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.
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