inspiration + creative process
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- Salarrue
Do you have any ritual to get inspired? When your boss/clients demand for fresh ideas; how do you squeeze your brain and get them?
- JSK0
If there is a big project that I am passionate about, I go through every magazines that I have from 1996 to now.
- JSK0
And I find something that I can rip from.
- utopian0
the book store seems to work well
- ukit0
Sometimes I just stop thinking about the problem and go for a walk or something. Then hours later I find that the answer just hits me.
- utopian0
I always go throught the dozen or so PDFs on: candycollective.com
- MrOneHundred0
First I panic.
I start panicking 1/2 way through the brief so I miss the most important bits.
Then I go to ffffound for a couple of days. After which I become wracked with creative guilt and then I try to quickly formulate the solution in my head (impossible).
I panic again, wasting yet another day.
The next morning, I desperately scribble out a few ideas on paper and sit on here for the rest of the day.
The next day I start worriedly recreating those sketches into presentable files.
The next day I get my boss to have a look over them and convince me that some of them aren’t too bad.
Present to client.
Receive PowerPoint file from client showing a little idea they’ve worked up themselves. Copy and paste that file into Illustrator, convert to CMYK.
Done!
- you are DEFINITELY ready to go out on your own._salisae_
- Ha! I think you might be right.MrOneHundred
- lol - goldsikma
- _salisae_0
usually i try to think really hard – with a furrowed brow and a chewy pencil then i forget about everything, suddenly remember and begin doing something i like. repeat until satisfied.
- MrOneHundred0
I definitely suffer for my “art”.
- was it a wank-related injury?Peter
- I prefer the term "self-help-related".MrOneHundred
- jevad0
I make the jnr designers here stay late till they come up with something good, then I present it to the client as my own idea, take all the credit, give it back to the jnr's to work up, and fuck off on a well deserved holiday after it's all done.
- I am at an earlier point in a similar career arc to you. See above.MrOneHundred
- Get back to work then - I need that concept first thing in the amjevad
- HAHAHA.
* Apple-Tab back to Quake IIMrOneHundred - sad existence_salisae_
- His or mine? Cos I gotta tell you baby, I am very, very happy.jevad
- me too. it’s just work. and I don’t really play quake there.MrOneHundred
- KwesiJ0
i go on youtube and search key words
- NONEIS0
I buy new music. New, meaning, new to me (not new contemporary).
- Not_Just_Another0
I've created an 'inspiration' folder on my desktop where I grab and keep anything that I think looks cool/interesting etc and whenever I'm presented with a brief, I always scan through that first.
It's much quicker than scanning magazines, and you can always add screengrabs of websites instead of hunting them down through your browser favourites list.
BTW - Adobe Bridge comes into its own when scanning through these kinds of folders :-)
- FallowDeer0
I try and get as much info about what the client wants, the place I work has a method where non of the designers are EVER involved in any client meetings. Boss comes back with the work and we produce something we think is right, but infact is a million miles away from what the client wants.
Repeat that process around 3 times before our boss actually decides we need to talk to the client and find out what they want.