How do I create?

I am a person who uses creativity and design to shape my life. I create by using what I see from the world around me. I use my creativity in my art to experiment with different materials and styles and I carried that over into my design by using different colours and fonts. 

While watching the TED talk video I was reminded of my time in high school when I was forced to take things such as math and science more than I wanted. I'm not a strong mathematical or scientific thinker so I struggled through my years in school. I couldn't wait for my classes of visual and computer arts, it was what I was best at. I agreed with Ken in everything he said and I do wish arts were accepted more. I knew that the arts weren't as accepted but hearing it from Ken, it seemed to sink in more and I realized just how bad it really was. 

After the TED talk video and while discussing our opinions I noticed that we had all written down the same quote. "If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything creative." We are all taught that being wrong is bad and so growing up we were too afraid to speak our minds. I know I was, and still am. It's something I need to over come. In school everything is focused around our marks that we're afraid to try something that might be wrong in fear of getting a bad mark. Even in college we're hesitant to try something daring because if it's wrong, we fail and if we fail, we don't get jobs. It's a cruel cycle. 

Being a creative person, I have to keep ideas flowing and hearing suggestions from the 100 Habits of Successful Designers gave me some new ideas. My favourite suggestion was looking at the everyday world for inspiration. I related to it the most because it's what I do when I need to think up new ideas. From designs of water/salt on the subway floor to other designers work. I take it all in, and it really influences what I create.

All the suggestions given tied together with looking at the everyday world. Reading, traveling, holding conversations and changing my environment are all involved with looking at the world around me. 

Quote of the week:

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

-Albert Einstein

Design Is...

Design is creating ideas through philosophy, propaganda, science, storytelling and craft. It's about coming up with a solution based on needs and communicating the solution of those needs to the target audience. 

This is how ideas, thoughts, messages or opinions are distributed to audiences. It can make people feel or think a certain way, It can help them make decisions on buying products or services and it can get people to think another way. 

This is all created by knowing the audience, knowing their needs and wants and giving that to them in either a straight forward or subconscious manner.

Design isn't just ads and posters, it's so much more. It's everywhere. Clothing, buildings, products, technology, furniture, interiors, cities, countries even to how humans ourselves are designed, we couldn't function without design. The world would fall apart.

I chose to be a designer because I love to be creative. I love everything there is about design from coming up with an idea to executing said idea. I couldn't picture myself doing anything else, being creative is what motivates me. I want to design work that would inspire other people like designers inspire me. 

When I design, I feel great about myself, like this is what I'm supposed to do with my life. I want to see my work and be proud of it, I don't want to have to regret it each time I see it. When I see exceptional design I feel inspired and I want to go home and draw or paint. 

Even though there's a difference between art and design I still like to go back and forth between the two and create something truly amazing. 

Quote of the week:

"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus." 

- David Hockney