Another look into my design process

Hmmm… as I flip through my notes on my creative process I find it hard to decide what to post. The collection of notes, scribbles and thumbnails has become personal, almost like entries in a diary. Making these thoughts and ideas public is foreign to me. I’ll give it a try.

So as my previous post states, I need time to think, procrastinate, and think a little more before I start a project. It’s the way that I pump myself up, because when it’s actually time to work the ideas typically flood out (not always, but often). With this project I went over the idea of prologue and how I could show that visually. Complex illustrations were considered. But then I took a step back and wondered what I could come up with if I tried something completely new. Something without illustration, something modern, something simple. I’ve grown to hate when people present their work by saying, “I just wanted to create something clean and simple.” So I hate using the word now. SIMPLE, blah. A better word would be uncomplicated. There now I feel better.

My uncomplicated design came from hours of listening, watching, observing and interpreting. I wont say what I watching or listening to, as that would be sharing too much of my diary-like notes, and I can’t have that! Once I made a decision on the design I was excited to get started. With many other design projects I often will start working on an idea and then change my mind, often more than once. However this time, with the limited amount of time we have I decided to stick with the idea and see it through. During the actual designing I tend to work non-stop for extended periods of time OR I tend to do a little and then busy myself with something else, then return. Well that’s about all that I can share at this time. At this point I feel as if I have seen the word prologue so many times that I keep thinking I’m spelling it incorrectly. Does anyone else have that feeling?