Deeezigne Lost and Found

A very visual 2006 in commercial art

Seeing the web, software, and technolgy as new again. We have more accessible, informative, interactive, and animated designs.

But...no one speaks of the under current that frustrates designers. - making designs that everyone is used to seeing. I think it sounds like this...

"Can you make it like this site, magazine, or illustration"

or should I say trendy design.

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As designers we all have had "the one" design that broke the mold, jumped outside of the box and shocked you into staying up till 3 am to finish it. You were sure this was thee design that would wake up all of the other designers trapped into making carbon copied designs. Portfolio, laptop, CD, DVD, flash drive in hand you strutted into work like John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever."

You were sure it was the piece that would start a national design uprising. But it got shot down, stomped and maybe even laughed at. Too much color, not usable, goal not understood or correctly conveyed. And that is very ok. You worked hard, don't let it get you down. You stayed true to your design heart. ORIGINAL is better! And failure CREATES new growth and thinking. Maybe inspiration too.

We all have do it. Swallow our tongue, bite our lip...whatever. Why? Because we have higher gas prices, internet, cable/DSL, and college loans. Did I forget about parenting suprises or car parts?

This is not a complaint about what is out there in designs, it's more of a celebration of creative thinking out loud. Even if we have to design like this or that...we at least get to design something. (It sure beats workin in a hot kitchen in the middle of summer!)

So dig through your old design folders. Pull out those pieces that still make you excited and work on them some more. Like watering a plant - watch your design grow branches toward new ways of visual production. The growth will keep you from becoming a predictable designer that is content on copying trendy art.

It WILL develop your creativity into a mastery of artistic independence.

This is why we became designers in the first place.


Right?








...right?