...and it made me think.
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Great points Dave.
I guess I just wonder to what a length a critique really extends into the creative process. I understand that where design is communication you need to make sure that the communication has occured. I know that in school critiques were helpful, I always learned alot about how others percieve visual material and which elements they are attaracted to. Sharing of information and views is an important thing, but which information should be taken and truly listened to? What I witnessed in school was a learning process where through practice each student learned to commincate visually in a natural instinctive nature, presenting through methods they understand. The critique became a stage where we witnessed the progress of each persons act of stripping away their own false ideas about design, or other peoples ideas about design that were emulated without understanding them. The successful stripping process is not a direct reaction of adhereing to the ideas presented in a critique, but rather a learning process within the subject where they begin to realize that the elements of their design that hinder them are the elements that were placed without knowledge of how they work, and without questioning why they were placed there to begin with. I don't think that this realisation is the result of a crtique, I think that a critique promotes a sense of tail chasing, where the subject is taught to accept that the answer to good design lies in somebody elses opinion. The subject then limits their ability to do what they would instinctively or know how to do and instead get caught in seeking the opinions of others, adhering without understanding.
I guess it's different for each of us. Ultimately I just enjoy thinking and talking about stuff like this.