Just like writing, it takes a process to get familiar with the subject you want to write about, or you can write down nothing. This is similar with design, after your ideas keep popping up around the subjects you are familiar with, there will be calls for you to drag them out of the your own universe, and connect those ideas to reality through drawing them down on a piece of paper. This is our call as designers. We are familiar with the creative process, we know what’s going on with the subjects. Then, what we need the most is action.
Your passion might keep burning you, and that heat won’t last long if you do not take it seriously. Distractions includes checking on phones, paying bills, or mopping floor… We know we have a lots of other things going on, but if we don’t put design as our top priority, who else will? And jotting down your design ideas is the first step of the design process.
“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.” Rick Rubin once said. (The Creative Act: A Way of Being)
You might or might not mind that somebody else presents that idea ahead of you, but I am sure it is the proper move to be proactive if you take your profession seriously.
If a writer should jot down the ideas to put in his/her writing later, jotting down the sketches of your design ideas is the same technique for designer. It is that habit of idea collection makes the different between you and other designers. It is that habit who will keep your mind interacting to graphic ideas, which will train your brain more sensitive to the surrounding world. It is that habit keeps working on your subconscious mind, which should support you when the similar phenomenon happens again.
I keep a handy sketch notebook with me, then I can write or draw things down when my ideas pop up. Or just grab whatever like a sticky note around when my sketch book is not around. Whichever way you do doesn’t matter, getting the ideas out of your mind matters.
Just like writing, it takes a process to get familiar with the subject you want to write about, or you can write down nothing. This is similar with design, after your ideas keep popping up around the subjects you are familiar with, there will be calls for you to drag them out of the your own universe, and connect those ideas to reality through drawing them down on a piece of paper. This is our call as designers. We are familiar with the creative process, we know what’s going on with the subjects. Then, what we need the most is action.
Your passion might keep burning you, and that heat won’t last long if you do not take it seriously. Distractions includes checking on phones, paying bills, or mopping floor… We know we have a lots of other things going on, but if we don’t put design as our top priority, who else will? And jotting down your design ideas is the first step of the design process.
“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.” Rick Rubin once said. (The Creative Act: A Way of Being)
You might or might not mind that somebody else presents that idea ahead of you, but I am sure it is the proper move to be proactive if you take your profession seriously.
If a writer should jot down the ideas to put in his/her writing later, jotting down the sketches of your design ideas is the same technique for designer. It is that habit of idea collection makes the different between you and other designers. It is that habit who will keep your mind interacting to graphic ideas, which will train your brain more sensitive to the surrounding world. It is that habit keeps working on your subconscious mind, which should support you when the similar phenomenon happens again.
I keep a handy sketch notebook with me, then I can write or draw things down when my ideas pop up. Or just grab whatever like a sticky note around when my sketch book is not around. Whichever way you do doesn’t matter, getting the ideas out of your mind matters.
Peifolio 