I was talking to someone about design the other day and how design employers always wants to know "where do your ideas come from?" to truly explain to someone that the idea came from the wrinkle in a piece of paper or an abstract model and have them believe in your idea is difficult. What most people mean when they ask "where do your ideas come from?" is "why do your ideas matter?" or "what justifies your idea?" This is why you have to show them something from the real world that they can relate to, to give the design meaning for them.
Anyway, I drew these sketches of outerwear and then found images, a floor tile pattern, an ikea napkin and a quiksilver ad that give my silly sketches some validity.
I see what you're saying here, but it still bothers me that we'd need to show most people some sort of a justification for a lot of the stuff we create. (every time i write "create", martin comes to mind. dang) Maybe they're not worth showing our designs to.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note: I often find inspiration in the random patterns on the floors of subway trains, especially the D train and the N train. Splashes of dried beverages on the floor are another great source of inspiration for me. Maybe I'm just a little bit out there, I "see" epic scenes on the train floors all the time.
I "see" dead people :) It's true, I remember when I was in Nepal a guy asked me how I knew what to draw. I worked with Thangka painters and they always painted the same images over and over, so there was no "creativity" in that regard. I showed him how certain elements in my drawing were from yak horns and as an example I started incorporating cigarette shapes (because he was smoking at the time).
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