Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Vince Baer - Reading 2
This chapter interested me completely. I find it hard to sometimes come up with the ideas needed for a project if i am not completely inthralled with the actual assignment. I have heard the term brain storming used very loosely and in classes we are left to let our minds wonder. There is so much more to brainstorming than just sitting around hitting your head with a pencil, the hint is use the pencil. Put it to paper. Write down everything. The idea of keeping a brain storming file is a great idea for all of the unused works created, this would help me even spark ideas for a new brainstorming project. Adding onto the chapter on Brainstorming is the idea of everything is everywhere. The design life is so much easier with a database, sources, etc. This helps begin the process of coming up with successful ideas for design. I think of all the designs I find myself drawn to and it is a wide ray of ideas, "things," and thought; so the best designers grab from a wide variety of what the universe offers. The connection of universer and con-designer is another eye opener. At times working with partners can be hard and annoying, but both artists have difference experiences that channel their creative eye, when the two minds come together for creating/designing the results can be amazing. The more experiences an artist/artists have help connection more viewers to the overall ideas the piece offers for interpretation.
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I agree with your statement that the best designers find inspiration in everything. In order to create the most effective and successful designs, one must find the tiniest details so inspiring. Whether it be the texture of a surface or the color of a fruit at the Farmer’s Market, the world has so much to offer in the department of inspiration. If a designer learns to take advantage of the constant influx of inspiration, then ideas will flow freely. Additionally, I feel that no matter how much inspiration one can holster inside their heads, the ideas are nothing until you get them into tangible form. As a result of this thought process, I also agree with your direct instructions to write everything down on paper. It is amazing to see how such minute alterations in one’s approach to the creative process can alter the outcome of a project so drastically.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your view on brainstorming. The word has been thrown around so much with not much emphasis given on what exactly it is. Some of the ideas presented in the second chapter on how to brainstorm in new and exciting offer a great way to inspire more work for future projects. I really like the idea of brain dumping, where one can just jot down several random ideas in an isolated amount of time and can either compile those images to make one great piece or can even save the doodles to inspire later projects. This way one can be both sufficient and time consuming and come up with great ideas in more of a fun way.
ReplyDeleteI agree, brainstorming can become so board that sometimes it can be hard to pinpoint a starting point to acquire inventive ideas. Therefore, this chapter was so helpful, but it was almost systematic in the matter it explain a design could brainstorm or can inspiration.
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