Intricate animation

I found this today. Totally proves that if you have a great idea and do it properly then beautiful things can be created..

take a look

Misguided for Life:

I am watching Design for Life and am very interested by Philippe Starck's comments that the students are lazy and are not quick in their thoughts for fresh innovative designs. His colleagues were amazed at the amounts of preliminary researching ie printing off reams from the internet and making copious and extensive notes.

I believe that this is in the main a product of the way we are schooled in the UK. Certainly during my education the focus was on the process rather than finalising a design. Coming up with a good idea and then fitting a project around this was always frowned upon but sometimes it is the initial flash of inspiration which holds the answer.

I have lost count of the number of times I have returned to my original idea after slogging it out for hours only to find that I have killed the over developed tangent of the idea.

We should stop worrying about picking up the marks for our grades by long laboured thought processes. Instead we should relax and look to the ideas that naturally appear in our mind and let them grow organically.

get going:

I decided today that this would be my motto, a collection of phrases to live by for the time being to boost me into action. I need to get focussed and crack on with what needs to be done. No more getting distracted by analysing some detail in a photo or whether I should use 67% or 68% cyan in that poster. The future starts now.

I found this image earlier and it made me feel so motivated that I will use it as the first image on this my first ever blog post.

The text reads:

We designers, who art in employment
Hallowed be thy Studio name
Thy clients will come
Thy briefs will be done
On time as it is in budget
Give us this day more glorious ideas
And forgive us our inferior ones
As we forgive those who practice bad typography
And lead us not into complaint
(over long hours and low pay)
But deliver us that Black Pencil
For thine is the Studio, the Mac, and the Adobe
For ever and ever
Amen