was essentially a study of how we percieve public places as boring and mundane, camouflaged by the normality of routine. What more can be done to make public spaces, or even our own spaces areas of constant inspiration and thought?