A thought came to me while I was driving home from work tonight. Somehow this correlated to design, but I don’t ask myself why I think of such things, I just type them down.
While I was driving down my usual back road which I travel to work, a dim light starting peering over the hill. Sure enought there was a car on its way toward me. As the their light began to brighten, I found myself turning my head to the right to find the white line on the roadside.
When my eyes found the white line, I remembered something that my father told me when driving in certain situations like this. He said,
“When your vision is being blocked by oncoming traffic, use the white line on the road side to be your guide.”
Of course now my brain was just trying to compute the relavance of the previous statement. Then I compared what I just said to design. This may be my unnoticed trend. My comparsion led me to this thought,
“When your vision is being blocked by creative challenges, use the fundamentals of design to be your guide.”
- Follow a Guide
So from here I have decided this to be my principle when working. When I am struggling for a concept, I will return my focus to basic fundamentals to build. This will keep me more focused on a process and will keep me from grasping for a great idea. Now creative ideas can be reached without grasping for them.
- Design
- 2/1/2006
- 9:39 pm