Developing an aesthetic?
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- formcounterform
At what stage in your creative development did you sort of come into some sort of developed aesthetic or style?
Did you intentionally seek this out or did it sort of just happen for you?
- lvl_130
i don't really feel that i have one. i'm not sure if that is good or bad, but i do feel that if you try and seek out a style for yourself it usually turns out to be a one trick pony type of hoop you throw yourself into
- nocomply0
No aesthetic. I only rip people.
- doesnotexist0
ask nopattern
- Soler0
seems like designers who have an emphasis on illustration would have 1 or a couple styles
print designers tend to develop many styles to please many clients
- version30
i won't do it, if i find myself doing something too often, i switch.
- formcounterform0
soler thanks for pointing that out. as a student i love to look at many designers' work and you are right the ones that are more illustrative are the ones that i have noticed tend to have a firm style.
- ********0
imo, you achieve a style solving particular graphical problems and creating your own solutions to it. otherwise it's an adaptation (or rip) of some previous style.
- M0NEYCIDE0
i take in so many ideas they practically spawn their own ideas based on my technical / artistic ability...sometimes it points the way to where i could expand. aesthetically i approach a project with a few of those ideas and work the shit out of them. like the first time i used photoshop i knew i had to make a photo montage so i learned the tools i needed just to do that and worked and reworked montages until i'd say i have an aesthetic that is with me for ever, i have serveral MAJOR projects based around a technique i created the first few times with photoshop
viola one of my first that paved the way for a tonne o shit, and it's only getting better
- a_iver0
For a while I tried to force myself to make one and it didn't work out so well, so I gave up and tried to do what seemed to fit best for each project. After thinking about it for a while I started to realize I already have a natural style that kind of expands depending on what I need it for. I just combine all the things and ideas I've always thought were really cool and use them when I need them.. So I guess it's not really an aesthetic written in stone, but an acknowledgement of what I like and knowing when it can be useful and when it's irrelevant. Then again I'm just a wee lad. Narf!
- johndiggity0
it's good to be uncomfortable while you are working. outside of our comfort zone where the magic happens.
- st33d0
Old work:
New work:
What is this 'style' you speak of?
- madirish0
johndiggity speaks the truth for real.
welcome, invite, coax, hunt for, and harbor that experience of uncomfort as you are working. it is on that knife edge, that in one breathe what couldn't come out of oneself before, becomes the only plausible solution known in the next.
please cherish the time when you are uncertain about your creative and what you design, you will most likely not have that feeling again. it is a wonderful time.