How do you guys do it?
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Myself, I can produce really top notch stuff, and I can also just as easily make some crap. That is why I am now a portrait/wedding photographer. You can recycle the same look/feel at least 2 or 3 times because the subject brings something new each time.
Def can't make a career of design that way. Seems like each piece needs to break new ground. I am seriously amazed by you guys that can design mostly awesomeness 24/7. How do you do it?
- jfletcher0
I'm not sure anyone can make awesome designs 24/7.... the people who probably look like they do just work 24/7
:)
- TheScientist0
I'm not claiming to do amazing work at the moment, but I think being able to create something new each time keeps it interesting.
- orrinward0
I use the Stone Coker method. If you're in a slump, just use other peoples work and Photoshop your name onto it. Some people frown on this method of artistic practise, but it really is a great way to throw out good work in very little time.
- Also, Template Monster will save your skin in a pinch, just ask this scroogeken guy.Continuity
- hahaha Mr stone Know his stuff.pillhead
- Projectile0
When I'm stuck, I often attempt to copy someone else. But fortunately it's impossible to as it always ends up being completely different... but I just needed the starting block. I usually change designs a few times so it'll inevitably become its own thing. I suppose that's what some people refer to as inspiration... others might still call it mild plagiarism. I don't really care.
- dMullins0
Batesole that shit, dude.
- vaxorcist0
Making good work that CLIENTS PAY FOR is much harder than just making great work that awards committees love....
I'm in awe of some great portrait/wedding work sometimes, but much of it has that weird stench of vanity.... i.e. it's been done to please the client tooooo much!
- autoflavour0
crack cocaine
- doublespaced0
Listen.
- georgesIII0
I rarely get paid to design awesomness,
I can honestly say 80% of my work is pretty shitty btl,
but it pays the bills,
the other 15% is divided in cool non paying freelance where I get to do whatever I want but don't get a cent for itand the last 5% are awesome atl projects that take months to finish, that pay well but are often pretty stressful.
pick two
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- Always perplexes me this diagram. As I understand it you can have two and the one left is forsaken. So you can have Good and cheap (but not fast)? So someone can expect you to work for a year and pay £5?..a bit lostbabaganush
- and Cheap but not fast? So you can have a years worth of work at the highest level for £5?babaganush
- this diagram actually devalues the logic of the good, fast, cheap theoryd_rek
- d_rek0
The magic comes out of the tip.
- Hombre_Lobo_20
"we do it in the dark with smiles on our faces"
- Hombre_Lobo_20
Get away from your computer, the best ideas come when thinking away from the screen for me. Get away from design blogs.
Go for walks. Be inspired by things not associated with desgn.
universal everything produce some if the Most varied work. None of the work really has a similar style. Matt pyke who is universal everything says in interviews he doesn't look at design blogs or design mags. He gets inspired by newscientist and national geographic more than anything else.
- doublespaced0
"You can recycle the same look/feel at least 2 or 3 times because the subject brings something new each time."
This actually applies to design as well. You're making two assumptions that aren't exactly true. One, you think we create awesomeness all the time. Two, that it's always original. The fact is that most good doesn't even go through, and we are always using new "looks and feels" that we are inspired by all the time.
- Brownjohn0
plus, hardly anybody agrees on what good is
- Taupedick0
People don't show their non-awesome stuff. It's all a sales gimmick. Sometimes you're selling to the customer, sometimes you're selling to your peers, the rest of the time you're selling to yourself.
- horton0
i like that...
Mostly Awesomeness, 24/7™
- vaxorcist0
Design Awesomeness seems inversely related to business desperation.... both your own and your clients....
