Your Creative/Design Process
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- threadpost
If you were to give a presentation as to what your creative process might be, what kind of stuff would you say? What is your process?
Let's assume you're working with a new client, the brief is wide open and there are no tight deadlines or budgets.
How do you start? What sort of photography are you looking for, where do you look? Same with type? Do you look at design portals for inspiration, which ones? Are there other designers you look to for inspiration, which ones? Is there a base grid structure you follow? Just curious to know if anyone follows a regiment when they're working on new projects? It seems my approach is different every time for every project and I wonder if by streamlining that approach, if I could become better and more efficient.
Let the wise cracks begin!
- capsize0
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- and then share from Randcapsize
- and I'm the johnny-come-lately to that print partycapsize
- you just browse ffffound until you feel inspired? do you ever feel you're just rehashing your inspiration? sometimes I worry about thatthreadpost
- about thatthreadpost
- everything is a rehash of something else, so as long as you get paid...Milan
- digdre0
i just start.
- doesnotexist0
idea, draw, refine refine refine, and one more round of refining.
- 5timuli0
1. Look for fonts I don't have
2. Fuck around in Illustrator for a few hours with alternative fonts
3. Design and redesign grids for six weeks in InDesign
4. Finish job
5. Do initial concepts and sketchesIn that order. Oh, and if I'm bored I click the desktop and tap control, shift, command and alt to make it sound like I'm busy.
- monospaced0
I like to think about it for a few days, get inspiration in new books or just everyday life (you'd be surprised how many good ideas come from just walking around). Eventually I start creating a visual "toolbox" of images and type and it goes on a wall. The design process begins after that point, when I'm surrounded by the collected thoughts and visuals from the thinking and research phase. I find design to be easier once this has happened, and you don't stray too far from the brief, as long as your research is relevant to it. Hope that helps.
- thank you for your well written and thought out response, it does help.threadpost
- Amen0
THINK Out-Of-Box
- what shape is the box? is it coated? flexo printed?doesnotexist
- that comment is now "in the box"monospaced
- MrDaro0
1. Read brief
2. Charge 50% upfront
3. Wait till last minute
4. Submit draft
5. Finish job and final invoice.
- digdre0
Think about something, when you came up with how to make it, do it the other way.
- ukit0
I simply browse other QBN members' portfolios looking for material to use.
- MrDaro0
ok, seriously now.
1. Read brief and try to get as much info as possible on the job.
2. Sketch, sketch, sketch, all my ideas on paper.
3. Polish up some proposals.
4. Submit.
5. Finish final draft.
- mg330
1. Drink Jameson
2. Stuff
3. What?
4. Beers
5. Bedtime
- monNom0
1) open photoshop and knock it out fo the park.
2) capitulate.
- jevad0
1. Research
2. Research
3. ResearchDiscovery, design, refine, refine, refine, develop, deliver.
- hey dude, I haven't seen your name around these parts much anymorethreadpost
- new job means little time for slacking off!jevad
- threadpost0
good stuff, any others?...bump...
- ninjasavant0
- bloody hilarious. not sure if you're trying to mock me with this, but its funny.threadpost
- no mocking, just the appropriate thread for itninjasavant
- haha_salisae_
- epete220
I use the easy button