On emptiness or creative apathy - part 2
And how does that relate to the previous post? What is the point of personal reminiscing and Graphic Design?
Worthwhile questions, Ill will come back to the concept (or lack ), even because I was not really fair in only mentioning the influence of two friends, this is done more or less chronologically in relation to my Design work experiences.
The thing was that I had at the time of moving to the UK two main drives:
-The settled kind of thing still present (friend 1), and with this a careful methodological approach, in learning a thing at the time, in a pleasant manner, where design was or at least felt like an art, and that made me feel like an artist. This is the main drive for most designers, and I have nothing against this state of mind, except it lacks a lot of real world output.
-The innovative and technological approach (friend2). This is real business, the spirit of enterprise I have always had, that fell asleep a bit because of the art thing. This might have been the very state of mind that caused me to take the academic path of Art-Graphic Design-Multimedia-IT.
The thing about travelling/relocating that can to a great point defeat the creative spirit, is the Studio premises factor. A real studio is important to work. By constantly relocating this need is severely affected, and although sometimes it is advantageous to go away and sketch and photograph in a holyday in some inspiring environment, the truth is that professional work only gets finished in a proper studio environment.
In my personal case, because of my blend of skills, my studio is more of an IT lab, and I often mention the word lab instead of studio, it turned out to be quite a marketable definition.
Although the studio environment requirements can be very personal, the fact is that it should not be underestimated, many of us that once lacked the space and were limited to work at home in a limited space know this too well.
Worthwhile questions, Ill will come back to the concept (or lack ), even because I was not really fair in only mentioning the influence of two friends, this is done more or less chronologically in relation to my Design work experiences.
The thing was that I had at the time of moving to the UK two main drives:
-The settled kind of thing still present (friend 1), and with this a careful methodological approach, in learning a thing at the time, in a pleasant manner, where design was or at least felt like an art, and that made me feel like an artist. This is the main drive for most designers, and I have nothing against this state of mind, except it lacks a lot of real world output.
-The innovative and technological approach (friend2). This is real business, the spirit of enterprise I have always had, that fell asleep a bit because of the art thing. This might have been the very state of mind that caused me to take the academic path of Art-Graphic Design-Multimedia-IT.
The thing about travelling/relocating that can to a great point defeat the creative spirit, is the Studio premises factor. A real studio is important to work. By constantly relocating this need is severely affected, and although sometimes it is advantageous to go away and sketch and photograph in a holyday in some inspiring environment, the truth is that professional work only gets finished in a proper studio environment.
In my personal case, because of my blend of skills, my studio is more of an IT lab, and I often mention the word lab instead of studio, it turned out to be quite a marketable definition.
Although the studio environment requirements can be very personal, the fact is that it should not be underestimated, many of us that once lacked the space and were limited to work at home in a limited space know this too well.


