yes- make time and go for it!
I commented on Soz's painting once before - I think it is very good and you should do more Soz.
jpinMilwaukee wrote:
It is a tale of two personalities for me.
As a graphic designer (my profession) I like things orderly. My job is to solve a problem and communicate information. As an artist I like things down and dirty. I like to get ink on my hands and paint under my fingernails.
Subject matter depends as well. I find art that tries to convey a message trite and contrived. I may put my feelings into a piece but I don't care, or want, the person viewing it to understand what I was doing. I want them to take their own meaning from it... and sometimes there is no meaning. Sometimes a picture of two pine cones is just a picture of two pine cones.
yes, I can understand this - I feel the same about graphic design and art. There is that backlash from designers that "art" should not cross over into Graphic Design - but it happens more and more as people go back to hand illustration. I like to get paint all over me too!
by the way, I had a terrible block while in my last job and (it seems sad in hindsight, but it worked for me), I read "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. It gives you excercises to loosen up your brain, clear the crap that is in there blocking it... it mentions God alot, so, if you are not that way inclined don't be put off. I admit I didn't do all the excercises, like going on my own to movies or exhibition's for a certain amount of time (I would have never seen anyone I cared about in my life, always at work...)
But it is good, if you can do it. Stopped me turning into a complete font recognising cauliflower.
benconservato wrote:Stopped me turning into a complete font recognising cauliflower.
Ha! My wife is a GD as well... we are always playing "Guess that Font."
Thanks for the suggestion... I'll give it a try.
it really is beyond control - I read this forum once where GD's mentioned that they have this bad habit of matching PMS colours with everyday life... thought that was excessive
benconservato wrote:it really is beyond control - I read this forum once where GD's mentioned that they have this bad habit of matching PMS colours with everyday life... thought that was excessive
Ha! I work with some one who found PMS colors they liked and took those to the paint store to match. She taped them to the inside of a business card and stuck it in her wallet so that when ever she needs to match colors for the house she has them.
It really is a sad disease though. When we go to the movies we critique the beginning credits a smuch as we critique the movie itself. When we go out to eat we notice that the left justification is to close to the paper fold. We notice bad spacing and improper tracking in random signs or logos. I even use the label design as the deciding factor when I can't decide between two bottles of wine. Yeah guess you could say it gets a bit excessive.
my man does the wine label thing - he keeps having crazy conversations with disinterested French people (he is French too mind you, but ruined by Australia), about how fabulous the wine bottle labels are in Australia "How creative and innovative"
- yawning French people. I
like to see how many fonts someone has decided to use on one thing, like a menu.
It is indded a disease!